OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Developmental Science is 20. 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
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Do children estimate area using an “Additive‐Area Heuristic”?	44
Postpartum romantic attachment and constructiveness: The protective effects of a conflict communication intervention for parents’ relationship functioning over one year	42
Tracing the origins of the STEM gender gap: The contribution of childhood spatial skills	35
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Increasing audiovisual speech integration in autism through enhanced attention to mouth	33
Partial agreement between task and BRIEF‐P‐based EF measures depends on school socioeconomic status	33
The Development of Picture Comprehension Across Early Environments: Evidence From Urban and Rural Toddlers in Western Kenya	30
Limited evidence of test‐retest reliability in infant‐directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment	30
Effects of foster care intervention and caregiving quality on the bidirectional development of executive functions and social skills following institutional rearing	26
The role of social signals in segmenting observed actions in 18‐month‐old children	24
White matter microstructure predicts individual differences in infant fear (But not anger and sadness)	23
The nature and causes of children's grammatical difficulties: Evidence from an intervention to improve past tense marking in children with Down syndrome	23
Greater attention to socioeconomic status in developmental research can improve the external validity, generalizability, and replicability of developmental science	22
The complexity‐aesthetics relationship for musical rhythm is more fixed than flexible: Evidence from children and expert dancers	22
Issue Information	21
Universality and language specificity of brain reading networks: A developmental perspective	21
Transactional longitudinal relations between accuracy and reaction time on a measure of cognitive flexibility at 5, 6, and 7 years of age	21
Event‐related potentials of familiar monosyllabic words with unexpected lexical tones: A picture‐word study of Mandarin‐speaking preschoolers with and without a history of late talking	21
Issue Information	20
“You need to be super smart to do well in math!” Young children's field‐specific ability beliefs	20
Children's attention to numerical quantities relates to verbal number knowledge: An introduction to the Build‐A‐Train task	20
Developmental differences in children and adults’ enforcement of explore versus exploit search strategies in the United States and Turkey	20