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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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Judith Rich Harris and child development: 25 years after The Nurture Assumption	71
Editorial Board	68
The role of patterning skill in cognitive development and learning: A critical review	66
Chronicle of deceit: Navigating the developmental cognitive landscape from childhood fabrications to prolific adulthood artistry	62
Butterfly effects in perceptual development: A review of the ‘adaptive initial degradation’ hypothesis	56
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	48
A meta-analysis of sequences in theory-of-mind understandings: Theory of mind scale findings across different cultural contexts	42
What is early math?	41
Editorial Board	37
Bereft and Left: The interplay between insecure attachment, isolation, and neurobiology	37
A relational developmental theory of human-animal interaction: A meta-synthesis and grounded theory	35
Arithmetic thinking as the basis of children's generative number concepts	33
Editorial Board	33
The older population is more cognitively able than in the past and age-related deficits in cognition are diminishing over time	32
Have we found directionality? Longitudinal associations between screen use and executive function in children. A scoping review	31
Development and socialization of self-regulation from infancy to adolescence: A meta-review differentiating between self-regulatory abilities, goals, and motivation	30
Language mixing in young multilingual children and its correlates: a systematic review	30
Building a cumulative science of memory development	25
Modelling complex span performance: activation, attentional capacity, and interference	25
Developing communication through objects: Ostensive gestures as the first gestures in children's development	23
Neural indicators of numerical abilities in the infant human brain: A systematic review	19
The neurodevelopmental roots of interactions between attention and working memory during infancy	19
Riding the elephant in the room: Towards a revival of the optimal level of stimulation model	17
Improving executive function during toddlerhood: A systematic review and meta-analysis of parent-led interventions	16
Moral disengagement in youth: A meta-analytic review	16

Widening the lens of family math engagement: A conceptual framework and systematic review	16
Social circuits under developmental threat: Bridging rodent and human neuroscience	16
Contextual influences on the relation between peer victimization and achievement: A test of meta-analytic moderators	15
Does child-mother attachment predict and mediate language and cognitive outcomes? A series of meta-analyses	13
Do infants have agency? – The importance of control for the study of early agency	13
Understanding why infant-directed speech supports learning: A dynamic attention perspective	12
Editorial Board	11
Understanding the role of testimony in children’s moral development: Theories, controversies, and implications	11
A similarity-based memory retrieval model to orthographic processing	11
Editorial Board	10
Editorial Board	10
How age and culture influence cognition: A lifespan developmental perspective	10
Editorial Board	9
Building a developmental science of redemption	9
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
A systematic review of measures of theory of mind for children	8
The changing social world that children make: Reflections on Harris’s critique of the nurture assumption	7
A head taller: A meta-analysis on the relation between pretend play and executive functions in early childhood	7
Developmental theories: Past, present, and future	7
Evaluating parent-mediated interventions to support child emotion regulation: a review of preventative approaches across childhood	7
Does child-directed speech facilitate language development in all domains? A study space analysis of the existing evidence	7
Measurement considerations in the link between racial/ethnic discrimination and adolescent well-being: A meta-analysis	7
Decoding the intent-to-outcome developmental shift in moral judgment, from infancy to preschool age: A critical review and a novel proposition	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
Children’s saving: A review and proposed ecological framework	6
Episodic thought in development: On the relation between memory and future thinking	5
Environmental contributions to cognitive development: The role of cognitive stimulation	5
Contributions of motor skill development and physical activity to the ontogeny of executive function skills in early childhood	5
Parallel paths and developmental Divides: Reviewing the research on Children’s identification with real people and media characters	5
From the “Here and Now” to the “There and Then”: How parent–child decontextualized conversations support early development	5
Connecting learning environments to learning: Two examples from children’s mathematics	5
Executive function: Debunking an overprized construct	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	4
Sibling conflict management in childhood and adolescence: A scoping review to inform developmental research and theory	4
Assessing parental emotion regulation in the context of parenting: A systematic review	4
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	4
Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development	4
Understanding sensory regulation in typical and atypical development: The case of sensory seeking	3
Rethinking adversity and psychopathology as multidimensional constructs: identifying shared patterns of brain dysconnectivity	3
Editorial Board	3
The impact of bilingualism on theory of mind in children with and without developmental disorders: A scoping review	3
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
Intertemporal choice and temporal discounting in children: A review and synthesis	3
Editorial Board	3
The nurturing of Criminologists: An exercise in futility	3
Varieties of Number-Line Estimation: Systematic Review, Models, and Data	3