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Papers

(The median citation count of Child Development Perspectives is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Evidence for an Early Novelty Orientation in Bilingual Learners	64
Understanding the development of chronic loneliness in youth	60
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Ecological validity in measuring parents’ executive function	45
How motivation restricts the scalability of universal school‐based mindfulness interventions for adolescents	42
Antifascist praxis in developmental science: Possibilities for collective resistance to fascism	36
Parents, neighborhoods, and the developing brain	27
The nature and development of cognitive offloading in children	26
Toward a Precision Science of Word Learning: Understanding Individual Vocabulary Pathways	26
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Being good and feeling good: What happiness means to children	25
Coming of age in a warming world: A self‐determination theory perspective	25
The (in)effectiveness of training domain‐general skills to support early math knowledge	23
A Multiple‐Memory Systems Framework for Examining Attention and Memory Interactions in Infancy	22
Fathers matter from the start: The role of expectant fathers in child development	22
Promoting racial literacy in early childhood: Storybooks and conversations with young black children	19
Sleep and disparities in child and adolescent development	19
Familism attitudes, behaviors, and adjustment during adolescence	19
The power of friendship: The developmental significance of friendships from a neuroscience perspective	18
Healthy adolescent development and the juvenile justice system: Challenges and solutions	18
Educational identity processes in adolescence: An analysis of longitudinal evidence and the role of educational systems	18
Perspectives on Social Withdrawal in Childhood: Past, Present, and Prospects	17
Infant color perception: Insight into perceptual development	17
In defense of peer influence: The unheralded benefits of conformity	17
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Children's structural thinking about social inequities	16
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Why youth are more purposeful than we think	14
Early learning attainments of children of naturalized citizens of refugee backgrounds in the sub‐Saharan region: Evidence from Tanzania	14
Supporting Latinx immigrant children and families in the transition to elementary school	14
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Hasta la Raiz: Cultivating racial‐ethnic socialization in Latine families	12
The role of Afrocultural ethos in African American youth's emotion skill development	12
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Learning language in vivo	10
The development of cognitive reflection	10
We know more than we ever learned: Processes involved in accumulation of world knowledge	10
Belief it or not: How children construct a theory of mind	10
Social relationships and children’s perceptions of adversity	10
When is cultural input central? The development of ontological beliefs about religious and scientific unobservables	10
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Adolescent–parent relationships and youth well‐being in Turkey	9
Revisiting goodness of fit in the cultural context: Moving forward from post hoc explanations	9
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Music enrichment programs may promote early language development by enhancing parent responsiveness: A narrative review	8
How does work during pregnancy affect maternal and infant health and development?	8
Gender Stereotypes Influence Children’s STEM Motivation	8
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Child development in an ideological context: Through the lens of resistance and accommodation	8
Designing equity‐centered early learning assessments for today's young children	7
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Parenting and the development of children’s gratitude	7
Peer learning and cultural evolution	7
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Exposure to community violence: Toward a more expansive definition and approach to research	6
An automated, data‐driven approach to children's social dynamics in space and time	6
Infants' predictive minds: The role of motor experience	5
Promoting healthy screen use in children with externalizing behavior	5
Developmental costs associated with early maternal withdrawal	5
Parent‐Adolescent Emotion Dynamics at Multiple Time Scales	4
Importance of cultural context in the study of children's executive functions: Advances in Latin America research	4
Instrumental helping motivations of children and chimpanzees	4
Interventions for comorbid learning disabilities	4
The development of prosocial risk‐taking behavior: Mechanisms and opportunities	4
You are here! Rethinking children's executive function development in the presence of others	3
Homeschooling: What do we know and what do we need to learn?	3
Advancing Research on Minority Stress and Resilience in Trans Children and Adolescents in the 21st Century	3
The risks and opportunities of the COVID‐19 crisis for building longitudinal evidence on today’s early childhood education programs	3
Development and use of theory of mind in social and cultural context	3
The Costs and Benefits of Co‐Rumination	3
Growing Pains: The History of Human Development and the Future of the Field	3

The importance of parent self‐regulation and parent–child coregulation in research on parental discipline	3
The effects of language instruction on math development	2
The promise of leveraging social identities in interventions to enhance the well‐being and lives of adolescents	2
Stereotypes of adolescence: Cultural differences, consequences, and intervention	2
Populism in youth: Do experiences in school matter?	2
Building the Parent and Child Math Anxiety Network model from empirical evidence	2
The value of communal and intergenerational settings for studying social and emotional learning	2
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Media use and the development of racial attitudes among U.S. youth	2
Put it in God's hands: Understanding the complexities of religiosity and spirituality in the lives of Black youth	2