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Papers

(The median citation count of Developmental Review 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Judith Rich Harris and child development: 25 years after The Nurture Assumption	78
Editorial Board	76
Chronicle of deceit: Navigating the developmental cognitive landscape from childhood fabrications to prolific adulthood artistry	66
What is early math?	65
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 children	57
Butterfly effects in perceptual development: A review of the ‘adaptive initial degradation’ hypothesis	49
The role of patterning skill in cognitive development and learning: A critical review	44
A meta-analysis of sequences in theory-of-mind understandings: Theory of mind scale findings across different cultural contexts	38
A relational developmental theory of human-animal interaction: A meta-synthesis and grounded theory	37
Editorial Board	37
Have we found directionality? Longitudinal associations between screen use and executive function in children. A scoping review	36
Arithmetic thinking as the basis of children's generative number concepts	36
Editorial Board	35
Language mixing in young multilingual children and its correlates: a systematic review	32
The older population is more cognitively able than in the past and age-related deficits in cognition are diminishing over time	32
Development and socialization of self-regulation from infancy to adolescence: A meta-review differentiating between self-regulatory abilities, goals, and motivation	31
Modelling complex span performance: activation, attentional capacity, and interference	29
Building a cumulative science of memory development	27
Neural indicators of numerical abilities in the infant human brain: A systematic review	21
The neurodevelopmental roots of interactions between attention and working memory during infancy	20
Developing communication through objects: Ostensive gestures as the first gestures in children's development	18
Riding the elephant in the room: Towards a revival of the optimal level of stimulation model	17
Moral disengagement in youth: A meta-analytic review	16
Widening the lens of family math engagement: A conceptual framework and systematic review	16
Improving executive function during toddlerhood: A systematic review and meta-analysis of parent-led interventions	14

Social circuits under developmental threat: Bridging rodent and human neuroscience	14
Understanding why infant-directed speech supports learning: A dynamic attention perspective	13
Contextual influences on the relation between peer victimization and achievement: A test of meta-analytic moderators	13
A similarity-based memory retrieval model to orthographic processing	12
Editorial Board	12
Does child-mother attachment predict and mediate language and cognitive outcomes? A series of meta-analyses	12
How age and culture influence cognition: A lifespan developmental perspective	11
Understanding the role of testimony in children’s moral development: Theories, controversies, and implications	11
Editorial Board	10
Editorial Board	9
Editorial Board	9
Building a developmental science of redemption	9
Evaluating parent-mediated interventions to support child emotion regulation: a review of preventative approaches across childhood	8
A new look at the relations between attachment and intelligence	8
Social goals and gains of adolescent bullying and aggression: A meta-analysis	8
A model of peer aggression and victimization on the social spectrum: A relational perspective	8
Developmental theories: Past, present, and future	8
A systematic review of measures of theory of mind for children	8
Decoding the intent-to-outcome developmental shift in moral judgment, from infancy to preschool age: A critical review and a novel proposition	7
The changing social world that children make: Reflections on Harris’s critique of the nurture assumption	7
Does child-directed speech facilitate language development in all domains? A study space analysis of the existing evidence	7
Episodic thought in development: On the relation between memory and future thinking	6
Parental postpartum depression and children’s receptive and expressive language during the first six years of life: A systematic review of depression timing, status, and chronicity	6
Parallel paths and developmental Divides: Reviewing the research on Children’s identification with real people and media characters	6
A head taller: A meta-analysis on the relation between pretend play and executive functions in early childhood	6
Connecting learning environments to learning: Two examples from children’s mathematics	6
Environmental contributions to cognitive development: The role of cognitive stimulation	6
Children’s saving: A review and proposed ecological framework	6
Contributions of motor skill development and physical activity to the ontogeny of executive function skills in early childhood	6
From the “Here and Now” to the “There and Then”: How parent–child decontextualized conversations support early development	5
Assessing parental emotion regulation in the context of parenting: A systematic review	5
Sibling conflict management in childhood and adolescence: A scoping review to inform developmental research and theory	5
Dynamical systems organization of the behavioral process in child development: Outlining ascending visual information from the retina to the frontal cortex in the context of face perceptions	5
Executive function: Debunking an overprized construct	5
Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development	5
Understanding sensory regulation in typical and atypical development: The case of sensory seeking	4
Integrating attention, working memory, and word learning in a dynamic field theory of executive function development: Moving beyond the ‘component’ view of executive function	4
Editorial Board	4
The impact of bilingualism on theory of mind in children with and without developmental disorders: A scoping review	4
The efficacy of mindful movement for improving cognitive functioning among children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Counting on automatization: The automatized counting theory of mental arithmetic	3
Learning to imitate facial expressions through sound	3
Mental space as an innate foundational structure for cognition: from quantities to events	3
The nurturing of Criminologists: An exercise in futility	3
Intertemporal choice and temporal discounting in children: A review and synthesis	3
Advancing a transnational ecological systems framework for research on exposure to violence	3
Editorial Board	3
Rethinking adversity and psychopathology as multidimensional constructs: identifying shared patterns of brain dysconnectivity	3
How bilingualism influences language processing in the developing brain: a systematic review of the neurobiological evidence	3
Varieties of Number-Line Estimation: Systematic Review, Models, and Data	3