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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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Does child-mother attachment predict and mediate language and cognitive outcomes? A series of meta-analyses	70
Do infants have agency? – The importance of control for the study of early agency	58
Developmental pathways linking obesity risk and early puberty: The thrifty phenotype and fetal overnutrition hypotheses	55
Editorial Board	50
Editorial Board	49
Butterfly effects in perceptual development: A review of the ‘adaptive initial degradation’ hypothesis	40
A unified framework of parental socialization of executive function development	38
Connecting learning environments to learning: Two examples from children’s mathematics	34
Evaluating associations between parental mind-mindedness and children’s developmental capacities through meta-analysis	34
Resolving ambiguity: Broadening the consideration of risky decision making over adolescent development	31
Contributions of motor skill development and physical activity to the ontogeny of executive function skills in early childhood	31
Where language meets attention: How contingent interactions promote learning	30
Theoretical advances in research on the development of risk taking	29
Development of prejudice against immigrants and ethnic minorities in adolescence: A systematic review with meta-analysis of longitudinal studies	27
Understanding why infant-directed speech supports learning: A dynamic attention perspective	26
Editorial Board	26
A meta-analysis of sequences in theory-of-mind understandings: Theory of mind scale findings across different cultural contexts	25
Varieties of Number-Line Estimation: Systematic Review, Models, and Data	25
Chronicle of deceit: Navigating the developmental cognitive landscape from childhood fabrications to prolific adulthood artistry	20
Judith Rich Harris and child development: 25 years after The Nurture Assumption	20
Spontaneous verbal recall: A new look at the mechanisms involved in episodic memory retrieval in young children	20
Development of moral identity: From the age of responsibility to adult maturity	19
Editorial Board	18
Bereft and Left: The interplay between insecure attachment, isolation, and neurobiology	17
Arithmetic thinking as the basis of children's generative number concepts	16

Rejection sensitivity and negative urgency: A proposed framework of intersecting risk for peer stress	16
Editorial Board	16
Editorial Board	16
Society to cell: How child poverty gets “Under the Skin” to influence child development and lifelong health	15
Maternal mentalizing and quality of interactive behavior with their infant in the first year postpartum: A meta-analysis	15
An examination of gender differences in spatial skills and math attitudes in relation to mathematics success: A bio-psycho-social model	14
How does play foster development? A new executive function perspective	14
Learning to imitate facial expressions through sound	14
Bilingual children outperform monolingual children on executive function tasks far more often than chance: An updated quantitative analysis	13
Theoretical explanations of developmental reversals in memory and reasoning	13
Emotion regulation and coping with racial stressors among African Americans across the lifespan	13
Correlates and antecedents of theory of mind development during middle childhood and adolescence: An integrated model	11
Understanding the role of testimony in children’s moral development: Theories, controversies, and implications	11
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	10
Individual and developmental differences in delinquency: Can they be explained by adolescent risk-taking models?	10
Assessing parental emotion regulation in the context of parenting: A systematic review	10
The older population is more cognitively able than in the past and age-related deficits in cognition are diminishing over time	10
Editorial Board	8
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Editorial Board	8
The relationship between infant pointing and language development: A meta-analytic review	8
Editorial Board	8
Determinants of social connectedness in children and early adolescents with mental disorder: A systematic literature review	7
Disentangling processing and storage accounts of working memory development in childhood	7
The importance of belonging and the avoidance of social risk taking in adolescence	6
Executive function: Debunking an overprized construct	6
Examining the role of parents and teachers in executive function development in early and middle childhood: A systematic review	6
Learning to live in the spatial world: Experience-expectant and experience-dependent input	6
“How does the broader construct of self-regulation relate to emotion regulation in young children?”	6
A developmental model of emotional eating	6
The domain-specific approach of working memory training	6
Editorial Board	5
Development and socialization of self-regulation from infancy to adolescence: A meta-review differentiating between self-regulatory abilities, goals, and motivation	5
A model of peer aggression and victimization on the social spectrum: A relational perspective	4
Editorial Board	3
Editorial Board	3
Early childhood adversity: How Judith Harris’ theory helps to explain the relationship between ACEs and delinquency	3
The emergence of richly organized semantic knowledge from simple statistics: A synthetic review	3
Learning from atypical development: A systematic review of executive functioning in children and adolescents with the 22q11.2 deletion syndrome	3
The hypotheses put forward in the Nurture Assumption inspired much needed research regarding the influence of parenting and peers, but were overstated	3
Developmental theories: Past, present, and future	3
A new look at the relations between attachment and intelligence	3