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Papers

(The median citation count of Developmental Review is 6. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Classroom climate and children’s academic and psychological wellbeing: A systematic review and meta-analysis	167
Father-child play: A systematic review of its frequency, characteristics and potential impact on children’s development	82
A meta-analysis of the predictability of LENA™ automated measures for child language development	60
The importance of belonging and the avoidance of social risk taking in adolescence	45
Where language meets attention: How contingent interactions promote learning	44
Correlates and antecedents of theory of mind development during middle childhood and adolescence: An integrated model	42
Is adolescence a time of heightened risk taking? An overview of types of risk-taking behaviors across age groups	37
Development of prejudice against immigrants and ethnic minorities in adolescence: A systematic review with meta-analysis of longitudinal studies	37
Adolescent risk-taking in the context of exploration and social influence	32
The relationship between parental behavior and infant regulation: A systematic review	31
The emergence of empathy: A developmental neuroscience perspective	29
Metaphor processing in autism: A systematic review and meta-analysis	25
Multiple pathways of risk taking in adolescence	24
“How does the broader construct of self-regulation relate to emotion regulation in young children?”	24
An examination of gender differences in spatial skills and math attitudes in relation to mathematics success: A bio-psycho-social model	23
Adolescents take positive risks, too	23
Maternal and paternal depression and anxiety and offspring infant negative affectivity: A systematic review and meta-analysis	22
Emotion recognition across visual and auditory modalities in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis	22
Network selection and influence effects on children’s and adolescents’ internalizing behaviors and peer victimization: A systematic review	22
Evaluating associations between parental mind-mindedness and children’s developmental capacities through meta-analysis	22
Development of children’s math attitudes: Gender differences, key socializers, and intervention approaches	22
Emerging neurodevelopmental perspectives on mathematical learning	19
Studying a moving target in development: The challenge and opportunity of heterotypic continuity	18
Complementarities between early educational intervention and later educational quality? A systematic review of the sustaining environments hypothesis	18
Looking for the lighthouse: A systematic review of advanced theory-of-mind tests beyond preschool	18

Emotion regulation and coping with racial stressors among African Americans across the lifespan	18
A literature review of gratitude, parent–child relationships, and well-being in children	18
Mental files: Developmental integration of dual naming and theory of mind	17
Early childhood adversity and Women’s sexual behavior: The role of sensitivity to sexual reward	17
Individual and developmental differences in delinquency: Can they be explained by adolescent risk-taking models?	16
Society to cell: How child poverty gets “Under the Skin” to influence child development and lifelong health	16
The emergence of richly organized semantic knowledge from simple statistics: A synthetic review	15
Why do preschoolers perpetuate inequalities? Theoretical perspectives on inequity preferences in the face of emerging concerns for equality	14
The potential utility of an opportunity-propensity framework for understanding individual and group differences in developmental outcomes: A retrospective progress report	14
How fuzzy-trace theory predicts development of risky decision making, with novel extensions to culture and reward sensitivity	13
Towards a hybrid criminological and psychological model of risk behavior: The developmental neuro-ecological risk-taking model (DNERM)	13
The domain-specific approach of working memory training	12
Traumatic brain injury in adolescence: A review of the neurobiological and behavioural underpinnings and outcomes	12
How does play foster development? A new executive function perspective	12
Widening the lens of family math engagement: A conceptual framework and systematic review	12
Understanding why infant-directed speech supports learning: A dynamic attention perspective	11
Language input and outcome variation as a test of theory plausibility: The case of early phonological acquisition	11
Resolving ambiguity: Broadening the consideration of risky decision making over adolescent development	11
Examining the role of parents and teachers in executive function development in early and middle childhood: A systematic review	10
Determinants of social connectedness in children and early adolescents with mental disorder: A systematic literature review	10
Dopaminergic associations between behavioral inhibition, executive functioning, and anxiety in development	9
Microbiome-gut-brain axis in brain development, cognition and behavior during infancy and early childhood	9
Amniotic testosterone and psychological sex differences: A systematic review of the extreme male brain theory	9
How children’s social tendencies can shape their theory of mind development: Access and attention to social information	9
The appraisal approach to aging and emotion: An integrative theoretical framework	8
The origins of effortful control: How early development within arousal/regulatory systems influences attentional and affective control	8
Stress in the onset and aggravation of learning disabilities	7
Theoretical advances in research on the development of risk taking	7
The relation between normative rituals/routines and obsessive-compulsive symptoms at a young age: A systematic review	6
Spontaneous verbal recall: A new look at the mechanisms involved in episodic memory retrieval in young children	6
A systematic review of measures of theory of mind for children	6
Conscience and delinquency: A developmentally informed meta-analysis	6
Rejection sensitivity and negative urgency: A proposed framework of intersecting risk for peer stress	6
Coping with poverty-related stress: A narrative review	6
Development of moral identity: From the age of responsibility to adult maturity	6
Do infants have agency? – The importance of control for the study of early agency	6
Poverty, caregiving, and HPA-axis activity in early childhood	6