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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Developing categories for children’s creative and responsive musical actions in group improvisation: a mixed methods action research study	24
Children’s engagement in Quebec childcare centres: progression from 3 to 5 years old and predictor variables	14
Revisiting Piaget, his contribution to South African early childhood education	13
Young children’s selective trust decision between relative versus precise expressions	12
Integrating a hybrid mode into kindergarten STEM education: its impact on young children’s critical thinking skills during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Prosocial development in early childhood: strategies of teachers and parents during the COVID-19 pandemic in China	9
Developmental outcomes in children treated for focal and non-focal forms of congenital hyperinsulinism	9
Challenges and opportunities: book discussions of gender non-conformity in two preschool classrooms	9
Socioeconomic status and caregiving sensitivity among Chinese childcare centre teachers: adaptive caregiving belief as a mediator and childcare centre type as a moderator	9
Early childhood development in Bangladesh and its socio-demographic determinants of importance	8
Gender differences in the development of children's social and emotional competencies during the pre-school year	8
Relationship between permissive parenting style and atypical behaviour in preschool children, with generalized anxiety as mediator	8
Influence of relative age effect (RAE) on motor performance of preschool children: a systematic review	7
Preventative intervention home visitation programme for mothers with fussy infants: a mixed methods, pilot assessment of maternal self-efficacy, mental health, infant-bonding, and programme experience	7
Relations between teacher–child interaction quality and children’s playfulness	7
Family resilience and problem behaviours in Chinese preschool children: the chain mediating role of maternal parenting stress and parenting self-efficacy	7
Indirect reciprocity and the compensatory role of empathy in preschoolers	6
Predictors of preschoolers’ classroom engagement: teacher–child interactions, teacher–child relationships, and child’s self-control	6
Attachment to teacher, internalizing and externalizing symptoms: the mediating role of executive functions	6
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	6
Breastfeeding and its relationship with motor development of infants at 3–4 months of age	5
The relationship between mothers’ obsessive and compulsive behaviours regarding baby care and breastfeeding self-efficacy: the mediator role of postpartum depression	5
Executive function ratings in educational settings: concurrent relations with cognitive and affective theory of mind	5
The role of environmental and individual factors in pre-academic achievement for kindergarten children	5
Teachers’ perceived impact of COVID-19 on Early Child Development in urban China: evidence from a National Survey Study	5

Maternal satisfaction with professional health care for excessive infant crying: does it meet maternal needs?	5
Subjective school wellbeing of refugee and local children: Voices from having, loving, and being dimensions	5
Interaction quality in German early childcare settings: investigating the domains of CLASS Toddler and the associations with structural characteristics	5
The more familiar the others, the higher the morality: children’s preference for familiar others in moral expectations early appears in the negative moral context	5
The metamorphosis of early childhood theorists and pioneers	5
Children’s drawings of student-teacher relationship quality: examining change over the first year of school.	4
Preschool screen-media usage predicts mental imagery two years later	4
Fathers’ emotional experiences while parenting toddlers: a qualitative exploration	4
The relationship of parents’ attributes and practices with the promotion of recommended movement behaviours in young children during school suspensions	4
Fidelity of implementation of activity-based intervention in daycare	4
The effect of project-based STEAM activities on the social and cognitive skills of preschool children	4
Demographic characteristics as determinants of toddlers’ physical and social spontaneity in kindergarten	4
Vygotsky’s theory in-play: early childhood education	4
The effect of active brain-breaks on fundamental movement skills and executive functioning of Grade one children in Cape Town, South Africa	4
Social relationships, interactions and learning in early childhood – theoretical approaches, empirical findings and challenges	4
Boys, weapon toys, war play and meaning-making: prohibiting play in early childhood education settings?	4
Fathers’ stimulation of toddlers’ cognitive development contributes to children’s executive function skills at five years of age	4
Vulnerable preschoolers mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic in Argentina: A cross-sectional study	4
Preschool-aged children's agency in shared book reading: the relation to the literacy environment in Czech families	4
Poverty in early childhood and future educational achievements	4
Correction	4
Sleep problems, sleep environment and daily routines in Turkish preschoolers	4
Children’s family drawings: association with attachment representations in story stem narratives and social and emotional difficulties	4
The relative age effect and gender difference on fundamental motor skills in preschool children aged 4–5 years	3
The relationships between the COVID-19 fears of mothers and their mother-infant bonding and breastfeeding self-efficacy in the postpartum period	3
Early detection of mental disorders in child psychiatry: the accuracy of parental concerns	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
Imitation and intention understanding in typically developing children and children with autism spectrum disorder	3
The dual role of nurses as mothers during the pandemic period: qualitative study	3
A study on the effect of Montessori Education on self-regulation skills in preschoolers	3
Relationships between parental marital quality and preschool children’s prosocial behaviours: a meta-analysis	3
‘It’s Very Spooky in Here’: young children’s fears and anxieties in the natural environment	3
Effects of social inhibition and group relations on altruistic behaviour of children under conditions of reputational threat	3
The efficacy of cognitive–behavioural play therapy and puppet play therapy on bilingual children’s expressive, receptive language disorders	3
Maternal sensitivity, early interactions and infant attachment: a systematic review	3
Behavioral self-regulation development in at-risk families: the role of family resources	3
Combined screening of early childhood development, hearing and vision by community health workers using mHealth tools in a low-income community	3
The kindergarten in the religious kibbutz – The intersection between religious education and kibbutz education	3
Early childhood education pioneers and their curriculum programs	3
The transition from early intervention to preschool for children with multiple disabilities: a narrative review	3
The effect of biological nurturing on breastfeeding success and self-efficacy in primiparous women: a randomized controlled study	3
Promotion of school readiness in home visiting: creating a key driver diagram for continuous quality improvement	3
Co-regulation in dyadic parent–child relationships: a video analysis of well-functioning interactions	3
Children born very or extremely preterm transitioning to school: a cross-sectional study examining predictors of school readiness, school adjustment, and support needs	3
Social exclusion, and mistrust of state-led early childhood care and education policies: a qualitative case study in the estate sector of Sri Lanka	3
Media use and children's self-regulation: a narrative review	3
Kangaroo mother care for preterm infants and child development – evidence from São Paulo, Brazil	3
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	3
Vocabulary enrichment using an E-book with and without kindergarten teacher’s support among LSES children	2
The relationship between theory of mind and peer acceptance in preschool children: a test of the counterfactual hypothesis in the social domain	2

The predictive effect of problematic behaviours on cognitive tempo and attention level in 60–66 months old children	2
Early motor development in China: secular trends among 4-year-olds	2
Children on the borders between institution, home and leisure: space to fend for yourself when leaving the school-age educare centre	2
Unprecedented times: what we have learned about remote instruction in early childhood during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
The impact of fathers’ gender perspectives and involvement on children’s resilience	2
The relationship between preschool children’s electronic product use and problem behaviours: a moderated mediation model	2
The effect of sensorimotor interventions on feeding readiness and oral feeding success in preterm infants: a randomized controlled trial	2
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	2
Home environment and social skills of Japanese preschool children pre- and post-COVID-19	2
The experiences of early childhood development care centre staff in providing care and learning support in a low socioeconomic community in South Africa	2
Dancing With children or dancing for children? Measuring the effects of a dance intervention in children’s confidence and agency	2
Normative expectations on childbearing: a study of reproductive justice	2
Socioeconomic status and young children’s sleep/wake problems: the moderating role of maternal mindful parenting	2
The effectiveness of swaddling and maternal holding applied during heel blood collection on pain level of healthy term newborns; randomized controlled trial	2
Research status and evolutionary trends on early childhood sports in China: a perspective of co-word analysis	2
Screen preference and extraversion: key factors in the link between mother phubbing and preschoolers’ problematic media use	2
Promoting social competence and social inclusion in the preschool: a peer-based relational intervention	2
Caregiving dispositions as predictors of postpartum depression and mother-baby bonding: parental self-efficacy and marital satisfaction as resources	2
Family social capital in kindergarten: predicting third-grade learning and developmental outcomes for low-SES urban children	2
‘I can do this by my own self’: how four preschool-aged children navigated mobile technologies at home	2
How does a mother perceive her child's mind? Developmental changes in child behaviours that enable mothers to perceive their child’s minds	2
Mothers’ implicit and explicit attitudes towards infant crying: predicting postpartum depressive symptoms	2
Musical learning as a contributing factor in the development of socio-emotional competence in children aged 4 and 5: an Exploratory study in a naturalistic context	2
Developmental characteristics and mental health of low birth weight children at 2 years in relation to sociodemographic risk factors	2
Closeness and conflict in teacher-child relationships in preschool: the role of child personality types	2
‘Chairs of Conflict Resolution’: training young children to resolve conflicts in Greek kindergartens	2
Child development and family relationships in families following ART	2
Physical and sensory environment interventions to support children’s social and emotional development in early childhood education and care settings: a systematic review	2
Parenting styles and young children’s problem behaviours: the mediating role of electronic media usage	2