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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Predictors of preschoolers’ classroom engagement: teacher–child interactions, teacher–child relationships, and child’s self-control	38
Demographic characteristics as determinants of toddlers’ physical and social spontaneity in kindergarten	23
Socioeconomic status and caregiving sensitivity among Chinese childcare centre teachers: adaptive caregiving belief as a mediator and childcare centre type as a moderator	16
Parents’ and toddlers’ emotion regulation: the importance of emotion talk	15
Attachment to teacher, internalizing and externalizing symptoms: the mediating role of executive functions	14
Poverty in early childhood and future educational achievements	14
Indirect reciprocity and the compensatory role of empathy in preschoolers	12
Is school readiness associated with externalizing symptoms?	11
The effect of project-based STEAM activities on the social and cognitive skills of preschool children	10
The relationship between children’s sleep patterns, media consumption, and temperamental activity level	10
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	9
Screen preference and extraversion: key factors in the link between mother phubbing and preschoolers’ problematic media use	9
Research status and evolutionary trends on early childhood sports in China: a perspective of co-word analysis	8
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	8
Closeness and conflict in teacher-child relationships in preschool: the role of child personality types	8
Investigating caregiver coaching in an early intervention model for children with hearing loss	7
Children's development in the digital age: impact of technology, family, and pandemic on education and well-being	7
Borderline personality disorder in mothers, maternal sensitivity, and infant social withdrawal: a study on clinical dyads referred to perinatal mental health units	7
An investigation of preschool children’s creativity in terms of their courage value and competition	7
Sex differences in growth in body mass and psychosocial abilities in children in Head Start	7
Exploring the relationship between parent mental health and parent–child emotion reminiscing	6
Parental satisfaction with after-school child care services in urban public elementary schools in China: an evaluation of service effectiveness	6
Parental selection of shared reading materials: a scoping review	6
Creative arts intervention for a firstborn child during the transition to siblinghood: a Chinese case study	6
The concept of pupils' interests in the context of school-age educare in Sweden	6

Children’s epistemic and interpersonal trust decisions for precise versus relative testimony	6
Father-infant synchrony and infant vagal tone as an index of emotion regulation: father-infant shared times in Switzerland as moderators	6
Comparing the effects of AR picture books and print picture books on preschoolers’ reading effect	6
How children make sense of fear of the dark: a qualitative study of Russian preschoolers	6
An experimental study to develop early literacy skills: establishing a dialog, play and tell-Early literacy skills support practices with mother involvement (DPT-ELP)	6
Investigating the relationship levels of fathers with 6- to 12-month-old babies with their fathers and their attachment status with their babies*	5
Current status of infant and toddler care, parenting stress, and childcare needs of working mothers: evidence from Anhui Province, China	5
Changes in the weight status of school children in Turkey during the COVID-19 lockdown period	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
Family process and young children’s social adaptation: conditional process analyses across child-care experiences	5
Too much of a good thing? Linking overparenting and Chinese young children’s social preference	5
The impact of the creative leadership qualities of preschool teachers on children’s motivation	5
The well-being of Rohingya children in Rohingya camps of Bangladesh during the Covid 19 pandemic: a qualitative exploration	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
Israeli special education preschool teachers’ job satisfaction: an investigation of the predictive value of professional identity and social support	5
Parental engagement in caregiving activities and its association with socioeconomic and child-rearing environment at home in Vietnam	5
Associations between of maternal parenting styles and beliefs about children's emotions on preschoolers’ social skills and problem behaviours	5
Playfulness in Chinese preschoolers: the role of self- and other-oriented empathy and gender	5
Children’s behavioural problems in Chinese kindergartens: dual perspectives from teacher reports and classroom observations	4
Executive function ratings in educational settings: concurrent relations with cognitive and affective theory of mind	4
Maternal satisfaction with professional health care for excessive infant crying: does it meet maternal needs?	4
The role of environmental and individual factors in pre-academic achievement for kindergarten children	4
Associations between the well-being of the early childhood education workforce and caregiver-child relationships in centre- and home-based settings	4
Children’s beliefs concerning their school performance at the end of the first grade in Finland	4
Interaction quality in German early childcare settings: investigating the domains of CLASS Toddler and the associations with structural characteristics	4
Family communication and everyday executive function in preschool children	4
Understanding the role of parental self-efficacy for supporting children’s early learning in the home mathematics environment	4
Activity settings and attributed social disadvantage as influencing factors on teacher–child interaction quality in central Germany	4
Teacher-child interaction quality in Head Start and children’s kindergarten skills: a person-centered approach	4
‘Switch that off!’: the influence of digital parenting and mediation practices on young children’s engagement with digital technologies in the home	4
Adult–child pedagogical interactions in the home and in preschool: what commonalities can pre-schoolers experience in the context of cognitive development?	4
Fathers’ stimulation of toddlers’ cognitive development contributes to children’s executive function skills at five years of age	4
The effect of breastfeeding education and skin-to-skin contact on breastfeeding efficiency and maternal attachment: a randomized controlled study	4
Validation of a revised parental phubbing scale for parents of young children in China	4
Upstream or downstream reciprocity: which matters more for sharing expectations and behavior in 4- to 5-year-old children?	3
Does off-campus training encourage numeracy skills and social-emotional skills? Evidence from China	3
The impact of fathers’ gender perspectives and involvement on children’s resilience	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
Active commuting to early childhood education and care institutions among toddlers (2–3 years)	3
Enhancing cognitive stimulation at home: PlayReadVIP for Brazilian families	3
Face-to-face vs. screen-based dialogic reading: a comparative study on language skills in preschool children	3
Doing belonging in early childhood settings in Sweden	3
Social experiences, life satisfaction, and social support of immigrant families with young children in a highly urban city	3
Forest kindergarten: fostering ecological cognition and executive function in preschoolers	3
Exploring preservice ECE teachers’ TPACK through digital storytelling during the pandemic	3
Informal learning through Tippo games during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of children in rural Kenya	3
Media use and children's self-regulation: a narrative review	3
The transition from early intervention to preschool for children with multiple disabilities: a narrative review	3

Caregiver–child relationships in after-school care: the role of gender and the gender match	3
Differentiation of ‘multilingual children’ in early education through knowledge of family language practices	3
Is screen exposure beneficial or detrimental to language development in infants and toddlers? A meta-analysis	3
Can child-friendly tools support young, autistic children to better communicate about their well-being to help inform school provision?	3
Impact of maternal, paternal mental state talk and quality of parenting on executive function of preschoolers	3
Early nursery attendance and infant neurodevelopment at 1 year of age	3
Effects of social inhibition and group relations on altruistic behaviour of children under conditions of reputational threat	3
Difficulties experienced in providing care of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit during COVID-19	3
Early motor development in China: secular trends among 4-year-olds	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
Snap: young children share the importance of relationships through child-led photography	3
Programme-based experiences of preschool teachers regarding support of children’s social skills	3
Examining the role of demographic characteristics, attachment, and language in preschool children’s executive function skills	3
Quality of interactions in child day-care centres: status quo analysis of interaction designs in daily kindergarten routine	3
The effectiveness of child-centered group play therapy and narrative therapy on preschoolers’ separation anxiety disorder and social-emotional behaviours	3
Preschool children’s behaviours in competitive games: are these games really harmful to social-emotional development?	3
The relationship between fundamental movement skills and physical activity in preschoolers: a systematic review	3