OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Early Child Development and Care is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Is school readiness associated with externalizing symptoms?	30
The relationship between children’s sleep patterns, media consumption, and temperamental activity level	19
Indirect reciprocity and the compensatory role of empathy in preschoolers	16
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	15
The effect of project-based STEAM activities on the social and cognitive skills of preschool children	13
Parents’ and toddlers’ emotion regulation: the importance of emotion talk	13
Supporting children’s emotions and relationships by child gender: influences of teachers’ emotion validating, acknowledging, and minimizing language	12
Attachment to teacher, internalizing and externalizing symptoms: the mediating role of executive functions	10
Research status and evolutionary trends on early childhood sports in China: a perspective of co-word analysis	10
Predictors of preschoolers’ classroom engagement: teacher–child interactions, teacher–child relationships, and child’s self-control	10
Demographic characteristics as determinants of toddlers’ physical and social spontaneity in kindergarten	10
Poverty in early childhood and future educational achievements	10
Research on the effectiveness of integrated early childhood education models: an international comparative analysis based on children’s continuous development	9
Family media ecology and preschoolers’ screen time: insights from a network analysis of 13,596 Chinese families	9
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	9
Screen preference and extraversion: key factors in the link between mother phubbing and preschoolers’ problematic media use	9
The transition of bidirectional association between children's social-emotional problems and maternal parenting sense of competence in preschool: a cross-lagged longitudinal study	9
How children make sense of fear of the dark: a qualitative study of Russian preschoolers	8
Child-level ECE quality and toddler language development: a bidirectional perspective	8
Playing for growth: a narrative review of early childhood soccer and development in East and West	8
An experimental study to develop early literacy skills: establishing a dialog, play and tell-Early literacy skills support practices with mother involvement (DPT-ELP)	8
Parental selection of shared reading materials: a scoping review	8
Closeness and conflict in teacher-child relationships in preschool: the role of child personality types	8
The concept of pupils' interests in the context of school-age educare in Sweden	8
Parental satisfaction with after-school child care services in urban public elementary schools in China: an evaluation of service effectiveness	8

Father-infant synchrony and infant vagal tone as an index of emotion regulation: father-infant shared times in Switzerland as moderators	7
The relationship between social avoidance and problematic media use among preschool migrant children: a cross-lagged study	7
Borderline personality disorder in mothers, maternal sensitivity, and infant social withdrawal: a study on clinical dyads referred to perinatal mental health units	7
Comparing the effects of AR picture books and print picture books on preschoolers’ reading effect	7
Children’s epistemic and interpersonal trust decisions for precise versus relative testimony	7
Investigating the relationship levels of fathers with 6- to 12-month-old babies with their fathers and their attachment status with their babies*	6
Mediating role of partner affection and support and maternal engagement in associations between maternal and paternal depression and child behavioural difficulties in Guyanese families	6
Creative arts intervention for a firstborn child during the transition to siblinghood: a Chinese case study	6
The impact of the creative leadership qualities of preschool teachers on children’s motivation	6
Exploring the relationship between parent mental health and parent–child emotion reminiscing	6
Associations between father incarceration and Head Start children's academic and social competence: a case–control matching analysis	6
Current status of infant and toddler care, parenting stress, and childcare needs of working mothers: evidence from Anhui Province, China	6
Children's development in the digital age: impact of technology, family, and pandemic on education and well-being	6
Israeli special education preschool teachers’ job satisfaction: an investigation of the predictive value of professional identity and social support	5
The relationship between approximate number system and mathematical achievement in 5–6 years children: a parallel mediation analysis	5
Associations between the well-being of the early childhood education workforce and caregiver-child relationships in centre- and home-based settings	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
Children’s beliefs concerning their school performance at the end of the first grade in Finland	5
The well-being of Rohingya children in Rohingya camps of Bangladesh during the Covid 19 pandemic: a qualitative exploration	5
Enhancing preschoolers’ map literacy through eye-tracking analysis: investigating the effects of symbol recognition and spatial reasoning instruction	5
The effect of breastfeeding education and skin-to-skin contact on breastfeeding efficiency and maternal attachment: a randomized controlled study	5
Associations between of maternal parenting styles and beliefs about children's emotions on preschoolers’ social skills and problem behaviours	5
Exploring adults’ use of smart speakers to shape young children’s everyday experiences	5
Playfulness in Chinese preschoolers: the role of self- and other-oriented empathy and gender	5
Jewish and Arab kindergarten teachers cope with the challenges of encountering the other in Israel: ‘My Diverse Kindergarten’	5
Activity settings and attributed social disadvantage as influencing factors on teacher–child interaction quality in central Germany	5
Parental engagement in caregiving activities and its association with socioeconomic and child-rearing environment at home in Vietnam	5
Validation of a revised parental phubbing scale for parents of young children in China	5
Too much of a good thing? Linking overparenting and Chinese young children’s social preference	5
Interaction quality in German early childcare settings: investigating the domains of CLASS Toddler and the associations with structural characteristics	4
Early motor development in China: secular trends among 4-year-olds	4
Upstream or downstream reciprocity: which matters more for sharing expectations and behavior in 4- to 5-year-old children?	4
The transition from early intervention to preschool for children with multiple disabilities: a narrative review	4
Active commuting to early childhood education and care institutions among toddlers (2–3 years)	4
Adult–child pedagogical interactions in the home and in preschool: what commonalities can pre-schoolers experience in the context of cognitive development?	4
The role of environmental and individual factors in pre-academic achievement for kindergarten children	4
How school readiness profiles moderate the link between conflictual teacher–child relationship and aggressive behaviour in children	4
Maternal satisfaction with professional health care for excessive infant crying: does it meet maternal needs?	4
Effects of social inhibition and group relations on altruistic behaviour of children under conditions of reputational threat	4
The relationship between fundamental movement skills and physical activity in preschoolers: a systematic review	4
Informal learning through Tippo games during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of children in rural Kenya	4
Relational continuity in early childhood: linkages of maternal sensitivity in infancy, preschool-age children’s attachment narratives, and social behaviour	4
Family communication and everyday executive function in preschool children	4
Maternal technoference and social avoidance: the role of mother-child relationships and gender	4
Children’s behavioural problems in Chinese kindergartens: dual perspectives from teacher reports and classroom observations	4
Understanding the role of parental self-efficacy for supporting children’s early learning in the home mathematics environment	4
The impact of fathers’ gender perspectives and involvement on children’s resilience	4
Snap: young children share the importance of relationships through child-led photography	4
Does off-campus training encourage numeracy skills and social-emotional skills? Evidence from China	4
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	4

Fathers’ stimulation of toddlers’ cognitive development contributes to children’s executive function skills at five years of age	4
‘Switch that off!’: the influence of digital parenting and mediation practices on young children’s engagement with digital technologies in the home	4
Teacher-child interaction quality in Head Start and children’s kindergarten skills: a person-centered approach	4
Can child-friendly tools support young, autistic children to better communicate about their well-being to help inform school provision?	3
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	3
Social relationships, interactions and learning in early childhood – theoretical approaches, empirical findings and challenges	3
Parents’ implicit theories of intelligence and children’s responses to academic challenge	3
Breastfeeding and its relationship with motor development of infants at 3–4 months of age	3
Face-to-face vs. screen-based dialogic reading: a comparative study on language skills in preschool children	3
Developmental implications of preschool children’s affective experiences during organized activities	3
Exploring preservice ECE teachers’ TPACK through digital storytelling during the pandemic	3
The effectiveness of child-centered group play therapy and narrative therapy on preschoolers’ separation anxiety disorder and social-emotional behaviours	3
Forest kindergarten: fostering ecological cognition and executive function in preschoolers	3
Programme-based experiences of preschool teachers regarding support of children’s social skills	3
Is screen exposure beneficial or detrimental to language development in infants and toddlers? A meta-analysis	3
Mother- child interaction and contextual factors related to COVID-19 pandemic in at-risk infants: cross-sectional study	3
Effects of parental factors on children’s pre-literacy: a case from China	3
Maternal sensitivity, early interactions and infant attachment: a systematic review	3
Chinese young children’s work education under the impact of the global pandemic and digitalization	3
Positive and multifaceted perceptions of Israeli kindergarten teachers contribute to developmental gains of children with developmental delay	3
Home or away? The relation between open or closed educational frameworks, parental distress, and child difficulties in the context of armed conflict	3
Quality of interactions in child day-care centres: status quo analysis of interaction designs in daily kindergarten routine	3
Social experiences, life satisfaction, and social support of immigrant families with young children in a highly urban city	3
Standing out from the crowd: the role of theory of mind on childhood creativity	3
Care-giver child interactions and early cognitive development in West and Central Africa	3
Family cultural capital in relation to cognitive and socio-emotional development in preschoolers	3
The kindergarten in the religious kibbutz – The intersection between religious education and kibbutz education	3
Integrating a hybrid mode into kindergarten STEM education: its impact on young children’s critical thinking skills during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
The impact of Couple Relationship Education (CRE) on parents of young children’s couple functioning, family harmony, parenting and their children’s aggressive behaviour	3
Enhancing preschoolers' cognitive flexibility and pre-literacy skills through dialogic reading: evidence from an Italian teacher-led intervention	3
Examining the effects of kindergarten writing instruction on emergent literacy skills: a systematic review of the literature	3
Differentiation of ‘multilingual children’ in early education through knowledge of family language practices	3
Teachers’ perceived impact of COVID-19 on Early Child Development in urban China: evidence from a National Survey Study	3
Enhancing cognitive stimulation at home: PlayReadVIP for Brazilian families	3
Early nursery attendance and infant neurodevelopment at 1 year of age	3
Little fingers, big competition: digital game addiction and competition styles of preschool children in the context of collectivist culture	3