OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Infant Behavior & Development is 6. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Parent Well-Being and Language Input Predict Child Face-Voice Matching and Expressive Language Outcomes	49
The impact of caregiver inhibitory control on infant visual working memory	36
Co-regulation of movements during infant feeding	28
Leveraging ubiquitous mobile sensors to track infant expressions and movements	23
Editorial Board	20
A longitudinal study of boys’ and girls’ injury-risk behaviors and parent supervision during infancy	20
German infants’ discrimination of the English /æ/-/ɛ/ contrast: Evidence from a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study	19
Development and validation of the NIH Baby Toolbox® Executive Function and Memory measures	19
Home learning environment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Associations with young children’s cognitive and socioemotional development	17
Studying hot executive function in infancy: Insights from research on emotional development	16
Association between Hyperemesis Gravidarum in pregnancy on postnatal ability of infants to attend to a play task with their mother	16
Socioeconomic resources moderate the relationship between maternal prenatal obsessive-compulsive symptoms and infant negative affectivity	16
The interplay between cognition and emotion during infancy and toddlerhood: Special issue editorial	15
The role of syntactic cues in monolingual and bilingual two-year-olds’ novel word disambiguation	15
Emerging sensitivity to talking mouth in infants with low and elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder: A longitudinal study	15
The longitudinal contributions of child language, negative emotionality, and maternal positive affect on toddler executive functioning development	15
The influence of infant temperamental negative affect and maternal depression on infant and maternal social positive engagement during the Still-Face procedure	14
Person-centered profiles of child temperament: A comparison of coder, mother, and experimenter ratings	14
The impact of maternal gaze responsiveness on infants’ gaze following and later vocabulary development	14
A matter of habit? Stressful life events and cognitive flexibility in 15-month-olds	14
Applying a Transformer-based machine-learning model to classify caregiver and infant behaviours during dyadic interactions	14
Lower limb inter-joint coordination patterns are associated with walking experience in toddlers according to limb and stance periods	13
A qualitative exploration of parents’ experiences of infant and toddler sleep and feeding during the United Kingdom COVID-19 lockdown(s)	13
The United States reference values of the Bayley III motor scale are suitable in Suriname	12
Advances in understanding the perception-production link: Evidence from infant eye, brain, and motor behavior	12

Behavioural reactions to an emotion evoking task in infants at increased likelihood for autism spectrum disorder	12
Infant frontal EEG asymmetry across an emotion-eliciting task: Leveraging novel quantitative approaches to discern links with parent-child interactions	12
Does the feeding method affect the quality of infant and maternal sleep? A systematic review	12
Infants’ use of the index finger for social and non-social purposes during the first two years of life: A cross-cultural study	12
Editorial Board	11
Human infants’ perception and understanding of others’ actions	11
Hush, little baby: The role of C-tactile afferents in babywearing infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal	11
The context matters: The use of communicative intentions by mothers to their children during playtime and mealtime	11
German-learning infants recognize common nouns without additional frequency cues	11
Remote screening protocol for functioning and contextual factors (e-Followkids) in Brazilian children with biological risk in the first 2 years: a longitudinal prospective study [Registered Report - s	11
It takes a village: Caregiver diversity and language contingency in the UK and rural Gambia	11
Emotion regulation in infancy through the lens of individual differences: Insights and future directions	11
Revisiting perceptual sensitivity to non-native speech in a diverse sample of bilinguals	11
Measurement of the quality of mother-infant feeding interactions across the first year: Reliability and stability of the parent-child early relational assessment	11
Revisiting associations between infant cognitive functioning and maternal caregiving quality using eye-tracking and Bayesian cognitive modelling	10
Maternal-infant bonding and partner support during pregnancy and postpartum: Associations with early child social-emotional development	10
Does attention sharing support attention focusing? Investigating the link between infants' sustained attention and joint attention with caregivers	10
Association between breastfeeding duration and neurodevelopment in Chinese children aged 2 to 3 years	10
Do infants expect physically competent agents to gain access to contested resources?	10
Exploring maternal touch in the infant’s first 18 months of Life: A study on an Italian sample	10
Mother-child and father-child “serve and return” interactions at 9 months: Associations with children’s language skills at 18 and 24 months	10
Mother-infant co-regulation from 0 to 2 years: The role of copy behaviors. A systematic review	10
Understanding early aggression: Empirically derived guidance on type, frequency, and severity in infants and toddlers	10
Narrative as co-regulation: A review of embodied narrative in infant development	9
The impact of remembered emotion socialization on maternal sensitivity to distress via beliefs about crying	9
Maternal perinatal hypertensive disorders and parenting in infancy	9
Infants’ pointing at nine months is associated with maternal sensitivity but not vocabulary	9
Social communication skills profile in infants with sex chromosome trisomy at 12 months of age	9
Let’s make music as we normally do: A systematic review of how early natural musical interactions between infant and caregiver have been studied in research	9
Speech perception 40 years after Werker and Tees (1984)	9
Generalizability and representation in studies of infant perceptual narrowing: Considerations for future research	9
The breadth and specificity of 18-month-old’s infant-initiated interactions in naturalistic home settings	8
Preverbal infants tune manual choices on subliminal affective information	8
A comparative study of mother-infant co-regulation of distance at home in Japan and Scotland	8
Infant sleep: Impacts on cognitive, social, and physical development	8
Socioemotional development of infants and toddlers in the first months of foster care: A brief synthesis of 25 years of research	8
Predicting language outcomes at 3 years using individual differences in morphological segmentation in infancy	8
Prenatal maternal depression predicts neural maturation and negative emotion in infants	8
Early object skill supports growth in role-differentiated bimanual manipulation in infants	8
Expectations for infant temperament, maternal emotion regulation, and infant social-emotional adjustment among unmarried, Black mothers	7
Editorial Board	7
Effects of multilingualism on Australian infants’ language environments in early childhood education centers	7
Editorial Board	7
Estimating infants’ language exposure: A comparison of random and volume sampling from daylong recordings collected in a bilingual community	7
Composite scores for the NIH Baby Toolbox®	7
Predicting infant social attention: The role of temperament and mother-child interaction	7
Investigating parental scaffolding and visual experiences in toddlers with autism and high familial likelihood for later autism diagnosis: A head-mounted eye-tracker study	7
Prenatal maternal stress during the COVID-19 pandemic and birth outcomes: Is the newborn spared?	7
Touchscreens can promote infant object-interlocutor reference switching	7
Higher attention bias for fear at 8 months of age is associated with better socioemotional competencies during toddlerhood	7

A quarter century review of research on infant behavior	7
The effect of telephone-assisted breastfeeding monitoring on physiological jaundice, exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months, development of colic, and breastfeeding self-efficacy: A randomize	7
Phonetic perceptual reorganization across the first year of life: Looking back	7
Caregivers’ vocabulary use for children with cochlear implants and children with normal hearing during the first year of post-activation	7
Early influence of language experience in non-native speech perception: Discrimination of three-way Thai stop contrasts by Korean and Japanese infants	7
A systematic review of the concept of self-regulation in infants between 0 and 36 months in Latin America	7
Toddler negative affectivity and effortful control: Relations with parent-toddler conversation engagement and indirect effects on language	6
Early antecedents of emotion differentiation and regulation: Experience tunes the appraisal thresholds of emotional development in infancy	6
Biological and environmental factors may affect children’s executive function through motor and sensorimotor development: Preterm birth and cerebral palsy	6
Distributional learning of bimodal and trimodal phoneme categories in monolingual and bilingual infants	6
Better reflective functioning in mothers linked to longer joint attention with infants	6
Predictors of screen exposure among infants under 2 years of age during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Infants' reasoning about social hierarchies: Key insights from the past 25 years and a research agenda for the next 25 years	6
Infant sensitivity to age-based social categories in full-body displays	6
Measuring across modalities: Protophones as acoustic attention-getters in infant object communication	6
Nonverbal emotion perception and vocabulary in late infancy	6
Dyadic interactions during infant learning: Exploring infant-parent exchanges in experimental eye-tracking studies	6
Editorial Board	6
Infant attachment in the Czech Republic: Categorical and dimensional findings from a post-communist country	6
Before first words: Infants’ ability to map words to goals	6
Sensory processing in typically developing toddlers with and without sleep problems	6
Cross-cultural measurement invariance of a developmental assessment tool in a small-scale intervention study	6
Microstate analysis in infancy	6
Responding to distressed infants: Does mothers’ positive versus negative affect matter for infants' behavior and physiology?	6