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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Contextualized Emotion Regulation Survey for Adolescents (CERSA): How does emotion regulation vary according to context?	45
The influence of valence and relationship on children's verification of gossip	22
Children's attitudes about transgender identity disclosure and concealment	21
The profiles of parent–child attachment network and its influence on longitudinal adolescent problematic mobile phone use: Based on random intercept latent transition analysis	17
Moral reasoning, emotion understanding, and callous‐unemotional traits in early‐to‐middle childhood	17
Parental scaffolding and children's math ability: The type of activities matters	17
Cumulative stressor exposure and cognitive functioning in late childhood: The role of inflammation	15
Ageist attitudes are already evident in pre‐ and early‐school children: A multi‐method examination	15
Intergenerational transition of successful ageing through familism across three nested generations	15
Editorial Acknowledgement	14
Issue Information	12
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Social–emotional competencies and psychological well‐being across secondary school transition	11
Episodic future thinking and delay of gratification in children: Is imagining reward pay‐off helpful?	10
Domain‐general scientific reasoning abilities in kindergarten independently predict the mathematics ability of elementary school children	10
Editorial acknowledgement	10
Infant behavioural effects of smartphone interrupted parent‐infant interaction	10
Transformative tales: The role of story videos on children's reasoning about transgender identities	10
The development of ambivalent sexism: Proposals for an expanded model	9
Editorial Acknowledgement	8
Using behavioural network mapping to investigate dyadic play in girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasia	7
Emotion dysregulation and symptoms of anxiety and depression in early adolescence: Bidirectional longitudinal associations and the antecedent role of parent–child attachment	7
Trajectories of adolescent stressful life events and young adults’ socioeconomic and relational outcomes: Weight and depressive symptoms as mediators	6
Witnessed inclusion improves identification of Duchenne and non‐Duchenne smiles	6
The influence of semantics on long‐term visual memory capacity in children and adults	5

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Self‐processing and social functioning in autistic preschoolers	5
Age‐related qualitative differences in post‐error cognitive control adjustments	5
Media exposure and preschoolers' social‐cognitive development	5
The influence of socioeconomic status and appearance‐reality understanding on pre‐schoolers' sharing and generosity	5
Exploring the relationship between personality traits and locus of control in early adolescence. Does gender play a role?	5
The last pink straw: Children's and parents' judgements about gender nonconformity	4
Development of subjective well‐being and its relationship with self‐esteem in early adolescence	4
Social participation arrangements and distributed human agency: A comment on “Collaboration at a microscale: Cultural differences in family interactions”	4
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The self‐reference effect in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder	4
Unlocking narratives: Longitudinal associations between theory of mind and reading comprehension	4
Low mood, worry and mind wandering in children	4
The impact of short‐form video overuse on prosocial and aggressive behaviours in children aged 3–6: The parallel mediating roles of empathy and emotion regulation	4
Identity development and adjustment during emerging adulthood from a gender perspective	4
Children's sympathy moderates the link between their attentional orientation and ethical guilt	4
Primary school children rate children with autism negatively on looks, speech and speech content	3
Older adults' name–face association learning is facilitated for names with high‐frequency first syllables	3
Being helpful to other‐gender peers: School‐age children's gender‐based	3
How children understand aha‐experiences in problem solving	3
Zoti's Social Toolkit: Developing and piloting novel animated tasks to assess emotional understanding and conflict resolution skills in childhood	3
Exploring the trajectories of problematic smartphone use in adolescence: Insights from a longitudinal study	3
Building connections through play: Influences on children's connected talk with peers	3
The interaction of negative parenting and DRD2 gene rs1799732 polymorphism on self‐control in chil	3
Mastering balance: The use of balance bicycles promotes the development of independent cycling	3
The link between early adolescents' gender discrimination and gender attitudes about peers: Does gender similarity matter?	2
Early language outcomes in Argentinean toddlers: Associations with home literacy, screen exposure and joint media engagement	2
Cognitive offloading bias in primary and secondary school students and its relationship with metacognitive monitoring	2
Boy's math performance, compared to girls', jumps at age 6 (in the ELFE 's data at least)	2
Generous descriptive norms change children's pre‐existing decisions and expectations about sharing behaviour	2
Contributions of cognitive flexibility, inhibition and number label knowledge to numerical equivalence in 3‐ to 5‐year‐old children	2
Relations between mind‐mindedness, stress and parent–child relationship quality in parents of children with a history of mental health or behavioural difficulties	2
Unveiling social–emotional excellence: A network perspective on social–emotional skills in children and adolescents	2
Parental warmth predicts more child pro‐social behaviour in children with better emotion regulation	2
Harnessing the power of nature exposure to mitigate adolescents' Internet addiction: A chain mediation model	2
The effect of competition on children's merit‐based resource allocation: The difference between interpersonal and intergroup competition	2
A bridge to [em]power: A commentary on ‘collaboration at a microscale: Cultural differences in family interactions’	2
Moderating effect of attachment to parents on the association between bullying and self‐esteem among early adolescents aged 10 to 12	2
Coping strategies employed by transgender youth with higher and lower quality of life	2
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Recognizing the future utility of a solution: When do children choose to retain and share an object to solve a future problem?	2
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Developmental trajectories of visual temporal integration and segregation in children with and without developmental dyslexia	2
Predicting developmental outcomes in middle childhood from early life language and parenting experiences	2
Parental reflective functioning and internalizing symptoms predict altruistic prosocial behaviour in children	2
White American transgender adults' retrospective reports on the social and contextual aspects of their gender identity development	2
Children's developing understanding of economic inequality and their place within it	2
Attrition in a large‐scale habituation task administered at home	2
Narratives of preterm and full‐term preschool‐aged children: Analyses of different narrative dimensions	2
Numeracy skills in young children as predictors of mathematical competence	1

Preschoolers' retrospective and prospective judgements of immanent justice following distributive actions	1
Young children expect pretend object identities to be known only by their partners in joint pretence	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
Early markers of literacy and numeracy in Chinese children: The roles of counting and rapid automatized naming	1
High school and university students' reasoning about decision‐making autonomy and parental authority legitimacy in child–mother conflicts	1
Childhood maltreatment and anxiety and depression among Chinese adolescents: A moderated mediation model of intolerance of uncertainty and Behavioural inhibition system	1
Construction play frequency and relations with spatial ability and mathematics performance	1
The effects of model age and familiarity on children's reproduction of ritual behaviour	1
Two‐year‐olds selectively seek help, but not based on helper maturity	1
Issue Information	1
Commentary on Autism and the double‐empathy problem: Implications for development and mental health	1
Adolescents' perceptions of using likes, comments, and other reactions—A qualitative investigation	1
The impact of well‐groomed appearance on children's epistemic trust decision	1
Picture book reading improves children's learning understanding	1
Actions versus Words: Exploring the contributions of working memory and motoric coding in children's instruction following using a dual‐task paradigm	1
From spatial to social competence: The association between spatial ability and prosocial behaviour in childhood	1
Loneliness trajectories and psychological distress in youth: Longitudinal evidence from a population‐based sample	1
The role of executive functions in young children's static and sustained inattentional blindness	1
Human's moral judgements towards different social actors: A cross‐sectional study	1
New insights and approaches to early learning	1
A cross‐cultural study of children's graphic representations of men‐ and women‐dominated occupations	1
Training kindergarten children on learning from their mistakes	1
Family income and parental investment: Linking with primary math achievement in Bangladesh	1
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Inhibitory deficits and symptoms of attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder: How are they related to effortful control?	1
Preliminary development of a brief parent‐report gender identity alignment/distress screener for children	1
Self‐concept clarity and envy as mediators between upward social comparison on social networking sites and subjective well‐being	1
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Older adults' decision‐making following bad advice	1
Early childhood educators' mental state language and children's theory of mind in the preschool setting	1
Trust issues: Adolescents' epistemic vigilance towards online sources	1
When intergroup contact correlates with gender‐prejudice beliefs of emerging adults	1
Issue Information	1
Categorization of second language accents by bilingual and multilingual listeners	1
When the internet is wrong: Children’s trust in an inaccurate internet or human source	1
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Differential effects of maternal‐ and paternal‐adolescent attachments on friendship security and intimacy	1
Children's perceptions of social class discrimination: The role of age and situational factors in evaluating fairness	1
Background context affects word‐object mapping	1
Development and validation of a short form for the Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices using a machine learning approach	1
Adolescent chronic pain links parental rejection to young adult biopsychosocial problems	1