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Papers

(The median citation count of Child Development Perspectives 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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Ecological validity in measuring parents’ executive function	65
Antifascist praxis in developmental science: Possibilities for collective resistance to fascism	49
Understanding the development of chronic loneliness in youth	46
In defense of peer influence: The unheralded benefits of conformity	38
Perspectives on Social Withdrawal in Childhood: Past, Present, and Prospects	35
Fathers matter from the start: The role of expectant fathers in child development	32
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Belief it or not: How children construct a theory of mind	26
When is cultural input central? The development of ontological beliefs about religious and scientific unobservables	26
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Interventions for comorbid learning disabilities	25
Building the Parent and Child Math Anxiety Network model from empirical evidence	25
Music enrichment programs may promote early language development by enhancing parent responsiveness: A narrative review	25
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Developmental costs associated with early maternal withdrawal	23
Caregivers' cognitions about infants' mental and emotional states	22
Concurrences across time and sensorimotor capacities promote infant learning	22
Talking with machines: Can conversational technologies serve as children's social partners?	22
A little imprecision goes a long way in launching memory development	20
Diversity and representation in studies of infant perceptual narrowing	19
Applying developmental science concepts to improve the applicability of children’s food preference learning research	19
Capturing the complexity of autism: Applying a developmental cascades framework	19

Put it in God's hands: Understanding the complexities of religiosity and spirituality in the lives of Black youth	19
The developmental consequences of early exposure to climate change‐related risks	17
Possibility Judgments in Childhood: Is Uncertainty Monitoring the Missing Link?	17
The Bucharest Early Intervention Project: Adolescent mental health and adaptation following early deprivation	17
Coming of age in a warming world: A self‐determination theory perspective	16
Infant color perception: Insight into perceptual development	16
Healthy adolescent development and the juvenile justice system: Challenges and solutions	16
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Parents, neighborhoods, and the developing brain	15
Why youth are more purposeful than we think	14
Counterfactual Reasoning Development in Different Languages	13
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The effects of language instruction on math development	12
The development of prosocial risk‐taking behavior: Mechanisms and opportunities	12
Civic science: Addressing racial inequalities in environmental and science, technology, engineering, and math education	11
Building a model of cultural universality with specificity for global early childhood development	11
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Call for Non‐Verbal Mind‐Mindedness Measures for Use in Infancy and Across Cultures	10
Children's information‐search strategies: Operationalizing efficiency and effectiveness	10
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From the margins to the center: Advancing research on caregiver socialization of emotion in Asia	9
Hypo‐ or hyperarousal? The mechanisms underlying social information processing in autism	9
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Being good and feeling good: What happiness means to children	9
How motivation restricts the scalability of universal school‐based mindfulness interventions for adolescents	8
Children's structural thinking about social inequities	8
Sleep and disparities in child and adolescent development	8
We know more than we ever learned: Processes involved in accumulation of world knowledge	8
The power of friendship: The developmental significance of friendships from a neuroscience perspective	8
Supporting Latinx immigrant children and families in the transition to elementary school	7
Hasta la Raiz: Cultivating racial‐ethnic socialization in Latine families	7
Promoting healthy screen use in children with externalizing behavior	6
The development of children’s prospective memory: Lessons for developmental science	6
An integrative model of parent‐infant communication development	6
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The risks and opportunities of the COVID‐19 crisis for building longitudinal evidence on today’s early childhood education programs	6
Cultural Moderation of the Effects of Parenting: Answered and Unanswered Questions	6
After a decade of tool innovation, what comes next?	6
The importance of parent self‐regulation and parent–child coregulation in research on parental discipline	6
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The development of cognitive reflection	6
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Being in Tune With Your Body: The Emergence of Interoceptive Processing Through Caregiver–Infant Feeding Interactions	5
Toward a mechanistic understanding of the association between motor and executive function skill development in early childhood	5
Familism attitudes, behaviors, and adjustment during adolescence	5
The role of prediction error in the development of language learning and memory	5
The promise and purpose of early care and education	5
Anti‐Youth Ageism: What It Is and Why It Matters	5
Gender Stereotypes Influence Children’s STEM Motivation	4

Child development in an ideological context: Through the lens of resistance and accommodation	4
Revisiting goodness of fit in the cultural context: Moving forward from post hoc explanations	4
How does work during pregnancy affect maternal and infant health and development?	4