OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Experimental Child Psychology is 20. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	48
Sound–symbol learning and the relationship to spelling in first-grade children	44
Children’s comparison of different-length numbers: Managing different attributes in multidigit number processing	39
What motivates early lies? Deception in 2½- to 5-year-olds	34
Cognitive processes that underlie mathematically gifted emergent bilinguals	33
A robot’s efficient demonstration cannot reduce 5- to 6-year-old children’s over-imitation	31
An experimental task to measure preschool children’s frustration induced by having to wait unexpectedly: The role of sensitivity to delay and culture	30
Children infer social group attitudes from evaluative behavioral information but do not extend them to unfamiliar group members	28
School-aged children with higher anxiety symptoms show greater correspondence between subjective negative emotions and autonomic arousal	27
The successful use of a search strategy improves with visuospatial working memory in 2- to 4.5-year-olds	27
Developmental differences in the timecourse of word learning: Greater improvements for children, semantic benefits for adults	26
Developing a scale for mathematics vocabulary self-efficacy: Variations among primary, middle, and high school students	23
When words and pointing compete: Young children’s referential comprehension under uncertainty	22
Longitudinal relations between self-regulatory skills and mathematics achievement in early elementary school children from Chinese American immigrant families	22
In the presence and absence of conflicting testimony, children’s selective trust in the in-group informant in moral judgment and knowledge access	21
The good, the rich, and the powerful: How young children compensate victims of moral transgressions depending on moral character, wealth, and social dominance	21
Effects of test difficulty messaging on academic cheating among middle school children	21
The effect of fantastical elements on preschoolers’ false belief task performance	21
The influence of language on the formation of number concepts: Evidence from preschool children who are bilingual in English and Arabic	20
Children’s evaluations of culturally diverse lunchbox foods	20
Contribution of orthography to vocabulary acquisition in a second language: Evidence of an early word-learning advantage in elementary-school children	20