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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Young children’s emotional stress reactions during the COVID-19 outbreak and their associations with parental emotion regulation and parental playfulness	42
The psychosocial development theory of Erik Erikson: critical overview	31
Family Environment In Rural China And The Link With Early Childhood Development	23
An investigation into children's agency: children's initiatives and practitioners’ responses in Finnish early childhood education	20
Neoliberalism and sociocultural specificities: a discourse analysis of early childhood curriculum policies in Australia, China, New Zealand, and Singapore	18
Digital parenting during the COVID-19 lockdowns: how Chinese parents viewed and mediated young children’s digital use	15
The impact of music training on inhibition control, phonological processing, and motor skills in kindergarteners: a randomized control trial	15
It’s like a fruit on a tree: young Maltese children’s understanding of the environment	12
The challenge of ensuring effective early years music education by non-specialists	11
Rough-and-tumble play and the regulation of aggression in preschoolers	11
A longitudinal perspective on frequency of parent–child activities and social–emotional development	10
Everyday environments and activities of children and teachers in Swedish preschools	10
Children’s creative thinking abilities and social orientations in Finnish early childhood education and care	10
Vygotsky’s theory in-play: early childhood education	10
The participation of children in caregiving of their siblings with special needs and peer relationship in rural Turkey	9
Parenting style and prosocial behaviour among Chinese Preschool children: A moderation model	9
Effects of analogy learning on locomotor skills and balance of preschool children	8
Early childhood development in Bangladesh and its socio-demographic determinants of importance	8
Montessori as an alternative early childhood education	8
The impact of children’s socioemotional development on parenting styles: the moderating effect of social withdrawal	7
Effects of oculomotor rehabilitation on the cognitive performance of dyslexic children with concurrent eye movement abnormalities	7
Parent discipline and pre-schoolers’ social skills	7
Influence of the home affordances on motor skills in 3- to 18-month-old Iranian children	7
The relation between parental involvement and school readiness: the mediating role of preschoolers’ self-regulation skills	7
Convergence among imagination, social-emotional learning and media literacy: an integrative literature review	7

Children with siblings differ from only children in their sharing behaviour	7
The effect of project-based STEAM activities on the social and cognitive skills of preschool children	7
The promise and the practice of early childhood educare in the writings of Urie Bronfenbrenner	7
Children’s negative experiences as a part of quality evaluation in early childhood education and care	7
Effect of age-appropriate play on promoting motor development of preschool children	7
Is the digitalization of play technological mutation or digital evolution?	6
Maternal Antenatal Attachment Scale (MAAS) reference values at different stages of pregnancy and their possible associations with major obstetric and demographic characteristics	6
Do educators matter? Associations between caregivers’ mentalization and preschoolers’ attachment, social emotional development and theory of mind	6
Vocabulary enrichment using an E-book with and without kindergarten teacher’s support among LSES children	6
Math achievement outcomes associated with Montessori education	6
Home environment and its contribution to early childhood regulatory capabilities	6
The implementation of positive pedagogy in Finnish early childhood education and care: a quantitative survey of its practical elements	6
Pestalozzi and pedagogies of love: pathways to educational reform	6
Sex and age-related differences in inhibitory control in typically developing children	6
Fine motor, gross motor, and social independence skills among stunted and non-stunted children	6
Does an integrated, wrap-around school and community service model in an early learning setting improve academic outcomes for children from low socioeconomic backgrounds?	6
Supporting young Spanish speaking English learners through teacher scaffolding and reciprocal peer tutoring	6
Children’s family drawings: association with attachment representations in story stem narratives and social and emotional difficulties	6
Children on the borders between institution, home and leisure: space to fend for yourself when leaving the school-age educare centre	5
Outdoor play activities and outdoor environment of early childhood education in Turkey: a qualitative meta-synthesis	5
Developmental change in attachment objects during childhood	5
The effect of preschool children’s motor skills on self-care skills	5
Examining the predictive effect of teacher–child relationship on young children’s self-perception	5
The effectiveness of swaddling and maternal holding applied during heel blood collection on pain level of healthy term newborns; randomized controlled trial	5
Relationship between permissive parenting style and atypical behaviour in preschool children, with generalized anxiety as mediator	5
Joy as a practice: performing joy in children’s everyday relations in early childhood education settings	5
Everyday practices in Swedish school-age educare centres: a reproduction of subordination and difficulty in fulfilling their mission	5
Early-childhood teachers’ emotion socialization practices: a multi-method study	5
Doing belonging in early childhood settings in Sweden	5
A study on the effect of Montessori Education on self-regulation skills in preschoolers	5
Developing connections between healthy living and environmental sustainability concepts in Cretan preschool children: a randomized trial	5
Preschoolers’ social skills and behaviour problems at home: mothers and fathers’ (dis)agreement	5
Links between parent–grandparent coparenting, maternal parenting and young children’s executive function in urban China	5
The physical literacy and children with autism	5
Preschool children’s perceptions on human–environment relationship: follow-up research	5
Impact of Carnatic music training on the mathematical ability of children	4
‘Your baby’s life depends on those first 1000 days’: community health workers’ perspectives of the first 1000 days of life	4
Friedrich Froebel: a path least trodden	4
Fundamental motor and social skills of children: the role of Brain Gym exercise	4
Executive function ratings in educational settings: concurrent relations with cognitive and affective theory of mind	4
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	4
Cognitive development among low birthweight (LBW) children at 4-year-old in relation to socio-demographic variables and chronic morbidities	4
Quality of early childcare in the home and cognitive development at age 5: results from the South African birth to Twenty Plus cohort study	4
Cool and hot self-regulation predict early achievement in Chinese pre-schoolers	4
Fathers’ emotional experiences while parenting toddlers: a qualitative exploration	4
What makes a child musical? conceptions of musical ability in childhood	4
Becoming a girl and boy: preschool children’s construction of gender roles in the community and nursery	4
Cross-lagged effects of self-regulation skills and behaviour problems in the transition from preschool to elementary school	4
The effect of white noise and classical music on pain and physiologic parameters in preterm infants during retinopathy of prematurity examinations: a randomized controlled trial	4
Gender differences in the development of children's social and emotional competencies during the pre-school year	3

An investigation on the effects of block play on the creativity of children	3
Contemporary principles to lead understandings of children’s learning: synthesizing Vygotsky, Rogoff, Wells and Lindfors	3
Associations between maternal depressive symptoms and child internalizing problems	3
Examining the effectiveness of body massage on physical status of premature neonates and their mothers’ psychological status	3
Young children’s play during a time of social distancing	3
Relationship between SES and preschoolers’ sociality: the mediating effect of household screen media experience	3
Mouthing and fingering supports vocal behaviors development	3
Long-term effects of maternal postpartum depression on mothers’ and fathers’ parenting stress	3
How toddlers new to child care become members of a classroom community	3
How do children build knowledge in early childhood education? Susan Isaacs, Young Children Are Researchers and what happens next	3
Home environment and social skills of Japanese preschool children pre- and post-COVID-19	3
The relationship between parents’ attachment to their parents and children's creatives	3
The moderating effects of a child's self-regulation skills in the relationship between a child’s temperament and the behaviour of the parents	3
Teacher perceptions of externalizing behaviour subtypes in preschool: considering racial factors	3
Associations of muscular fitness and body composition in children	3
Toddlers asthe one-caring: co-authoring play narratives and identities of care	3
Receptive vocabulary of preschool children with migration backgrounds: the effect of home literacy activities	3
Developmental changes in toy preferences during pretend play in toddlerhood	3
Activity settings and attributed social disadvantage as influencing factors on teacher–child interaction quality in central Germany	3
Developmental disparities based on socioeconomic status and sex: an analysis of two large, population-based early childhood development assessments in Uruguay	3
Emotional and behavioural difficulties and quality of life of preterm children at 2 years regarding parental mental health	3
Predicting Toddlers’ Problematic Behaviors: the role of poverty, parenting, and childcare	3
An investigation of preschool children’s creativity in terms of their courage value and competition	3
Co-development of emotion regulation: shifting from self-focused to child-focused perezhivanie in everyday parent-toddler dramatic collisions	3
Early motor development in China: secular trends among 4-year-olds	3
Vulnerable preschoolers mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic in Argentina: A cross-sectional study	3
Breastfeeding motivation in mothers of excessive crying infants: A correlation study	3
Examining the effects of kindergarten writing instruction on emergent literacy skills: a systematic review of the literature	3
How maternal traumatic childhood experiences affect adolescent and young mother–infant interaction at 3 months	3
Improvements in babies’ neuropsychomotor development after family-centered Kids Intervention Therapy – Aquatic Environment (KITE): biopsychosocial approach	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
The impact of B. F. Skinner’s science of operant learning on early childhood research, theory, treatment, and care	3
Presence of parent, gender and emotional valence influences preschoolers' PFC processing of video stimuli	3
Participation in play activities in the children’s peer culture	3
Teacher-child interactions in early childhood education and its effects on social and language development	3
The effect of visual illusion on performance and quiet eye in autistic children	3
Reflection on methodologies and prioritizing children’s perspectives on protection needs within informal urban settings	3
Developing social-emotional skills through imaginative teaching methods in elementary education	3
Preschool-aged children's agency in shared book reading: the relation to the literacy environment in Czech families	3