| # | 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 | School readiness and later achievement. | Developmental Psychology | 2007 | 3,669 |
| 3 | Current patterns of parental authority. | Developmental Psychology | 1971 | 2,930 |
| 4 | Dimensions and types of social status: A cross-age perspective. | Developmental Psychology | 1982 | 2,019 |
| 5 | Theoretical propositions of life-span developmental psychology: On the dynamics between growth and decline. | Developmental Psychology | 1987 | 1,918 |
| 6 | Understanding the intentions of others: Re-enactment of intended acts by 18-month-old children. | Developmental Psychology | 1995 | 1,918 |
| 7 | Peer Influence on Risk Taking, Risk Preference, and Risky Decision Making in Adolescence and Adulthood: An Experimental Study. | Developmental Psychology | 2005 | 1,666 |
| 8 | Children's perceptions of the personal relationships in their social networks. | Developmental Psychology | 1985 | 1,605 |
| 9 | Effortful control in early childhood: Continuity and change, antecedents, and implications for social development. | Developmental Psychology | 2000 | 1,581 |
| 10 | Parents' ethnic-racial socialization practices: A review of research and directions for future study. | Developmental Psychology | 2006 | 1,549 |
| 11 | Is working memory training effective? A meta-analytic review. | Developmental Psychology | 2013 | 1,416 |
| 12 | Friendship and friendship quality in middle childhood: Links with peer group acceptance and feelings of loneliness and social dissatisfaction. | Developmental Psychology | 1993 | 1,384 |
| 13 | Antecedents of self-regulation: A developmental perspective. | Developmental Psychology | 1982 | 1,344 |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | Early vocabulary growth: Relation to language input and gender. | Developmental Psychology | 1991 | 1,260 |
| 16 | The Structure of Working Memory From 4 to 15 Years of Age. | Developmental Psychology | 2004 | 1,224 |
| 17 | Oral language and code-related precursors to reading: Evidence from a longitudinal structural model. | Developmental Psychology | 2002 | 1,199 |
| 18 | Regulation of cognitive processes through perceived self-efficacy. | Developmental Psychology | 1989 | 1,198 |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | Parental involvement in middle school: A meta-analytic assessment of the strategies that promote achievement. | Developmental Psychology | 2009 | 1,174 |
| 21 | Impact of parental discipline methods on the child's internalization of values: A reconceptualization of current points of view. | Developmental Psychology | 1994 | 1,166 |
| 22 | Developmental trajectories of childhood disruptive behaviors and adolescent delinquency: A six-site, cross-national study. | Developmental Psychology | 2003 | 1,164 |
| 23 | Regulation of distress and negative emotions: A developmental view. | Developmental Psychology | 1989 | 1,129 |
| 24 | Economic pressure in African American families: A replication and extension of the family stress model. | Developmental Psychology | 2002 | 1,115 |
| 25 | Links between behavioral regulation and preschoolers' literacy, vocabulary, and math skills. | Developmental Psychology | 2007 | 1,108 |
| 26 | Age differences in resistance to peer influence. | Developmental Psychology | 2007 | 1,100 |
| 27 | Decomposing adult age differences in working memory. | Developmental Psychology | 1991 | 1,084 |
| 28 | Early Social Attention Impairments in Autism: Social Orienting, Joint Attention, and Attention to Distress. | Developmental Psychology | 2004 | 1,079 |
| 29 | Development of reading-related phonological processing abilities: New evidence of bidirectional causality from a latent variable longitudinal study. | Developmental Psychology | 1994 | 1,064 |
| 30 | Development of concern for others. | Developmental Psychology | 1992 | 1,058 |
| 31 | Early reading acquisition and its relation to reading experience and ability 10 years later. | Developmental Psychology | 1997 | 1,002 |
| 32 | Emotion regulation among school-age children: The development and validation of a new criterion Q-sort scale. | Developmental Psychology | 1997 | 972 |
| 33 | Predicting adolescent cognitive and self-regulatory competencies from preschool delay of gratification: Identifying diagnostic conditions. | Developmental Psychology | 1990 | 949 |
| 34 | Stability of aggression over time and generations. | Developmental Psychology | 1984 | 934 |
| 35 | Accelerating language development through picture book reading. | Developmental Psychology | 1988 | 930 |
| 36 | The origins of attachment theory: John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth. | Developmental Psychology | 1992 | 917 |
| 37 | Family, school, and behavioral antecedents to early adolescent involvement with antisocial peers. | Developmental Psychology | 1991 | 891 |
| 38 | The role of parents in the socialization of children: An historical overview. | Developmental Psychology | 1992 | 883 |
| 39 | A biopsychosocial model of the development of chronic conduct problems in adolescence. | Developmental Psychology | 2003 | 869 |
| 40 | A new self-report scale of intrinsic versus extrinsic orientation in the classroom: Motivational and informational components. | Developmental Psychology | 1981 | 856 |
| 41 | Developmental Cascades: Linking Academic Achievement and Externalizing and Internalizing Symptoms Over 20 Years. | Developmental Psychology | 2005 | 855 |
| 42 | Maternal emotional signaling: Its effect on the visual cliff behavior of 1-year-olds. | Developmental Psychology | 1985 | 845 |
| 43 | Early reasoning about desires: Evidence from 14- and 18-month-olds. | Developmental Psychology | 1997 | 821 |
| 44 | The power of friendship: Protection against an escalating cycle of peer victimization. | Developmental Psychology | 1999 | 808 |
| 45 | 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 |
| 46 | Phonemes, Rimes, Vocabulary, and Grammatical Skills as Foundations of Early Reading Development: Evidence From a Longitudinal Study. | Developmental Psychology | 2004 | 771 |
| 47 | Early math matters: Kindergarten number competence and later mathematics outcomes. | Developmental Psychology | 2009 | 753 |
| 48 | Associations of parenting dimensions and styles with externalizing problems of children and adolescents: An updated meta-analysis. | Developmental Psychology | 2017 | 753 |
| 49 | Low self-esteem during adolescence predicts poor health, criminal behavior, and limited economic prospects during adulthood. | Developmental Psychology | 2006 | 749 |
| 50 | Trajectories of perceived adult and peer discrimination among Black, Latino, and Asian American adolescents: Patterns and psychological correlates. | Developmental Psychology | 2006 | 747 |
