Infant and Child Development

Papers
(The median citation count of Infant and Child Development is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) during COVID‐19 boosts growth in language and executive function43
Changing the conversation: A culturally responsive perspective on executive functions, minoritized children and their families38
Six solutions for more reliable infant research36
Publishing child development research from around the world: An unfair playing field resulting in most of the world's child population under‐represented in research26
Adolescent loneliness, stress and depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The protective role of friends24
Beyond bias to Western participants, authors, and editors in developmental science20
The role of empathy in children's costly prosocial lie‐telling behaviour17
It matters how you start: Early numeracy mastery predicts high school math course‐taking and college attendance16
Should infant psychology rely on the violation‐of‐expectation method? Not anymore15
Why most psychological research findings are not even wrong15
Teacher–child interaction quality and children's self‐regulation in toddler classrooms in Finland and Portugal14
Researching race‐ethnicity in race‐mute Europe13
Preschoolers' extension and export of information from realistic and fantastical stories13
Best practices for addressing missing data through multiple imputation12
Great expectations: The construct validity of the violation‐of‐expectation method for studying infant cognition11
Dispositional playfulness in young children: A cross‐sectional and longitudinal examination of the psychometric properties of a new child self‐reported playfulness scale and associations with social b11
The relationship between emergent drawing, emergent writing, and visual‐motor integration in preschool children10
A nuanced look into youth journeys of gender transition and detransition9
Understanding the costs and benefits of politics among adolescents within a sociocultural context9
Co‐creating developmental science9
Father–child literacy teaching activities as a unique predictor of Chinese preschool children's word reading skills9
Three‐component mathematics for students9
Father–newborn vocal interaction: A contribution to the theory of innate intersubjectivity9
Digital diet: A 21st century approach to understanding digital technologies and development8
Adapting open science and pre‐registration to longitudinal research7
Understanding the development of honesty in children through the domains‐of‐socialization approach7
Conceptualizing, defining, and assessing pragmatic language impairment in clinical settings: A scoping review7
The role of mother's prenatal substance use disorder and early parenting on child social cognition at school age7
Children's concepts of personal values7
Predicting child problem behaviour at school age: The role of maternal sensitivity, child temperament and theory of mind6
Relations between shyness and psychological adjustment in Chinese children: The role of friendship quality6
Advancing credibility in longitudinal research by implementing open science practices: Opportunities, practical examples, and challenges6
Shyness and social–emotional development among Chinese children: A systematic review and meta‐analysis6
Young children's lying and early mental state understanding6
Developmental psychologists should adopt citizen science to improve generalization and reproducibility6
An open developmental science will be more rigorous, robust, and impactful6
Seven‐year‐olds' references to internal states when playing with toy figures and a video game6
Stability and prediction of motor performance and cognitive functioning in preschoolers: A latent variable approach6
Open developmental science: An overview and annotated reading list6
Depression moderates maternal response to preschoolers' positive affect6
Differences in how mothers and fathers support children playfulness6
Mothers' and children's depression is linked through children's perceptions of attachment security5
The influence of parental warmth and stress on reading through approaches to learning: Racial/ethnic variation5
Theory of mind at school: Academic outcomes and the influence of the school context5
Genetic syndromes, neuroconstuctivism and replicable research; challenges and future directions5
A scoping review of Singapore parenting: Culture‐general and culture‐specific functions of parenting styles and practices5
Longitudinal associations between metaphor understanding and peer relationships in middle childhood5
Fear not of cognition in context5
A three‐wave study on the development of prosocial behaviours across toddlerhood: The role of socialization5
Peer ethnic/racial socialization in adolescence: Current knowledge and future directions5
The relationship of theory of mind and maternal emotional expressiveness with aggressive behaviours in young Japanese children: A gender‐differentiated effect5
Attachment security to mothers and fathers: A meta‐analysis on mean‐level differences and correlations of behavioural measures5
Infant and Child Development: A journal for open, transparent and inclusive science from prenatal through emerging adulthood4
Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, family care plans and infants with prenatal substance exposure: Theoretical framework and directions for future research4
Effect of HEG biofeedback on selected cognitive functions—Randomized study in children with ADHD and neurotypical children4
“I definitely feel like a scientist”: Exploring science identity trajectories among Latinx students in a critical race theory‐informed undergraduate research experience4
Proving and improving the reliability of infant research with neuroadaptive Bayesian optimization4
Performance patterns and strategy use in number line estimation among preschool children with different spontaneous focusing on numerosity tendencies4
The role of emotion regulation in the relationship between pretense and executive function in early childhood: For whom is the relationship strongest?4
Can a robot lie? Young children's understanding of intentionality beneath false statements4
Developmental data science: How machine learning can advance theory formation in Developmental Psychology4
Open science considerations for descriptive research in developmental science4
Youth experiences of racism and family ethnic‐racial socialization in Germany: What we (don't) know4
Maternal depressive symptoms and early childhood temperament before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the United Kingdom4
Some considerations for the developmental origin of the principle of fairness4
Communicative gestures in 7–12‐month infants: A phylogenetic comparative approach4
Associations between quality of parent–child relationships and children's gender typicality: A 4‐year longitudinal study3
Why not both? Using multiple measures to improve reliability in infant studies3
Experimenter identity: An invisible, lurking variable in developmental research3
The impact of gossip valence on children's attitudes towards gossipers3
Preterm‐born children's development: A bioecological perspective3
Understanding the effects of rhythmic coordination on children's prosocial behaviours3
Measures of infant self‐regulation during the first year of life: A systematic review3
The advantage of real objects over matched pictures in infants' processing of the familiar size of objects3
Habituation, part II. Rethinking the habituation paradigm3
Do toddlers prefer that agents help similar or dissimilar needy agents?3
Mutual identification promotes children's generosity3
Direct effects of visual skills and working memory on Chinese character reading in young children3
Comparison of U.S. and Tajik infants' time in containment devices3
Predictors of preschool language environments and their relations to children's vocabulary3
Children's connectedness and shared meanings strategies during play with siblings and friends3
Open and reproducible practices in developmental psychology research: The workflow of the WomCogDev lab as an example3
Caregiver perspectives of risk and protective factors influencing early childhood development in low‐income, urban settings: A social ecological perspective3
Yucatec Maya mothers' ethnotheories about learning to help at home3
Observed and reported coparenting and toddlers' adaptive functioning3
No age differences? No problem2
Clarifying the unique effects of pre‐ and postnatal depression on pre‐schoolers' adjustment2
Alternative perspectives: Relations between belief reasoning and ambiguous figure perception in bilingual children2
Negative childhood experiences and health inequalities among adults over 45: Evidence from China2
The myth of normative development2
I copy you as I believe you know about our culture: Combining imitation and selective trust literatures2
Maternal emotion dysregulation and physiological concordance in mother‐preschooler dyads2
Exploring the experiences of autistic pupils through creative research methods: Reflections on a participatory approach2
Current perspectives in developmental science: Introduction to the special issue2
Relationship between fine/gross motor skills and language and math development in Colombian Caribbean children: A study in Barranquilla2
Infants in Dutch daycare: Exploring fine‐grained dimensions of temperament2
Gender‐based reasoning about novel toys: The role of child and parental factors2
Predicting early reading fluency based on preschool measures of low‐level visual temporal processing: A possible mediation by high‐level visual temporal processing skills2
Parent personality and children's inattention/hyperactivity problems are related via early caregiving2
Effects of maternal picture book knowledge on language development of 15‐month olds2
An investigation of children's empathic dispositions and behaviours across seven countries2
The challenges of improving infant research methods2
Maternal sensitivity and warmth in Singapore: Cultural insights from comparing the Ainsworth and Emotional Availability Scales2
Children's judgements of positive claims people make about themselves2
Security of attachment and trust beliefs in close others during middle childhood2
Some considerations for social cognition assessment in children2
Reading to bilingual preschoolers: An experimental study of two book formats2
‘But what is the mechanism?’: Demystifying the ever elusive ‘developmental mechanism’2
Using insights from personality dynamics to move developmental metatheory forward: Integrating insights from relational developmental systems metatheory and whole trait theory2
Socialization of children's experience and expression of pride2
Infant placement and language exposure in daily life2
Towards a Haudenosaunee developmental science: Perspectives from the Two Row Wampum2
Having the talk when our little ones just learned to walk: Racial socialization with young children in contemporary times2
Exact arithmetic, computational estimation and approximate arithmetic are different skills: Evidence from a study with 5‐year‐olds2
Reliable developmental research: Not only for infancy2
Attention profiles following preterm birth: A review of methods and findings from infancy to adulthood2
Mentalizing strategies for navigating the social world in adolescence2
Irrelevant actions, goal demotion and explicit instruction: A study of overimitation2
Preschool language exposure and use: A comparison study of dual‐language learners and English monolingual children1
Is parent personality associated with adolescent outcomes for their child? A response surface analysis approach1
Life satisfaction trajectories among junior high school students in China: The role of parent–child communication1
Bayesian sample size planning for developmental studies1
Implementation of a multiverse approach in developmental research: The longitudinal relation between self‐esteem and peer victimization1
The impact of theory of mind and executive function on math and reading abilities: A longitudinal study1
Developmental delay and parenting: The role of behaviour problems in toddlers1
A person‐centered approach in developmental science: Why this is the future and how to get there1
Sharing is caring for developmental psychology1
How do children answer questions from a physically present humanoid robot?1
The seventh solution: A commentary on Byers‐Heinlein, Bergmann, and Savalei (2022)1
Informant discrepancies in the rating of Chinese preschoolers' approaches to learning: Looking for the role of parent–teacher relationships1
Qualitative and quantitative measures of joint attention development in the first year of life: A scoping review1
Are we all on the same page? Subfield differences in open science practices in psychology1
Moulding environmental contexts to optimise neurodiverse executive function performance and development: A goodness‐of‐fit account1
Fine motor abilities and parental input of spatial features predict object word comprehension of Turkish‐learning children1
Concurrent validity of the MacArthur communicative development inventory, the Ages and Stages Questionnaires and the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development: A study in rural China1
Tests of bidirectional relations of TV exposure and effortful control as predictors of adjustment in early childhood in the context of family risk factors1
Exploratory study of best friendship dissolution characteristics and psychological difficulties during early adolescence1
Exploring the cognitive development of children born to adolescent mothers in South Africa1
On the reliability of reliability estimates in infancy research1
Black‐Asian solidarity through collective racial socialization1
Why play equals learning: Comparison as a learning mechanism in play1
Biomarker adoption in developmental science: A data‐driven modelling of trends from 90 biomarkers across 20 years1
Broadening perspectives: The case for ecologically valid infant research1
Social support and end‐of‐semester depression, burnout, and adjustment in students making the transition to university1
Exploring opportunities for math learning within parent–infant interactions1
Association between transient financial stress during early childhood and pre‐school cognitive and socioemotional development1
Identifying developmental adaptations to early‐life stress1
Problems with inattention, reading comprehension, and autonomic regulation on the Stroop task1
Longitudinal assessment of social cognition in infants born preterm using eye‐tracking and parent–child play1
Children's evaluative judgements of conformers and nonconformers1
Perspective‐shifting discourse training to improve young Japanese children's understanding of theory of mind1
Prescriptions from history: A case for replications that control for leading1
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A prevention science approach to promoting health and quality of life for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities1
Optimal input for language development: Tailor nurture to nature1
Keeping track of language: Can monolingual and bilingual infants associate a speaker with the language they speak?1
Additive and synergistic relations of early mother–child and caregiver–child interactions and socioeconomic outcomes in adulthood1
Dyslexia is not a gift, but it is not that simple1
Valid points and looks: Reliability and validity go hand‐in‐hand when improving infant methods1
Decentering whiteness: Rethinking the instruction of undergraduate research methods within developmental science1
Examining the female‐talker default in experimental language acquisition research1
Home literacy practices in relation to language skills of children living in low‐wealth rural communities1
We need to talk about validity – A commentary on “Six solutions for more reliable infant research” from the viewpoint of an early executive functions researcher1
Developmental changes in infants' physical contact with others across the transitional period from crawling to walking1
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A balanced digital diet for under 5s: A commentary on Orben (2021)1
Parents' perceptions of the quality of infant sleep behaviours and practices: A qualitative systematic review1
Inhibitory control and problem solving in early childhood: Exploring the burdens and benefits of high self‐control1
Reducing measurement error with ecologically valid testing methods1
Fulfilling the promise of applied developmental science: Is it time to reconsider our approach?1
Egocentric and allocentric spatial memory in young children: A comparison with young adults1
Adaptation of the Missing Scan Task to a touchscreen format for assessing working memory capacity in children1
Is sleep longitudinally related to children's achievement, executive function and classroom behaviour?1
Advantages of a developmental psychopathology approach to studying the antecedents of physical health1
U.S. and Chinese preschoolers' compliance and regulatory behaviours in two challenging contexts1
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