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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Revisiting the roots of attachment: A review of the biological and psychological effects of maternal skin-to-skin contact and carrying of full-term infants	62
Neuroendocrine mechanisms involved in the physiological effects caused by skin-to-skin contact – With a particular focus on the oxytocinergic system	47
Exploring gender differences in infant motor development related to parent’s promotion of play	22
Maternal prenatal anxiety trajectories and infant developmental outcomes in one-year-old offspring	21
Physical touch during father-infant interactions is associated with paternal oxytocin levels	19
Carrying human infants – An evolutionary heritage	19
Why do parents use screen media with toddlers? The role of child temperament and parenting stress in early screen use	19
Screen time in 36-month-olds at increased likelihood for ASD and ADHD	19
Infant screen media usage and social-emotional functioning	18
Screens across the pond: Findings from longitudinal screen time research in the US and UK	17
The interplay between early social interaction, language and executive function development in deaf and hearing infants	17
The impact of the home musical environment on infants’ language development	16
Dynamics of frontal alpha asymmetry in mother-infant dyads: Insights from the Still Face Paradigm	16
Screen use before bedtime: Consequences for nighttime sleep in young children	16
Differences in caregiver behaviors of infants at-risk for autism and typically developing infants from 9 to 15 months of age	14
The influence of maternal anxiety and depression symptoms on fNIRS brain responses to emotional faces in 5- and 7-month-old infants	14
Media exposure and language for toddlers from low-income homes	14
Non-verbal and verbal parental mentalization as predictors of infant attachment security: Contributions of parental embodied mentalizing and mind-mindedness and the mediating role of maternal sensitiv	13
Associations between touchscreen exposure and hot and cool inhibitory control in 10-month-old infants	13
Infant media use: A harm reduction approach	11
Quality of the home, daycare and neighborhood environment and the cognitive development of economically disadvantaged children in early childhood: A mediation analysis	11
Examining joint parent-child interactions involving infants and toddlers when introducing mobile technology	11
Associations between parent–infant interactions, cortisol and vagal regulation in infants, and socioemotional outcomes: A systematic review	11
Predicting cognitive development and early symptoms of autism spectrum disorder in preterm children: The value of temperament and sensory processing	11
A longitudinal examination of daily amounts of screen time and technoference in infants aged 2–11 months and associations with maternal sociodemographic factors	11

Does texting interrupt imitation learning in 19-month-old infants?	11
Experimental manipulation of maternal proximity during short sequences of sleep and infant calming response	11
To have and to hold: Effects of physical contact on infants and their caregivers	10
Associations between mother-infant bed-sharing practices and infant affect and behavior during the still-face paradigm	10
Music therapy enhances preterm infant’s signs of engagement and sustains maternal singing in the NICU	10
Reasons mothers bedshare: A review of its effects on infant behavior and development	10
The maturational gradient of infant vocalizations: Developmental stages and functional modules	10
The temporal dimension in the understanding of maternal sensitivity in caregiver-infant interactions: The ‘Early Mother-Child Interaction Coding System’	10
The origin of language and relative roles of voice and gesture in early communication development	10
Cultural influences on face scanning are consistent across infancy and adulthood	9
A method for measuring dynamic respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) in infants and mothers	9
Parental toy play and toddlers’ socio-emotional development: The moderating role of coparenting dynamics	9
Maternal mentalization and child emotion regulation: A comparison of different phases of early childhood	9
Influence of internal and external factors on early language skills: A cross-linguistic study	9
Leveraging epigenetics to examine differences in developmental trajectories of social attention: A proof-of-principle study of DNA methylation in infants with older siblings with autism	9
The relationship between temperamental dimensions and inhibitory control in early childhood: Implications for language acquisition	9
Associations between technoference, quality of parent-infant interactions, and infants’ vocabulary development	9
Do foetuses communicate? Foetal responses to interactive versus non-interactive maternal voice and touch: An exploratory analysis	9
Looking deeper into the toy box: Understanding caregiver toy selection decisions	9
Infants’ cortical processing of biological motion configuration – A fNIRS study	9
Design and validation of a smart garment to measure positioning practices of parents with young infants	9
Vocal imitation between mothers and infants	9
Revisiting how we operationalize joint attention	9
Infants’ vocalizations at 6 months predict their productive vocabulary at one year	9
Processing third-party social interactions in the human infant brain	9
Parental decision-making: infant engagement with smartphones	8
Parent-child interaction during the first year of life in infants at elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder	8
War trauma and infant motor, cognitive, and socioemotional development: Maternal mental health and dyadic interaction as explanatory processes	8
Effects of maternal depressive symptoms on sensitivity to infant distress and non-distress: Role of SES and race	8
Does syntax play a role in Theory of Mind development before the age of 3 years?	8
Exposure to electronic media between 6 and 24 months of age: An exploratory study	8
Continuous measurement of attachment behavior: A multimodal view of the strange situation procedure	8
Associations among average parental educational attainment, maternal stress, and infant screen exposure at 6 months of age	8
Infant speech perception and cognitive skills as predictors of later vocabulary	8
Hair sampling for cortisol analysis with mother-toddler dyads living in low-income homes	7
The origins of touchscreen competence: Examining infants’ exploration of touchscreens	7
Intention-based evaluations of distributive actions by 4-month-olds	7
Foundations of attention sharing: Orienting and responding to attention in term and preterm 5-month-old infants	7
How 9-month-old crawling infants profit from visual-manual rotations in a mental rotation task	7
Object play as a mediator of the role of exploration in communication skills development	7
Studying caregiver-infant co-regulation in dynamic, diverse cultural contexts: A call to action	7
A working memory span task for toddlers	7
Togetherness, beyond the eyes: A systematic review on the interaction between visually impaired children and their parents	7
Maternal cradling bias: A marker of the nature of the mother-infant relationship	7
What about the babies? A critical review of infants’ and toddlers’ absence in homelessness scholarship	7
Sensing everyday activity: Parent perceptions and feasibility	7
Object play in the everyday home environment generates rich opportunities for infant learning	7
Do early parental postnatal depression, attachment style and perceived social support affect neurodevelopmental outcomes of premature infants?	7
Past and present experiences with maternal touch affect infants’ attention toward emotional faces	7
The early ontogeny of infants’ imitation of on screen humans and robots	7

Concordance between subjective and objective measures of infant sleep varies by age and maternal mood: Implications for studies of sleep and cognitive development	7
The longitudinal associations between temperament and sleep during the first year of life	7
Changing the logic of replication: A case from infant studies	6
Prenatal and postnatal intimate partner violence, depression, and infant-mother touch	6
Contrasting behavioral looking procedures: a case study on infant speech segmentation	6
Cross-linguistic comparison of utterance shapes in Korean- and English-learning children: An ambient language effect	6
Do motor skills impact on language development between 18 and 30 months of age?	6
Parent language with toddlers during shared storybook reading compared to coviewing television	6
Co-regulation of movements during infant feeding	6
Does Postpartum Depression Affect Parental Embodied Mentalizing in Mothers With 4-Months old Infants?	6
Stability of developmental status and risk of impairment at 24 and 36 months in late preterm infants	6
Narrative as co-regulation: A review of embodied narrative in infant development	6
Parent-child interactions during joint engagement with touchscreen technology: A comparison of younger versus older toddlers	6
Manual exploration of objects is related to 7-month-old infants’ visual preference for real objects	6
Social context influences infants’ ability to extract statistical information from a sequence of gestures	6
Prosocial television and prosocial toddlers: A multi-method, longitudinal investigation	6
Primary caregiver emotional expressiveness relates to toddler emotion understanding	6
Frequency of Gesture Use and Language in Typically Developing Prelinguistic Children	6
Mother-Infant Interaction Kinect Analysis (MIIKA): An automatic kinematic-based methodology for the investigation of interpersonal distance during early exchanges	6
Mothers’ competence profiles and their relation to language and socioemotional development in Chilean children at 12 and 30 months	6
Synchrony in mother-infant vocal interactions revealed through timed event sequences	6
The multimodality of infant's rhythmic movements as a modulator of the interaction with their caregivers	6