OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Experimental Child Psychology is 19. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	67
The influence of language on the formation of number concepts: Evidence from preschool children who are bilingual in English and Arabic	61
In the presence and absence of conflicting testimony, children’s selective trust in the in-group informant in moral judgment and knowledge access	39
The successful use of a search strategy improves with visuospatial working memory in 2- to 4.5-year-olds	37
School-aged children with higher anxiety symptoms show greater correspondence between subjective negative emotions and autonomic arousal	33
The effect of fantastical elements on preschoolers’ false belief task performance	30
Find extra options or reason badly: An investigation of children’s reasoning with incompatibility statements	28
Sound–symbol learning and the relationship to spelling in first-grade children	28
When words and pointing compete: Young children’s referential comprehension under uncertainty	27
Children’s comparison of different-length numbers: Managing different attributes in multidigit number processing	26
Expressions of positive and negative shyness in preschool-age children: Temperamental correlates and visual attention to emotions	24
Developmental differences in the timecourse of word learning: Greater improvements for children, semantic benefits for adults	24
The good, the rich, and the powerful: How young children compensate victims of moral transgressions depending on moral character, wealth, and social dominance	24
Learning novel transitive verbs in causative action events: A cross-linguistic comparison between English- and Japanese-speaking infants	23
A robot’s efficient demonstration cannot reduce 5- to 6-year-old children’s over-imitation	21
Effects of test difficulty messaging on academic cheating among middle school children	20
An experimental task to measure preschool children’s frustration induced by having to wait unexpectedly: The role of sensitivity to delay and culture	20
What motivates early lies? Deception in 2½- to 5-year-olds	20
Children’s evaluations of culturally diverse lunchbox foods	19
Cognitive processes that underlie mathematically gifted emergent bilinguals	19
Longitudinal relations between self-regulatory skills and mathematics achievement in early elementary school children from Chinese American immigrant families	19