OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Infant Behavior & Development is 5. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring the role of home play and learning activities in socioemotional development at 36-months: Findings from a large birth cohort study	30
Prevalence and Predictors of Background Television Among Infants and Toddlers from Low-Income Homes	26
The impact of ever breastfeeding on children ages 12 to 36 months: A secondary data analysis of the standardization study of the Dominican system for evaluating early childhood development	24
Insights into infant behavior and development from Latin America	24
Predictors of executive function among 2 year olds from a Thai birth cohort	23
Infant neural sensitivity to affective touch is associated with maternal postpartum depression	23
Oxytocin attenuates racial categorization in 14-month-old infants	18
Birth order, stimulating environment, and maternal factors in developmental outcomes: A longitudinal Mexican study	18
Mother–infant co-regulation during infancy: Developmental changes and influencing factors	17
Factors associated with the socioemotional development of preterm infants	16
Linking integrity of visual pathways trajectories to visual behavior deficit in very preterm infants	16
Novel and noninvasive methods for in-home sleep measurement and subsequent state coding in 12-month-old infants	15
Influence of the environment on the early development of attentional control	15
Infant effects on experimenter behavior	15
The vocal dialogue in 9/11 pregnant widows and their infants: Specificities of co-regulation	15
Identifying when children with visual impairment share attention: A novel protocol and the impact of visual acuity	15
Editorial Board	15
Co-occurring risk and protective factors and regulatory behavior of infants living in low-income homes	15
Co-regulation of movements during infant feeding	14
Learning blossoms: Caregiver-infant interactions in an outdoor garden setting	14
What about the babies? A critical review of infants’ and toddlers’ absence in homelessness scholarship	14
Prenatal maternal stress during the COVID-19 pandemic and birth outcomes: Is the newborn spared?	13
Bi-directional relations between attention and social fear across the first two years of life	13
Maternal depressive symptoms and infant temperament in the first year of life predict child behavior at 36 months of age	13
Processing third-party social interactions in the human infant brain	13

Infants’ responses to masked and unmasked smiling faces: A longitudinal investigation of social interaction during Covid-19	13
Understanding the differential impact of children’s TV on executive functions: a narrative-processing analysis	13
Examining the trajectory of parent emotion talk in mothers of toddlers: A predominantly Latine sample	12
The effects of socioeconomic status on working memory in childhood are partially mediated by intersensory processing of audiovisual events in infancy	12
Universality and context-specificity in early executive function development	12
Preterm toddlers’ joint attention characteristics during dyadic interactions with their mothers and fathers compared to full-term toddlers at age 2 years	12
Correlation between performance and quantity/variability of leg exploration in a contingency learning task during infancy	12
Instruments to measure interaction of mothers and newborns: A systematic review	12
Touchscreens can promote infant object-interlocutor reference switching	12
Developmental links between executive function and emotion regulation in early toddlerhood	11
Glee in threes: Positive affect synchrony in parent-infant triads is moderated by maternal hair cortisol and parenting stress	11
The effect of antepartum depressive and anxiety symptoms on mother-infant interaction: The mediating role of antepartum maternal emotional stress	11
The impact of caregiver inhibitory control on infant visual working memory	11
Developmental trajectories of non-native tone perception differ between monolingual and bilingual infants learning a pitch accent language	10
Attachment security and disorganization in infants of mothers with severe psychiatric disorder: Exploring the role of comorbid personality disorder	10
Estimating infants’ language exposure: A comparison of random and volume sampling from daylong recordings collected in a bilingual community	10
Prenatal exposure to maternal depression is related to the functional connectivity organization underlying emotion perception in 8-10-month-old infants – Preliminary findings	9
Culture and the organization of infant sleep: A study in the Netherlands and the U.S.A.	9
War trauma and infant motor, cognitive, and socioemotional development: Maternal mental health and dyadic interaction as explanatory processes	9
A longitudinal examination of daily amounts of screen time and technoference in infants aged 2–11 months and associations with maternal sociodemographic factors	9
How 9-month-old crawling infants profit from visual-manual rotations in a mental rotation task	9
Navigating accent variability: 24-month-olds recognize known words spoken in an unfamiliar accent but require additional support to learn new words	9
Influence of internal and external factors on early language skills: A cross-linguistic study	9
Infants’ vocalizations at 6 months predict their productive vocabulary at one year	9
Object individuation and labelling in 6-month-old infants	8
Exposure to electronic media between 6 and 24 months of age: An exploratory study	8
Six-month-olds’ ability to use linguistic cues when interpreting others’ pointing actions	8
Another look at “tummy time” for primary plagiocephaly prevention and motor development	8
Peek-a-who? Exploring the dynamics of early communication with an interactive partner swap paradigm and state space grid visualization	8
Cumulative risk, infant sleep, and infant social-emotional development	7
Early influence of language experience in non-native speech perception: Discrimination of three-way Thai stop contrasts by Korean and Japanese infants	7
Shared positive emotion during parent-toddler play and parent and child well-being in Mexican origin families	7
The maturational gradient of infant vocalizations: Developmental stages and functional modules	7
Using complexity science to understand the role of co-sleeping (bedsharing) in mother-infant co-regulatory processes	7
Maternal mentalization and child emotion regulation: A comparison of different phases of early childhood	7
Media exposure and language for toddlers from low-income homes	7
Higher attention bias for fear at 8 months of age is associated with better socioemotional competencies during toddlerhood	7
Electronic media and social features of language input in bilingually-raised Latinx infants	7
Toward a global understanding of neonatal behaviour: adaptation and validation of the Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale (NBAS) in the UK and rural Gambia	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
Longitudinal changes in consonant production in infant-directed speech and infants’ early speech production from 6 to 12 months	7
Parental sensitivity to toddler’s need for autonomy: An empirical study on mother-toddler and father-toddler interactions during feeding and play	7
Young infants’ sensitivity to precursors of vowel harmony is independent of language experience	7
The role of mother-infant emotional synchrony in speech processing in 9-month-old infants	6
Temperament and sleep behaviors in infants and toddlers living in low-income homes	6
Digital media and children under 3 years of age	6
Stability of maternal postnatal bonding between 3 and 6 months: Associations with maternal mental health and infant temperament	6
The origin of language and relative roles of voice and gesture in early communication development	6
Examining joint parent-child interactions involving infants and toddlers when introducing mobile technology	6
Editorial Board	6

The interplay between cognition and emotion during infancy and toddlerhood: Special issue editorial	6
Mediating effects of parent–child dysfunctional interactions in the relationship between parenting distress and social–emotional problems and competencies	6
Studying hot executive function in infancy: Insights from research on emotional development	6
When crying turns to hitting: Examining maternal responses to negative affect	6
Editorial Board	6
Maternal cradling bias: A marker of the nature of the mother-infant relationship	6
Editorial Board	6
Parental verbal responsiveness to infant vocalizations from 9 to 14 months of age	6
The cultural specificity of parent-infant interaction: Perspectives of urban middle-class and rural indigenous families in Costa Rica	6
The memory benefits of two naps per day during infancy: A pilot investigation	5
Number and type of toys affect joint attention of mothers and infants	5
Latino toddlers’ bilingual output and their caregivers’ bilingual input and acculturation	5
The interaction between infant negative emotionality and cognition predicts ADHD-related behaviors in toddlerhood	5
Infant sleep arrangements, infant-parent sleep, and parenting during the first six months post-partum	5
Toddler word learning from contingent screens with and without human presence	5
The multimodality of infant's rhythmic movements as a modulator of the interaction with their caregivers	5
A longitudinal study of boys’ and girls’ injury-risk behaviors and parent supervision during infancy	5
“I know what’s inside because you showed me”: Training 33-month-old children to attribute knowledge and ignorance to themselves and others	5
Still-face redux: Infant responses to a classic and modified still-face paradigm in proximal and distal care cultures	5
Advances in microanalysis: Magnifying the social microscope on mother-infant interactions	5
Cardiac physiological regulation across early infancy: The roles of infant surgency and parental involvement with mothers and fathers	5
Flexibility and organization in parent-child interaction through the lens of the dynamic system approach: A systematic review of State Space Grid studies	5
Sharing food with infants in Hadza communities in Tanzania	5