OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Early Child Development and Care is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Needs and readiness to use tele-practice for identification and rehabilitation of children with hearing and speech-language disorders: perceptions of public sector care providers in South India	32
Predictors of preschoolers’ classroom engagement: teacher–child interactions, teacher–child relationships, and child’s self-control	19
Demographic characteristics as determinants of toddlers’ physical and social spontaneity in kindergarten	18
Socioeconomic status and caregiving sensitivity among Chinese childcare centre teachers: adaptive caregiving belief as a mediator and childcare centre type as a moderator	14
Indirect reciprocity and the compensatory role of empathy in preschoolers	14
Parents’ and toddlers’ emotion regulation: the importance of emotion talk	12
Attachment to teacher, internalizing and externalizing symptoms: the mediating role of executive functions	11
Poverty in early childhood and future educational achievements	10
Fathers’ emotional experiences while parenting toddlers: a qualitative exploration	9
Early childhood development in Bangladesh and its socio-demographic determinants of importance	9
The effect of project-based STEAM activities on the social and cognitive skills of preschool children	9
Research status and evolutionary trends on early childhood sports in China: a perspective of co-word analysis	8
Screen preference and extraversion: key factors in the link between mother phubbing and preschoolers’ problematic media use	8
Investigating caregiver coaching in an early intervention model for children with hearing loss	7
Reflection on methodologies and prioritizing children’s perspectives on protection needs within informal urban settings	7
Closeness and conflict in teacher-child relationships in preschool: the role of child personality types	7
Cognitive development of children in vulnerable contexts: the role of psychosocial intervention	7
Sex differences in growth in body mass and psychosocial abilities in children in Head Start	7
The effect of the operating room tour watched with a 3D virtual reality headset on children's fear and anxiety before the surgery – a randomized controlled study	7
An investigation of preschool children’s creativity in terms of their courage value and competition	7
Borderline personality disorder in mothers, maternal sensitivity, and infant social withdrawal: a study on clinical dyads referred to perinatal mental health units	7
How children make sense of fear of the dark: a qualitative study of Russian preschoolers	6
Children's development in the digital age: impact of technology, family, and pandemic on education and well-being	6
The well-being of Rohingya children in Rohingya camps of Bangladesh during the Covid 19 pandemic: a qualitative exploration	6
Israeli special education preschool teachers’ job satisfaction: an investigation of the predictive value of professional identity and social support	6

Children’s epistemic and interpersonal trust decisions for precise versus relative testimony	6
Exploring the relationship between parent mental health and parent–child emotion reminiscing	6
Investigating the relationship levels of fathers with 6- to 12-month-old babies with their fathers and their attachment status with their babies*	6
Father-infant synchrony and infant vagal tone as an index of emotion regulation: father-infant shared times in Switzerland as moderators	6
The concept of pupils' interests in the context of school-age educare in Sweden	6
The impact of the creative leadership qualities of preschool teachers on children’s motivation	6
Creative arts intervention for a firstborn child during the transition to siblinghood: a Chinese case study	6
Developmental disparities based on socioeconomic status and sex: an analysis of two large, population-based early childhood development assessments in Uruguay	5
The effect of breastfeeding education and skin-to-skin contact on breastfeeding efficiency and maternal attachment: a randomized controlled study	5
The pathway from grandparental support with childcare in the early years to child socioemotional outcomes in middle childhood: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study	5
Validation of a revised parental phubbing scale for parents of young children in China	5
Associations between the well-being of the early childhood education workforce and caregiver-child relationships in centre- and home-based settings	5
Changes in the weight status of school children in Turkey during the COVID-19 lockdown period	5
Paternal cognitions and strategies related to sleep problems of toddlers: a qualitative study from the father’s point of view	5
The relationship between approximate number system and mathematical achievement in 5–6 years children: a parallel mediation analysis	5
Jewish and Arab kindergarten teachers cope with the challenges of encountering the other in Israel: ‘My Diverse Kindergarten’	5
Parental engagement in caregiving activities and its association with socioeconomic and child-rearing environment at home in Vietnam	4
Family process and young children’s social adaptation: conditional process analyses across child-care experiences	4
Executive function ratings in educational settings: concurrent relations with cognitive and affective theory of mind	4
Understanding the role of parental self-efficacy for supporting children’s early learning in the home mathematics environment	4
Interaction quality in German early childcare settings: investigating the domains of CLASS Toddler and the associations with structural characteristics	4
Children’s beliefs concerning their school performance at the end of the first grade in Finland	4
Too much of a good thing? Linking overparenting and Chinese young children’s social preference	4
Associations between of maternal parenting styles and beliefs about children's emotions on preschoolers’ social skills and problem behaviours	4
The role of environmental and individual factors in pre-academic achievement for kindergarten children	4
Maternal satisfaction with professional health care for excessive infant crying: does it meet maternal needs?	4
Playfulness in Chinese preschoolers: the role of self- and other-oriented empathy and gender	4
Activity settings and attributed social disadvantage as influencing factors on teacher–child interaction quality in central Germany	4
Developing connections between healthy living and environmental sustainability concepts in Cretan preschool children: a randomized trial	4
Fathers’ stimulation of toddlers’ cognitive development contributes to children’s executive function skills at five years of age	4
Gender differences in the development of children's social and emotional competencies during the pre-school year	4
The transition from early intervention to preschool for children with multiple disabilities: a narrative review	3
Difficulties experienced in providing care of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit during COVID-19	3
Maternal Antenatal Attachment Scale (MAAS) reference values at different stages of pregnancy and their possible associations with major obstetric and demographic characteristics	3
The relationship between fundamental movement skills and physical activity in preschoolers: a systematic review	3
Quality of interactions in child day-care centres: status quo analysis of interaction designs in daily kindergarten routine	3
Early childhood education pioneers and their curriculum programs	3
The impact of fathers’ gender perspectives and involvement on children’s resilience	3
Early motor development in China: secular trends among 4-year-olds	3
Informal learning through Tippo games during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of children in rural Kenya	3
Does off-campus training encourage numeracy skills and social-emotional skills? Evidence from China	3
Raising children: single parents’ parenting styles with children living with attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder	3
Caregiver–child relationships in after-school care: the role of gender and the gender match	3
Exploring preservice ECE teachers’ TPACK through digital storytelling during the pandemic	3
Media use and children's self-regulation: a narrative review	3
Effects of social inhibition and group relations on altruistic behaviour of children under conditions of reputational threat	3
How does a mother perceive her child's mind? Developmental changes in child behaviours that enable mothers to perceive their child’s minds	3
Role and trends in voluntary action repetition during infants’ object play	3
Preschool children’s behaviours in competitive games: are these games really harmful to social-emotional development?	3
Sibling struggles: the impact of siblings upon child development in rural China	3

Snap: young children share the importance of relationships through child-led photography	3
Active commuting to early childhood education and care institutions among toddlers (2–3 years)	3
Do parental stimulation practices modify the effect of child’s health status on early developmental risk? Findings from a hospitalized cohort	3
Home quarantine duration and Chinese preschoolers’ sleep problems during COVID-19: child screen time as an explanatory mechanism and real interpersonal interactions in family setting as a contextualiz	3
Breastfeeding and its relationship with motor development of infants at 3–4 months of age	2
Face-to-face vs. screen-based dialogic reading: a comparative study on language skills in preschool children	2
Maternal sensitivity, early interactions and infant attachment: a systematic review	2
Differentiation of ‘multilingual children’ in early education through knowledge of family language practices	2
Mother- child interaction and contextual factors related to COVID-19 pandemic in at-risk infants: cross-sectional study	2
Social experiences, life satisfaction, and social support of immigrant families with young children in a highly urban city	2
Chinese young children’s work education under the impact of the global pandemic and digitalization	2
Forest kindergarten: fostering ecological cognition and executive function in preschoolers	2
Links between parent–grandparent coparenting, maternal parenting and young children’s executive function in urban China	2
Play tendency and prosociality in early childhood	2
Home or away? The relation between open or closed educational frameworks, parental distress, and child difficulties in the context of armed conflict	2
Is screen exposure beneficial or detrimental to language development in infants and toddlers? A meta-analysis	2
Teachers’ perceived impact of COVID-19 on Early Child Development in urban China: evidence from a National Survey Study	2
Examining the effects of kindergarten writing instruction on emergent literacy skills: a systematic review of the literature	2
Personal and fictional narratives development in kindergarten children. The effects of an intervention programme	2
Theorists and their developmental theories	2
Can child-friendly tools support young, autistic children to better communicate about their well-being to help inform school provision?	2
Programme-based experiences of preschool teachers regarding support of children’s social skills	2
The effectiveness of child-centered group play therapy and narrative therapy on preschoolers’ separation anxiety disorder and social-emotional behaviours	2
Course of maternal anxiety disorders and their impact on child development in toddlers: a study with young mothers	2
Revisiting Piaget, his contribution to South African early childhood education	2
Examining the role of demographic characteristics, attachment, and language in preschool children’s executive function skills	2
Positive and multifaceted perceptions of Israeli kindergarten teachers contribute to developmental gains of children with developmental delay	2
Child-specific interaction quality at the first and last year of preschool and its relationship to preschool, child, and family characteristics – an empirical perspective using the inCLASS	2
Pedagogical practices in ECEC institutions and children’s linguistic, motor, and socio-emotional needs during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a longitudinal multi-perspective study in Germany	2
Preschoolers’ executive function boots the development of empathy: one-year cross-lagged panel analysis	2
Developmental implications of preschool children’s affective experiences during organized activities	2
Doing belonging in early childhood settings in Sweden	2
Impact of maternal, paternal mental state talk and quality of parenting on executive function of preschoolers	2
Care-giver child interactions and early cognitive development in West and Central Africa	2
Parents’ implicit theories of intelligence and children’s responses to academic challenge	2