| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Three‐year‐olds' difficulty with false belief: The case for a conceptual deficit | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1987 | 1,216 |
| 2 | Dimensions of executive functioning: Evidence from children | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 2003 | 810 |
| 3 | A longitudinal study of bullying, dominance, and victimization during the transition from primary school through secondary school | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 2002 | 718 |
| 4 | What minds have in common is space: Spatial mechanisms serving joint visual attention in infancy | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1991 | 694 |
| 5 | Mathematics in the streets and in schools | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1985 | 663 |
| 6 | Mechanical, behavioural and Intentional understanding of picture stories in autistic children | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1986 | 594 |
| 7 | Perceptual role taking and protodeclarative pointing in autism | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1989 | 572 |
| 8 | Executive function in preschoolers: Links with theory of mind and verbal ability | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1998 | 509 |
| 9 | Social cognition and bullying: Social inadequacy or skilled manipulation? | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1999 | 480 |
| 10 | Bully/victim problems in middle‐school children: Stability, self‐perceived competence, peer perceptions and peer acceptance | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1994 | 464 |
| 11 | The ‘windows task’ as a measure of strategic deception in preschoolers and autistic subjects | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1991 | 455 |
| 12 | Neonatal recognition of the mother's face | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1989 | 434 |
| 13 | Autistic children's understanding of seeing, knowing and believing | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1988 | 419 |
| 14 | Reading for meaning and reading for sound in autistic and dyslexic children | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1983 | 357 |
| 15 | Are children with autism blind to the mentalistic significance of the eyes? | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1995 | 333 |
| 16 | Autism and symbolic play | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1987 | 301 |
| 17 | Spatiotemporal continuity, smoothness of motion and object identity in infancy | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1995 | 300 |
| 18 | Central coherence and theory of mind in autism: Reading homographs in context | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1997 | 295 |
| 19 | Differences between girls and boys in emerging language skills: Evidence from 10 language communities | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 2012 | 270 |
| 20 | Theoretical explanations of children's understanding of the mind | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1991 | 265 |
| 21 | Trait emotional intelligence, psychological well-being and peer-rated social competence in adolescence | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 2007 | 260 |
| 22 | Against the Cartesian view on mind: Young children's difficulty with own false beliefs | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1991 | 254 |
| 23 | Level 1 perspective-taking at 24 months of age | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 2006 | 254 |
| 24 | The relationship between theory of mind and metaphor: Evidence from children with language impairment and autistic spectrum disorder | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 2005 | 244 |
| 25 | Working memory and phonological awareness as predictors of progress towards early learning goals at school entry | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 2005 | 244 |
| 26 | Memory for proper names: Age differences in retrieval | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1986 | 237 |
| 27 | Prosocial children, bullies and victims: An investigation of their sociometric status, empathy and social problem-solving strategies | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 2003 | 229 |
| 28 | The effect of stimulus familiarity on the use of criteria and justifications in children's social reasoning | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1983 | 224 |
| 29 | Distinguishing irony from deception: Understanding the speaker's second‐order intention | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1991 | 214 |
| 30 | Association between basic numerical abilities and mathematics achievement | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 2012 | 212 |
| 31 | The effect of make‐believe play on deductive reasoning | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1988 | 206 |
| 32 | The development of deception in young children | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1991 | 199 |
| 33 | Eye‐direction detection: A dissociation between geometric and joint attention skills in autism | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1997 | 196 |
| 34 | Definitions of bullying: Age differences in understanding of the term, and the role of experience | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 2006 | 195 |
| 35 | Against the theory of ‘Theory of Mind’ | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1991 | 193 |
| 36 | Hand‐mouth coordination in the new‐born baby | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1988 | 191 |
| 37 | Conversation and theory of mind: Do children talk their way to socio-cognitive understanding? | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 2006 | 191 |
| 38 | Coping with clumsiness in the school playground: Social and physical play in children with coordination impairments | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 2000 | 188 |
| 39 | Social background, phonological awareness and children's reading | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1990 | 187 |
| 40 | Three-year-old children intervene in third-party moral transgressions | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 2011 | 187 |
| 41 | Monsters, ghosts and witches: Testing the limits of the fantasy—reality distinction in young children | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1991 | 184 |
| 42 | Assessing inattention and impulsivity in children during the Go/NoGo task | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 2009 | 183 |
| 43 | Spontaneous, instructed and elicited play in relatively able autistic children | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1988 | 182 |
| 44 | How children tell a lie from a joke: The role of second‐order mental state attributions | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1995 | 182 |
| 45 | Narrative story telling in autism and Down's syndrome | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1990 | 177 |
| 46 | Lonely in the crowd: Recollections of bullying | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 2004 | 176 |
| 47 | Pleased and surprised: Children's cognitive theory of emotion | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1991 | 175 |
| 48 | Components of person perception: An investigation with autistic, non‐autistic retarded and typically developing children and adolescents | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1997 | 175 |
| 49 | The social context of school playground games: Sex and ethnic differences, and changes over time after entry to junior school | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 2003 | 175 |
| 50 | Points of reference in spatial cognition: Stalking the elusive landmark* | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | 1988 | 174 |
