OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Cognition and Development is 4. 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
“Has the Climate Changed?”: How Education Shapes Beliefs in Emerging Scientific Phenomena	13
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
More Than Words: Maternal Mental State Talk as a Form of Dynamic Scaffolding Supporting Theory of Mind	12
Investigating the Associations between Family Alliance and Executive Functioning in Middle Childhood	10
Prospective and Retrospective Metacognitive Judgments of Prospective Memory Performance Across the Lifespan	10
Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: The First Truly Global International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021	8
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
Interplay Among Self-Regulation Processes Over Time for Adolescents in the Context of Chronic Stress	7
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
Associations Between Young Children’s Flexible Attention to Numerical and Spatial Magnitudes and Early Math Skills	6

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
The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times	5
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
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