Developmental Science

Papers
(The H4-Index of Developmental Science is 20. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Preschoolers’ relevance inferences in linguistic and non‐linguistic contexts42
Partial agreement between task and BRIEF‐P‐based EF measures depends on school socioeconomic status41
Do children estimate area using an “Additive‐Area Heuristic”?38
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Effects of foster care intervention and caregiving quality on the bidirectional development of executive functions and social skills following institutional rearing37
The nature and causes of children's grammatical difficulties: Evidence from an intervention to improve past tense marking in children with Down syndrome36
The complexity‐aesthetics relationship for musical rhythm is more fixed than flexible: Evidence from children and expert dancers29
Tracing the origins of the STEM gender gap: The contribution of childhood spatial skills28
Greater attention to socioeconomic status in developmental research can improve the external validity, generalizability, and replicability of developmental science28
The Development of Picture Comprehension Across Early Environments: Evidence From Urban and Rural Toddlers in Western Kenya28
Increasing audiovisual speech integration in autism through enhanced attention to mouth28
Transactional longitudinal relations between accuracy and reaction time on a measure of cognitive flexibility at 5, 6, and 7 years of age27
White matter microstructure predicts individual differences in infant fear (But not anger and sadness)25
Limited evidence of test‐retest reliability in infant‐directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment25
The role of social signals in segmenting observed actions in 18‐month‐old children24
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Postpartum romantic attachment and constructiveness: The protective effects of a conflict communication intervention for parents’ relationship functioning over one year23
Anticipation across modalities in children and adults: Relating anticipatory alpha rhythm lateralization, reaction time, and executive function22
How does social contingency facilitate vocabulary development?20
Developmental differences in children and adults’ enforcement of explore versus exploit search strategies in the United States and Turkey20
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