| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A social neuroscience perspective on adolescent risk-taking | Developmental Review | 2008 | 2,663 |
| 2 | Measurement invariance conventions and reporting: The state of the art and future directions for psychological research | Developmental Review | 2016 | 1,826 |
| 3 | The adolescent brain | Developmental Review | 2008 | 1,385 |
| 4 | How social contexts support and shape language development☆ | Developmental Review | 2006 | 1,262 |
| 5 | The development of achievement task values: A theoretical analysis | Developmental Review | 1992 | 1,166 |
| 6 | The rise and fall of the inhibitory mechanism: Toward a unified theory of cognitive development and aging | Developmental Review | 1992 | 916 |
| 7 | How do adolescents see their future? A review of the development of future orientation and planning | Developmental Review | 1991 | 905 |
| 8 | On the Efficacy of Reading to Preschoolers | Developmental Review | 1994 | 745 |
| 9 | Self-Efficacy and Parenting Quality: Findings and Future Applications | Developmental Review | 1998 | 727 |
| 10 | Reckless behavior in adolescence: A developmental perspective | Developmental Review | 1992 | 704 |
| 11 | A theoretical upgrade of the concept of parental psychological control: Proposing new insights on the basis of self-determination theory | Developmental Review | 2010 | 679 |
| 12 | Consilience and Life History Theory: From genes to brain to reproductive strategy | Developmental Review | 2006 | 661 |
| 13 | Effects of physical activity on children’s executive function: Contributions of experimental research on aerobic exercise | Developmental Review | 2010 | 661 |
| 14 | Executive functions after age 5: Changes and correlates | Developmental Review | 2009 | 651 |
| 15 | The Ontogenesis of Social Dominance: A Strategy-Based Evolutionary Perspective | Developmental Review | 1999 | 618 |
| 16 | Evaluating the theory of executive dysfunction in autism | Developmental Review | 2004 | 614 |
| 17 | Social competence as a developmental construct | Developmental Review | 1983 | 607 |
| 18 | The Life-Course Dynamics of Goal Pursuit and Goal Adjustment: A Two-Process Framework | Developmental Review | 2002 | 603 |
| 19 | Students’ achievement values, goal orientations, and interest: Definitions, development, and relations to achievement outcomes | Developmental Review | 2010 | 587 |
| 20 | Unequal Competition as an Impediment to Personal Development: A Review of the Relative Age Effect in Sport | Developmental Review | 2001 | 580 |
| 21 | The Aging Self: Stabilizing and Protective Processes | Developmental Review | 1994 | 579 |
| 22 | A dual-process approach to health risk decision making: The prototype willingness model | Developmental Review | 2008 | 531 |
| 23 | Motivational pathways to STEM career choices: Using expectancy–value perspective to understand individual and gender differences in STEM fields | Developmental Review | 2013 | 494 |
| 24 | Understanding the role of entertainment media in the sexual socialization of American youth: A review of empirical research | Developmental Review | 2003 | 457 |
| 25 | The development of scientific thinking skills in elementary and middle school | Developmental Review | 2007 | 457 |
| 26 | Family Relationships and Adolescent Pregnancy Risk: A Research Synthesis | Developmental Review | 2001 | 456 |
| 27 | Mother-child and father-child relationships in middle childhood and adolescence: A developmental analysis | Developmental Review | 1991 | 452 |
| 28 | The many faces of the Still-Face Paradigm: A review and meta-analysis | Developmental Review | 2009 | 446 |
| 29 | Developmental Psychopathology: Reactions, Reflections, Projections | Developmental Review | 1993 | 430 |
| 30 | Update on bullying at school: Science forgotten? | Developmental Review | 2007 | 418 |
| 31 | Moral cognition and moral action: A theoretical perspective | Developmental Review | 1983 | 416 |
| 32 | Touch for socioemotional and physical well-being: A review | Developmental Review | 2010 | 413 |
| 33 | Children's reading strategies, metacognition, and motivation*1 | Developmental Review | 1986 | 401 |
| 34 | Gist is the grist: Fuzzy-trace theory and the new intuitionism | Developmental Review | 1990 | 392 |
| 35 | The development of risk-taking: A multi-perspective review | Developmental Review | 2006 | 386 |
| 36 | Dyadic synchrony: Its structure and function in children’s development | Developmental Review | 2002 | 384 |
| 37 | Risk taking in adolescence: A decision-making perspective | Developmental Review | 1992 | 372 |
| 38 | Sampling in developmental science: Situations, shortcomings, solutions, and standards | Developmental Review | 2013 | 371 |
| 39 | Detrimental psychological outcomes associated with early pubertal timing in adolescent girls | Developmental Review | 2007 | 369 |
| 40 | Ten years of longitudinal research on U.S. adolescent sexual behavior: Developmental correlates of sexual intercourse, and the importance of age, gender and ethnic background | Developmental Review | 2008 | 368 |
| 41 | Self-organizing systems and infant motor development | Developmental Review | 1987 | 362 |
| 42 | The Developmental Impact of Different Forms of Child Abuse and Neglect | Developmental Review | 1995 | 361 |
| 43 | Determinants and Mechanisms in Ego Identity Development: A Review and Synthesis | Developmental Review | 2001 | 351 |
| 44 | The Role of Vocabulary Development in Children′s Spoken Word Recognition and Segmentation Ability | Developmental Review | 1993 | 349 |
| 45 | The persistence of dichotomies in the study of behavioral development | Developmental Review | 1987 | 347 |
| 46 | Intergenerational transmission of parenting: A review of studies in nonclinical populations | Developmental Review | 1992 | 345 |
| 47 | The Development of Scientific Reasoning Skills | Developmental Review | 2000 | 344 |
| 48 | Patterns of Adolescent Identity Development: Review of Literature and Longitudinal Analysis | Developmental Review | 1999 | 342 |
| 49 | The resources construct in cognitive development: Diverse sources of evidence and a theory of inefficient inhibition | Developmental Review | 1990 | 339 |
| 50 | The development of mental arithmetic: A chronometric approach | Developmental Review | 1982 | 338 |
