| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | The Construct of Resilience: A Critical Evaluation and Guidelines for Future Work | Child Development | 2000 | 5,939 |
| 2 | Measuring Dyadic Adjustment: New Scales for Assessing the Quality of Marriage and Similar Dyads | Journal of Marriage and Family | 1976 | 5,514 |
| 3 | Child abuse: Adolescent records vs. adult recall | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1990 | 5,477 |
| 4 | Measuring Intrafamily Conflict and Violence: The Conflict Tactics (CT) Scales | Journal of Marriage and Family | 1979 | 4,860 |
| 5 | The Impact of Enhancing Students’ Social and Emotional Learning: A Meta‐Analysis of School‐Based Universal Interventions | Child Development | 2011 | 4,505 |
| 6 | Development and validation of a brief screening version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2003 | 4,091 |
| 7 | Sense of community: A definition and theory | Journal of Community Psychology | 1986 | 3,690 |
| 8 | Implementation Matters: A Review of Research on the Influence of Implementation on Program Outcomes and the Factors Affecting Implementation | American Journal of Community Psychology | 2008 | 3,543 |
| 9 | Meta-Analysis of Theory-of-Mind Development: The Truth about False Belief | Child Development | 2001 | 3,281 |
| 10 | Community Resilience as a Metaphor, Theory, Set of Capacities, and Strategy for Disaster Readiness | American Journal of Community Psychology | 2008 | 3,134 |
| 11 | The Determinants of Parenting: A Process Model | Child Development | 1984 | 2,860 |
| 12 | The Perceived Competence Scale for Children | Child Development | 1982 | 2,710 |
| 13 | Relational Aggression, Gender, and Social-Psychological Adjustment | Child Development | 1995 | 2,531 |
| 14 | Implicit Theories of Intelligence Predict Achievement Across an Adolescent Transition: A Longitudinal Study and an Intervention | Child Development | 2007 | 2,382 |
| 15 | Relating Effortful Control, Executive Function, and False Belief Understanding to Emerging Math and Literacy Ability in Kindergarten | Child Development | 2007 | 2,367 |
| 16 | Emergence and Characterization of Sex Differences in Spatial Ability: A Meta-Analysis | Child Development | 1985 | 2,278 |
| 17 | Relational Aggression, Gender, and Social-Psychological Adjustment | Child Development | 1995 | 2,235 |
| 18 | How People Make Their Own Environments: A Theory of Genotype Environment Effects | Child Development | 1983 | 2,196 |
| 19 | Early Teacher-Child Relationships and the Trajectory of Children's School Outcomes through Eighth Grade | Child Development | 2001 | 2,061 |
| 20 | The Life Course as Developmental Theory | Child Development | 1998 | 1,961 |
| 21 | The Consequences of Divorce for Adults and Children | Journal of Marriage and Family | 2000 | 1,923 |
| 22 | Investigations of Temperament at Three to Seven Years: The Children's Behavior Questionnaire | Child Development | 2001 | 1,901 |
| 23 | Identification of Child Maltreatment With the Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scales: Development and Psychometric Data for a National Sample of American Parents | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1998 | 1,898 |
| 24 | An Integrative Model for the Study of Developmental Competencies in Minority Children | Child Development | 1996 | 1,856 |
| 25 | Childhood Experience, Interpersonal Development, and Reproductive Strategy: An Evolutionary Theory of Socialization | Child Development | 1991 | 1,837 |
| 26 | Parental Monitoring: A Reinterpretation | Child Development | 2000 | 1,795 |
| 27 | Distinctions between social support concepts, measures, and models | American Journal of Community Psychology | 1986 | 1,767 |
| 28 | Child Development and Emergent Literacy | Child Development | 1998 | 1,739 |
| 29 | The Specificity of Environmental Influence: Socioeconomic Status Affects Early Vocabulary Development Via Maternal Speech | Child Development | 2003 | 1,708 |
| 30 | Sensitivity and Attachment: A Meta-Analysis on Parental Antecedents of Infant Attachment | Child Development | 1997 | 1,666 |
| 31 | Measures of perceived social support from friends and from family: Three validation studies | American Journal of Community Psychology | 1983 | 1,664 |
| 32 | An Integrative Model for the Study of Developmental Competencies in Minority Children | Child Development | 1996 | 1,649 |
| 33 | Childhood Experience, Interpersonal Development, and Reproductive Strategy: An Evolutionary Theory of Socialization | Child Development | 1991 | 1,647 |
| 34 | A Developmental Perspective on Executive Function | Child Development | 2010 | 1,635 |
| 35 | Individual Differences in Inhibitory Control and Children's Theory of Mind | Child Development | 2001 | 1,608 |
| 36 | The Impact of Economic Hardship on Black Families and Children: Psychological Distress, Parenting, and Socioemotional Development | Child Development | 1990 | 1,599 |
| 37 | Goal attainment scaling: A general method for evaluating comprehensive community mental health programs | Community Mental Health Journal | 1968 | 1,578 |
| 38 | Terms of empowerment/exemplars of prevention: Toward a theory for community psychology | American Journal of Community Psychology | 1987 | 1,554 |
| 39 | Patriarchal Terrorism and Common Couple Violence: Two Forms of Violence against Women | Journal of Marriage and Family | 1995 | 1,533 |
| 40 | The determinants of parenting: a process model | Child Development | 1984 | 1,527 |
| 41 | The Impact of Economic Hardship on Black Families and Children: Psychological Distress, Parenting, and Socioemotional Development | Child Development | 1990 | 1,517 |
| 42 | Poly-victimization: A neglected component in child victimization | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2007 | 1,512 |
| 43 | Maternal Correlates of Growth in Toddler Vocabulary Production in Low‐Income Families | Child Development | 2005 | 1,462 |
| 44 | Parental Psychological Control: Revisiting a Neglected Construct | Child Development | 1996 | 1,456 |
| 45 | Direct and Indirect Aggression During Childhood and Adolescence: A Meta‐Analytic Review of Gender Differences, Intercorrelations, and Relations to Maladjustment | Child Development | 2008 | 1,448 |
| 46 | Sexual abuse in a national survey of adult men and women: Prevalence, characteristics, and risk factors | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1990 | 1,447 |
| 47 | A Generic Measure of Relationship Satisfaction | Journal of Marriage and Family | 1988 | 1,446 |
| 48 | Emotion Regulation as a Scientific Construct: Methodological Challenges and Directions for Child Development Research | Child Development | 2004 | 1,429 |
| 49 | A Global Perspective on Child Sexual Abuse: Meta-Analysis of Prevalence Around the World | Child Maltreatment | 2011 | 1,422 |
| 50 | Effects of Authoritative Parental Control on Child Behavior | Child Development | 1966 | 1,411 |
| 51 | Scaling of Theory-of-Mind Tasks | Child Development | 2004 | 1,399 |
| 52 | Improving Pregnancy Outcome during Imprisonment: A Model Residential Care Program | Social Work | 2001 | 1,392 |
| 53 | Two Decades of Developments in Qualitative Inquiry | Qualitative Social Work | 2002 | 1,392 |
| 54 | Patterns of Competence and Adjustment among Adolescents from Authoritative, Authoritarian, Indulgent, and Neglectful Families | Child Development | 1991 | 1,385 |
| 55 | Parental Involvement in the Development of Children's Reading Skill: A Five-Year Longitudinal Study | Child Development | 2002 | 1,375 |
| 56 | Psychological empowerment: Issues and illustrations | American Journal of Community Psychology | 1995 | 1,364 |
| 57 | Parental Psychological Control: Revisiting a Neglected Construct | Child Development | 1996 | 1,361 |
| 58 | Mode of questionnaire administration can have serious effects on data quality | Journal of Public Health | 2005 | 1,343 |
| 59 | Beyond Parental Control and Authoritarian Parenting Style: Understanding Chinese Parenting through the Cultural Notion of Training | Child Development | 1994 | 1,342 |
| 60 | Measures of Classroom Quality in Prekindergarten and Children’s Development of Academic, Language, and Social Skills | Child Development | 2008 | 1,342 |
| 61 | Research on Divorce: Continuing Trends and New Developments | Journal of Marriage and Family | 2010 | 1,322 |
| 62 | Beyond Parental Control and Authoritarian Parenting Style: Understanding Chinese Parenting Through the Cultural Notion of Training | Child Development | 1994 | 1,318 |
| 63 | Socioeconomic Status, Family Processes,and Individual Development | Journal of Marriage and Family | 2010 | 1,308 |
| 64 | Measuring Marital Quality: A Critical Look at the Dependent Variable | Journal of Marriage and Family | 1983 | 1,306 |
| 65 | Economic Deprivation and Early Childhood Development | Child Development | 1994 | 1,301 |
| 66 | Consumer health information seeking on the Internet: the state of the art | Health Education Research | 2001 | 1,298 |
| 67 | Societal Change and Change in Family Violence from 1975 to 1985 as Revealed by Two National Surveys | Journal of Marriage and Family | 1986 | 1,277 |
| 68 | Research on Household Labor: Modeling and Measuring the Social Embeddedness of Routine Family Work | Journal of Marriage and Family | 2000 | 1,268 |
| 69 | Sleep Schedules and Daytime Functioning in Adolescents | Child Development | 1998 | 1,260 |
| 70 | Changes in Children's Self-Competence and Values: Gender and Domain Differences across Grades One through Twelve | Child Development | 2002 | 1,256 |
| 71 | The interrelatedness of multiple forms of childhood abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2004 | 1,252 |
| 72 | Self-Efficacy Beliefs as Shapers of Children's Aspirations and Career Trajectories | Child Development | 2001 | 1,251 |
| 73 | Working With Missing Values | Journal of Marriage and Family | 2005 | 1,244 |
| 74 | Patterns of Competence and Adjustment among Adolescents from Authoritative, Authoritarian, Indulgent, and Neglectful Families | Child Development | 1991 | 1,217 |
| 75 | Economic Deprivation and Early Childhood Development | Child Development | 1994 | 1,210 |
| 76 | Age and Sex Differences in Perceptions of Networks of Personal Relationships | Child Development | 1992 | 1,206 |
| 77 | Attachment as an Organizational Construct | Child Development | 1977 | 1,202 |
| 78 | The deinstitutionalization of American marriage | Journal of Marriage and Family | 2004 | 1,190 |
| 79 | Beyond the Nuclear Family: The Increasing Importance of Multigenerational Bonds. THE BURGESS AWARD LECTURE* | Journal of Marriage and Family | 2001 | 1,187 |
| 80 | Economic Stress, Coercive Family Process, and Developmental Problems of Adolescents | Child Development | 1994 | 1,178 |
| 81 | Children's Reports of Parental Behavior: An Inventory | Child Development | 1965 | 1,177 |
| 82 | Fragile Families: sample and design | Children and Youth Services Review | 2001 | 1,177 |
| 83 | Impact of Parenting Practices on Adolescent Achievement: Authoritative Parenting, School Involvement, and Encouragement to Succeed | Child Development | 1992 | 1,175 |
| 84 | Can Instructional and Emotional Support in the First-Grade Classroom Make a Difference for Children at Risk of School Failure? | Child Development | 2005 | 1,167 |
| 85 | The Domain of Developmental Psychopathology | Child Development | 1984 | 1,162 |
| 86 | In praise of paradox: A social policy of empowerment over prevention | American Journal of Community Psychology | 1981 | 1,160 |
| 87 | Social Information-Processing Mechanisms in Reactive and Proactive Aggression | Child Development | 1996 | 1,154 |
| 88 | Families and Individual Development: Provocations from the Field of Family Therapy | Child Development | 1985 | 1,141 |
| 89 | Age and Sex Differences in Perceptions of Networks of Personal Relationships | Child Development | 1992 | 1,139 |
| 90 | The Relations of Regulation and Emotionality to Children's Externalizing and Internalizing Problem Behavior | Child Development | 2001 | 1,137 |
| 91 | Trajectories of Boys' Physical Aggression, Opposition, and Hyperactivity on the Path to Physically Violent and Nonviolent Juvenile Delinquency | Child Development | 1999 | 1,134 |
| 92 | Economic Stress, Coercive Family Process, and Developmental Problems of Adolescents | Child Development | 1994 | 1,133 |
| 93 | Promoting Positive Youth Development Through School‐Based Social and Emotional Learning Interventions: A Meta‐Analysis of Follow‐Up Effects | Child Development | 2017 | 1,129 |
| 94 | The Study of Stress and Competence in Children: A Building Block for Developmental Psychopathology | Child Development | 1984 | 1,112 |
| 95 | A review of research on fidelity of implementation: implications for drug abuse prevention in school settings | Health Education Research | 2003 | 1,112 |
| 96 | A review of the long-term effects of child sexual abuse | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1992 | 1,109 |
| 97 | Peer victimization and internalizing problems in children: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2010 | 1,107 |
| 98 | The Physiology and Psychology of Behavioral Inhibition in Children | Child Development | 1987 | 1,092 |
| 99 | Epigenetics and the Biological Definition of Gene × Environment Interactions | Child Development | 2010 | 1,082 |
| 100 | Attachment, Exploration, and Separation: Illustrated by the Behavior of One-Year-Olds in a Strange Situation | Child Development | 1970 | 1,078 |
