OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Developmental Review is 14. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Does child-mother attachment predict and mediate language and cognitive outcomes? A series of meta-analyses	85
Do infants have agency? – The importance of control for the study of early agency	72
Understanding why infant-directed speech supports learning: A dynamic attention perspective	60
Developmental pathways linking obesity risk and early puberty: The thrifty phenotype and fetal overnutrition hypotheses	58
Editorial Board	55
A unified framework of parental socialization of executive function development	48
Connecting learning environments to learning: Two examples from children’s mathematics	40
A meta-analysis of sequences in theory-of-mind understandings: Theory of mind scale findings across different cultural contexts	39
Evaluating associations between parental mind-mindedness and children’s developmental capacities through meta-analysis	38
A meta-analysis of word learning in autistic and neurotypical children: Distinguishing noun-referent mapping, retention, and generalisation	38
A person-centered approach to examining effects on the interaction between cognitive control & language development	37
Neural hyperscanning in caregiver-child dyads: A paradigm for studying the long-term effects of facilitated vs. disrupted attention on working memory and executive functioning in young children	34
Theoretical advances in research on the development of risk taking	33
Editorial Board	29
Varieties of Number-Line Estimation: Systematic Review, Models, and Data	28
Judith Rich Harris and child development: 25 years after The Nurture Assumption	26
Chronicle of deceit: Navigating the developmental cognitive landscape from childhood fabrications to prolific adulthood artistry	26
Resolving ambiguity: Broadening the consideration of risky decision making over adolescent development	25
Contributions of motor skill development and physical activity to the ontogeny of executive function skills in early childhood	24
Butterfly effects in perceptual development: A review of the ‘adaptive initial degradation’ hypothesis	21
Where language meets attention: How contingent interactions promote learning	21
Development of prejudice against immigrants and ethnic minorities in adolescence: A systematic review with meta-analysis of longitudinal studies	21
Development of moral identity: From the age of responsibility to adult maturity	20
A relational developmental theory of human-animal interaction: A meta-synthesis and grounded theory	19
How age and culture influence cognition: A lifespan developmental perspective	19

Editorial Board	16
Understanding the role of testimony in children’s moral development: Theories, controversies, and implications	16
Editorial Board	15
Bereft and Left: The interplay between insecure attachment, isolation, and neurobiology	15
Arithmetic thinking as the basis of children's generative number concepts	14
Editorial Board	14
Society to cell: How child poverty gets “Under the Skin” to influence child development and lifelong health	14
Rejection sensitivity and negative urgency: A proposed framework of intersecting risk for peer stress	14
Learning to imitate facial expressions through sound	14