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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Judith Rich Harris and child development: 25 years after The Nurture Assumption	68
Editorial Board	66
A meta-analysis of sequences in theory-of-mind understandings: Theory of mind scale findings across different cultural contexts	63
Butterfly effects in perceptual development: A review of the ‘adaptive initial degradation’ hypothesis	60
The role of patterning skill in cognitive development and learning: A critical review	54
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
Chronicle of deceit: Navigating the developmental cognitive landscape from childhood fabrications to prolific adulthood artistry	41
Arithmetic thinking as the basis of children's generative number concepts	40
Editorial Board	36
Bereft and Left: The interplay between insecure attachment, isolation, and neurobiology	35
A relational developmental theory of human-animal interaction: A meta-synthesis and grounded theory	34
Editorial Board	32
Language mixing in young multilingual children and its correlates: a systematic review	32
The older population is more cognitively able than in the past and age-related deficits in cognition are diminishing over time	31
Development and socialization of self-regulation from infancy to adolescence: A meta-review differentiating between self-regulatory abilities, goals, and motivation	30
Modelling complex span performance: activation, attentional capacity, and interference	30
Building a cumulative science of memory development	28
Developing communication through objects: Ostensive gestures as the first gestures in children's development	24
The neurodevelopmental roots of interactions between attention and working memory during infancy	23
Neural indicators of numerical abilities in the infant human brain: A systematic review	23
Riding the elephant in the room: Towards a revival of the optimal level of stimulation model	18
Widening the lens of family math engagement: A conceptual framework and systematic review	17
Improving executive function during toddlerhood: A systematic review and meta-analysis of parent-led interventions	17
Moral disengagement in youth: A meta-analytic review	16
Social circuits under developmental threat: Bridging rodent and human neuroscience	16

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