Developmental Review

Papers
(The TQCC of Developmental Review is 11. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Judith Rich Harris and child development: 25 years after The Nurture Assumption55
Editorial Board53
The role of patterning skill in cognitive development and learning: A critical review52
A meta-analysis of sequences in theory-of-mind understandings: Theory of mind scale findings across different cultural contexts51
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 children43
Butterfly effects in perceptual development: A review of the ‘adaptive initial degradation’ hypothesis41
Chronicle of deceit: Navigating the developmental cognitive landscape from childhood fabrications to prolific adulthood artistry34
Editorial Board33
Arithmetic thinking as the basis of children's generative number concepts32
The older population is more cognitively able than in the past and age-related deficits in cognition are diminishing over time28
A relational developmental theory of human-animal interaction: A meta-synthesis and grounded theory28
Development and socialization of self-regulation from infancy to adolescence: A meta-review differentiating between self-regulatory abilities, goals, and motivation28
Bereft and Left: The interplay between insecure attachment, isolation, and neurobiology28
Building a cumulative science of memory development27
Modelling complex span performance: activation, attentional capacity, and interference24
Developing communication through objects: Ostensive gestures as the first gestures in children's development24
The neurodevelopmental roots of interactions between attention and working memory during infancy23
Neural indicators of numerical abilities in the infant human brain: A systematic review22
Riding the elephant in the room: Towards a revival of the optimal level of stimulation model21
Improving executive function during toddlerhood: A systematic review and meta-analysis of parent-led interventions19
Widening the lens of family math engagement: A conceptual framework and systematic review16
Moral disengagement in youth: A meta-analytic review15
Understanding why infant-directed speech supports learning: A dynamic attention perspective14
Social circuits under developmental threat: Bridging rodent and human neuroscience14
Do infants have agency? – The importance of control for the study of early agency14
Does child-mother attachment predict and mediate language and cognitive outcomes? A series of meta-analyses13
Editorial Board12
Understanding the role of testimony in children’s moral development: Theories, controversies, and implications12
A similarity-based memory retrieval model to orthographic processing12
Editorial Board11
How age and culture influence cognition: A lifespan developmental perspective11
Editorial Board11
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