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Papers

(The median citation count of Child Development Perspectives is 5. 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.)

Article	Citations
Child Development During the COVID‐19 Pandemic Through a Life Course Theory Lens	122
Gender Fluidity and Nonbinary Gender Identities Among Children and Adolescents	65
Recentering Action in Critical Consciousness	64
Fathers’ Involvement in Chinese Societies: Increasing Presence, Uneven Progress	64
Adolescents’ Prosocial Behaviors Through a Multidimensional and Multicultural Lens	59
A Developmental Perspective on Children With Incarcerated Parents	42
Gender Stereotypes Influence Children’s STEM Motivation	37
Biological Embedding of Chronic Stress Across Two Generations Within Marginalized Communities	32
The Developmental Peacebuilding Model (DPM) of Children’s Prosocial Behaviors in Settings of Intergroup Conflict	31
The Costs and Benefits of Co‐Rumination	30
The Puzzle of Spatial Sex Differences: Current Status and Prerequisites to Solutions	29
Capturing the complexity of autism: Applying a developmental cascades framework	27
Perspectives on Social Withdrawal in Childhood: Past, Present, and Prospects	27
Adolescent Psychopathology: The Role of Brain‐Based Diatheses, Sensitivities, and Susceptibilities	26
The Challenge of Modeling Co‐Developmental Processes over Time	22
How Does Children’s Theory of Mind Become Explicit? A Review of Longitudinal Findings	22
The Early Ontogeny of Reason Giving	21
Understanding the etiology of adolescent substance use through developmental perspectives	20
Advancing Research on Minority Stress and Resilience in Trans Children and Adolescents in the 21st Century	19
Child development in an ideological context: Through the lens of resistance and accommodation	19
Why Developmental Research on Social Categorization Needs Intersectionality	19
Raising Children With High Self‐Esteem (But Not Narcissism)	18
The Comprehension Boost in Early Word Learning: Older Infants Are Better Learners	17
A Luta Continua¹: Next Steps for Racism Research Among Black American Youth	17
The pubertal stress recalibration hypothesis: Potential neural and behavioral consequences	16

Cultural Moderation of the Effects of Parenting: Answered and Unanswered Questions	16
The power of friendship: The developmental significance of friendships from a neuroscience perspective	15
Toward a Precision Science of Word Learning: Understanding Individual Vocabulary Pathways	15
How Bilingualism Informs Theory of Mind Development	14
Advancing Measurement and Research on Youths’ Prosocial Behavior in the Digital Age	14
Advancing developmental intergroup perspectives on social class	14
Cultural Pathways and Outcomes of Autobiographical Memory Development	14
Beyond counting words: A paradigm shift for the study of language acquisition	13
Social relationships and children’s perceptions of adversity	13
Infant color perception: Insight into perceptual development	13
Deciding What to Do: Developments in Children’s Spontaneous Monitoring of Cognitive Demands	12
Parents, neighborhoods, and the developing brain	12
Studying Peers in Research on Social Withdrawal: Why Broader Assessments of Peers are Needed	12
Healthy adolescent development and the juvenile justice system: Challenges and solutions	12
Underused Methods in Developmental Science to Inform Policy and Practice	12
Genetics and Child Development: Recent Advances and Their Implications for Developmental Research	11
Evidence for an Early Novelty Orientation in Bilingual Learners	11
Extinction Learning and Cognitive Reappraisal: Windows Into the Neurodevelopment of Emotion Regulation	11
Sleep and disparities in child and adolescent development	11
Understanding When and Why Some Adolescent Girls Attempt Suicide: An Emerging Framework Integrating Menstrual Cycle Fluctuations in Risk	10
The emergence of children’s natural number concepts: Current theoretical challenges	10
Hypotheses for Possible Iatrogenic Impacts of School Bullying Prevention Programs	10
Why youth are more purposeful than we think	10
Developments in the Social Meaning Underlying Accent‐ and Dialect‐Based Social Preferences	10
Diversity and representation in studies of infant perceptual narrowing	9
Look Me in the Eyes: Mechanisms Underlying the Eye Contact Effect	9
How the Human Mind Grounds Numerical Quantities on Space	9
Fathers matter from the start: The role of expectant fathers in child development	9
Being in Tune With Your Body: The Emergence of Interoceptive Processing Through Caregiver–Infant Feeding Interactions	8
Adolescent Acne and Disparities in Mental Health	8
Promoting racial literacy in early childhood: Storybooks and conversations with young black children	8
Disturbed Social Information Processing as a Mechanism in the Development of Social Anxiety Disorder	8
Parent‐Adolescent Emotion Dynamics at Multiple Time Scales	8
From Theory to Methodology: Using Ecological Engagement to Study Development in Context	8
The promise and purpose of early care and education	8
The effects of language instruction on math development	8
We know more than we ever learned: Processes involved in accumulation of world knowledge	8
The impact of parents’ smartphone use on language development in young children	7
Developmental costs associated with early maternal withdrawal	7
New temporal concepts of acculturation in immigrant youth	7
Building a model of cultural universality with specificity for global early childhood development	7
In defense of peer influence: The unheralded benefits of conformity	7
Development of Analogical Reasoning: A Novel Perspective From Cross‐Cultural Studies	7
Early care and education settings as contexts for socialization: New directions for quality assessment	7
Feeding During Infancy: Interpersonal Behavior, Physiology, and Obesity Risk	7
The Bucharest Early Intervention Project: Adolescent mental health and adaptation following early deprivation	7
Tolerance, Dissenting Beliefs, and Cultural Diversity	6
Applying Interdisciplinary Frameworks to Study Prenatal Influences on Child Development	6
Adolescent–parent relationships and youth well‐being in Turkey	6
A framework for understanding the relation between spoken language input and outcomes for children with cochlear implants	6

Parenting and the development of children’s gratitude	6
Hypo‐ or hyperarousal? The mechanisms underlying social information processing in autism	6
Love and Truth: What Really Matters for Children Born Through Third‐Party Assisted Reproduction	6
Learning language in vivo	6
The Emergence of a Brain Network for Numerical Thinking	5
The Value of Multiple‐Generation Cohorts for Studying Parenting and Child Development	5
Revisiting goodness of fit in the cultural context: Moving forward from post hoc explanations	5
The Implications of Polysemy for Theories of Word Learning	5
The importance of parent self‐regulation and parent–child coregulation in research on parental discipline	5
Missing Input: How Imbalanced Distributions of Textbook Problems Affect Mathematics Learning	5
Components of Mathematical Competence in Middle Childhood	5
Homeschooling: What do we know and what do we need to learn?	5