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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Parent Well-Being and Language Input Predict Child Face-Voice Matching and Expressive Language Outcomes	41
Co-regulation of movements during infant feeding	33
The impact of caregiver inhibitory control on infant visual working memory	25
Leveraging ubiquitous mobile sensors to track infant expressions and movements	21
A longitudinal study of boys’ and girls’ injury-risk behaviors and parent supervision during infancy	19
Editorial Board	19
Emerging sensitivity to talking mouth in infants with low and elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder: A longitudinal study	19
German infants’ discrimination of the English /æ/-/ɛ/ contrast: Evidence from a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study	17
The role of syntactic cues in monolingual and bilingual two-year-olds’ novel word disambiguation	16
Development and validation of the NIH Baby Toolbox® Executive Function and Memory measures	16
Home learning environment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Associations with young children’s cognitive and socioemotional development	15
The interplay between cognition and emotion during infancy and toddlerhood: Special issue editorial	14
Applying a Transformer-based machine-learning model to classify caregiver and infant behaviours during dyadic interactions	14
Socioeconomic resources moderate the relationship between maternal prenatal obsessive-compulsive symptoms and infant negative affectivity	14
The longitudinal contributions of child language, negative emotionality, and maternal positive affect on toddler executive functioning development	14
Association between Hyperemesis Gravidarum in pregnancy on postnatal ability of infants to attend to a play task with their mother	14
Person-centered profiles of child temperament: A comparison of coder, mother, and experimenter ratings	13
Studying hot executive function in infancy: Insights from research on emotional development	13
Infants’ use of the index finger for social and non-social purposes during the first two years of life: A cross-cultural study	13
A matter of habit? Stressful life events and cognitive flexibility in 15-month-olds	13
The impact of maternal gaze responsiveness on infants’ gaze following and later vocabulary development	12
The influence of infant temperamental negative affect and maternal depression on infant and maternal social positive engagement during the Still-Face procedure	12
Infant frontal EEG asymmetry across an emotion-eliciting task: Leveraging novel quantitative approaches to discern links with parent-child interactions	12
Lower limb inter-joint coordination patterns are associated with walking experience in toddlers according to limb and stance periods	12
Does the feeding method affect the quality of infant and maternal sleep? A systematic review	12

The United States reference values of the Bayley III motor scale are suitable in Suriname	11
Advances in understanding the perception-production link: Evidence from infant eye, brain, and motor behavior	11
Behavioural reactions to an emotion evoking task in infants at increased likelihood for autism spectrum disorder	11
The context matters: The use of communicative intentions by mothers to their children during playtime and mealtime	11
A qualitative exploration of parents’ experiences of infant and toddler sleep and feeding during the United Kingdom COVID-19 lockdown(s)	11
Measurement of the quality of mother-infant feeding interactions across the first year: Reliability and stability of the parent-child early relational assessment	10
It takes a village: Caregiver diversity and language contingency in the UK and rural Gambia	10
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	10
Hush, little baby: The role of C-tactile afferents in babywearing infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal	10
Association between breastfeeding duration and neurodevelopment in Chinese children aged 2 to 3 years	10
Human infants’ perception and understanding of others’ actions	9
Maternal-infant bonding and partner support during pregnancy and postpartum: Associations with early child social-emotional development	9
Do infants expect physically competent agents to gain access to contested resources?	9
Revisiting associations between infant cognitive functioning and maternal caregiving quality using eye-tracking and Bayesian cognitive modelling	9
Emotion regulation in infancy through the lens of individual differences: Insights and future directions	9
Editorial Board	9
Mother-infant co-regulation from 0 to 2 years: The role of copy behaviors. A systematic review	8
Mother-child and father-child “serve and return” interactions at 9 months: Associations with children’s language skills at 18 and 24 months	8
The impact of remembered emotion socialization on maternal sensitivity to distress via beliefs about crying	8
Understanding early aggression: Empirically derived guidance on type, frequency, and severity in infants and toddlers	8
Predicting language outcomes at 3 years using individual differences in morphological segmentation in infancy	8
Exploring maternal touch in the infant’s first 18 months of Life: A study on an Italian sample	8
Infants’ pointing at nine months is associated with maternal sensitivity but not vocabulary	8
Narrative as co-regulation: A review of embodied narrative in infant development	8
Speech perception 40 years after Werker and Tees (1984)	8
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	8
Social communication skills profile in infants with sex chromosome trisomy at 12 months of age	8
Revisiting perceptual sensitivity to non-native speech in a diverse sample of bilinguals	8
German-learning infants recognize common nouns without additional frequency cues	8
Generalizability and representation in studies of infant perceptual narrowing: Considerations for future research	8
Does attention sharing support attention focusing? Investigating the link between infants' sustained attention and joint attention with caregivers	8
Infant sleep: Impacts on cognitive, social, and physical development	8
Preverbal infants tune manual choices on subliminal affective information	7
A comparative study of mother-infant co-regulation of distance at home in Japan and Scotland	7
Socioemotional development of infants and toddlers in the first months of foster care: A brief synthesis of 25 years of research	7
Effects of multilingualism on Australian infants’ language environments in early childhood education centers	7
Early object skill supports growth in role-differentiated bimanual manipulation in infants	7
Prenatal maternal depression predicts neural maturation and negative emotion in infants	7
Prenatal maternal stress during the COVID-19 pandemic and birth outcomes: Is the newborn spared?	7
The breadth and specificity of 18-month-old’s infant-initiated interactions in naturalistic home settings	7
Maternal perinatal hypertensive disorders and parenting in infancy	7
Phonetic perceptual reorganization across the first year of life: Looking back	7
Editorial Board	7
Early antecedents of emotion differentiation and regulation: Experience tunes the appraisal thresholds of emotional development in infancy	6
Distributional learning of bimodal and trimodal phoneme categories in monolingual and bilingual infants	6
Higher attention bias for fear at 8 months of age is associated with better socioemotional competencies during toddlerhood	6
Estimating infants’ language exposure: A comparison of random and volume sampling from daylong recordings collected in a bilingual community	6
Expectations for infant temperament, maternal emotion regulation, and infant social-emotional adjustment among unmarried, Black mothers	6
Editorial Board	6
Predictors of screen exposure among infants under 2 years of age during the COVID-19 pandemic	6

Composite scores for the NIH Baby Toolbox®	6
Predicting infant social attention: The role of temperament and mother-child interaction	6
Early influence of language experience in non-native speech perception: Discrimination of three-way Thai stop contrasts by Korean and Japanese infants	6
Investigating parental scaffolding and visual experiences in toddlers with autism and high familial likelihood for later autism diagnosis: A head-mounted eye-tracker study	6
A systematic review of the concept of self-regulation in infants between 0 and 36 months in Latin America	6
Editorial Board	6
Cross-cultural measurement invariance of a developmental assessment tool in a small-scale intervention study	6
Touchscreens can promote infant object-interlocutor reference switching	6
Caregivers’ vocabulary use for children with cochlear implants and children with normal hearing during the first year of post-activation	6
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	6
A quarter century review of research on infant behavior	6
Biological and environmental factors may affect children’s executive function through motor and sensorimotor development: Preterm birth and cerebral palsy	5
Measuring across modalities: Protophones as acoustic attention-getters in infant object communication	5
Sensory processing in typically developing toddlers with and without sleep problems	5
Dyadic interactions during infant learning: Exploring infant-parent exchanges in experimental eye-tracking studies	5
Paternal mind-mindedness and infant-toddler social-emotional problems	5
Clarifying the developmental association between gesture and later vocabulary for autistic children	5
Responsiveness in mother-infant social interactions among immigrant and nonmigrant families: Japanese, South Korean, South American, and European American	5
Soothing touch matters: Patterns of everyday mother-infant physical contact and their real-time physiological implications	5
Mother–infant interaction and maternal postnatal psychological distress are associated with negative emotional reactivity among infants and toddlers— A FinnBrain Birth Cohort study	5
Parent-infant interaction quality is related to preterm status and sensory processing	5
Neonatal neurobehavior and infant temperament amongst offspring born to parents with and without ADHD	5
Building language learning: Relations between infant attention and social contingency in the first year of life	5
Nonverbal emotion perception and vocabulary in late infancy	5
Better reflective functioning in mothers linked to longer joint attention with infants	5
The utility of multiple assessments in infancy and toddlerhood to predict middle childhood ADHD symptoms: Temperamental, behavioral, and genetic contributions	5
Humour from 12 to 36 months: Insights into children’s socio-cognitive and language development	5
Maternal and foetal exposure to potentially toxic metals of modern weaponry and infant cognitive, sensorimotor, and socioemotional development: The role of breastfeeding	5
Prelinguistic gesture and developmental abilities: A multi-ethnic comparative study	5
Bringing developmental assessment to the 21st century: The NIH Baby Toolbox	5
The relationship between home environment and early childhood development of left-behind children under 3 years in rural China	5
Infant sensitivity to age-based social categories in full-body displays	5
The direct and indirect effects of parenting behaviors and functional brain network efficiency on self-regulation from infancy to early childhood: A longitudinal mediation model	5
Infant attachment in the Czech Republic: Categorical and dimensional findings from a post-communist country	5
Responding to distressed infants: Does mothers’ positive versus negative affect matter for infants' behavior and physiology?	5
Microstate analysis in infancy	5
Infants' reasoning about social hierarchies: Key insights from the past 25 years and a research agenda for the next 25 years	5
Before first words: Infants’ ability to map words to goals	5
Preterm infant body composition, working memory, and temperament	5
Temperament and children’s accuracy and attention during word learning	5
Editorial Board	5
Editorial Board	5
Maternal psychological functioning mediates the association between infant behavior and subsequent child psychological functioning	5
Toddler negative affectivity and effortful control: Relations with parent-toddler conversation engagement and indirect effects on language	5