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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction	47
Connecting Live-Action and Animation to Reality: Children’s Analogical Problem Solving from Videos	43
Increasing Inclusivity in Developmental Research	41
More Than Words: Maternal Mental State Talk as a Form of Dynamic Scaffolding Supporting Theory of Mind	30
Prospective and Retrospective Metacognitive Judgments of Prospective Memory Performance Across the Lifespan	27
Children Infer Intentions by Assessing Epistemic Attitudes in Interpersonal Interactions	25
Children’s Pursuit of Counterintuitive Information in Books	23
Knowledge Organization of Discretized Non-Symbolic Fraction and Mathematics Achievement	22
Object Functions and Words Reexamined: Toddlers’ Recognition of Function Depends on Object Type	15
Beyond Words and Time: Investigating the Association Between Screen Use, Vocabulary and Grammar Development in Five-Year-Olds	15
Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence	14
An Investigation of the Associations Between Counterfactual Reasoning and Executive Functions in Chinese Preschool Children	14
“Has the Climate Changed?”: How Education Shapes Beliefs in Emerging Scientific Phenomena	10
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	10
Reminiscing Goals and Behavior as Predictors of Child Psychological Functioning	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
Intra- and Interindividual Stability of Inhibition Performance in Kindergarten Children	7
Interplay Among Self-Regulation Processes Over Time for Adolescents in the Context of Chronic Stress	7
Number Input in Mothers and Fathers of 9-Month-Olds	7
How Language Influences Thought: The Case of Multiplying Fractions	7
School-Delivered Intervention Research: Lessons Learned from the BLOCS Project	6
Children’s Essentialist Beliefs About Weight	6
The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times	6

Associations Between Young Children’s Flexible Attention to Numerical and Spatial Magnitudes and Early Math Skills	6
Behavioral Dynamics in a Persistence Task: An Experimental Test of Persistence and Cheating during the Puzzle Box Task	6
Does Pretending Optimize Young Children’s Future-Oriented Decision-Making?	5
A Parent-Report Diary Study of Young Children’s Prospective Memory Successes and Failures	5
To Accept or Reject? Hindu and Muslim Children’s Views of Religious, Moral, and Conventional Norms	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
Autobiographical Memory Specificity and Detailedness and Their Association with Depression in Early Adolescence	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
People Do Not Always Know Best: Preschoolers’ Trust in Social Robots	5
Finger Configurations and Kindergarteners’ Mathematical Abilities	4
Conceptual Hierarchy in Child-Directed Speech: Implicit Cues are More Reliable	4
The Role of Intentionality in Infants’ Prediction of Helping and Hindering	4
Developmental Changes in Children’s Object Insertions during Play	4
Generic Language and Reporting Practices in Developmental Journals: Implications for Facilitating a More Representative Cognitive Developmental Science	4
Selective Attention (SA) and Perceptual Inhibition (PI) Throughout the Lifespan	4
Gender Differences in Spatial Skills of Chinese Preschoolers: The Mediating Role of Parental Gender Socialization	4
Personal Pronoun Comprehension in Addressed and Non-Addressed Situations in Autistic and Nonautistic Preschoolers	4
The Development of the Mental Timeline is Related to Temporal Memory	4
Arithmetic Word Problem-Solving and Math Anxiety: The Role of Perceived Difficulty and Gender	4
Strategy and Core Cognitive Training Effects on Working Memory Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	4
Is What Mickey Mouse Says Impossible? Informant Reality Status and Children’s Beliefs in Extraordinary Events	4
Children Remember Foods Disliked by Others Better Than Foods Liked by Others	4
Tools of the Trade: A Guide to Sociodemographic Reporting for Researchers, Reviewers, and Editors	4
Sharing, Helping, and Cooperating: Young Children’s Prosocial Preferences for Individuals with Varying Wealth Statuses	4
The Cognitive and Numerical Predictors of Early Mathematical Achievement: A Latent Growth Curve Analysis	4