OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cognitive Development is 5. 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
Sensitivity to temporal synchrony in audiovisual speech in early infancy: Current issues and future avenues	108
The development of relational language during early childhood: Comprehension and production of cardinal, ordinal, and spatial labels	31
The prediction of syllable awareness, character reading ability, and rapid automatized naming on phoneme awareness: Evidence from a longitudinal Cross-lagged model	29
The development of optimistic expectations in young children	23
Editorial Board	20
Editorial Board	20
What contributes to false belief understanding in childhood? A multidimensional approach	20
The role of executive functions and fluid intelligence in the prediction of conditional strategy knowledge of self-regulated learning	19
Predictive relations between executive function and Mandarin vocabulary ability among Uyghur-Mandarin bilingual preschoolers	19
Improving students’ creativity and Chinese academic achievement through Mind-Mapping integrated Differentiated Instruction (MM-DI)	18
Childhood adversity is not associated with lowered inhibition, but lower perceptual processing: A Drift Diffusion Model analysis	18
Adolescents’ beliefs about caste-essentialism and their social location in Nepal	17
Home learning environment and physical development impact children’s executive function development and literacy in rural Côte d’Ivoire	16
Winning or losing: Children’s proportional reasoning across motivational contexts	14
Having siblings is associated with better mentalizing abilities in adults	13
When should children copy their mothers’ food choices? Social learning strategies about foods	13
Preschoolers prioritize humans over robots less than adults do: An eye-tracking study	13
Varieties of social learning in children: Characterizing the development of imitation, goal emulation and affordance learning within subjects and tasks	13
Theory of puppets or theory of mind? Misunderstanding how children construe puppets in psychological research: A commentary on Packer and Moreno-Dulcey (2022)	12
From spontaneous focusing on numerosity to mathematics achievement: The mediating role of non-symbolic number processing and mapping between symbolic and non-symbolic representations of number	12
Effect of instruction medium and modality on learning spatial concepts	12
Research on bilingual language processing and how languages are represented in the mind	11
The influence of low family income from birth to adolescence and adulthood on intelligence: Findings from two Brazilian birth cohorts	11
Spontaneous focus on patterns and arithmetic skill in 4- to 6-year-old children	11
Surface-to-structure shifts in rational number categories	11

Inquiry and argumentation skill development work in conjunction	11
Relationship between narrative ability and executive functions: A longitudinal study in kindergarten classrooms	11
Not for kids: 2nd grade school children require more practice than adults to attain long-term gains in a graphomotor task	11
Infants do not use payoff information to infer individual goals in joint-action events	10
Preschool children’s resource allocation towards and reasoning about exclusion of agents with disabilities	9
Young children’s attentional bias patterns to emotional male and female faces	9
Developmental origins of regulatory emotional self-efficacy beliefs in preadolescence: A longitudinal investigation from early childhood till adolescence	9
The effect of background music and noise on alertness of children aged 5–7 years: An EEG study	9
The shape bias in Mandarin-exposed young autistic children: The role of abstract shape representation	9
Hysteresis in posture selection in preschool children	9
Arts education and its role in enhancing cognitive development: A quantitative study of critical thinking and creativity in higher education	9
Shaping executive function in pre-school: The role of early educational practice	9
How prior experience in analogous tasks affects three-year-olds’ tool making	9
Children deny that God could change morality	9
Understanding cognitive and language development in refugees: Evidence from displaced syrian children in Turkey	8
Development of visual dominance in face-voice integration: Evidence from cross-modal compatibility effects in a gender categorization task	8
The development of disability and foreignness concepts: A comparative approach	8
Assessing inhibitory control in kindergarten children: Validity of integrating response accuracy and response latency	8
Editorial Board	8
Achievements in arithmetic and measurement units predict fraction understanding in an additive and linear manner	8
Unlocking potentials: Impact of integrating scaffolded educational escape rooms on junior high school students’ motivation, creativity, and academic achievement in Chinese language instruction	8
The communicative nature of moral development: A theoretical framework on the emergence of moral reasoning in social interactions	8
Could sensitivity to object authenticity be developmentally delayed in autism?	8
Children’s developing disability concepts: A review and recommendations for continued research	8
How executive function contributed to young children’s mathematical achievement: The differential role of non-symbolic and symbolic numerical representation	8
Children’s understanding of relational language for quantity comparisons	7
The Early Independent Problem Solving Survey (EIPSS): Its psychometric properties in children aged 12–47 months	7
Two- and three-year-olds prefer mastery-oriented over outcome-oriented help	7
The development and predictors of school-age children’s nonsymbolic number comparison abilities: Modulated by congruency between numerosity and visual cues	7
The roles of self-, mother-, and stranger-determined choice in memory in 5- to 10-year-old Chinese children	7
Influences of training length on the effectiveness of a number board intervention for 6-year-old German kindergartners	7
Modulation of attentional blink with sound in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)	7
Age-related decline of metacognitive comprehension monitoring in adults aged 50 and older: Effects of cognitive abilities and educational attainment	7
Normative language understanding and behavioral compliance longitudinally predict 2.5-year-olds' social norm enforcement	7
Dating early memories: When did events really happen?	7
Relative age effect in formal musical training	7
Young children and screen-based media: The impact on cognitive and socioemotional development and the importance of parental mediation	7
Editorial Board	7
The role of phonological decoding, rapid automatized naming, and morphological awareness in Chinese reading acquisition among 6- to 8-year-olds in Taiwan	7
Boundaries of apologies: Children avoid transgressors who give the same apology for a repeat offence	7
Cultivating the toddler data desert with the Visual Attention Processing Protocol (VAPP): A novel scalable measure of individual differences in attentional processing from 2 to 6 years old	7
Children’s understanding of COVID-19: Acquiring knowledge about germs and contagion amidst a global pandemic	6
The influence of children’s first action when learning causal structure from exploratory play	6
Rational number conceptualization predicts mathematics achievement: Quantity matters	6
Early self-control and sustained attention problems: Associations with youth achievement, motivation, and engagement	6
Sound, emotion, and innovation: Rethinking bayan education through digital tools	6
Predictors and outcomes associated with early math anxiety: Parental factors, working memory and math performance	6
Children’s executive function during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina: Associations with home literacy, reading, and screen times	6
The relative age effect in secondary schools	6
The Ebbinghaus illusion revisited: Behavioral shift in task-solving between 4-year-olds, 6-year-olds, and adolescents	6

Factors affecting children’s direct learning and productive memory processes in the context of virtual museums	6
How young children come to recommend resource choices that reduce waste	6
Children’s and adolescents’ judgments of the desirability and obligatoriness of prosocial action: Variations across helping, sharing, and comforting	6
Ordinal processing in children with mathematics learning disabilities	6
Morally-relevant theory of mind is related to viewing gender inequalities as unacceptable	6
Who is running our experiments? The influence of experimenter identity in the marshmallow task	6
Children’s endowment effect is impacted by the salience of the object, but not the duration of possession or the object’s tangibility	6
Development of inhibitory control in Head Start children: Association with approaches to learning and academic outcomes in kindergarten	5
Simplicity and validity in infant research	5
Children’s use of verbal and nonverbal feedback during communicative repair: Associations with executive functioning and emotion knowledge	5
Language context shapes bilingual children’s memory for newly encountered words	5
Internal manipulation of working memory: Developmental differences in early childhood	5
Parental mental state talk in two contexts: Parents’ cognitive sentential complements are positively associated with children’s theory of mind	5
The impact of phonological processing on number transcoding	5
The impact of early picture book interaction experience on Chinese character reading of children with Dyslexia: The perspective of visual temporal processing	5
Dissociations between short and long-term effects of coronavirus pandemic closures: The case of math fluency	5
Relationships between executive functions and morphosyntactic skills in Spanish-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder	5
Relations between morphological awareness, vocabulary knowledge and word reading in different orthographies and scripts: Evidence from Africa and Asia	5
Age group differences in SFON tendency and arithmetical skills of four to seven year olds in four countries with different school starting ages	5
Longitudinal development of executive function from infancy to late childhood	5
Inhibitory control training on executive functions of children and adolescents: A latent change score model approach	5
Children’s evaluations of scarce (and abundant) resources: When does the “why” matter?	5
A cross-sequential study of theory of mind, IQ, and fair sharing framed socially and non-socially in young children	5
Assessment of vocabulary comprehension in Bilingual Qom - Spanish Indigenous children in Northern Argentina: Evidence for education, language preservation, and psycholinguistic theory	5
A refined description of initial symbolic number acquisition	5