OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Infant and Child Development is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Leveraging Eye‐Tracking Technology to Understand How Young Children Solve a Mental Rotation Task	85
Learning in Dos Idiomas: The Impact of Codeswitching on Children's Noun and Verb Learning	63
Caregiver Beliefs About Childhood Development and Schooling Outcomes: A Qualitative Study in Mahikeng, South Africa	60
Does surgency moderate the relationship between parenting and children's aggression in middle childhood?	45
Goldilocks and the home mathematics environment: Parents' rate activities ‘too easy,’ ‘just right,’ or ‘too hard’ across early development	37
An evaluation of the psychometric properties of the strengths and difficulties scale in Turkey: Implications for other non‐WEIRD countries	31
Longitudinal associations between attachment representations coded in the adult attachment interview in late adolescence and perceptions of romantic relationship adjustment in adulthood	30
We need to talk about validity – A commentary on “Six solutions for more reliable infant research” from the viewpoint of an early executive functions researcher	28
Black‐Asian solidarity through collective racial socialization	19
The relationship between oral language and storytelling prosody in preschool children	19
Adolescent loneliness, stress and depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The protective role of friends	19
Reliability and replicability in infant research: A commentary on Byers‐Heinlein et al. (2021)	18
The dynamic functions of social cues during children's word learning	16
The health costs associated with “looking forward to success”: Educational expectations and children's health	16
Additive and synergistic relations of early mother–child and caregiver–child interactions and socioeconomic outcomes in adulthood	16
Fulfilling the promise of applied developmental science: Is it time to reconsider our approach?	13
How Linguistic Labels and Objects Types Shape Inductive Reasoning in Chinese Preschool Children Aged 3 to 5 Years	13
Pre‐K attendance and social development: The moderating role of kindergarten classroom experiences	12
Examining the indirect role of perceived normativeness in the association between collectivistic values and psychological control of Turkish mothers	12
The Story of Sickness: Improving Children's Sick Face Perception	12
It matters how you start: Early numeracy mastery predicts high school math course‐taking and college attendance	11
Preschool children's high‐frequency heart rate variability during low and high emotional challenge in relation to their self‐regulation	11
How Well Do Children Remember Fast‐Mapped Words? A Pre‐Registered Meta‐Analysis of Retention Following the Mutual Exclusivity Response	11
Gender attitudes and gender discrimination among ethnically and geographically diverse young children	11

Perspectives on the impact of generative AI on early‐childhood development and education	11
Identifying developmental adaptations to early‐life stress	10
The Indonesian version of Ages and Stages Questionnaire III accuracy compared to Bayley Scales of Infant Development III	10
Open and reproducible practices in developmental psychology research: The workflow of the WomCogDev lab as an example	10
Infant‐directed communication in Tanna, Vanuatu and Vancouver, Canada	10
Mediators of the relation of family income with adolescent behaviour problems and cognitive achievement: Material hardship, parent distress, and parent support	10
Temperament and behaviour problems in children: A multilevel analysis of cross‐cultural differences	10
“I definitely feel like a scientist”: Exploring science identity trajectories among Latinx students in a critical race theory‐informed undergraduate research experience	9
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Will power serve for oneself or others? An exploratory study toward 6‐ to 9‐year‐old Chinese children	9
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Impact of decision‐making autonomy and social distance on young Chinese children's sharing behaviour	9
Defining Parent Responsiveness: A Systematic Review‐Based Theoretical Model	8
The Marshmallow Test as a Screening Instrument: Sensitivity and Specificity of a Delay of Gratification Task for Later ADHD and Conduct Problems	8
Toddler teachers' responses to tantrums and relations to successful resolutions	8
Anxiety, Depression, and Behavioural Problems Among US Children and Adolescents, 2016–2022	8
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Do preschoolers always trust the majority? The influence of familiarity and expertise of a dissenter in a Chinese sample	8
Preschool language exposure and use: A comparison study of dual‐language learners and English monolingual children	8
‘When my mummy and daddy aren't looking at me when I do my maths she helps me’; Children can be taught to create imaginary companions: An exploratory study	7
The role of the natural history museum in promoting word learning for young children	7
Life satisfaction trajectories among junior high school students in China: The role of parent–child communication	7
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Don't look any further: How a model's linguistic group membership limits exploration and discovery in preschool children	7
Child refugee's social skills and resilience: Moderating effects of time in refugee camp, parental education, and preschool attendance	7
Do mother's socialization goals in early childhood predict children's later self?	7
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Dyslexia is not a gift, but it is not that simple	7
Understanding the relation between socioeconomic status and elementary science achievement: A quantile regression approach	7
The other side of false belief: Constructing the objectivity of reality	6
I copy you as I believe you know about our culture: Combining imitation and selective trust literatures	6
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Trauma is not the whole story: Trajectories of responses to childhood disasters intertwining with Life following the Indian Ocean tsunami	6
Latent profiles of infant negative affect and respiratory sinus arrhythmia during the still‐face paradigm: The role of maternal sensitivity	6
Infant placement and language exposure in daily life	6
The role of fathers in children's emotion regulation development: A systematic review	6
Variability in parenting behaviours during play and during mealtimes with toddlers	6
‘The system is unfair’: Uncontrollable attributions for inequality predict more equitable giving in adolescents	6
Associations among family socioeconomic status, parenting and sustained attention for socioeconomically disadvantaged children at age 5 years	6
Children's preferences of the colour composition of art paintings	5
The cost–benefit trade‐off in young children's overimitation behaviour	5
Towards a Haudenosaunee developmental science: Perspectives from the Two Row Wampum	5
Genetic syndromes, neuroconstuctivism and replicable research; challenges and future directions	5
Bayesian sample size planning for developmental studies	5
Analysing infant data at the group‐ or individual‐level: The impact of measurement error on sophisticated analyses	5
Childhood fantasy play relates to adult socio‐emotional competence	4
Inhibitory control and problem solving in early childhood: Exploring the burdens and benefits of high self‐control	4
Open science and metascience in developmental psychology: Introduction to the special issue	4
Toddlers' emotion vocalizations during peer conflicts and contingent teacher interventions in early care and education settings	4

Infancy researchers need to change the way they develop their measures: A comment on Byers‐Heinlein et al. (2021)	4
Spanking and parental verbal aggression during early childhood: Association with later academic achievement and the mediating role of executive function	4
Great expectations: The construct validity of the violation‐of‐expectation method for studying infant cognition	4
Maternal distress and body mass index in preschoolers living in families experiencing low‐income	4
Performance during object retrieval tasks in young children with and without Down syndrome: A pilot study	4
Temperament ratings by parents and teachers as predictors of non‐verbal ability in Argentinean preschoolers	4
Prevalence, risk and protective factors of substance use amongst adolescents living in peri‐urban communities in Abuja, Nigeria	4
Utilising Non‐Nutritive Sucking in Developmental Language Research: Past, Current and Future	4
Testing prosodic development with the Headturn Preference Procedure: A test‐retest reliability study	4
The developing of executive function skills through culturally organized autonomy and helping	4
Use them or lose them: Are manipulatives needed to assess numeracy and geometry performance in preschool?	4
Longitudinal assessment of social cognition in infants born preterm using eye‐tracking and parent–child play	4
Examining the female‐talker default in experimental language acquisition research	4
Black American adolescent's efficacy in the face of discrimination	4
Beliefs, practices and support needs of preschool teachers toward shy‐withdrawn behaviours	4
Optimal input for language development: Tailor nurture to nature	4
Can we predict non‐response in developmental tasks? Assessing the longitudinal relation between toddlers' non‐response and early academic skills	4
Math Anxiety, Activities, and Skills: Evidence From US Latine Families	4
Exploring Inter‐Brain Coherence Between Fathers and Infants During Maternal Storytelling: An fNIRS Hyperscanning Study	3
A nuanced look into youth journeys of gender transition and detransition	3
Changing the conversation: A culturally responsive perspective on executive functions, minoritized children and their families	3
Toward inclusive and identity safe learning for supporting racialized student achievement	3
Some considerations for social cognition assessment in children	3
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Predicting child problem behaviour at school age: The role of maternal sensitivity, child temperament and theory of mind	3
Why not both? Using multiple measures to improve reliability in infant studies	3
Three‐component mathematics for students	3
Having the talk when our little ones just learned to walk: Racial socialization with young children in contemporary times	3
The First Year: Profiling the Home Environment of Infants From Low‐Income Homes	3
A Script and Tutorial for Using Rev AI's Automatic Speech Transcription	3
The relation between social acceptance and school well‐being in early childhood	3
Broadening perspectives: The case for ecologically valid infant research	3
The seventh solution: A commentary on Byers‐Heinlein, Bergmann, and Savalei (2022)	3
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A three‐wave study on the development of prosocial behaviours across toddlerhood: The role of socialization	3
Keeping track of language: Can monolingual and bilingual infants associate a speaker with the language they speak?	3
Baseline and Rest: A Need for Conceptual Clarity When Measuring Parasympathetic Reactivity and Recovery	3
Gender Differences, or Lack Thereof, in the Early Home Science Environment	3
Excluded Now What? Families' Perceptions of Subsequent Care Arrangements Following Preschool Expulsion	3
When to use a cookie, and when to use a ruler: A response to Byers‐Heinlein, Bergmann and Savelei's “six solutions for more reliable infant research”	3
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They are the best: The significance of others to emerging adults and well‐being	3
“Side by side”: Comparing how Israeli secular and religious mothers read a story about the Israeli‐Palestinian conflict to young children	3
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