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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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Do children estimate area using an “Additive‐Area Heuristic”?	40
The Development of Picture Comprehension Across Early Environments: Evidence From Urban and Rural Toddlers in Western Kenya	39
Effects of foster care intervention and caregiving quality on the bidirectional development of executive functions and social skills following institutional rearing	39
Increasing audiovisual speech integration in autism through enhanced attention to mouth	37
Tracing the origins of the STEM gender gap: The contribution of childhood spatial skills	33
Limited evidence of test‐retest reliability in infant‐directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment	29
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Postpartum romantic attachment and constructiveness: The protective effects of a conflict communication intervention for parents’ relationship functioning over one year	28
Preschoolers’ relevance inferences in linguistic and non‐linguistic contexts	28
The nature and causes of children's grammatical difficulties: Evidence from an intervention to improve past tense marking in children with Down syndrome	28
The role of social signals in segmenting observed actions in 18‐month‐old children	25
Partial agreement between task and BRIEF‐P‐based EF measures depends on school socioeconomic status	25
The complexity‐aesthetics relationship for musical rhythm is more fixed than flexible: Evidence from children and expert dancers	24
Greater attention to socioeconomic status in developmental research can improve the external validity, generalizability, and replicability of developmental science	23
White matter microstructure predicts individual differences in infant fear (But not anger and sadness)	22
Transactional longitudinal relations between accuracy and reaction time on a measure of cognitive flexibility at 5, 6, and 7 years of age	22
Children's attention to numerical quantities relates to verbal number knowledge: An introduction to the Build‐A‐Train task	21
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