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Papers

(The median citation count of Developmental Review is 6. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Classroom climate and children’s academic and psychological wellbeing: A systematic review and meta-analysis	156
Father-child play: A systematic review of its frequency, characteristics and potential impact on children’s development	72
A meta-analysis of the predictability of LENA™ automated measures for child language development	58
The importance of belonging and the avoidance of social risk taking in adolescence	41
Correlates and antecedents of theory of mind development during middle childhood and adolescence: An integrated model	40
Where language meets attention: How contingent interactions promote learning	39
The relationship between sleep and problematic smartphone use among adolescents: A systematic review	36
Development of prejudice against immigrants and ethnic minorities in adolescence: A systematic review with meta-analysis of longitudinal studies	34
Is adolescence a time of heightened risk taking? An overview of types of risk-taking behaviors across age groups	34
Adolescent risk-taking in the context of exploration and social influence	31
The relationship between parental behavior and infant regulation: A systematic review	28
Metaphor processing in autism: A systematic review and meta-analysis	25
The emergence of empathy: A developmental neuroscience perspective	24
Multiple pathways of risk taking in adolescence	24
“How does the broader construct of self-regulation relate to emotion regulation in young children?”	22
Evaluating associations between parental mind-mindedness and children’s developmental capacities through meta-analysis	21
Adolescents take positive risks, too	21
Development of children’s math attitudes: Gender differences, key socializers, and intervention approaches	21
Network selection and influence effects on children’s and adolescents’ internalizing behaviors and peer victimization: A systematic review	20
Maternal and paternal depression and anxiety and offspring infant negative affectivity: A systematic review and meta-analysis	19
Emotion recognition across visual and auditory modalities in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis	19
An examination of gender differences in spatial skills and math attitudes in relation to mathematics success: A bio-psycho-social model	19
Complementarities between early educational intervention and later educational quality? A systematic review of the sustaining environments hypothesis	18
Looking for the lighthouse: A systematic review of advanced theory-of-mind tests beyond preschool	17
Emerging neurodevelopmental perspectives on mathematical learning	16

Emotion regulation and coping with racial stressors among African Americans across the lifespan	16
Individual and developmental differences in delinquency: Can they be explained by adolescent risk-taking models?	16
A dual-process perspective on over-imitation	16
Studying a moving target in development: The challenge and opportunity of heterotypic continuity	15
Mental files: Developmental integration of dual naming and theory of mind	15
Early childhood adversity and Women’s sexual behavior: The role of sensitivity to sexual reward	15
A literature review of gratitude, parent–child relationships, and well-being in children	15
The emergence of richly organized semantic knowledge from simple statistics: A synthetic review	15
Trait social anxiety as a conditional adaptation: A developmental and evolutionary framework	14
How fuzzy-trace theory predicts development of risky decision making, with novel extensions to culture and reward sensitivity	13
Society to cell: How child poverty gets “Under the Skin” to influence child development and lifelong health	13
Why do preschoolers perpetuate inequalities? Theoretical perspectives on inequity preferences in the face of emerging concerns for equality	12
Towards a hybrid criminological and psychological model of risk behavior: The developmental neuro-ecological risk-taking model (DNERM)	12
The potential utility of an opportunity-propensity framework for understanding individual and group differences in developmental outcomes: A retrospective progress report	12
The domain-specific approach of working memory training	11
Language input and outcome variation as a test of theory plausibility: The case of early phonological acquisition	11
Traumatic brain injury in adolescence: A review of the neurobiological and behavioural underpinnings and outcomes	11
How does play foster development? A new executive function perspective	10
Widening the lens of family math engagement: A conceptual framework and systematic review	10
Determinants of social connectedness in children and early adolescents with mental disorder: A systematic literature review	10
Amniotic testosterone and psychological sex differences: A systematic review of the extreme male brain theory	9
Resolving ambiguity: Broadening the consideration of risky decision making over adolescent development	9
How children’s social tendencies can shape their theory of mind development: Access and attention to social information	9
Understanding why infant-directed speech supports learning: A dynamic attention perspective	9
Dopaminergic associations between behavioral inhibition, executive functioning, and anxiety in development	8
Examining the role of parents and teachers in executive function development in early and middle childhood: A systematic review	8
The appraisal approach to aging and emotion: An integrative theoretical framework	8
Microbiome-gut-brain axis in brain development, cognition and behavior during infancy and early childhood	7
The origins of effortful control: How early development within arousal/regulatory systems influences attentional and affective control	6
Poverty, caregiving, and HPA-axis activity in early childhood	6
Theoretical advances in research on the development of risk taking	6
Stress in the onset and aggravation of learning disabilities	6
Spontaneous verbal recall: A new look at the mechanisms involved in episodic memory retrieval in young children	6
Conscience and delinquency: A developmentally informed meta-analysis	6
Rejection sensitivity and negative urgency: A proposed framework of intersecting risk for peer stress	6