OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Early Childhood Literacy is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Teaching and learning indigenous languages: An Atayal book project	20
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Teaching	19
Valuing and supporting the complex writing processes of emergent writers	14
Portrayals of disabilities in Children’s fiction: A literature review of anglophone, francophone and hispanophone studies	11
Storying worlds: Thinking and doing otherwise in young children’s story pedagogy	10
Iranian Preschoolers Vocabulary Development: Background Television and Socio-economic status	10
Animated movements, animating methods: An interaction geography approach to space and affect in early childhood education	10
Early literacy experiences of two children during Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa: A semi- ethnographic study	9
Drama during story time supports preschoolers’ understanding of story character feeling states	8
Book Review: Teaching Essential Literacy Skills in the Early Years Classroom: A Guide for Students and Teachers	7
Copresence in authoring conversations	7
Encountering the world with voice search: A young immigrant and emergent bilingual child’s digital literacies	7
School quality matters: A multilevel analysis of school effects on the early reading achievement of Black girls	6
Finding Max’s wolves: Literacy socialization in the margins	6
Identifying anti-Blackness and committing to Pro-Blackness in early literacy pedagogy and research: A guide for child care settings, schools, teacher preparation programs, and researchers	6
Observers of the world: Primary grade students imagining solutions for broken environmental and social systems	6
Letter from the Guest Editors	6
Katy transforms storytime: Culturally sustaining pedagogy in the community	6
Conducting racial awareness research with African American children: Unearthing their sociopolitical knowledge through Pro-Black literacy methods	6
Looking more closely at the Children’s Technology Play Space: Bringing space, bodies, materials and knowing together through investigation with microscopes	5
The effect of the creative drama method on preschool Children’s fairy tale comprehension: The case of “The Bremen Town Musicians”	5
“School is light and we are blind”: Afghan refugee parents’/guardians’ beliefs about literacy and language(s)	5
Cartographies of voice: Children’s multimodal literacies, agency, and identity in public pedagogy	5
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	4
Making the invisible visible: Young Chinese heritage language learners’ reading process through retrospective miscue analysis	4

Professional Book Recommendation	4
Bridging the Self’s worlds: Young girls’ creative TikTok expressions of multimodal literacy during Covid-19	4
Patterns in naturally occurring interactions in early writing instruction	4
Prison abolition literacies as Pro-Black pedagogy in early childhood education	4
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Pedagogy	4
“The dinosaurs are so loud; they can’t sleep. Zzzz”: Supporting emergent bilingual children’s reading comprehension through digital literacies	4
Parents’ perceptions on young children’s online English learning at home: A mixed-methods study	4
The effects of e-stories on preschoolers’ narrative comprehension, retelling and reading attitudes among poor and good comprehenders	4
Playing Minecraft: Young children’s postdigital play	4
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	4
Exploring literacy engagement in a significant disability context	3
The meaning-making in kindergarten children’s visual narrative compositions	3
Creating a web of multimodal resources: Examining meaning-making during a children’s book project in a multilingual community	3
Prioritizing Pro-Blackness in literacy research, scholarship, and teaching	3
Creating books and sustaining Indigenous languages with two Atayal communities	3
Centering Black women’s ways of knowing: A review of critical literacies research in early childhood	3