OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Infant and Child Development is 2. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) during COVID‐19 boosts growth in language and executive function	44
Six solutions for more reliable infant research	39
Changing the conversation: A culturally responsive perspective on executive functions, minoritized children and their families	38
Publishing child development research from around the world: An unfair playing field resulting in most of the world's child population under‐represented in research	37
Adolescent loneliness, stress and depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The protective role of friends	27
Beyond bias to Western participants, authors, and editors in developmental science	26
Why most psychological research findings are not even wrong	18
Teacher–child interaction quality and children's self‐regulation in toddler classrooms in Finland and Portugal	17
Should infant psychology rely on the violation‐of‐expectation method? Not anymore	17
It matters how you start: Early numeracy mastery predicts high school math course‐taking and college attendance	17
Best practices for addressing missing data through multiple imputation	16
Researching race‐ethnicity in race‐mute Europe	14
Great expectations: The construct validity of the violation‐of‐expectation method for studying infant cognition	12
A nuanced look into youth journeys of gender transition and detransition	10
Understanding the costs and benefits of politics among adolescents within a sociocultural context	10
The relationship between emergent drawing, emergent writing, and visual‐motor integration in preschool children	10
Co‐creating developmental science	9
Father–newborn vocal interaction: A contribution to the theory of innate intersubjectivity	9
Three‐component mathematics for students	9
Adapting open science and pre‐registration to longitudinal research	8
Digital diet: A 21st century approach to understanding digital technologies and development	8
The role of mother's prenatal substance use disorder and early parenting on child social cognition at school age	8
Understanding the development of honesty in children through the domains‐of‐socialization approach	7
Relations between shyness and psychological adjustment in Chinese children: The role of friendship quality	7
Children's concepts of personal values	7

Advancing credibility in longitudinal research by implementing open science practices: Opportunities, practical examples, and challenges	7
Conceptualizing, defining, and assessing pragmatic language impairment in clinical settings: A scoping review	7
Peer ethnic/racial socialization in adolescence: Current knowledge and future directions	6
Developmental psychologists should adopt citizen science to improve generalization and reproducibility	6
Proving and improving the reliability of infant research with neuroadaptive Bayesian optimization	6
Seven‐year‐olds' references to internal states when playing with toy figures and a video game	6
Stability and prediction of motor performance and cognitive functioning in preschoolers: A latent variable approach	6
The influence of parental warmth and stress on reading through approaches to learning: Racial/ethnic variation	6
Open developmental science: An overview and annotated reading list	6
Depression moderates maternal response to preschoolers' positive affect	6
Differences in how mothers and fathers support children playfulness	6
A scoping review of Singapore parenting: Culture‐general and culture‐specific functions of parenting styles and practices	6
Predicting child problem behaviour at school age: The role of maternal sensitivity, child temperament and theory of mind	6
An open developmental science will be more rigorous, robust, and impactful	6
Attachment security to mothers and fathers: A meta‐analysis on mean‐level differences and correlations of behavioural measures	6
Shyness and social–emotional development among Chinese children: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	6
Young children's lying and early mental state understanding	6
Mothers' and children's depression is linked through children's perceptions of attachment security	5
Some considerations for the developmental origin of the principle of fairness	5
The relationship of theory of mind and maternal emotional expressiveness with aggressive behaviours in young Japanese children: A gender‐differentiated effect	5
Performance patterns and strategy use in number line estimation among preschool children with different spontaneous focusing on numerosity tendencies	5
A three‐wave study on the development of prosocial behaviours across toddlerhood: The role of socialization	5
Longitudinal associations between metaphor understanding and peer relationships in middle childhood	5
Communicative gestures in 7–12‐month infants: A phylogenetic comparative approach	5
Genetic syndromes, neuroconstuctivism and replicable research; challenges and future directions	5
Can a robot lie? Young children's understanding of intentionality beneath false statements	5
Theory of mind at school: Academic outcomes and the influence of the school context	5
Fear not of cognition in context	5
The advantage of real objects over matched pictures in infants' processing of the familiar size of objects	4
“I definitely feel like a scientist”: Exploring science identity trajectories among Latinx students in a critical race theory‐informed undergraduate research experience	4
Open science considerations for descriptive research in developmental science	4
Yucatec Maya mothers' ethnotheories about learning to help at home	4
Maternal depressive symptoms and early childhood temperament before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the United Kingdom	4
Effect of HEG biofeedback on selected cognitive functions—Randomized study in children with ADHD and neurotypical children	4
No age differences? No problem	4
Infant and Child Development: A journal for open, transparent and inclusive science from prenatal through emerging adulthood	4
The role of emotion regulation in the relationship between pretense and executive function in early childhood: For whom is the relationship strongest?	4
Measures of infant self‐regulation during the first year of life: A systematic review	4
Developmental data science: How machine learning can advance theory formation in Developmental Psychology	4
Do toddlers prefer that agents help similar or dissimilar needy agents?	4
Youth experiences of racism and family ethnic‐racial socialization in Germany: What we (don't) know	4
Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, family care plans and infants with prenatal substance exposure: Theoretical framework and directions for future research	4
Observed and reported coparenting and toddlers' adaptive functioning	3
Understanding the effects of rhythmic coordination on children's prosocial behaviours	3
Associations between quality of parent–child relationships and children's gender typicality: A 4‐year longitudinal study	3
Predictors of preschool language environments and their relations to children's vocabulary	3
Why not both? Using multiple measures to improve reliability in infant studies	3
Open and reproducible practices in developmental psychology research: The workflow of the WomCogDev lab as an example	3
Mutual identification promotes children's generosity	3
Comparison of U.S. and Tajik infants' time in containment devices	3

Are we all on the same page? Subfield differences in open science practices in psychology	3
Exploratory study of best friendship dissolution characteristics and psychological difficulties during early adolescence	3
Caregiving antecedents of secure base script knowledge inferred from the Adult Attachment Interview: A comparative, pre‐registered analysis	3
Experimenter identity: An invisible, lurking variable in developmental research	3
Direct effects of visual skills and working memory on Chinese character reading in young children	3
Preterm‐born children's development: A bioecological perspective	3
Children's judgements of positive claims people make about themselves	3
Children's connectedness and shared meanings strategies during play with siblings and friends	3
Reading to bilingual preschoolers: An experimental study of two book formats	3
Caregiver perspectives of risk and protective factors influencing early childhood development in low‐income, urban settings: A social ecological perspective	3
Exploring opportunities for math learning within parent–infant interactions	2
‘But what is the mechanism?’: Demystifying the ever elusive ‘developmental mechanism’	2
Gender‐based reasoning about novel toys: The role of child and parental factors	2
Parent personality and children's inattention/hyperactivity problems are related via early caregiving	2
Advantages of a developmental psychopathology approach to studying the antecedents of physical health	2
The myth of normative development	2
The challenges of improving infant research methods	2
Negative childhood experiences and health inequalities among adults over 45: Evidence from China	2
The impact of theory of mind and executive function on math and reading abilities: A longitudinal study	2
Preschool language exposure and use: A comparison study of dual‐language learners and English monolingual children	2
Infant placement and language exposure in daily life	2
Attention profiles following preterm birth: A review of methods and findings from infancy to adulthood	2
Current perspectives in developmental science: Introduction to the special issue	2
Some considerations for social cognition assessment in children	2
Relationship between fine/gross motor skills and language and math development in Colombian Caribbean children: A study in Barranquilla	2
Inhibitory control and problem solving in early childhood: Exploring the burdens and benefits of high self‐control	2
Parents' perceptions of the quality of infant sleep behaviours and practices: A qualitative systematic review	2
Additive and synergistic relations of early mother–child and caregiver–child interactions and socioeconomic outcomes in adulthood	2
Clarifying the unique effects of pre‐ and postnatal depression on pre‐schoolers' adjustment	2
Maternal sensitivity and warmth in Singapore: Cultural insights from comparing the Ainsworth and Emotional Availability Scales	2
Predicting early reading fluency based on preschool measures of low‐level visual temporal processing: A possible mediation by high‐level visual temporal processing skills	2
Having the talk when our little ones just learned to walk: Racial socialization with young children in contemporary times	2
Socialization of children's experience and expression of pride	2
An investigation of children's empathic dispositions and behaviours across seven countries	2
Dyslexia is not a gift, but it is not that simple	2
Reliable developmental research: Not only for infancy	2
Habituation, part II. Rethinking the habituation paradigm	2
Mentalizing strategies for navigating the social world in adolescence	2
Home literacy practices in relation to language skills of children living in low‐wealth rural communities	2
Infants in Dutch daycare: Exploring fine‐grained dimensions of temperament	2
The role of interest in young children's retention of words	2
Using insights from personality dynamics to move developmental metatheory forward: Integrating insights from relational developmental systems metatheory and whole trait theory	2
Is sleep longitudinally related to children's achievement, executive function and classroom behaviour?	2
Effects of maternal picture book knowledge on language development of 15‐month olds	2
I copy you as I believe you know about our culture: Combining imitation and selective trust literatures	2
Towards a Haudenosaunee developmental science: Perspectives from the Two Row Wampum	2
Exact arithmetic, computational estimation and approximate arithmetic are different skills: Evidence from a study with 5‐year‐olds	2
Alternative perspectives: Relations between belief reasoning and ambiguous figure perception in bilingual children	2
Is parent personality associated with adolescent outcomes for their child? A response surface analysis approach	2
Security of attachment and trust beliefs in close others during middle childhood	2
Exploring the experiences of autistic pupils through creative research methods: Reflections on a participatory approach	2
Decentering whiteness: Rethinking the instruction of undergraduate research methods within developmental science	2
Irrelevant actions, goal demotion and explicit instruction: A study of overimitation	2