Child Development

Overview

Child development is the study of the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social changes that unfold from birth through adolescence and of the processes that shape them. It encompasses interrelated domains, including growth and motor coordination, cognitive capacities such as language, memory, and problem solving, and social-emotional development of attachment, self-regulation, and identity, understood through the interaction of genetic endowment with nutrition, caregiving, health, family economic status, and education. Tracking development against expected milestones helps distinguish typical from atypical trajectories and guides early intervention, and a developmental understanding underpins psychological and behavioral approaches to children's wellbeing. Research relevant to this topic examines growth monitoring and task-shifting at health facilities, the impact of computer use on child health, risk factors for stunted growth among young children, household economic status and childhood micronutrient deficiency, complementary feeding practices, child mortality modeling, and community-based mentoring for school-aged children. Related work addresses maternal and child healthcare and nutrition services. Collectively these studies span the nutritional, familial, and environmental determinants of healthy development. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research on the physical, cognitive, behavioral, and psychosocial development of children, including the determinants of healthy growth and the developmental foundations relevant to cognitive and behavioral intervention in childhood.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 74 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

• Observational social learning of “know-how” and “know-what” in wild orangutans: evidence from nest-building skill acquisition
  2025 · Communications Biology
• Flow-Lenia: Emergent Evolutionary Dynamics in Mass Conservative Continuous Cellular Automata
  2025 · Artificial Life
• Impact of prenatal drought exposures on under-5 childhood stunting in 32 low-and-middle-income countries: a global analysis using demographic and health survey
  2025 · Environmental Health
• Early Marriage and Exclusive Breastfeeding History with The Incidence of Stunting in Toddlers at Karangreja, Purbalingga
  2025 · Health Information : Jurnal Penelitian
• Insect applications to open wounds by chimpanzees in the wild: first insights from East African chimpanzees
  2025 · Scientific Reports
• Observational social learning of “know-how” and “know-what” in wild orangutans: evidence from nest-building skill acquisition
  2025 · Communications Biology
• Impact of prenatal drought exposures on under-5 childhood stunting in 32 low-and-middle-income countries: a global analysis using demographic and health survey
  X. Seposo et al. · 2025 · Environmental Health
• The Origin of Morality and the Making of the Moral Predicament
  2025 · Ethical Review of Social Sciences

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