OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of British Journal of Developmental Psychology is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The influence of valence and relationship on children's verification of gossip	36
Moral reasoning, emotion understanding, and callous‐unemotional traits in early‐to‐middle childhood	21
Parental scaffolding and children's math ability: The type of activities matters	20
The Contextualized Emotion Regulation Survey for Adolescents (CERSA): How does emotion regulation vary according to context?	18
Children's attitudes about transgender identity disclosure and concealment	17
Ageist attitudes are already evident in pre‐ and early‐school children: A multi‐method examination	14
Cumulative stressor exposure and cognitive functioning in late childhood: The role of inflammation	14
Intergenerational transition of successful ageing through familism across three nested generations	14
Editorial Acknowledgement	13
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Editorial acknowledgement	12
Issue Information	12
Transformative tales: The role of story videos on children's reasoning about transgender identities	12
Social–emotional competencies and psychological well‐being across secondary school transition	11
Trajectories of adolescent stressful life events and young adults’ socioeconomic and relational outcomes: Weight and depressive symptoms as mediators	10
Editorial Acknowledgement	10
The influence of socioeconomic status and appearance‐reality understanding on pre‐schoolers' sharing and generosity	10
Witnessed inclusion improves identification of Duchenne and non‐Duchenne smiles	10
Infant behavioural effects of smartphone interrupted parent‐infant interaction	9
Episodic future thinking and delay of gratification in children: Is imagining reward pay‐off helpful?	8
Emotion dysregulation and symptoms of anxiety and depression in early adolescence: Bidirectional longitudinal associations and the antecedent role of parent–child attachment	8
Using behavioural network mapping to investigate dyadic play in girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasia	8
Issue Information	7
The development of ambivalent sexism: Proposals for an expanded model	7
The influence of semantics on long‐term visual memory capacity in children and adults	5

Development of subjective well‐being and its relationship with self‐esteem in early adolescence	5
Age‐related qualitative differences in post‐error cognitive control adjustments	5
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Exploring the relationship between personality traits and locus of control in early adolescence. Does gender play a role?	4
The self‐reference effect in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder	4
Identity development and adjustment during emerging adulthood from a gender perspective	4
Media exposure and preschoolers' social‐cognitive development	4
The last pink straw: Children's and parents' judgements about gender nonconformity	4
Self‐processing and social functioning in autistic preschoolers	4
Low mood, worry and mind wandering in children	4
Social participation arrangements and distributed human agency: A comment on “Collaboration at a microscale: Cultural differences in family interactions”	3
Zoti's Social Toolkit: Developing and piloting novel animated tasks to assess emotional understanding and conflict resolution skills in childhood	3
Older adults' name–face association learning is facilitated for names with high‐frequency first syllables	3
Mastering balance: The use of balance bicycles promotes the development of independent cycling	3
Generous descriptive norms change children's pre‐existing decisions and expectations about sharing behaviour	3
Children's sympathy moderates the link between their attentional orientation and ethical guilt	3
Building connections through play: Influences on children's connected talk with peers	3
How children understand aha‐experiences in problem solving	3
White American transgender adults' retrospective reports on the social and contextual aspects of their gender identity development	3
Contributions of cognitive flexibility, inhibition and number label knowledge to numerical equivalence in 3‐ to 5‐year‐old children	3
Being helpful to other‐gender peers: School‐age children's gender‐based intergroup prosocial behaviour	3
Unlocking narratives: Longitudinal associations between theory of mind and reading comprehension	3
Primary school children rate children with autism negatively on looks, speech and speech content	3
Boy's math performance, compared to girls', jumps at age 6 (in the ELFE's data at least)	3
Coping strategies employed by transgender youth with higher and lower quality of life	3
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Harnessing the power of nature exposure to mitigate adolescents' Internet addiction: A chain mediation model	2
Narratives of preterm and full‐term preschool‐aged children: Analyses of different narrative dimensions	2
Parental warmth predicts more child pro‐social behaviour in children with better emotion regulation	2
Children's developing understanding of economic inequality and their place within it	2
Moderating effect of attachment to parents on the association between bullying and self‐esteem among early adolescents aged 10 to 12	2
Cognitive offloading bias in primary and secondary school students and its relationship with metacognitive monitoring	2
Unveiling social–emotional excellence: A network perspective on social–emotional skills in children and adolescents	2
Early language outcomes in Argentinean toddlers: Associations with home literacy, screen exposure and joint media engagement	2
Recognizing the future utility of a solution: When do children choose to retain and share an object to solve a future problem?	2
A bridge to [em]power: A commentary on ‘collaboration at a microscale: Cultural differences in family interactions’	2
Exploring the trajectories of problematic smartphone use in adolescence: Insights from a longitudinal study	2
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The link between early adolescents' gender discrimination and gender attitudes about peers: Does gender similarity matter?	2
Relationships between cognition and literacy in children with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	2
Parental reflective functioning and internalizing symptoms predict altruistic prosocial behaviour in children	2
Attrition in a large‐scale habituation task administered at home	2
Development and validation of a short form for the Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices using a machine learning approach	1
Two‐year‐olds selectively seek help, but not based on helper maturity	1
Trust issues: Adolescents' epistemic vigilance towards online sources	1
Numeracy skills in young children as predictors of mathematical competence	1
Early markers of literacy and numeracy in Chinese children: The roles of counting and rapid automatized naming	1
Background context affects word‐object mapping	1
When the internet is wrong: Children’s trust in an inaccurate internet or human source	1
Preliminary development of a brief parent‐report gender identity alignment/distress screener for children	1

Training kindergarten children on learning from their mistakes	1
Picture book reading improves children's learning understanding	1
Categorization of second language accents by bilingual and multilingual listeners	1
New insights and approaches to early learning	1
The effect of competition on children's merit‐based resource allocation: The difference between interpersonal and intergroup competition	1
Adolescents' perceptions of using likes, comments, and other reactions—A qualitative investigation	1
Construction play frequency and relations with spatial ability and mathematics performance	1
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Actions versus Words: Exploring the contributions of working memory and motoric coding in children's instruction following using a dual‐task paradigm	1
Inhibitory deficits and symptoms of attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder: How are they related to effortful control?	1
Human's moral judgements towards different social actors: A cross‐sectional study	1
The impact of informant gender on children’s endorsement of scientific and non‐scientific information	1
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From spatial to social competence: The association between spatial ability and prosocial behaviour in childhood	1
High school and university students' reasoning about decision‐making autonomy and parental authority legitimacy in child–mother conflicts	1
I help, therefore, I am? – A registered report on longitudinal inter‐relations of the three‐dimensional moral self‐concept and prosocial behaviours in preschool children	1
Older adults' decision‐making following bad advice	1
When intergroup contact correlates with gender‐prejudice beliefs of emerging adults	1
Early childhood educators' mental state language and children's theory of mind in the preschool setting	1
Commentary on Autism and the double‐empathy problem: Implications for development and mental health	1
The effects of model age and familiarity on children's reproduction of ritual behaviour	1
Children's perceptions of social class discrimination: The role of age and situational factors in evaluating fairness	1
Issue Information	1
Adolescent chronic pain links parental rejection to young adult biopsychosocial problems	1
Loneliness trajectories and psychological distress in youth: Longitudinal evidence from a population‐based sample	1
Self‐concept clarity and envy as mediators between upward social comparison on social networking sites and subjective well‐being	1
Issue Information	1
Preschoolers' retrospective and prospective judgements of immanent justice following distributive actions	1
A cross‐cultural study of children's graphic representations of men‐ and women‐dominated occupations	1
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Young children expect pretend object identities to be known only by their partners in joint pretence	1
The role of executive functions in young children's static and sustained inattentional blindness	1
Predicting developmental outcomes in middle childhood from early life language and parenting experiences	1