Infant and Child Development

Papers
(The median citation count of Infant and Child Development is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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An evaluation of the psychometric properties of the strengths and difficulties scale in Turkey: Implications for other non‐WEIRD countries143
Caregiver Beliefs About Childhood Development and Schooling Outcomes: A Qualitative Study in Mahikeng, South Africa50
The Online Assessment of Emotional Knowledge in Toddlerhood40
Black‐Asian solidarity through collective racial socialization30
Does surgency moderate the relationship between parenting and children's aggression in middle childhood?27
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Longitudinal associations between attachment representations coded in the adult attachment interview in late adolescence and perceptions of romantic relationship adjustment in adulthood21
Goldilocks and the home mathematics environment: Parents' rate activities ‘too easy,’ ‘just right,’ or ‘too hard’ across early development19
Learning in Dos Idiomas: The Impact of Codeswitching on Children's Noun and Verb Learning17
Leveraging Eye‐Tracking Technology to Understand How Young Children Solve a Mental Rotation Task17
Early Communicative‐Language Emergence: Identification of Late Talkers and Parental Perceptions of a Web‐Based Parent‐Report Assessment Tool15
The health costs associated with “looking forward to success”: Educational expectations and children's health14
Bibliometric Examination of Artificial Intelligence Studies on Infants14
Acting and Practising Together: Modulations of the Joint Simon Effect in 6‐ to 8‐Year‐Old Children14
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The Story of Sickness: Improving Children's Sick Face Perception13
Fulfilling the promise of applied developmental science: Is it time to reconsider our approach?13
Emotional Words, Emotional Contexts: Investigating Emotional Valence in Children's Writing and Word Learning13
Additive and synergistic relations of early mother–child and caregiver–child interactions and socioeconomic outcomes in adulthood13
The dynamic functions of social cues during children's word learning13
Pre‐ K attendance and social development: The moderating role of kindergarten classroom experiences12
How Linguistic Labels and Objects Types Shape Inductive Reasoning in Chinese Preschool Children Aged 3 to 5 Years12
Gender attitudes and gender discrimination among ethnically and geographically diverse young children12
Preschool children's high‐frequency heart rate variability during low and high emotional challenge in relation to their self‐regulation12
Examining the indirect role of perceived normativeness in the association between collectivistic values and psychological control of Turkish mothers11
Nap Cessation in Preschoolers: When Context Matters Beyond Age‐Related Biology11
Associations of Maternal Stress and Socioeconomic Status With Infant Cognitive and Brain Outcomes: A Systematic Review11
Perspectives on the impact of generative AI on early‐childhood development and education10
Infant‐directed communication in Tanna, Vanuatu and Vancouver, Canada10
The Indonesian version of Ages and Stages Questionnaire III accuracy compared to Bayley Scales of Infant Development III10
Will power serve for oneself or others? An exploratory study toward 6‐ to 9‐year‐old Chinese children10
Temperament and behaviour problems in children: A multilevel analysis of cross‐cultural differences9
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How Well Do Children Remember Fast‐Mapped Words? A Pre‐Registered Meta‐Analysis of Retention Following the Mutual Exclusivity Response9
“I definitely feel like a scientist”: Exploring science identity trajectories among Latinx students in a critical race theory‐informed undergraduate research experience9
Impact of decision‐making autonomy and social distance on young Chinese children's sharing behaviour9
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Do mother's socialization goals in early childhood predict children's later self?8
The Marshmallow Test as a Screening Instrument: Sensitivity and Specificity of a Delay of Gratification Task for Later ADHD and Conduct Problems8
Dyslexia is not a gift, but it is not that simple8
Don't look any further: How a model's linguistic group membership limits exploration and discovery in preschool children8
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The role of the natural history museum in promoting word learning for young children8
Life satisfaction trajectories among junior high school students in China: The role of parent–child communication8
Child refugee's social skills and resilience: Moderating effects of time in refugee camp, parental education, and preschool attendance7
Preschool language exposure and use: A comparison study of dual‐language learners and English monolingual children7
Defining Parent Responsiveness: A Systematic Review‐Based Theoretical Model6
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Trauma is not the whole story: Trajectories of responses to childhood disasters intertwining with Life following the Indian Ocean tsunami6
Understanding the relation between socioeconomic status and elementary science achievement: A quantile regression approach6
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‘The system is unfair’: Uncontrollable attributions for inequality predict more equitable giving in adolescents6
Variability in parenting behaviours during play and during mealtimes with toddlers6
Do Emotions Speak a Universal Language? English‐Speaking Preschoolers' and Adults' Detection of Emotional Prosody in an Unfamiliar Language6
Anxiety, Depression, and Behavioural Problems Among US Children and Adolescents, 2016–20226
‘When my mummy and daddy aren't looking at me when I do my maths she helps me’; Children can be taught to create imaginary companions: An exploratory study6
Who Should Play the Instrument?: Effects of Pitch and Loudness on Children's Gender Associations With Musical Instruments6
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Associations among family socioeconomic status, parenting and sustained attention for socioeconomically disadvantaged children at age 5 years5
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Latent profiles of infant negative affect and respiratory sinus arrhythmia during the still‐face paradigm: The role of maternal sensitivity5
Prevalence, risk and protective factors of substance use amongst adolescents living in peri‐urban communities in Abuja, Nigeria5
Examining the female‐talker default in experimental language acquisition research5
Frontal Asymmetry in Infancy: Predictive Utility for Distinct Patterns of Temperament5
Communication With Friends and Non‐Friend Peers: An Examination of Dyadic Connectedness Across Two Play Contexts5
The role of fathers in children's emotion regulation development: A systematic review5
Beliefs, practices and support needs of preschool teachers toward shy‐withdrawn behaviours5
Do Two Minds Work Better Than One? The Use of Cognitive Offloading to an External Agent in Working Memory Across Development5
The other side of false belief: Constructing the objectivity of reality5
I copy you as I believe you know about our culture: Combining imitation and selective trust literatures5
Open science and metascience in developmental psychology: Introduction to the special issue5
The cost–benefit trade‐off in young children's overimitation behaviour5
The Contingent Relationships Between Maternal and Child Cognitive Demand Contributions in Shared Book Reading Among Low‐Income Preschool‐Age Dual Language Learners: A Sequential Analysis4
The developing of executive function skills through culturally organized autonomy and helping4
From a Traditional Family to a Queer Step‐Family: Challenges and Resources of Family Transition Among Gay and Lesbian Parents and Their Children in Belgium. A Systemic Approach4
Maternal distress and body mass index in preschoolers living in families experiencing l ow‐income4
Children's preferences of the colour composition of art paintings4
Temperament ratings by parents and teachers as predictors of non‐verbal ability in Argentinean preschoolers4
Correction to “Relationship Between Colours and Emotions as Reflected in Children's Drawings”4
Exploring Sibling Cooperation Across Cultures: Indigenous Yurakaré and Polish Urban Children4
Speed and Accuracy of Movement During Visuomotor Adaptation Are Still Developing in School‐Age Children4
Performance during object retrieval tasks in young children with and without Down syndrome: A pilot study4
Use them or lose them: Are manipulatives needed to assess numeracy and geometry performance in preschool?4
Young School‐Aged Children Are Sensitive to Simple and Complex Sequential Patterns in a Modified Serial Reaction Time Task4
Temporal Variation in Preschoolers' Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and the Use of Behavioural Emotion Regulation Strategies4
Spanking and parental verbal aggression during early childhood: Association with later academic achievement and the mediating role of executive function4
Utilising Non‐Nutritive Sucking in Developmental Language Research: Past, Current and Future4
Greenspace and Adolescent Internalising and Externalising Problems: Limited Associations in the ABCD Cohort4
Bayesian sample size planning for developmental studies4
Toddlers' emotion vocalizations during peer conflicts and contingent teacher interventions in early care and education settings4
Infant placement and language exposure in daily life4
Can we predict non‐response in developmental tasks? Assessing the longitudinal relation between toddlers' non‐response and early academic skills4
Reliability and acceptability of web‐based administration of Spanish ages and stages questionnaires third edition®3
Keeping track of language: Can monolingual and bilingual infants associate a speaker with the language they speak?3
Gender Differences, or Lack Thereof, in the Early Home Science Environment3
They are the best: The significance of others to emerging adults and well‐being3
The relation between social acceptance and school well‐being in early childhood3
Excluded Now What? Families' Perceptions of Subsequent Care Arrangements Following Preschool Expulsion3
COVID ‐19 Lockdown and Children's Recreational Experiences: A Cross‐Sectional Study Using the Six Stages of Play Theory3
Caregivers' Perspectives on Playful Learning Approaches: Benefits, Barriers, and Engagement3
Exploring Inter‐Brain Coherence Between Fathers and Infants During Maternal Storytelling: An fNIRS Hyperscanning Study3
Maternal Ethnic‐Racial Enculturation: Implications for Social Skill Development in Early Childhood3
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The Role of Daily Physical Activities in Enhancing Subjective Well‐Being Among Chilean School‐Aged Children3
The First Year: Profiling the Home Environment of Infants From Low‐Income Homes3
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Toward inclusive and identity safe learning for supporting racialized student achievement3
Black American adolescent's efficacy in the face of discrimination3
Cultural Construction of Infant Motor Development in a Minority Group: The Case of First Time Druze Mothers in Israel3
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Manipulation Complexity in Infants3
Is It the Content or the Gossiper's Behaviour While Evaluating Gossip for Children?3
Baseline and Rest: A Need for Conceptual Clarity When Measuring Parasympathetic Reactivity and Recovery3
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A Script and Tutorial for Using Rev AI 's Automatic Speech Transcription3
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Childhood fantasy play relates to adult socio‐emotional competence3
Math Anxiety, Activities, and Skills: Evidence From US Latine Families3
Neonatal Surgency Moderates the Association Between the Home Environment and Executive Functions in Children With a Family History of ADHD3
A nuanced look into youth journeys of gender transition and detransition3
Teachers matter in early childhood: The relation between teacher behaviours and executive function development in toddlerhood2
Examining the Longitudinal Associations Between Paternal and Maternal Involvement and Social Competence Among Chinese Young Children via an Extended Cross‐Lagged Panel Model2
Maternal substance use, unpredictability of sensory signals and child cognitive development: An exploratory study2
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Early Childhood Education and Care Quality and Gains in Skills Among a Diverse Sample of Toddlers and Preschoolers in Norway2
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Parental Math Beliefs and Home Math Experiences of Preschoolers in Chile: A Qualitative Study2
Piloting a battery to evaluate parasympathetic reactivity and externalizing behaviours during early childhood in autism spectrum disorder2
The Impact of Maternal Experience of Gender Roles on Children's Socio‐Emotional Development in Uganda: A Qualitative Study2
Mapping Multi‐Domain Influences on Theory of Mind: A Systematic Review and Call for Research Action2
Is sleep longitudinally related to children's achievement, executive function and classroom behaviour?2
Contextual Fit? Exploring Diverging Areas of Knowledge Around Infant Rearing in a Home Visiting Intervention in Alexandra Township, South Africa2
Implementation of a multiverse approach in developmental research: The longitudinal relation between self‐esteem and peer victimization2
In search of a measure to investigate mental performance among children: Development of the mental speed test2
Sharing is caring for developmental psychology2
Associated biological and environmental factors of impaired executive function in preschool‐aged children: A population‐based study2
Exploring profiles of hormone exposure: Associations with cognition in a population‐based cohort of early adolescents2
Maternal sensitivity as a predictor of change in respiratory sinus arrhythmia activity from infancy to toddlerhood2
Qualitative and quantitative measures of joint attention development in the first year of life: A scoping review2
Strengthening Developmental Science With Psychometric Evaluations: An Examination of the Spatial Arrangement Method as a Measure of Semantic Structure in Children2
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Behavioural Interventions for Problematic Infant Sleeping and Cry/Fuss Behaviour: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analyses2
Chinese child unsociability, maternal maladaptive parenting, and peer exclusion among preschoolers: A cross‐lagged model2
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The feasibility of remote measurement of infant sleep and motor development2
Phonological–semantic flexibility and its role in reading for Chinese kindergarten children2
Maternal depression and the timing of mother–child dialogue2
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Short Report: Environmental Sensitivity in Children Is Associated With Visual Working Memory and Visual Search Performance2
Development and Initial Validation of the Indonesian Child Self‐Regulation Scale2
‘It's Mine!’ Infants' Ownership Understanding and Choice Prediction: Exploring the Role of Experiential Factors2
Exploring the cognitive development of children born to adolescent mothers in South Africa2
Enhancing Sensitive Parenting: Comparing Narration and Behavioural Mirroring Strategies in Mother–Infant Interactions2
Relationship Between Colours and Emotions as Reflected in Children's Drawings2
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Bidirectionality of Kindergarten Children's Social Mastery Motivation and Social–Emotional Competence2
Methods Used to Code Adult‐Child Mathematical Interactions and the Association With Children's Mathematical Skills: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis2
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The myth of normative development1
Influences on Data Quality in Developmental Children Studies1
The self‐concept questionnaire offers a multidimensional, developmentally sensitive measure of the capacity for self‐reflection in young children1
Do Parents and Children See Eye to Eye When It Comes to Parenting Styles? Results From a Cross‐Informant Agreement Study With Portuguese Middle‐School Children1
Movement Behaviour and Emotion Regulation in Young Children: A Daily Diary Study1
Investigating correlates of children's emotional well‐being: Parenting stress and child temperament1
Qualitative Research on Infant and Child Development in Majority World Countries1
COVID ‐19 pandemic impacts on kindergarteners' mental health: A qualitative study of perspectives of U.S. mothers with low income1
‘It Seems Hard for Her, but She Tries to Be Strong’: Early Childhood Community Practitioners' Accounts of Foreign Mothers' Vulnerabilities in Alexandra Township, South Africa1
Susceptibility to prosocial and antisocial influence in adolescence following mindfulness training1
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Social competence with peers and theory of mind among Chinese preschool children1
Improving data quality in online parenting research1
Print and Screen Media in Families Experiencing Low Income: The Impact of Stressors and Protective Factors1
Una Buena Madre Tiene Ovarios Gigantescos (A Good Mother Has Giant Ovaries)’: How Mexican Mothers Negotiate the Madresposa Ideology1
Agreement of Parent and Teacher Report on Executive Functioning Abilities of Preschool‐Aged Children Using the Childhood Executive Functioning Inventory1
A Comparison of Sleep and Settle Behaviours Across Twins and Singletons at 5 Months of Age1
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Socialisation of Emotion Regulation in Preschool Classrooms: How Do Peers Matter?1
Investigating the association between socioeconomic status and language skills in children with autism spectrum disorder or other developmental delays1
Examining the Effect of Household Pesticide Exposure on Infants' Temperament and Children's Behavioural and Emotional Problems1
Into the unknown: Maternal responsiveness influences young children's support‐giving expectations of fathers but not unfamiliar others1
Associations of Shame and Guilt With Externalising Behaviour in Deaf and Hard‐of‐Hearing ( DHH ) and Hearing Children1
Toddlers' self‐regulation development from 14 to 26 months: The unique role of paternal discipline1
Perinatal Risk Factors Associated With Infant Socioemotional Development1
Associations between risk factors, developmental outcomes, and executive function in neonatal intensive care unit graduates at 2 years: A retrospective study1
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Individual differences in preschoolers' spatial thinking: Comprehension of dimensional adjectives and their relation to children's performance on non‐verbal spatial tasks1
Infant sleep and anxiety disorders in early childhood: Findings from an Australian pregnancy cohort study1
Mother–infant shared book reading in the first year of life1
The link between early iconic gesture comprehension and receptive language1
Preterm‐born children's development: A bioecological perspective1
Applying Research Domain Criteria to the study of emotion dysregulation in infancy and early childhood1
Participation in Everyday Routines: Examining the Latent Structure of the MEISR for Children Aged 3–5 Years1
Examining the generalisability of the simple view of reading comprehension for emergent bilinguals1
Exploratory study of best friendship dissolution characteristics and psychological difficulties during early adolescence1
A Home Under Threat: The Meanings of Home Among Bedouin Children in the Unrecognised Villages in Israel: A Context‐Informed Perspective1
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Family structure and material hardship: Child and adolescent pathways to health and well‐being1
Prosocial development throughout the toddlerhood: A person‐centred approach1
Temperament Ratings by Parents and Teachers as Predictors of Non‐Verbal Ability in Argentinean Preschoolers1
Are Dominant Figures More Trustworthy? Examining the Relation Between Parental Authoritarianism and Children's Trust Preferences in the U.S. and China1
The ‘scars’ left on children by exclusion, but re‐inclusion may ‘heal up’1
The Development of Mathematical Performance From Kindergarten to Grade 1: The Role of Children's Mathematical Liking and Parents' Beliefs and Activities1
The PRSIST Intervention to Improve Self‐Regulation in Preschoolers: An Adaptation to the Italian Context1
Family and Community Social Capital on Early Childhood Behaviour Before and During the Pandemic1
Factors influencing kindergarten Families' perceptions of home–school interactions1
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Coparenting conflict moderates the association between maternal prenatal depressive symptoms and infant regulatory capacity1
Individual differences in parasympathetic functioning across social stressor tasks: Relations with child and parent anxiety1
Biomarker adoption in developmental science: A data‐driven modelling of trends from 90 biomarkers across 20 years1
Children presume confident informants will be accurate (until proven otherwise)1
Brain Morphometry of Toddlers With Language Delay: An Exploratory Study1
The Children's Worlds Psychological Well‐Being Scale in Children Aged 10 and 12 From 30 Countries: Analysis From Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory1
The role of effort type and intensity in children's decisions about effort‐based outcomes1
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The Impact of a Community‐Based Music Program on the Quality of Parent–Child Language Interactions: A One‐Year Follow‐Up1
Caregiver executive functions are associated with infant visual working memory1
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