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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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	102
Judith Rich Harris and child development: 25 years after The Nurture Assumption	73
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 children	69
The role of patterning skill in cognitive development and learning: A critical review	55
Chronicle of deceit: Navigating the developmental cognitive landscape from childhood fabrications to prolific adulthood artistry	46
Resolving ambiguity: Broadening the consideration of risky decision making over adolescent development	45
Butterfly effects in perceptual development: A review of the ‘adaptive initial degradation’ hypothesis	42
A meta-analysis of sequences in theory-of-mind understandings: Theory of mind scale findings across different cultural contexts	41
Bereft and Left: The interplay between insecure attachment, isolation, and neurobiology	40
Editorial Board	36
A relational developmental theory of human-animal interaction: A meta-synthesis and grounded theory	34
Arithmetic thinking as the basis of children's generative number concepts	33
The older population is more cognitively able than in the past and age-related deficits in cognition are diminishing over time	31
Development and socialization of self-regulation from infancy to adolescence: A meta-review differentiating between self-regulatory abilities, goals, and motivation	29
Modelling complex span performance: activation, attentional capacity, and interference	27
Building a cumulative science of memory development	27
The neurodevelopmental roots of interactions between attention and working memory during infancy	26
Developing communication through objects: Ostensive gestures as the first gestures in children's development	24
Neural indicators of numerical abilities in the infant human brain: A systematic review	22
A literature review of gratitude, parent–child relationships, and well-being in children	21
Widening the lens of family math engagement: A conceptual framework and systematic review	21
Riding the elephant in the room: Towards a revival of the optimal level of stimulation model	21
Moral disengagement in youth: A meta-analytic review	21
Improving executive function during toddlerhood: A systematic review and meta-analysis of parent-led interventions	21
Do infants have agency? – The importance of control for the study of early agency	20

Understanding why infant-directed speech supports learning: A dynamic attention perspective	19
Editorial Board	18
Does child-mother attachment predict and mediate language and cognitive outcomes? A series of meta-analyses	18
Understanding the role of testimony in children’s moral development: Theories, controversies, and implications	16
Editorial Board	16
How age and culture influence cognition: A lifespan developmental perspective	16
Emotion regulation and coping with racial stressors among African Americans across the lifespan	16
Editorial Board	15
Building a developmental science of redemption	15
A systematic review of measures of theory of mind for children	14
Editorial Board	14
A model of peer aggression and victimization on the social spectrum: A relational perspective	13
A new look at the relations between attachment and intelligence	11
Measurement considerations in the link between racial/ethnic discrimination and adolescent well-being: A meta-analysis	10
The emergence of empathy: A developmental neuroscience perspective	10
Developmental theories: Past, present, and future	10
Social goals and gains of adolescent bullying and aggression: A meta-analysis	10
Decoding the intent-to-outcome developmental shift in moral judgment, from infancy to preschool age: A critical review and a novel proposition	9
Does child-directed speech facilitate language development in all domains? A study space analysis of the existing evidence	9
Early childhood adversity and Women’s sexual behavior: The role of sensitivity to sexual reward	9
The changing social world that children make: Reflections on Harris’s critique of the nurture assumption	9
Children’s saving: A review and proposed ecological framework	8
Adolescent risk-taking in the context of exploration and social influence	8
How fuzzy-trace theory predicts development of risky decision making, with novel extensions to culture and reward sensitivity	7
Editorial Board	7
Environmental contributions to cognitive development: The role of cognitive stimulation	7
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 chronicity	7
Connecting learning environments to learning: Two examples from children’s mathematics	6
Episodic thought in development: On the relation between memory and future thinking	6
The impact of bilingualism on theory of mind in children with and without developmental disorders: A scoping review	5
Assessing parental emotion regulation in the context of parenting: A systematic review	5
Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development	5
Executive function: Debunking an overprized construct	5
Understanding sensory regulation in typical and atypical development: The case of sensory seeking	5
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 perceptions	5
Contributions of motor skill development and physical activity to the ontogeny of executive function skills in early childhood	5
Editorial Board	4
The nurturing of Criminologists: An exercise in futility	4
Integrating attention, working memory, and word learning in a dynamic field theory of executive function development: Moving beyond the ‘component’ view of executive function	4
Is adolescence a time of heightened risk taking? An overview of types of risk-taking behaviors across age groups	4
Intertemporal choice and temporal discounting in children: A review and synthesis	4