OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Cognition and Development is 1. 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
Correction	40
Connecting Live-Action and Animation to Reality: Children’s Analogical Problem Solving from Videos	39
Increasing Inclusivity in Developmental Research	36
More Than Words: Maternal Mental State Talk as a Form of Dynamic Scaffolding Supporting Theory of Mind	29
Prospective and Retrospective Metacognitive Judgments of Prospective Memory Performance Across the Lifespan	23
Children’s Pursuit of Counterintuitive Information in Books	22
Children Infer Intentions by Assessing Epistemic Attitudes in Interpersonal Interactions	22
Knowledge Organization of Discretized Non-Symbolic Fraction and Mathematics Achievement	21
Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence	15
Object Functions and Words Reexamined: Toddlers’ Recognition of Function Depends on Object Type	15
“Has the Climate Changed?”: How Education Shapes Beliefs in Emerging Scientific Phenomena	14
An Investigation of the Associations Between Counterfactual Reasoning and Executive Functions in Chinese Preschool Children	13
Beyond Words and Time: Investigating the Association Between Screen Use, Vocabulary and Grammar Development in Five-Year-Olds	13
Is Verbal Rehearsal Strategic? An Investigation into Overt Rehearsal of Nameable Pictures in 5- to 10-Year-Old Children	10
Making Sense of Data: Identifying Children’s Strategies for Data Comparisons	8
Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: The First Truly Global International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021	8
Children’s Developing Understanding of the Subjectivity of Intentions – A Case of “Advanced Theory of Mind”	8
Interplay Among Self-Regulation Processes Over Time for Adolescents in the Context of Chronic Stress	7
How Language Influences Thought: The Case of Multiplying Fractions	7
How Often Do Verbs Co-occur with Relevant Events? Examining Parent and Toddler Speech in Latin America and the US	7
Reminiscing Goals and Behavior as Predictors of Child Psychological Functioning	7
The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times	6
Intra- and Interindividual Stability of Inhibition Performance in Kindergarten Children	6
Children’s Essentialist Beliefs About Weight	6
Behavioral Dynamics in a Persistence Task: An Experimental Test of Persistence and Cheating during the Puzzle Box Task	6

Number Input in Mothers and Fathers of 9-Month-Olds	6
Does Pretending Optimize Young Children’s Future-Oriented Decision-Making?	5
Associations Between Young Children’s Flexible Attention to Numerical and Spatial Magnitudes and Early Math Skills	5
People Do Not Always Know Best: Preschoolers’ Trust in Social Robots	5
How Culture Shapes Social Categorization and Inductive Reasoning:A Developmental Comparison between the United States and China	5
Executive Functions in Jordanian Children: What Can the Hearts and Flowers Task Tell Us About Development in a Non-Western Context	5
Weighing Down Thought: The Effect of Motor Disruption in Executive Function Tasks among Three-Year-Old Children	5
School-Delivered Intervention Research: Lessons Learned from the BLOCS Project	5
The Development of the Mental Timeline is Related to Temporal Memory	4
Is What Mickey Mouse Says Impossible? Informant Reality Status and Children’s Beliefs in Extraordinary Events	4
A Parent-Report Diary Study of Young Children’s Prospective Memory Successes and Failures	4
Conceptual Hierarchy in Child-Directed Speech: Implicit Cues are More Reliable	4
Measuring Implicit Gender Stereotypes Using the Preschool Auditory Stroop	4
The Role of Intentionality in Infants’ Prediction of Helping and Hindering	4
The Origins of Theory of Mind in Infant Social Cognition: Investigating Longitudinal Pathways from Intention Understanding and Joint Attention to Preschool Theory of Mind	4
Children Remember Foods Disliked by Others Better Than Foods Liked by Others	4
Selective Attention (SA) and Perceptual Inhibition (PI) Throughout the Lifespan	4
Finger Configurations and Kindergarteners’ Mathematical Abilities	4
Autobiographical Memory Specificity and Detailedness and Their Association with Depression in Early Adolescence	4
To Accept or Reject? Hindu and Muslim Children’s Views of Religious, Moral, and Conventional Norms	4
Personal Pronoun Comprehension in Addressed and Non-Addressed Situations in Autistic and Nonautistic Preschoolers	4
The Cognitive and Numerical Predictors of Early Mathematical Achievement: A Latent Growth Curve Analysis	3
Arithmetic Word Problem-Solving and Math Anxiety: The Role of Perceived Difficulty and Gender	3
Cats, Bats, and People: Cultivating Children’s Understanding of Genes and Trait Inheritance	3
Sharing, Helping, and Cooperating: Young Children’s Prosocial Preferences for Individuals with Varying Wealth Statuses	3
Developmental Changes in Children’s Object Insertions during Play	3
Strategy and Core Cognitive Training Effects on Working Memory Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	3
How Competition between Action Representations Affects Object Perception during Development	3
Tools of the Trade: A Guide to Sociodemographic Reporting for Researchers, Reviewers, and Editors	3
Generic Language and Reporting Practices in Developmental Journals: Implications for Facilitating a More Representative Cognitive Developmental Science	3
How Well Do 5- to 7- Year-Old Children Remember the Spatial Structure of a Room?	3
Full-Term Children with Lower Vocabulary Scores Receive More Multimodal Math Input Than Preterm Children	2
Examining Temporal Memory and Flexible Retrieval of Conventional Time Knowledge across Middle to Late Childhood	2
Predicting Marginalized Students’ Mathematics Achievement in High School	2
Math Talk to Infants During Everyday Home Activities: Contextual Cues to Words About Number, Space, and Magnitude	2
Interrelations Between Acuity of the Approximate Number System and Symbolic Skills in Preschool Children	2
Planting the Seeds of Sustainability: The Promise of Dynamic Norms	2
A Training Targeting Caregivers’ Responsiveness Promotes Index-Finger Pointing in 12-Month-Old Infants	2
Spatial Uncertainty and Information Processing Speed in Infants and Adults: Age Differences in Saccadic Reaction Time Sensitivity	2
The Role of Dialect, Gender, and Race in Children’s Friendship Choices: Evidence from Mexican Monolinguals and Mexican-American Bilinguals	2
English-Learning 12-Month-Olds Do Not Map Function-Like Words to Objects	2
Children’s Sensitivity to Difficulty and Reward Probability When Deciding to Take on a Task	2
Can Preschoolers Recognize the Facial Expressions of People Wearing Masks and Sunglasses? Effects of Adding Voice Information	2
Self-Recognition Before a Screen-Mirror Between 15 Months and 6 Years, The Contribution of Eye-Tracking and a New Protocol	2
Bayesian Tools of the Trade for Developmental Psychologists: A Quick-Start Guide Using JASP	2
Observing the Developmental Progression of Pretend Play across the Preschool Years	1
The Association between Approximate Number Sense (ANS) and Math Achievement Depends on the Format of the ANS Test	1
Children’s and Adults’ Attribution of Moral Judgments to Human and Supernatural Agents	1
Executive Function and Theory of Mind in Children Living in Poverty: A Short-term Longitudinal Study	1
We Cannot Ignore the Signs: The Development of Equivalence and Arithmetic for Students from Grades 3 to 4	1

Verbal Explanations and Item Choices as Joint Indices of Children’s Episodic Foresight	1
Bridging the Divide: Understanding Language Beliefs and Practices Among Caregivers in the Deep South to Inform Culturally Responsive Interventions	1
Will it Sink or Float? No Gender Differences in Five- to Seven-Year-Old Children’s Persistence on a Science Task	1
The Influence of Context and Player Comments on Preschoolers’ Social and Partner-Directed Communicative Behavior	1
Young Children’s Science Learning from Narrative Books: The Role of Text Cohesion and Caregivers’ Extratextual Talk	1
Enjoyment, Empathy, and Environmental Behavior: A Study of Young Children’s Nature Connection in Iceland	1
Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories	1
Children’s Interpretation of “Before” And “After” For Consecutive and Non-Consecutive Numbers and Events	1
Reading as A Cultural Tool for Neurocognitive Development: A Complex Interactive Relationship between Reading Acquisition and Visuospatial Development for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians	1
Knowledge and source type influence children’s skepticism of misinformation	1
The Role of Narrative Structure in Scaffolding Children’s Recall	1
The Development of Working Memory: Sex Differences in Accuracy and Reaction Times	1
Lexical Access Speed and the Development of Phonological Recoding during Immediate Serial Recall	1
Rethinking Executive Functions in Mathematical Cognition	1
The Development of Children’s Autobiographical and Deliberate Memory Through Mother–Child Reminiscing	1
Direct Assessments of Social Skills Can Complement Teacher Ratings in Predicting Children’s Academic Achievement	1
Theory of Mind Development in Middle Childhood and Adolescence: Accuracy and Preference for Mental-State Reasoning	1
Latent Profiles of Executive Functioning Predict Adolescent Styles of Social Information Processing	1
Speed and Accuracy Training Affects Young Children’s Cognitive Control	1
Contextual Information Shifts Young Children’s Understanding of Gender Constancy	1
Children Prefer Familiar Fantasy, but not Anthropomorphism, in Their Storybooks	1
Age-Related Changes in Search Strategies in a Cancellation Task from Childhood to Adolescence	1
Steps in Theory-of-Mind Development in Hong Kong Cantonese-Speaking Children with and without Autism	1
Sharing a Common Language Affects Infants’ Pupillary Contagion	1
Why Doesn’t Executive Function Training Improve Academic Achievement? Rethinking Individual Differences, Relevance, and Engagement from a Contextual Framework	1
That’s not the One I Wanted: Feedback Improves 5-Year-olds’ Communicative Perspective-Taking	1
Racial Stereotype Application in 4-to-8-Year-Old White American Children: Emergence and Specificity	1
Positive Future Expectancies: When Hopeful Thinking Contributes to Happiness in Children	1
A Review of “How You Say it”	1
Wonder: Childhood and the Lifelong Love of Science	1