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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Children's preferences of the colour composition of art paintings	76
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Understanding the effects of rhythmic coordination on children's prosocial behaviours	57
Alternative perspectives: Relations between belief reasoning and ambiguous figure perception in bilingual children	53
Socialization of children's experience and expression of pride	48
Susceptibility to prosocial and antisocial influence in adolescence following mindfulness training	41
Measuring morality in infancy: A scoping methodological review	36
Hand preference trajectories as predictors of language outcomes above and beyond SES: Infant patterns explain more variance than toddler patterns at 5 years of age	36
Open science and metascience in developmental psychology: Introduction to the special issue	29
Is parent personality associated with adolescent outcomes for their child? A response surface analysis approach	28
Bayesian sample size planning for developmental studies	25
A person‐centered approach in developmental science: Why this is the future and how to get there	20
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Infant placement and language exposure in daily life	14
How do children answer questions from a physically present humanoid robot?	14
Comparison of U.S. and Tajik infants' time in containment devices	14
The characteristics of Chinese anxiously withdrawn children's friendships: Quantity, quality, and protecting against loneliness	13
An illustration‐based developmental motor screening questionnaire for young children: Development and a Rasch analysis	13
Goldilocks and the home mathematics environment: Parents' rate activities ‘too easy,’ ‘just right,’ or ‘too hard’ across early development	13
Understanding children's prosocial behaviour and classroom affiliative relationships: A social network analysis	12
Analysing infant data at the group‐ or individual‐level: The impact of measurement error on sophisticated analyses	11
Does surgency moderate the relationship between parenting and children's aggression in middle childhood?	10
Contributions of executive function to spatial thinking in young children	10
The relationship between oral language and storytelling prosody in preschool children	10
The cost–benefit trade‐off in young children's overimitation behaviour	10

Examining the female‐talker default in experimental language acquisition research	10
Chinese child unsociability, maternal maladaptive parenting, and peer exclusion among preschoolers: A cross‐lagged model	9
Evidence of the validity of the child self‐regulation & behaviour questionnaire for the Brazilian context	9
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Valid points and looks: Reliability and validity go hand‐in‐hand when improving infant methods	9
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Social support and end‐of‐semester depression, burnout, and adjustment in students making the transition to university	8
Mother–infant shared book reading in the first year of life	8
Prosocial development throughout the toddlerhood: A person‐centred approach	8
The impact of theory of mind and executive function on math and reading abilities: A longitudinal study	7
Preterm‐born children's development: A bioecological perspective	7
Pre‐K attendance and social development: The moderating role of kindergarten classroom experiences	7
Issue Information	7
Shyness and social–emotional development among Chinese children: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	7
Association between transient financial stress during early childhood and pre‐school cognitive and socioemotional development	7
Socialisation of Emotion Regulation in Preschool Classrooms: How Do Peers Matter?	6
Learning in Dos Idiomas: The Impact of Codeswitching on Children's Noun and Verb Learning	6
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	6
Behavioural Interventions for Problematic Infant Sleeping and Cry/Fuss Behaviour: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analyses	6
Genetic syndromes, neuroconstuctivism and replicable research; challenges and future directions	6
Yucatec Maya mothers' ethnotheories about learning to help at home	6
Coparenting conflict moderates the association between maternal prenatal depressive symptoms and infant regulatory capacity	5
Factors influencing kindergarten Families' perceptions of home–school interactions	5
Six solutions for more reliable infant research	5
Prevalence, risk and protective factors of substance use amongst adolescents living in peri‐urban communities in Abuja, Nigeria	5
Biomarker adoption in developmental science: A data‐driven modelling of trends from 90 biomarkers across 20 years	5
The affective, cognitive, and physiological effects of implementing antecedent‐focused emotion regulation strategies in childhood	5
Developmental psychologists should care about measurement precision	5
An evaluation of the psychometric properties of the strengths and difficulties scale in Turkey: Implications for other non‐WEIRD countries	5
The myth of normative development	5
Children presume confident informants will be accurate (until proven otherwise)	5
Effects of maternal picture book knowledge on language development of 15‐month olds	5
Individual differences in preschoolers' spatial thinking: Comprehension of dimensional adjectives and their relation to children's performance on non‐verbal spatial tasks	5
Towards a Haudenosaunee developmental science: Perspectives from the Two Row Wampum	5
Black‐Asian solidarity through collective racial socialization	4
Who is a thinker? With age, higher SES American children increasingly associate social status with divisions in labour	4
COVID‐19 pandemic impacts on kindergarteners' mental health: A qualitative study of perspectives of U.S. mothers with low income	4
Differential cognitive correlates in processing symbolic and situational mathematics	4
Caregiver Beliefs About Childhood Development and Schooling Outcomes: A Qualitative Study in Mahikeng, South Africa	4
Methods Used to Assess Early Mathematical Skills in 2‐Year‐Olds: A Review of the Literature	4
The role of interest in young children's retention of words	4
Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, family care plans and infants with prenatal substance exposure: Theoretical framework and directions for future research	4
Longitudinal associations between attachment representations coded in the adult attachment interview in late adolescence and perceptions of romantic relationship adjustment in adulthood	4
Adolescent loneliness, stress and depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The protective role of friends	4
An investigation of children's empathic dispositions and behaviours across seven countries	4
Best practices for addressing missing data through multiple imputation	4
Thinking About the Birth Father: Loss, Longing, Ambivalence, and Indifference Among Adopted Adolescents With Lesbian Mothers	4
Direct effects of visual skills and working memory on Chinese character reading in young children	4
Differences in how mothers and fathers support children playfulness	4
Into the unknown: Maternal responsiveness influences young children's support‐giving expectations of fathers but not unfamiliar others	4

Beliefs, practices and support needs of preschool teachers toward shy‐withdrawn behaviours	4
Beyond bias to Western participants, authors, and editors in developmental science	4
Fulfilling the promise of applied developmental science: Is it time to reconsider our approach?	4
Issue Information	4
Reliability and replicability in infant research: A commentary on Byers‐Heinlein et al. (2021)	3
Issue Information	3
Infancy researchers need to change the way they develop their measures: A comment on Byers‐Heinlein et al. (2021)	3
Why most psychological research findings are not even wrong	3
Can we predict non‐response in developmental tasks? Assessing the longitudinal relation between toddlers' non‐response and early academic skills	3
Evaluating the utility and validity of a discrimination‐specific measure of shift‐&‐persist coping	3
Predictors of child student engagement in elementary school: A mixed‐methods study exploring the role of externalising problems	3
Using insights from personality dynamics to move developmental metatheory forward: Integrating insights from relational developmental systems metatheory and whole trait theory	3
Issue Information	3
Issue Information	3
Exploring profiles of hormone exposure: Associations with cognition in a population‐based cohort of early adolescents	3
The dynamic functions of social cues during children's word learning	3
Mutual identification promotes children's generosity	3
Performance during object retrieval tasks in young children with and without Down syndrome: A pilot study	3
Digital diet: A 21st century approach to understanding digital technologies and development	3
Optimal input for language development: Tailor nurture to nature	3
Qualitative and quantitative measures of joint attention development in the first year of life: A scoping review	3
Prescriptions from history: A case for replications that control for leading	3
The self‐concept questionnaire offers a multidimensional, developmentally sensitive measure of the capacity for self‐reflection in young children	3
Grounding understanding of the home numeracy environment: Within‐group variation in Latine families	3
Adaptation of the Missing Scan Task to a touchscreen format for assessing working memory capacity in children	3
Evaluating risk factors in relation to preschool social–emotional skills using a person‐centred approach	3