Early Child Development and Care

Papers
(The H4-Index of Early Child Development and Care is 10. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Predictors of preschoolers’ classroom engagement: teacher–child interactions, teacher–child relationships, and child’s self-control42
Socioeconomic status and caregiving sensitivity among Chinese childcare centre teachers: adaptive caregiving belief as a mediator and childcare centre type as a moderator24
Parents’ and toddlers’ emotion regulation: the importance of emotion talk17
Is school readiness associated with externalizing symptoms?14
The relationship between children’s sleep patterns, media consumption, and temperamental activity level12
Demographic characteristics as determinants of toddlers’ physical and social spontaneity in kindergarten12
Indirect reciprocity and the compensatory role of empathy in preschoolers12
Attachment to teacher, internalizing and externalizing symptoms: the mediating role of executive functions11
The effect of project-based STEAM activities on the social and cognitive skills of preschool children10
Poverty in early childhood and future educational achievements10
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