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Child Development and Digital Technology

Child Development and Digital Technology is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 38k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of digital technology and media exposure on children's development, with a focus on parental mediation, screen time, educational apps, and family relationships. The research covers topics such as internet use, television viewing, early childhood technology use, and the influence of media on child development.

  • Parental Mediation
  • Digital Technology
  • Early Childhood
  • Screen Time
  • Media Exposure
  • Child Development
  • Internet Use
  • Educational Apps
  • Television Viewing
  • Family Relationships
Research works
38k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+30%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Child Development and Digital Technology

Which countries lead Child Development and Digital Technology research?

By volume, the United States and Indonesia publish the most (2.1k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.1k works
  2. 2 Indonesia 1.1k works
  3. 3 Türkiye 1.1k works
  4. 4 China 918 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 590 works
  6. 6 India 534 works
  7. 7 Australia 417 works
  8. 8 Spain 350 works
  9. 9 Germany 345 works
  10. 10 Brazil 306 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 27.5%Indonesia: 14.2%Türkiye: 13.8%China: 11.8%6 others listed: 32.7%28%largest
United States2,138 · 27.5%Indonesia1,100 · 14.2%Türkiye1,068 · 13.8%China918 · 11.8%6 others listed2,542 · 32.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Child Development and Digital Technology research?

By volume in 2022-now, Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m Bakanliği publishes the most Child Development and Digital Technology research, followed by Indonesia University of Education and State University of Padang.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m BakanliğiTürkiye 44 works
  2. 2 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 43 works
  3. 3 State University of PadangIndonesia 39 works
  4. 4 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 37 works
  5. 5 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 34 works
  6. 6 Education University of Hong KongChina 33 works
  7. 7 Monash UniversityAustralia 33 works
  8. 8 Gazi UniversityTürkiye 32 works
  9. 9 Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 29 works
  10. 10 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 29 works

Who are the leading researchers in Child Development and Digital Technology?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Child Development and Digital Technology include Walter Churchill Willett, Dan J. Stein and Martin McKee.

  1. 1 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  2. 2 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  3. 3 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  4. 4 Bach Xuan Tran Vietnam 263k citations
  5. 5 Florian Fischer Germany 257k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Child Development and Digital Technology?

The most cited paper in Child Development and Digital Technology is "The Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ): Evidence from Asperger Syndrome/High-Functioning Autism, Males and Females, Scientists and Mathematicians" (Simon Baron‐Cohen, Sally J Wheelwright, Richard H. Skinner et al., 2001), with 6,610 citations. Next come "A review and reformulation of social information-processing mechanisms in children's social adjustment." (5,375) and "The “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” Test Revised Version: A Study with Normal Adults, and Adults with Asperger Syndrome or High‐functioning Autism" (4,533).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ): Evidence from Asperger Syndrome/High-Functioning Autism, Males and Females, Scientists and Mathematicians Simon Baron‐Cohen, Sally J Wheelwright, Richard H. Skinner et al. · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Feb 2001 6,610
2 A review and reformulation of social information-processing mechanisms in children's social adjustment. Nicki R. Crick, Kenneth A. Dodge · Psychological Bulletin 1994 5,375
3 The “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” Test Revised Version: A Study with Normal Adults, and Adults with Asperger Syndrome or High‐functioning Autism Simon Baron‐Cohen, Sally J Wheelwright, Jacqueline Hill et al. · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Feb 2001 4,533
4 The Empathy Quotient: An Investigation of Adults with Asperger Syndrome or High Functioning Autism, and Normal Sex Differences Simon Baron‐Cohen, Sally J Wheelwright · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Apr 2004 4,123
5 Cyberbullying: its nature and impact in secondary school pupils Peter K. Smith, Jess Mahdavi, Manuel Carvalho et al. · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Open access 19 Mar 2008 3,633
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Child Development and Digital Technology research done?

The largest centres of Child Development and Digital Technology research in 2022-now are Ankara (Türkiye), Istanbul (Türkiye), London (United Kingdom) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tai Po.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 AnkaraTürkiye 180 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 163 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 137 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 117 works
  5. 5 JakartaIndonesia 115 works
  6. 6 BandungIndonesia 96 works
  7. 7 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 86 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 84 works
  9. 9 YogyakartaIndonesia 77 works
  10. 10 MelbourneAustralia 76 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Tai PoCN · 33.8 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Child Development and Digital Technology than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Child Development and Digital Technology?

Among universities, judged by research, Education University of Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong and University of Cambridge score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 25.5%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Hong K…Education University…University of Cambri…Central China Normal…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Education University of Hong KongChina 85.330.6%22.0×33 +227.8%
2University of Hong KongChina 79.033.9%2.2×22 +31.4%
3University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 71.324.4%1.9×24 +10.2%
4Central China Normal UniversityChina 69.420.1%10.2×27 +64.7%
5Deakin UniversityAustralia 68.521.9%5.6×27 +49.7%
6The University of SydneyAustralia 68.527.2%1.9×25 +120.5%
7University of California, IrvineUnited States 67.128.7%3.1×20 +14.9%
8University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 66.322.5%1.5×22 +42.9%
9University of AmsterdamNetherlands 65.926.1%2.4×15 +14.9%
10Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 64.819.6%2.4×20 +19.5%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Child Development and Digital Technology, country by country

Is Child Development and Digital Technology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Child Development and Digital Technology.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Child Development and Digital Technology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.053% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Child Development and Digital Technology0.050% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Child Development and Digital Technology over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Child Development and Digital Technology10.1% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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