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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Neuroendocrine mechanisms involved in the physiological effects caused by skin-to-skin contact – With a particular focus on the oxytocinergic system	56
Why do parents use screen media with toddlers? The role of child temperament and parenting stress in early screen use	27
Screen time in 36-month-olds at increased likelihood for ASD and ADHD	24
The interplay between early social interaction, language and executive function development in deaf and hearing infants	23
Physical touch during father-infant interactions is associated with paternal oxytocin levels	22
Infant screen media usage and social-emotional functioning	22
The impact of the home musical environment on infants’ language development	22
Media exposure and language for toddlers from low-income homes	21
Screen use before bedtime: Consequences for nighttime sleep in young children	19
Screens across the pond: Findings from longitudinal screen time research in the US and UK	19
Dynamics of frontal alpha asymmetry in mother-infant dyads: Insights from the Still Face Paradigm	18
Associations between touchscreen exposure and hot and cool inhibitory control in 10-month-old infants	16
Intention-based evaluations of distributive actions by 4-month-olds	15
Associations between parent–infant interactions, cortisol and vagal regulation in infants, and socioemotional outcomes: A systematic review	15
The maturational gradient of infant vocalizations: Developmental stages and functional modules	15
Reasons mothers bedshare: A review of its effects on infant behavior and development	15
Infant media use: A harm reduction approach	14
A method for measuring dynamic respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) in infants and mothers	13
The longitudinal associations between temperament and sleep during the first year of life	13
Studying caregiver-infant co-regulation in dynamic, diverse cultural contexts: A call to action	13
Does texting interrupt imitation learning in 19-month-old infants?	13
A longitudinal examination of daily amounts of screen time and technoference in infants aged 2–11 months and associations with maternal sociodemographic factors	13
Music therapy enhances preterm infant’s signs of engagement and sustains maternal singing in the NICU	13
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
Exposure to electronic media between 6 and 24 months of age: An exploratory study	13

Object play in the everyday home environment generates rich opportunities for infant learning	12
Associations between technoference, quality of parent-infant interactions, and infants’ vocabulary development	12
Associations among average parental educational attainment, maternal stress, and infant screen exposure at 6 months of age	12
Continuous measurement of attachment behavior: A multimodal view of the strange situation procedure	12
Quality of the home, daycare and neighborhood environment and the cognitive development of economically disadvantaged children in early childhood: A mediation analysis	12
Examining joint parent-child interactions involving infants and toddlers when introducing mobile technology	12
Parent-child interaction during the first year of life in infants at elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder	12
To have and to hold: Effects of physical contact on infants and their caregivers	12
Processing third-party social interactions in the human infant brain	12
The temporal dimension in the understanding of maternal sensitivity in caregiver-infant interactions: The ‘Early Mother-Child Interaction Coding System’	11
The origin of language and relative roles of voice and gesture in early communication development	11
Design and validation of a smart garment to measure positioning practices of parents with young infants	11
Vocal imitation between mothers and infants	11
Influence of internal and external factors on early language skills: A cross-linguistic study	11
The relationship between temperamental dimensions and inhibitory control in early childhood: Implications for language acquisition	11
Maternal mentalization and child emotion regulation: A comparison of different phases of early childhood	11
Infants’ vocalizations at 6 months predict their productive vocabulary at one year	11
Narrative as co-regulation: A review of embodied narrative in infant development	10
Does syntax play a role in Theory of Mind development before the age of 3 years?	10
War trauma and infant motor, cognitive, and socioemotional development: Maternal mental health and dyadic interaction as explanatory processes	10
Effects of maternal depressive symptoms on sensitivity to infant distress and non-distress: Role of SES and race	10
Looking deeper into the toy box: Understanding caregiver toy selection decisions	10
Cultural influences on face scanning are consistent across infancy and adulthood	10
Togetherness, beyond the eyes: A systematic review on the interaction between visually impaired children and their parents	10
Revisiting how we operationalize joint attention	10
Do foetuses communicate? Foetal responses to interactive versus non-interactive maternal voice and touch: An exploratory analysis	9
Prosocial television and prosocial toddlers: A multi-method, longitudinal investigation	9
Infant sleep and development: Concurrent and longitudinal relations during the first 8 months of life	9
Cross-linguistic comparison of utterance shapes in Korean- and English-learning children: An ambient language effect	9
The early ontogeny of infants’ imitation of on screen humans and robots	9
Infant speech perception and cognitive skills as predictors of later vocabulary	9
Parental decision-making: infant engagement with smartphones	9
Prenatal and postnatal intimate partner violence, depression, and infant-mother touch	9
Concordance between subjective and objective measures of infant sleep varies by age and maternal mood: Implications for studies of sleep and cognitive development	9
Maternal-infant bonding and partner support during pregnancy and postpartum: Associations with early child social-emotional development	9
A working memory span task for toddlers	8
Maternal cradling bias: A marker of the nature of the mother-infant relationship	8
Hair sampling for cortisol analysis with mother-toddler dyads living in low-income homes	8
Synchrony in mother-infant vocal interactions revealed through timed event sequences	8
Sensing everyday activity: Parent perceptions and feasibility	8
Developmental changes in the brain response to speech during the first year of life: A near-infrared spectroscopy study of dutch-learning infants	8
Links between television exposure and toddler dysregulation: Does culture matter?	8
How 9-month-old crawling infants profit from visual-manual rotations in a mental rotation task	8
Parent-child interactions during joint engagement with touchscreen technology: A comparison of younger versus older toddlers	7
Frequency of Gesture Use and Language in Typically Developing Prelinguistic Children	7
Parent language with toddlers during shared storybook reading compared to coviewing television	7
Foundations of attention sharing: Orienting and responding to attention in term and preterm 5-month-old infants	7
What about the babies? A critical review of infants’ and toddlers’ absence in homelessness scholarship	7
Do motor skills impact on language development between 18 and 30 months of age?	7
Attentional orienting abilities in bilinguals: Evidence from a large infant sample	7

Sleep problems and infant motor and cognitive development across the first two years of life: The Beijing Longitudinal Study	7
The multimodality of infant's rhythmic movements as a modulator of the interaction with their caregivers	7
Changing the logic of replication: A case from infant studies	7
The origins of touchscreen competence: Examining infants’ exploration of touchscreens	7
Past and present experiences with maternal touch affect infants’ attention toward emotional faces	7
Media exposure and language experience: Examining associations from home observations in Mexican immigrant families in the US	7
Co-regulation of movements during infant feeding	7
Toddler word learning from contingent screens with and without human presence	6
Universality and context-specificity in early executive function development	6
Primary caregiver emotional expressiveness relates to toddler emotion understanding	6
Parent-infant interaction quality is related to preterm status and sensory processing	6
Influences of infants’ and mothers’ contingent vocal responsiveness on young infants’ vocal social bids in the Still Face Task	6
Preterm birth and maternal sensitivity: Findings from a non-western country	6
Social context influences infants’ ability to extract statistical information from a sequence of gestures	6
Early vocabulary development: Relationships with prelinguistic skills and early social-emotional/behavioral problems and competencies	6
A comprehensive model of women’s social cognition and responsiveness to infant crying: Integrating personality, emotion, executive function, and sleep	6
Self-face perception in 12-month-old infants: A study using the morphing technique	6
Development of mother-infant co-regulation: The role of infant vagal tone and temperament at 6, 9, and 12 months of age	6
Infant looking preferences towards dynamic faces: A systematic review	6
The cultural specificity of parent-infant interaction: Perspectives of urban middle-class and rural indigenous families in Costa Rica	6
Number and type of toys affect joint attention of mothers and infants	6
Does Postpartum Depression Affect Parental Embodied Mentalizing in Mothers With 4-Months old Infants?	6
Processes and pathways in development via digital media: Examples from word learning	6
Mother-Infant Interaction Kinect Analysis (MIIKA): An automatic kinematic-based methodology for the investigation of interpersonal distance during early exchanges	6
Manual exploration of objects is related to 7-month-old infants’ visual preference for real objects	6
Cumulative risk, infant sleep, and infant social-emotional development	6