OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Early Child Development and Care is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Is school readiness associated with externalizing symptoms?	32
The relationship between children’s sleep patterns, media consumption, and temperamental activity level	23
Predictors of preschoolers’ classroom engagement: teacher–child interactions, teacher–child relationships, and child’s self-control	18
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	18
Poverty in early childhood and future educational achievements	14
Supporting children’s emotions and relationships by child gender: influences of teachers’ emotion validating, acknowledging, and minimizing language	12
Demographic characteristics as determinants of toddlers’ physical and social spontaneity in kindergarten	12
The effect of project-based STEAM activities on the social and cognitive skills of preschool children	10
Closeness and conflict in teacher-child relationships in preschool: the role of child personality types	10
Attachment to teacher, internalizing and externalizing symptoms: the mediating role of executive functions	10
Family media ecology and preschoolers’ screen time: insights from a network analysis of 13,596 Chinese families	10
Parents’ and toddlers’ emotion regulation: the importance of emotion talk	10
Screen preference and extraversion: key factors in the link between mother phubbing and preschoolers’ problematic media use	9
Research on the effectiveness of integrated early childhood education models: an international comparative analysis based on children’s continuous development	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
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
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
Research status and evolutionary trends on early childhood sports in China: a perspective of co-word analysis	8
Comparing the effects of AR picture books and print picture books on preschoolers’ reading effect	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
Parental selection of shared reading materials: a scoping review	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	8
Children’s epistemic and interpersonal trust decisions for precise versus relative testimony	7

Borderline personality disorder in mothers, maternal sensitivity, and infant social withdrawal: a study on clinical dyads referred to perinatal mental health units	7
Children's development in the digital age: impact of technology, family, and pandemic on education and well-being	7
How children make sense of fear of the dark: a qualitative study of Russian preschoolers	7
Creative arts intervention for a firstborn child during the transition to siblinghood: a Chinese case study	7
The relationship between social avoidance and problematic media use among preschool migrant children: a cross-lagged study	7
Exploring the relationship between parent mental health and parent–child emotion reminiscing	6
Current status of infant and toddler care, parenting stress, and childcare needs of working mothers: evidence from Anhui Province, China	6
The effect of breastfeeding education and skin-to-skin contact on breastfeeding efficiency and maternal attachment: a randomized controlled study	6
Associations between father incarceration and Head Start children's academic and social competence: a case–control matching analysis	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
Israeli special education preschool teachers’ job satisfaction: an investigation of the predictive value of professional identity and social support	6
Jewish and Arab kindergarten teachers cope with the challenges of encountering the other in Israel: ‘My Diverse Kindergarten’	6
The impact of the creative leadership qualities of preschool teachers on children’s motivation	6
The well-being of Rohingya children in Rohingya camps of Bangladesh during the Covid 19 pandemic: a qualitative exploration	6
The relationship between approximate number system and mathematical achievement in 5–6 years children: a parallel mediation analysis	6
Associations between of maternal parenting styles and beliefs about children's emotions on preschoolers’ social skills and problem behaviours	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
‘Switch that off!’: the influence of digital parenting and mediation practices on young children’s engagement with digital technologies in the home	5
How kindergarten principals’ transformational leadership promotes teachers’ work engagement and children’s approaches to learning in China: a mediating model from a field theory perspective	5
Exploring adults’ use of smart speakers to shape young children’s everyday experiences	5
Too much of a good thing? Linking overparenting and Chinese young children’s social preference	5
Associations between the well-being of the early childhood education workforce and caregiver-child relationships in centre- and home-based settings	5
How school readiness profiles moderate the link between conflictual teacher–child relationship and aggressive behaviour in children	5
Adult–child pedagogical interactions in the home and in preschool: what commonalities can pre-schoolers experience in the context of cognitive development?	5
Playfulness in Chinese preschoolers: the role of self- and other-oriented empathy and gender	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
Teacher-child interaction quality in Head Start and children’s kindergarten skills: a person-centered approach	5
Children’s behavioural problems in Chinese kindergartens: dual perspectives from teacher reports and classroom observations	5
Family communication and everyday executive function in preschool children	5
Enhancing preschoolers’ map literacy through eye-tracking analysis: investigating the effects of symbol recognition and spatial reasoning instruction	5
Active commuting to early childhood education and care institutions among toddlers (2–3 years)	4
Relational continuity in early childhood: linkages of maternal sensitivity in infancy, preschool-age children’s attachment narratives, and social behaviour	4
Understanding the role of parental self-efficacy for supporting children’s early learning in the home mathematics environment	4
Fathers’ stimulation of toddlers’ cognitive development contributes to children’s executive function skills at five years of age	4
Does off-campus training encourage numeracy skills and social-emotional skills? Evidence from China	4
Quality of interactions in child day-care centres: status quo analysis of interaction designs in daily kindergarten routine	4
The effectiveness of child-centered group play therapy and narrative therapy on preschoolers’ separation anxiety disorder and social-emotional behaviours	4
Overprotective parenting attitudes and personal–social development during the preschool period	4
Exploring preservice ECE teachers’ TPACK through digital storytelling during the pandemic	4
The transition from early intervention to preschool for children with multiple disabilities: a narrative review	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
The relationship between school readiness and self-regulation skills in first-grade primary school children	4
The relationship between fundamental movement skills and physical activity in preschoolers: a systematic review	4
Enhancing cognitive stimulation at home: PlayReadVIP for Brazilian families	4
Early nursery attendance and infant neurodevelopment at 1 year of age	4
Forest kindergarten: fostering ecological cognition and executive function in preschoolers	4
Can child-friendly tools support young, autistic children to better communicate about their well-being to help inform school provision?	4
Little fingers, big competition: digital game addiction and competition styles of preschool children in the context of collectivist culture	4
Informal learning through Tippo games during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of children in rural Kenya	4

Effects of social inhibition and group relations on altruistic behaviour of children under conditions of reputational threat	4
Maternal satisfaction with professional health care for excessive infant crying: does it meet maternal needs?	4
Maternal technoference and social avoidance: the role of mother-child relationships and gender	4
Interaction quality in German early childcare settings: investigating the domains of CLASS Toddler and the associations with structural characteristics	4
Snap: young children share the importance of relationships through child-led photography	4
Upstream or downstream reciprocity: which matters more for sharing expectations and behavior in 4- to 5-year-old children?	4
Standing out from the crowd: the role of theory of mind on childhood creativity	4
Attachment classifications and their correlates in Japanese father–infant dyads	4