| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Ecology of the family as a context for human development: Research perspectives. | Developmental Psychology | 1986 | 4,512 |
| 2 | Estimating wealth effects without expenditure data—or tears: An application to educational enrollments in states of India | Demography | 2001 | 3,884 |
| 3 | Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth | Race Ethnicity and Education | 2005 | 3,781 |
| 4 | School readiness and later achievement. | Developmental Psychology | 2007 | 3,669 |
| 5 | Estimating Wealth Effects without Expenditure Data-or Tears: An Application to Educational Enrollments in States of India | Demography | 2001 | 2,936 |
| 6 | Current patterns of parental authority. | Developmental Psychology | 1971 | 2,930 |
| 7 | Theories of International Migration: A Review and Appraisal | Population and Development Review | 1993 | 2,892 |
| 8 | A theory of migration | Demography | 1966 | 2,754 |
| 9 | The impact of heterogeneity in individual frailty on the dynamics of mortality | Demography | 1979 | 2,030 |
| 10 | Dimensions and types of social status: A cross-age perspective. | Developmental Psychology | 1982 | 2,019 |
| 11 | Theoretical propositions of life-span developmental psychology: On the dynamics between growth and decline. | Developmental Psychology | 1987 | 1,918 |
| 12 | Understanding the intentions of others: Re-enactment of intended acts by 18-month-old children. | Developmental Psychology | 1995 | 1,918 |
| 13 | Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. | International Migration Review | 1998 | 1,785 |
| 14 | Peer Influence on Risk Taking, Risk Preference, and Risky Decision Making in Adolescence and Adulthood: An Experimental Study. | Developmental Psychology | 2005 | 1,666 |
| 15 | Children's perceptions of the personal relationships in their social networks. | Developmental Psychology | 1985 | 1,605 |
| 16 | Effortful control in early childhood: Continuity and change, antecedents, and implications for social development. | Developmental Psychology | 2000 | 1,581 |
| 17 | Conceptualizing Simultaneity: A Transnational Social Field Perspective on Society | International Migration Review | 2004 | 1,574 |
| 18 | Parents' ethnic-racial socialization practices: A review of research and directions for future study. | Developmental Psychology | 2006 | 1,549 |
| 19 | Editorial: Mobilities, Immobilities and Moorings | Mobilities | 2006 | 1,515 |
| 20 | Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return | Diaspora | 1991 | 1,514 |
| 21 | Is working memory training effective? A meta-analytic review. | Developmental Psychology | 2013 | 1,416 |
| 22 | Friendship and friendship quality in middle childhood: Links with peer group acceptance and feelings of loneliness and social dissatisfaction. | Developmental Psychology | 1993 | 1,384 |
| 23 | Antecedents of self-regulation: A developmental perspective. | Developmental Psychology | 1982 | 1,344 |
| 24 | What parents know, how they know it, and several forms of adolescent adjustment: Further support for a reinterpretation of monitoring. | Developmental Psychology | 2000 | 1,275 |
| 25 | Early vocabulary growth: Relation to language input and gender. | Developmental Psychology | 1991 | 1,260 |
| 26 | The Structure of Working Memory From 4 to 15 Years of Age. | Developmental Psychology | 2004 | 1,224 |
| 27 | Oral language and code-related precursors to reading: Evidence from a longitudinal structural model. | Developmental Psychology | 2002 | 1,199 |
| 28 | Regulation of cognitive processes through perceived self-efficacy. | Developmental Psychology | 1989 | 1,198 |
| 29 | Age differences in sensation seeking and impulsivity as indexed by behavior and self-report: Evidence for a dual systems model. | Developmental Psychology | 2008 | 1,178 |
| 30 | Parental involvement in middle school: A meta-analytic assessment of the strategies that promote achievement. | Developmental Psychology | 2009 | 1,174 |
| 31 | Impact of parental discipline methods on the child's internalization of values: A reconceptualization of current points of view. | Developmental Psychology | 1994 | 1,166 |
| 32 | Developmental trajectories of childhood disruptive behaviors and adolescent delinquency: A six-site, cross-national study. | Developmental Psychology | 2003 | 1,164 |
| 33 | The Changing Relation between Mortality and level of Economic Development | Population Studies | 1975 | 1,155 |
| 34 | Regulation of distress and negative emotions: A developmental view. | Developmental Psychology | 1989 | 1,129 |
| 35 | Economic pressure in African American families: A replication and extension of the family stress model. | Developmental Psychology | 2002 | 1,115 |
| 36 | Links between behavioral regulation and preschoolers' literacy, vocabulary, and math skills. | Developmental Psychology | 2007 | 1,108 |
| 37 | The Unfolding Story of the Second Demographic Transition | Population and Development Review | 2010 | 1,102 |
| 38 | Age differences in resistance to peer influence. | Developmental Psychology | 2007 | 1,100 |
| 39 | Migration and Development: A Theoretical Perspective | International Migration Review | 2010 | 1,091 |
| 40 | Decomposing adult age differences in working memory. | Developmental Psychology | 1991 | 1,084 |
| 41 | Early Social Attention Impairments in Autism: Social Orienting, Joint Attention, and Attention to Distress. | Developmental Psychology | 2004 | 1,079 |
| 42 | Diverging destinies: How children are faring under the second demographic transition | Demography | 2004 | 1,078 |
| 43 | Development of reading-related phonological processing abilities: New evidence of bidirectional causality from a latent variable longitudinal study. | Developmental Psychology | 1994 | 1,064 |
| 44 | Development of concern for others. | Developmental Psychology | 1992 | 1,058 |
| 45 | Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration | International Migration Review | 1997 | 1,056 |
| 46 | Comparative Studies of Acculturative Stress | International Migration Review | 1987 | 1,055 |
| 47 | On Kinship Structure, Female Autonomy, and Demographic Behavior in India | Population and Development Review | 1983 | 1,029 |
| 48 | Family and Personal Networks in International Migration: Recent Developments and New Agendas | International Migration Review | 1989 | 1,015 |
| 49 | Methodological Nationalism, the Social Sciences, and the Study of Migration: An Essay in Historical Epistemology | International Migration Review | 2003 | 1,010 |
| 50 | Early reading acquisition and its relation to reading experience and ability 10 years later. | Developmental Psychology | 1997 | 1,002 |
| 51 | Social Structure, Household Strategies, and the Cumulative Causation of Migration | Population Index | 1990 | 985 |
| 52 | Emotion regulation among school-age children: The development and validation of a new criterion Q-sort scale. | Developmental Psychology | 1997 | 972 |
| 53 | Predicting adolescent cognitive and self-regulatory competencies from preschool delay of gratification: Identifying diagnostic conditions. | Developmental Psychology | 1990 | 949 |
| 54 | Maternal employment and time with children: Dramatic change or surprising continuity? | Demography | 2000 | 942 |
| 55 | Stability of aggression over time and generations. | Developmental Psychology | 1984 | 934 |
| 56 | Accelerating language development through picture book reading. | Developmental Psychology | 1988 | 930 |
| 57 | The Emergence of Lowest-Low Fertility in Europe During the 1990s | Population and Development Review | 2002 | 918 |
| 58 | The origins of attachment theory: John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth. | Developmental Psychology | 1992 | 917 |
| 59 | Trends in cohabitation and implications for children s family contexts in the United States | Population Studies | 2000 | 917 |
| 60 | Family, school, and behavioral antecedents to early adolescent involvement with antisocial peers. | Developmental Psychology | 1991 | 891 |
| 61 | Family Ties in Western Europe: Persistent Contrasts | Population and Development Review | 1998 | 887 |
| 62 | The role of parents in the socialization of children: An historical overview. | Developmental Psychology | 1992 | 883 |
| 63 | A biopsychosocial model of the development of chronic conduct problems in adolescence. | Developmental Psychology | 2003 | 869 |
| 64 | An Analytical Framework for the Study of Child Survival in Developing Countries | Population and Development Review | 1984 | 865 |
| 65 | The role of public health improvements in health advances: The twentieth-century United States | Demography | 2005 | 864 |
| 66 | Does Marriage Matter? | Demography | 1995 | 863 |
| 67 | A Framework for Analyzing the Proximate Determinants of Fertility | Population and Development Review | 1978 | 858 |
| 68 | A new self-report scale of intrinsic versus extrinsic orientation in the classroom: Motivational and informational components. | Developmental Psychology | 1981 | 856 |
| 69 | Developmental Cascades: Linking Academic Achievement and Externalizing and Internalizing Symptoms Over 20 Years. | Developmental Psychology | 2005 | 855 |
| 70 | Maternal emotional signaling: Its effect on the visual cliff behavior of 1-year-olds. | Developmental Psychology | 1985 | 845 |
| 71 | Early reasoning about desires: Evidence from 14- and 18-month-olds. | Developmental Psychology | 1997 | 821 |
| 72 | Mexican Migration and the Social Space of Postmodernism | Diaspora | 1991 | 815 |
| 73 | The power of friendship: Protection against an escalating cycle of peer victimization. | Developmental Psychology | 1999 | 808 |
| 74 | Selective Discrimination against Female Children in Rural Punjab, India | Population and Development Review | 1987 | 805 |
| 75 | Social Remittances: Migration Driven Local-Level Forms of Cultural Diffusion | International Migration Review | 1998 | 788 |
| 76 | Segmented Assimilation: Issues, Controversies, and Recent Research on the New Second Generation | International Migration Review | 1997 | 780 |
| 77 | Changing relations between phonological processing abilities and word-level reading as children develop from beginning to skilled readers: A 5-year longitudinal study. | Developmental Psychology | 1997 | 773 |
| 78 | Phonemes, Rimes, Vocabulary, and Grammatical Skills as Foundations of Early Reading Development: Evidence From a Longitudinal Study. | Developmental Psychology | 2004 | 771 |
| 79 | Intended and Unintended Pregnancies Worldwide in 2012 and Recent Trends | Studies in Family Planning | 2014 | 768 |
| 80 | The New Economics of Labour Migration and the Role of Remittances in the Migration Process | International Migration | 1999 | 765 |
| 81 | The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. | Population and Development Review | 1995 | 755 |
| 82 | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. | Population and Development Review | 1997 | 753 |
| 83 | Early math matters: Kindergarten number competence and later mathematics outcomes. | Developmental Psychology | 2009 | 753 |
| 84 | Associations of parenting dimensions and styles with externalizing problems of children and adolescents: An updated meta-analysis. | Developmental Psychology | 2017 | 753 |
| 85 | Low self-esteem during adolescence predicts poor health, criminal behavior, and limited economic prospects during adulthood. | Developmental Psychology | 2006 | 749 |
| 86 | Trajectories of perceived adult and peer discrimination among Black, Latino, and Asian American adolescents: Patterns and psychological correlates. | Developmental Psychology | 2006 | 747 |
| 87 | Paradox lost: Explaining the hispanic adult mortality advantage | Demography | 2004 | 744 |
| 88 | The long arm of childhood: The influence of early-life social conditions on men’s mortality | Demography | 2004 | 742 |
| 89 | The Crucible Within: Ethnic Identity, Self-Esteem, and Segmented Assimilation among Children of Immigrants | International Migration Review | 1994 | 740 |
| 90 | Children's competence and value beliefs from childhood through adolescence: Growth trajectories in two male-sex-typed domains. | Developmental Psychology | 2002 | 739 |
| 91 | Ages, Life Stages, and Generational Cohorts: Decomposing the Immigrant First and Second Generations in the United States | International Migration Review | 2004 | 733 |
| 92 | Development of emergent literacy and early reading skills in preschool children: Evidence from a latent-variable longitudinal study. | Developmental Psychology | 2000 | 729 |
| 93 | Climate Change: The IPCC Scientific Assessment. | Population and Development Review | 1992 | 724 |
| 94 | Developmental change in the acuity of the "number sense": The approximate number system in 3-, 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds and adults. | Developmental Psychology | 2008 | 721 |
| 95 | Gender Equity in Theories of Fertility Transition | Population and Development Review | 2000 | 720 |
| 96 | Transitions during early adolescence: Changes in children's domain-specific self-perceptions and general self-esteem across the transition to junior high school. | Developmental Psychology | 1991 | 719 |
| 97 | Talking about internal states: The acquisition of an explicit theory of mind. | Developmental Psychology | 1982 | 710 |
| 98 | Trends in educational assortative marriage from 1940 to 2003 | Demography | 2005 | 710 |
| 99 | Longitudinal relations between children's exposure to TV violence and their aggressive and violent behavior in young adulthood: 1977-1992. | Developmental Psychology | 2003 | 706 |
| 100 | Calculation, Community and Cues | European Union Politics | 2005 | 706 |
