Developmental Review

Papers
(The H4-Index of Developmental Review is 21. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board105
Judith Rich Harris and child development: 25 years after The Nurture Assumption78
A meta-analysis of sequences in theory-of-mind understandings: Theory of mind scale findings across different cultural contexts71
The role of patterning skill in cognitive development and learning: A critical review60
Resolving ambiguity: Broadening the consideration of risky decision making over adolescent development48
Butterfly effects in perceptual development: A review of the ‘adaptive initial degradation’ hypothesis46
Neural hyperscanning in caregiver-child dyads: A paradigm for studying the long-term effects of facilitated vs. disrupted attention on working memory and executive functioning in young children46
Chronicle of deceit: Navigating the developmental cognitive landscape from childhood fabrications to prolific adulthood artistry43
Bereft and Left: The interplay between insecure attachment, isolation, and neurobiology42
Editorial Board41
A relational developmental theory of human-animal interaction: A meta-synthesis and grounded theory36
Arithmetic thinking as the basis of children's generative number concepts35
The older population is more cognitively able than in the past and age-related deficits in cognition are diminishing over time34
Development and socialization of self-regulation from infancy to adolescence: A meta-review differentiating between self-regulatory abilities, goals, and motivation33
Modelling complex span performance: activation, attentional capacity, and interference30
Building a cumulative science of memory development28
The neurodevelopmental roots of interactions between attention and working memory during infancy27
Neural indicators of numerical abilities in the infant human brain: A systematic review24
Moral disengagement in youth: A meta-analytic review22
Improving executive function during toddlerhood: A systematic review and meta-analysis of parent-led interventions22
Developing communication through objects: Ostensive gestures as the first gestures in children's development22
A literature review of gratitude, parent–child relationships, and well-being in children21
Widening the lens of family math engagement: A conceptual framework and systematic review21
Does child-mother attachment predict and mediate language and cognitive outcomes? A series of meta-analyses21
Riding the elephant in the room: Towards a revival of the optimal level of stimulation model21
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