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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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	105
Judith Rich Harris and child development: 25 years after The Nurture Assumption	78
A meta-analysis of sequences in theory-of-mind understandings: Theory of mind scale findings across different cultural contexts	71
The role of patterning skill in cognitive development and learning: A critical review	60
Resolving ambiguity: Broadening the consideration of risky decision making over adolescent development	48
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	46
Butterfly effects in perceptual development: A review of the ‘adaptive initial degradation’ hypothesis	46
Chronicle of deceit: Navigating the developmental cognitive landscape from childhood fabrications to prolific adulthood artistry	43
Bereft and Left: The interplay between insecure attachment, isolation, and neurobiology	42
Editorial Board	41
A relational developmental theory of human-animal interaction: A meta-synthesis and grounded theory	36
Arithmetic thinking as the basis of children's generative number concepts	35
The older population is more cognitively able than in the past and age-related deficits in cognition are diminishing over time	34
Development and socialization of self-regulation from infancy to adolescence: A meta-review differentiating between self-regulatory abilities, goals, and motivation	33
Modelling complex span performance: activation, attentional capacity, and interference	30
Building a cumulative science of memory development	28
The neurodevelopmental roots of interactions between attention and working memory during infancy	27
Neural indicators of numerical abilities in the infant human brain: A systematic review	24
Improving executive function during toddlerhood: A systematic review and meta-analysis of parent-led interventions	22
Developing communication through objects: Ostensive gestures as the first gestures in children's development	22
Moral disengagement in youth: A meta-analytic review	22
Widening the lens of family math engagement: A conceptual framework and systematic review	21
Does child-mother attachment predict and mediate language and cognitive outcomes? A series of meta-analyses	21
Riding the elephant in the room: Towards a revival of the optimal level of stimulation model	21
A literature review of gratitude, parent–child relationships, and well-being in children	21

Understanding why infant-directed speech supports learning: A dynamic attention perspective	20
Do infants have agency? – The importance of control for the study of early agency	19
Editorial Board	18
Understanding the role of testimony in children’s moral development: Theories, controversies, and implications	17
Emotion regulation and coping with racial stressors among African Americans across the lifespan	17
How age and culture influence cognition: A lifespan developmental perspective	17
Editorial Board	16
Building a developmental science of redemption	16
Editorial Board	15
A new look at the relations between attachment and intelligence	15
Editorial Board	15
The emergence of empathy: A developmental neuroscience perspective	14
Social goals and gains of adolescent bullying and aggression: A meta-analysis	13
A systematic review of measures of theory of mind for children	12
Early childhood adversity and Women’s sexual behavior: The role of sensitivity to sexual reward	11
A model of peer aggression and victimization on the social spectrum: A relational perspective	11
Decoding the intent-to-outcome developmental shift in moral judgment, from infancy to preschool age: A critical review and a novel proposition	11
Adolescent risk-taking in the context of exploration and social influence	11
Developmental theories: Past, present, and future	11
The changing social world that children make: Reflections on Harris’s critique of the nurture assumption	10
Does child-directed speech facilitate language development in all domains? A study space analysis of the existing evidence	10
Measurement considerations in the link between racial/ethnic discrimination and adolescent well-being: A meta-analysis	10
Children’s saving: A review and proposed ecological framework	9
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	9
How fuzzy-trace theory predicts development of risky decision making, with novel extensions to culture and reward sensitivity	8
Editorial Board	8
Episodic thought in development: On the relation between memory and future thinking	7
Environmental contributions to cognitive development: The role of cognitive stimulation	7
Contributions of motor skill development and physical activity to the ontogeny of executive function skills in early childhood	6
Connecting learning environments to learning: Two examples from children’s mathematics	6
The impact of bilingualism on theory of mind in children with and without developmental disorders: A scoping review	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
Integrating attention, working memory, and word learning in a dynamic field theory of executive function development: Moving beyond the ‘component’ view of executive function	5
Assessing parental emotion regulation in the context of parenting: A systematic review	5
Executive function: Debunking an overprized construct	5
Understanding sensory regulation in typical and atypical development: The case of sensory seeking	5
Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development	5
Is adolescence a time of heightened risk taking? An overview of types of risk-taking behaviors across age groups	4
Advancing a transnational ecological systems framework for research on exposure to violence	4
Editorial Board	4
The nurturing of Criminologists: An exercise in futility	4
Intertemporal choice and temporal discounting in children: A review and synthesis	4
Varieties of Number-Line Estimation: Systematic Review, Models, and Data	4