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Papers

(The median citation count of Child Development Perspectives 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Ecological validity in measuring parents’ executive function	67
Antifascist praxis in developmental science: Possibilities for collective resistance to fascism	64
Fathers matter from the start: The role of expectant fathers in child development	48
Toward a Precision Science of Word Learning: Understanding Individual Vocabulary Pathways	46
In defense of peer influence: The unheralded benefits of conformity	37
Perspectives on Social Withdrawal in Childhood: Past, Present, and Prospects	31
Understanding the development of chronic loneliness in youth	31
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Belief it or not: How children construct a theory of mind	27
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When is cultural input central? The development of ontological beliefs about religious and scientific unobservables	26
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Interventions for comorbid learning disabilities	24
Music enrichment programs may promote early language development by enhancing parent responsiveness: A narrative review	23
Developmental costs associated with early maternal withdrawal	23
Building the Parent and Child Math Anxiety Network model from empirical evidence	22
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A little imprecision goes a long way in launching memory development	20
Concurrences across time and sensorimotor capacities promote infant learning	19
Put it in God's hands: Understanding the complexities of religiosity and spirituality in the lives of Black youth	19
Talking with machines: Can conversational technologies serve as children's social partners?	19
Caregivers' cognitions about infants' mental and emotional states	19
Applying developmental science concepts to improve the applicability of children’s food preference learning research	19
Capturing the complexity of autism: Applying a developmental cascades framework	18

The Bucharest Early Intervention Project: Adolescent mental health and adaptation following early deprivation	17
The developmental consequences of early exposure to climate change‐related risks	17
Diversity and representation in studies of infant perceptual narrowing	17
Coming of age in a warming world: A self‐determination theory perspective	16
Possibility Judgments in Childhood: Is Uncertainty Monitoring the Missing Link?	16
Parents, neighborhoods, and the developing brain	16
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Infant color perception: Insight into perceptual development	15
Why youth are more purposeful than we think	15
Healthy adolescent development and the juvenile justice system: Challenges and solutions	15
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Counterfactual Reasoning Development in Different Languages	13
The effects of language instruction on math development	12
The development of prosocial risk‐taking behavior: Mechanisms and opportunities	12
Civic science: Addressing racial inequalities in environmental and science, technology, engineering, and math education	11
Children's information‐search strategies: Operationalizing efficiency and effectiveness	11
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Hypo‐ or hyperarousal? The mechanisms underlying social information processing in autism	10
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Call for Non‐Verbal Mind‐Mindedness Measures for Use in Infancy and Across Cultures	10
Building a model of cultural universality with specificity for global early childhood development	10
The power of friendship: The developmental significance of friendships from a neuroscience perspective	9
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Being good and feeling good: What happiness means to children	9
From the margins to the center: Advancing research on caregiver socialization of emotion in Asia	9
How motivation restricts the scalability of universal school‐based mindfulness interventions for adolescents	8
Sleep and disparities in child and adolescent development	8
Hasta la Raiz: Cultivating racial‐ethnic socialization in Latine families	8
Children's structural thinking about social inequities	8
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The development of cognitive reflection	7
Supporting Latinx immigrant children and families in the transition to elementary school	7
We know more than we ever learned: Processes involved in accumulation of world knowledge	7
The risks and opportunities of the COVID‐19 crisis for building longitudinal evidence on today’s early childhood education programs	6
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The importance of parent self‐regulation and parent–child coregulation in research on parental discipline	6
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Promoting healthy screen use in children with externalizing behavior	6
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After a decade of tool innovation, what comes next?	5
The development of children’s prospective memory: Lessons for developmental science	5
Toward a mechanistic understanding of the association between motor and executive function skill development in early childhood	5
An integrative model of parent‐infant communication development	5
Cultural Moderation of the Effects of Parenting: Answered and Unanswered Questions	5
Being in Tune With Your Body: The Emergence of Interoceptive Processing Through Caregiver–Infant Feeding Interactions	4
Gender Stereotypes Influence Children’s STEM Motivation	4
The role of prediction error in the development of language learning and memory	4
Familism attitudes, behaviors, and adjustment during adolescence	4
Child development in an ideological context: Through the lens of resistance and accommodation	4
The promise and purpose of early care and education	4

Anti‐Youth Ageism: What It Is and Why It Matters	4
How does work during pregnancy affect maternal and infant health and development?	4
Homeschooling: What do we know and what do we need to learn?	3
Importance of cultural context in the study of children's executive functions: Advances in Latin America research	3
An automated, data‐driven approach to children's social dynamics in space and time	3
Revisiting goodness of fit in the cultural context: Moving forward from post hoc explanations	3