Child Development

Papers
(The H4-Index of Child Development is 26. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Children's Trait Inference and Partner Choice in a Cooperative Game157
The Role of Controllability and Foreseeability in Children's Counterfactual Emotions81
Language development beyond the here‐and‐now: Iconicity and displacement in child‐directed communication78
Children's evaluations of interracial peer inclusion and exclusion: The role of intimacy77
Learning apps at home prepare children for school74
Development of literacy skills for Japanese deaf and hard‐of‐hearing children52
Messaging about descriptive and injunctive norms can promote honesty in young children50
Paternal and maternal rejection and Chinese children's internalizing and externalizing problems across the transition to siblinghood: A developmental cascade model of family influence42
Gahvora cradling in Tajikistan: Cultural practices and associations with motor development40
Infant Temperament Profiles, Cultural Orientation, and Toddler Behavioral and Physiological Regulation in Mexican‐American Families39
Mentalistic and normative frameworks in children's explanations of others' behaviors39
Children and adults' intuitions of what people can believe39
Children strategically conceal selfishness34
A Shift in the Direction of the Production Effect in Children Aged 2–6 Years34
Crying in the first 12 months of life: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of cross‐country parent‐reported data and modeling of the “cry curve”32
Testing the effectiveness of the Developing Inclusive Youth program: A multisite randomized control trial32
Links between shared and unique perspectives of parental psychological control and adolescent emotional problems: A dyadic daily diary study31
A Pre‐registered sticky mittens study: active training does not increase reaching and grasping in a swedish context30
Children boost their cognitive performance with a novel offloading technique30
The beneficial effect of sleep on behavioral health problems in youth is disrupted by prenatal cannabis exposure: A causal random forest analysis of Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development data29
Adolescent caregiving success as a predictor of social functioning from ages 13 to 3329
Strengthening parental self‐efficacy and resilience: A within‐subject experimental study with refugee parents of adolescents29
Development of complex executive function over childhood: Longitudinal growth curve modeling of performance on the Groton Maze Learning Task28
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Control–value appraisals and academic emotions: An intensive longitudinal examination of reciprocal effects26
Simulating peers: Can puppets simulate peer interactions in studies on children's socio‐cognitive development?26
Emotion transmission in peer dyads in middle childhood26
Early Vocabulary Acquisition: From Birth Order Effect to Child‐to‐Caregiver Ratio26
Temperamental Shyness and Anger/Frustration in Childhood: Normative Development, Individual Differences, and the Impacts of Maternal Intrusiveness and Frontal Electroencephalogram Asymmetry26
Parent socialization and anti‐racist ideology development in White youth: Do peer and parenting contexts matter?26
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