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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction	39
Increasing Inclusivity in Developmental Research	34
Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence	34
Beyond Words and Time: Investigating the Association Between Screen Use, Vocabulary and Grammar Development in Five-Year-Olds	30
Is Verbal Rehearsal Strategic? An Investigation into Overt Rehearsal of Nameable Pictures in 5- to 10-Year-Old Children	27
Left Digit Effects in Numerical Estimation across Development	20
Knowledge Organization of Discretized Non-Symbolic Fraction and Mathematics Achievement	16
The Role of Executive Functions in Item Recognition and Temporal Order Memory Development	15
Object Functions and Words Reexamined: Toddlers’ Recognition of Function Depends on Object Type	14
The Propensity to Learn Shared Cultural Knowledge from Social Group Members: Selective Imitation in 18-month-olds	14
Children’s Pursuit of Counterintuitive Information in Books	14
An Investigation of the Associations Between Counterfactual Reasoning and Executive Functions in Chinese Preschool Children	13
Children Infer Intentions by Assessing Epistemic Attitudes in Interpersonal Interactions	13
“Has the Climate Changed?”: How Education Shapes Beliefs in Emerging Scientific Phenomena	13
More Than Words: Maternal Mental State Talk as a Form of Dynamic Scaffolding Supporting Theory of Mind	12
Prospective and Retrospective Metacognitive Judgments of Prospective Memory Performance Across the Lifespan	10
Investigating the Associations between Family Alliance and Executive Functioning in Middle Childhood	10
Reminiscing Goals and Behavior as Predictors of Child Psychological Functioning	8
Making Sense of Data: Identifying Children’s Strategies for Data Comparisons	8
How Language Influences Thought: The Case of Multiplying Fractions	8
Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: The First Truly Global International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021	8
How Often Do Verbs Co-occur with Relevant Events? Examining Parent and Toddler Speech in Latin America and the US	7
Children’s Developing Understanding of the Subjectivity of Intentions – A Case of “Advanced Theory of Mind”	7
Interplay Among Self-Regulation Processes Over Time for Adolescents in the Context of Chronic Stress	7
Children’s Essentialist Beliefs About Weight	6

Number Input in Mothers and Fathers of 9-Month-Olds	6
Behavioral Dynamics in a Persistence Task: An Experimental Test of Persistence and Cheating during the Puzzle Box Task	6
Associations Between Young Children’s Flexible Attention to Numerical and Spatial Magnitudes and Early Math Skills	6
A Parent-Report Diary Study of Young Children’s Prospective Memory Successes and Failures	5
Weighing Down Thought: The Effect of Motor Disruption in Executive Function Tasks among Three-Year-Old Children	5
The Origins of Theory of Mind in Infant Social Cognition: Investigating Longitudinal Pathways from Intention Understanding and Joint Attention to Preschool Theory of Mind	5
People Do Not Always Know Best: Preschoolers’ Trust in Social Robots	5
The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times	5
Executive Functions in Jordanian Children: What Can the Hearts and Flowers Task Tell Us About Development in a Non-Western Context	4
Children Remember Foods Disliked by Others Better Than Foods Liked by Others	4
“Go Faster!”: Adults’ Essentialist Representation of Gender and National Identity, but Not Race, Is Revealed by Cognitive Demand	4
Selective Attention (SA) and Perceptual Inhibition (PI) Throughout the Lifespan	4
Personal Pronoun Comprehension in Addressed and Non-Addressed Situations in Autistic and Nonautistic Preschoolers	4
How Culture Shapes Social Categorization and Inductive Reasoning:A Developmental Comparison between the United States and China	4
Is What Mickey Mouse Says Impossible? Informant Reality Status and Children’s Beliefs in Extraordinary Events	4
Measuring Implicit Gender Stereotypes Using the Preschool Auditory Stroop	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
Finger Configurations and Kindergarteners’ Mathematical Abilities	4
Conceptual Hierarchy in Child-Directed Speech: Implicit Cues are More Reliable	4
Tools of the Trade: A Guide to Sociodemographic Reporting for Researchers, Reviewers, and Editors	3
The Cognitive and Numerical Predictors of Early Mathematical Achievement: A Latent Growth Curve Analysis	3
Developmental Changes in Children’s Object Insertions during Play	3
Examining Temporal Memory and Flexible Retrieval of Conventional Time Knowledge across Middle to Late Childhood	3
The Development of the Mental Timeline is Related to Temporal Memory	3
Arithmetic Word Problem-Solving and Math Anxiety: The Role of Perceived Difficulty and Gender	3
Strategy and Core Cognitive Training Effects on Working Memory Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	3
How Well Do 5- to 7- Year-Old Children Remember the Spatial Structure of a Room?	3
The Role of Intentionality in Infants’ Prediction of Helping and Hindering	3
What Supports the Development of Children’s Prospective Memory? Examining the Relation between Children’s Prospective Memory, Memory Strategy Use, and Parent Scaffolding	3
Maternal Emotional Reminiscing, Child Autobiographical Memory, and Their Associations with Pre-Schoolers’ Socioemotional Functioning	3
Full-Term Children with Lower Vocabulary Scores Receive More Multimodal Math Input Than Preterm Children	3
Generic Language and Reporting Practices in Developmental Journals: Implications for Facilitating a More Representative Cognitive Developmental Science	3
Children’s Sensitivity to Difficulty and Reward Probability When Deciding to Take on a Task	2
Spatial Uncertainty and Information Processing Speed in Infants and Adults: Age Differences in Saccadic Reaction Time Sensitivity	2
English-Learning 12-Month-Olds Do Not Map Function-Like Words to Objects	2
Interrelations Between Acuity of the Approximate Number System and Symbolic Skills in Preschool Children	2
The Influence of Context and Player Comments on Preschoolers’ Social and Partner-Directed Communicative Behavior	2
The Role of Dialect, Gender, and Race in Children’s Friendship Choices: Evidence from Mexican Monolinguals and Mexican-American Bilinguals	2
How Competition between Action Representations Affects Object Perception during Development	2
Can Preschoolers Recognize the Facial Expressions of People Wearing Masks and Sunglasses? Effects of Adding Voice Information	2
Methods of Exploring Related-Meaning-Based False Memories	2
Theory of Mind Development in Middle Childhood and Adolescence: Accuracy and Preference for Mental-State Reasoning	2
Self-Recognition Before a Screen-Mirror Between 15 Months and 6 Years, The Contribution of Eye-Tracking and a New Protocol	2
Planting the Seeds of Sustainability: The Promise of Dynamic Norms	2
Predicting Marginalized Students’ Mathematics Achievement in High School	2
Bayesian Tools of the Trade for Developmental Psychologists: A Quick-Start Guide Using JASP	2
Math Talk to Infants During Everyday Home Activities: Contextual Cues to Words About Number, Space, and Magnitude	2
Rethinking Executive Functions in Mathematical Cognition	2
Wonder: Childhood and the Lifelong Love of Science	1

The Association between Approximate Number Sense (ANS) and Math Achievement Depends on the Format of the ANS Test	1
Contextual Information Shifts Young Children’s Understanding of Gender Constancy	1
Enjoyment, Empathy, and Environmental Behavior: A Study of Young Children’s Nature Connection in Iceland	1
A Cross-Cultural Study of Theory of Mind Using Strange Stories in School-Aged Children from Australia and Mainland China	1
Observing the Developmental Progression of Pretend Play across the Preschool Years	1
Attentional Shifting Mediates the Relationship between Parenting and Working Memory	1
Bridging the Divide: Understanding Language Beliefs and Practices Among Caregivers in the Deep South to Inform Culturally Responsive Interventions	1
We Cannot Ignore the Signs: The Development of Equivalence and Arithmetic for Students from Grades 3 to 4	1
Children’s Lexical Anticipation When Listening to Rhymes	1
The Development of Working Memory: Sex Differences in Accuracy and Reaction Times	1
Verbal Explanations and Item Choices as Joint Indices of Children’s Episodic Foresight	1
That’s not the One I Wanted: Feedback Improves 5-Year-olds’ Communicative Perspective-Taking	1
Knowledge and source type influence children’s skepticism of misinformation	1
A Review of “How You Say it”	1
Children’s and Adults’ Attribution of Moral Judgments to Human and Supernatural Agents	1
The Development of Children’s Autobiographical and Deliberate Memory Through Mother–Child Reminiscing	1
Speed and Accuracy Training Affects Young Children’s Cognitive Control	1
Age-Related Changes in Search Strategies in a Cancellation Task from Childhood to Adolescence	1
Sharing a Common Language Affects Infants’ Pupillary Contagion	1
Executive Function and Theory of Mind in Children Living in Poverty: A Short-term Longitudinal Study	1
Will it Sink or Float? No Gender Differences in Five- to Seven-Year-Old Children’s Persistence on a Science Task	1
Positive Future Expectancies: When Hopeful Thinking Contributes to Happiness in Children	1
Direct Assessments of Social Skills Can Complement Teacher Ratings in Predicting Children’s Academic Achievement	1
The Relations among Theory of Mind, Inhibitory Control, and Aggressive Behavior in 4-Year-Old Children – A Multi-Measure Multi-Informant Approach	1
Racial Stereotype Application in 4-to-8-Year-Old White American Children: Emergence and Specificity	1
Young Children’s Science Learning from Narrative Books: The Role of Text Cohesion and Caregivers’ Extratextual Talk	1
Children’s Concern for Equity and Ownership in Contexts of Individual-based and Group-based Inequality	1