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Infant Development

Infant Development is a subfield of child development that examines the rapid physical, cognitive, social–emotional, and language changes in humans from birth through approximately the first two years of life, along with the biological, contextual, and cultural factors that shape those changes.

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Toward an experimental ecology of human development.

Urie Bronfenbrenner · American Psychologist · 1977 · 10.2K citations

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Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants

Jenny R. Saffran, Richard Ν. Aslin, Elissa L. Newport · Science · 1996 · 5.7K citations

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The ecology of human development: Experiments by nature and design

James Garbarino · Children and Youth Services Review · 1980 · 5.6K citations

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Security in Infancy, Childhood, and Adulthood: A Move to the Level of Representation

Mary Main, Nancy Kaplan, Jude Cassidy · Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development · 1985 · 4.5K citations

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Review of Child Development Research

James Walters, Martin L. Hoffman, Lois Wladis Hoffman · Journal of Marriage and the Family · 1965 · 3.7K citations

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Authors

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  1. MH
    Marc H. Bornstein

    Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, United States

    149 publications · 12.8K citations

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  2. TF
    Tiffany Field

    University of Miami, United States

    121 publications · 11.8K citations

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  3. CA
    Charles A. Nelson

    Boston Children's Hospital, United States

    110 publications · 10.9K citations

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    Mark H. Johnson

    Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom

    106 publications · 14.7K citations

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  5. RB
    Renée Baillargeon

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    68 publications · 13.6K citations

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Institutions

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  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    114 h-index

    994 publications

    97.5K citations

  2. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    112 h-index

    901 publications

    139.6K citations

  3. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    94 h-index

    589 publications

    60K citations

  4. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    90 h-index

    511 publications

    57.7K citations

  5. Birkbeck, University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    87 h-index

    537 publications

    58.2K citations

  6. New York University

    New York, United States

    87 h-index

    510 publications

    46.6K citations

  7. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    86 h-index

    579 publications

    57K citations

  8. University of Miami

    Coral Gables, United States

    86 h-index

    648 publications

    64.4K citations

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Venues

  1. Child Development

    1.6K publications · 184K citations

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  2. Developmental Psychology

    973 publications · 97.2K citations

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  3. Developmental Science

    495 publications · 51.7K citations

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  4. PEDIATRICS

    383 publications · 46.5K citations

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  5. Infant Behavior and Development

    1.1K publications · 70.5K citations

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