Developmental Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Developmental Review 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board115
Judith Rich Harris and child development: 25 years after The Nurture Assumption81
The role of patterning skill in cognitive development and learning: A critical review74
Butterfly effects in perceptual development: A review of the ‘adaptive initial degradation’ hypothesis64
Resolving ambiguity: Broadening the consideration of risky decision making over adolescent development49
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 children48
Chronicle of deceit: Navigating the developmental cognitive landscape from childhood fabrications to prolific adulthood artistry48
A meta-analysis of sequences in theory-of-mind understandings: Theory of mind scale findings across different cultural contexts45
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 theory39
Arithmetic thinking as the basis of children's generative number concepts37
The older population is more cognitively able than in the past and age-related deficits in cognition are diminishing over time36
Development and socialization of self-regulation from infancy to adolescence: A meta-review differentiating between self-regulatory abilities, goals, and motivation35
Modelling complex span performance: activation, attentional capacity, and interference33
Building a cumulative science of memory development30
Neural indicators of numerical abilities in the infant human brain: A systematic review28
Developing communication through objects: Ostensive gestures as the first gestures in children's development27
The neurodevelopmental roots of interactions between attention and working memory during infancy24
Improving executive function during toddlerhood: A systematic review and meta-analysis of parent-led interventions23
Riding the elephant in the room: Towards a revival of the optimal level of stimulation model22
A literature review of gratitude, parent–child relationships, and well-being in children22
Moral disengagement in youth: A meta-analytic review22
Widening the lens of family math engagement: A conceptual framework and systematic review22
How age and culture influence cognition: A lifespan developmental perspective21
Does child-mother attachment predict and mediate language and cognitive outcomes? A series of meta-analyses21
Editorial Board21
Do infants have agency? – The importance of control for the study of early agency21
Understanding why infant-directed speech supports learning: A dynamic attention perspective21
Understanding the role of testimony in children’s moral development: Theories, controversies, and implications19
Editorial Board18
Emotion regulation and coping with racial stressors among African Americans across the lifespan18
Editorial Board16
Building a developmental science of redemption16
Editorial Board15
A systematic review of measures of theory of mind for children15
A new look at the relations between attachment and intelligence15
A model of peer aggression and victimization on the social spectrum: A relational perspective14
Developmental theories: Past, present, and future14
Social goals and gains of adolescent bullying and aggression: A meta-analysis13
Evaluating parent-mediated interventions to support child emotion regulation: a review of preventative approaches across childhood11
The emergence of empathy: A developmental neuroscience perspective11
The changing social world that children make: Reflections on Harris’s critique of the nurture assumption11
Early childhood adversity and Women’s sexual behavior: The role of sensitivity to sexual reward11
Does child-directed speech facilitate language development in all domains? A study space analysis of the existing evidence11
Decoding the intent-to-outcome developmental shift in moral judgment, from infancy to preschool age: A critical review and a novel proposition11
Adolescent risk-taking in the context of exploration and social influence10
Measurement considerations in the link between racial/ethnic discrimination and adolescent well-being: A meta-analysis10
Children’s saving: A review and proposed ecological framework9
Parental postpartum depression and children’s receptive and expressive language during the first six years of life: A systematic review of depression timing, status, and chronicity8
Editorial Board8
How fuzzy-trace theory predicts development of risky decision making, with novel extensions to culture and reward sensitivity7
Environmental contributions to cognitive development: The role of cognitive stimulation7
Episodic thought in development: On the relation between memory and future thinking7
Connecting learning environments to learning: Two examples from children’s mathematics6
From the “Here and Now” to the “There and Then”: How parent–child decontextualized conversations support early development6
Contributions of motor skill development and physical activity to the ontogeny of executive function skills in early childhood6
Assessing parental emotion regulation in the context of parenting: A systematic review5
Executive function: Debunking an overprized construct5
Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development5
Understanding sensory regulation in typical and atypical development: The case of sensory seeking5
Dynamical systems organization of the behavioral process in child development: Outlining ascending visual information from the retina to the frontal cortex in the context of face perceptions5
The impact of bilingualism on theory of mind in children with and without developmental disorders: A scoping review4
The nurturing of Criminologists: An exercise in futility4
Editorial Board4
Is adolescence a time of heightened risk taking? An overview of types of risk-taking behaviors across age groups4
Integrating attention, working memory, and word learning in a dynamic field theory of executive function development: Moving beyond the ‘component’ view of executive function4
Intertemporal choice and temporal discounting in children: A review and synthesis4
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