Applied Developmental Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Applied Developmental Science is 3. 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
Growth of shared book reading in the first two years and its effects on children’s development39
The role of rapport in eliciting children’s truthful reports23
Validity studies of a parent-completed social-emotional measure in a representative sample in China14
Educating teachers to enact the science of learning and development12
Empathy in an ecosystem: A longitudinal study examining contributions of summer camp and school experiences to empathy during early adolescence12
How does the family environment affect toddlerhood language and cognitive development? Evidence from peri-urban China12
Longitudinal associations between teacher-student relationships and school engagement in early elementary school years: Gender differences11
Validation of a youth social capital scale Informed by positive youth development11
Parental and contextual influences on religious transmission in adolescence11
Paradox of aging: Differential effects of social network types on mental health in midlife and older adults11
Do adults think talking to children about race is appropriate? Experimental evidence of the effects of race, age, and messaging10
Does variation in early childhood education matter more for dual language learners’ than for monolingual children’s language development?10
Development and initial validation of a camper-counselor relationship scale9
Does entering early childhood education as a toddler benefit language and social development until age seven? A propensity score analysis9
Moral reasoning among children in India: The intersection of culture, development, and social class8
Psychometric validity and measurement invariance of positive youth development in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic8
Deeper engagement with live theater increases middle school students’ empathy and social perspective taking7
Delayed gratification predicts behavioral and academic outcomes: Examining the validity of the delay-of-gratification choice paradigm in Singaporean young children7
Perceived discrimination and poor children’s executive function: the different roles of self-esteem and perceived social support7
Relational social capital and educational equity among middle-school students: a person-centered analysis7
An assessment of when moral stories promote children’s honesty7
Program quality instrument for youth (PQI-youth): validation of a brief, self-report measure6
Engaging purpose in college: a person-centered approach to studying purpose in relation to college experiences6
An exploration of the relationship between school poverty rates and students’ perceptions of empowerment: student-staff relationships, equitable roles, & classroom sense of community6
Don’t sleep on identity: Longitudinal associations between identity and sleep quality in adolescents with different cultural backgrounds6
The development and psychometric properties of a scalable digital measure of social and emotional wellbeing for middle childhood5
Back to school: Teachers’ initial perceptions of students’ executive function behaviors are important for teacher–student relationships and executive function development5
The age-graded effects of psychosocial maturity on legal socialization across the adolescent developmental course in youth offenders5
Conducting virtual assessments in developmental research: COVID-19 restrictions as a case example5
Purpose development in the context of higher education5
Breaking the chains? The effects of training a shelter dog in prison on criminal behavior and recidivism5
Promoting fourth-grade students’ autonomy, competence, and relatedness through service-learning4
Becoming self-sufficient: a longitudinal person-centered analysis of financial identity and adult status during emerging adulthood4
Familismo , respeto , and caballerismo : Cultural values as buffers against links between psychological distress and U.4
Social-emotional learning intervention effects: the role of universal versus indicated implementation settings4
Electronic media exposure, parental language input, and child vocalizations in rural and peri-urban China4
The importance of both individual differences and dyadic processes in children’s emotion expression4
Children’s self-control as an antecedent of adolescent prosociality and adult civic engagement3
A qualitative exploration of Latinx immigrant young adults’ experiences with anti-immigration policies and the COVID-19 pandemic3
Protective effect of parental monitoring on early-to-mid adolescents displaying high-level and increasing aggressive behavior3
“The most important part of empathy is…being able to help”: Empathy definitions and teaching practices in middle school3
Heterogeneity in the development of differential reinforcement: examining predictive power of definitions and differential association from a social learning perspective3
Direct and moderating impacts of the CARE mindfulness-based professional learning program for teachers on children’s academic and social-emotional outcomes3
Rubbing off on each other: Applying a developmental science perspective to variance in primal world beliefs by family and culture3
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree: Longitudinal associations among American adolescents’ civic engagement and family and school characteristics3
Late-adult fathers’ experiences of parenting across the lifespan3
Longitudinal associations between critical consciousness, school racial climate, and belonging in school3
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