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Papers

(The median citation count of Developmental Review 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Judith Rich Harris and child development: 25 years after The Nurture Assumption	95
Editorial Board	54
Chronicle of deceit: Navigating the developmental cognitive landscape from childhood fabrications to prolific adulthood artistry	52
Resolving ambiguity: Broadening the consideration of risky decision making over adolescent development	51
The role of patterning skill in cognitive development and learning: A critical review	50
A meta-analysis of sequences in theory-of-mind understandings: Theory of mind scale findings across different cultural contexts	48
Butterfly effects in perceptual development: A review of the ‘adaptive initial degradation’ hypothesis	46
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	43
Arithmetic thinking as the basis of children's generative number concepts	39
Editorial Board	38
A relational developmental theory of human-animal interaction: A meta-synthesis and grounded theory	34
Bereft and Left: The interplay between insecure attachment, isolation, and neurobiology	32
Development and socialization of self-regulation from infancy to adolescence: A meta-review differentiating between self-regulatory abilities, goals, and motivation	31
The older population is more cognitively able than in the past and age-related deficits in cognition are diminishing over time	27
Neural indicators of numerical abilities in the infant human brain: A systematic review	26
Developing communication through objects: Ostensive gestures as the first gestures in children's development	26
Building a cumulative science of memory development	26
The neurodevelopmental roots of interactions between attention and working memory during infancy	25
Modelling complex span performance: activation, attentional capacity, and interference	25
Riding the elephant in the room: Towards a revival of the optimal level of stimulation model	24
Widening the lens of family math engagement: A conceptual framework and systematic review	23
Moral disengagement in youth: A meta-analytic review	21
Improving executive function during toddlerhood: A systematic review and meta-analysis of parent-led interventions	21
Does child-mother attachment predict and mediate language and cognitive outcomes? A series of meta-analyses	19
Social circuits under developmental threat: Bridging rodent and human neuroscience	19

Do infants have agency? – The importance of control for the study of early agency	18
Understanding why infant-directed speech supports learning: A dynamic attention perspective	18
Editorial Board	16
Editorial Board	15
A similarity-based memory retrieval model to orthographic processing	14
Understanding the role of testimony in children’s moral development: Theories, controversies, and implications	14
Editorial Board	13
How age and culture influence cognition: A lifespan developmental perspective	13
Building a developmental science of redemption	12
A new look at the relations between attachment and intelligence	12
Editorial Board	12
Editorial Board	12
The emergence of empathy: A developmental neuroscience perspective	11
A model of peer aggression and victimization on the social spectrum: A relational perspective	11
A systematic review of measures of theory of mind for children	11
Developmental theories: Past, present, and future	11
Social goals and gains of adolescent bullying and aggression: A meta-analysis	10
Measurement considerations in the link between racial/ethnic discrimination and adolescent well-being: A meta-analysis	9
Decoding the intent-to-outcome developmental shift in moral judgment, from infancy to preschool age: A critical review and a novel proposition	9
Evaluating parent-mediated interventions to support child emotion regulation: a review of preventative approaches across childhood	8
The changing social world that children make: Reflections on Harris’s critique of the nurture assumption	8
Does child-directed speech facilitate language development in all domains? A study space analysis of the existing evidence	7
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	7
Editorial Board	7
Environmental contributions to cognitive development: The role of cognitive stimulation	6
Episodic thought in development: On the relation between memory and future thinking	6
How fuzzy-trace theory predicts development of risky decision making, with novel extensions to culture and reward sensitivity	6
Children’s saving: A review and proposed ecological framework	6
Understanding sensory regulation in typical and atypical development: The case of sensory seeking	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
Contributions of motor skill development and physical activity to the ontogeny of executive function skills in early childhood	5
Assessing parental emotion regulation in the context of parenting: A systematic review	5
Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development	5
Connecting learning environments to learning: Two examples from children’s mathematics	5
The impact of bilingualism on theory of mind in children with and without developmental disorders: A scoping review	5
Executive function: Debunking an overprized construct	5
From the “Here and Now” to the “There and Then”: How parent–child decontextualized conversations support early development	5
The efficacy of mindful movement for improving cognitive functioning among children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Editorial Board	4
Intertemporal choice and temporal discounting in children: A review and synthesis	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