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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The psychosocial development theory of Erik Erikson: critical overview	42
Digital parenting during the COVID-19 lockdowns: how Chinese parents viewed and mediated young children’s digital use	24
Vygotsky’s theory in-play: early childhood education	14
It’s like a fruit on a tree: young Maltese children’s understanding of the environment	13
Early childhood development in Bangladesh and its socio-demographic determinants of importance	13
Parenting style and prosocial behaviour among Chinese Preschool children: A moderation model	12
The effect of project-based STEAM activities on the social and cognitive skills of preschool children	10
Children’s family drawings: association with attachment representations in story stem narratives and social and emotional difficulties	9
Math achievement outcomes associated with Montessori education	9
Effect of age-appropriate play on promoting motor development of preschool children	9
The effectiveness of swaddling and maternal holding applied during heel blood collection on pain level of healthy term newborns; randomized controlled trial	9
Doing belonging in early childhood settings in Sweden	8
Pestalozzi and pedagogies of love: pathways to educational reform	8
Early-childhood teachers’ emotion socialization practices: a multi-method study	8
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	8
Links between parent–grandparent coparenting, maternal parenting and young children’s executive function in urban China	7
Vocabulary enrichment using an E-book with and without kindergarten teacher’s support among LSES children	7
Maternal Antenatal Attachment Scale (MAAS) reference values at different stages of pregnancy and their possible associations with major obstetric and demographic characteristics	7
Supporting young Spanish speaking English learners through teacher scaffolding and reciprocal peer tutoring	7
Developing connections between healthy living and environmental sustainability concepts in Cretan preschool children: a randomized trial	7
The promise and the practice of early childhood educare in the writings of Urie Bronfenbrenner	7
Cultural-historical study of crises in child role adjustment during transition to school within a bi-cultural context	7
Children on the borders between institution, home and leisure: space to fend for yourself when leaving the school-age educare centre	6
Outdoor play activities and outdoor environment of early childhood education in Turkey: a qualitative meta-synthesis	6
Relationship between permissive parenting style and atypical behaviour in preschool children, with generalized anxiety as mediator	6

Developmental change in attachment objects during childhood	6
An investigation on the effects of block play on the creativity of children	5
Improvements in babies’ neuropsychomotor development after family-centered Kids Intervention Therapy – Aquatic Environment (KITE): biopsychosocial approach	5
A study on the effect of Montessori Education on self-regulation skills in preschoolers	5
Examining the effects of kindergarten writing instruction on emergent literacy skills: a systematic review of the literature	5
Contemporary principles to lead understandings of children’s learning: synthesizing Vygotsky, Rogoff, Wells and Lindfors	5
Developmental disparities based on socioeconomic status and sex: an analysis of two large, population-based early childhood development assessments in Uruguay	5
Play tendency and prosociality in early childhood	5
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	5
An investigation of preschool children’s creativity in terms of their courage value and competition	5
Receptive vocabulary of preschool children with migration backgrounds: the effect of home literacy activities	4
Relations between parental math beliefs and emergent math skills among preschoolers from low-income households	4
A framework for considering teacher-child musical interactions in the early childhood classroom	4
Examining the effectiveness of body massage on physical status of premature neonates and their mothers’ psychological status	4
Exploring the relationship between parent mental health and parent–child emotion reminiscing	4
Ethnic-racial socialization in early childhood: effects of parent–teacher congruency on children’s social and emotional development	4
Do parental stimulation practices modify the effect of child’s health status on early developmental risk? Findings from a hospitalized cohort	4
Froebel’s kindergarten and its movement in Germany and the United States	4
Breastfeeding motivation in mothers of excessive crying infants: A correlation study	4
Effect of Kangaroo care on Vulnerable Infant Syndrome in mother	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
Fundamental motor and social skills of children: the role of Brain Gym exercise	4
Developing social-emotional skills through imaginative teaching methods in elementary education	4
The relationship between preschoolers’ sensory regulation and temperament: implications for parents and early childhood caregivers	4
Physical and sensory environment interventions to support children’s social and emotional development in early childhood education and care settings: a systematic review	4
Preschool-aged children's agency in shared book reading: the relation to the literacy environment in Czech families	4
Executive function ratings in educational settings: concurrent relations with cognitive and affective theory of mind	4
Associations of muscular fitness and body composition in children	4
What makes a child musical? conceptions of musical ability in childhood	4
The impact of B. F. Skinner’s science of operant learning on early childhood research, theory, treatment, and care	4
Participation in play activities in the children’s peer culture	4
Early motor development in China: secular trends among 4-year-olds	4
Media use and children's self-regulation: a narrative review	4
Home environment and social skills of Japanese preschool children pre- and post-COVID-19	4
Fathers’ emotional experiences while parenting toddlers: a qualitative exploration	4
Preschool screen-media usage predicts mental imagery two years later	4
Vulnerable preschoolers mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic in Argentina: A cross-sectional study	3
Theorists and their developmental theories	3
How teachers, peers, and classroom materials support children’s inquiry in a Reggio Emilia-inspired preschool	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
Activity settings and attributed social disadvantage as influencing factors on teacher–child interaction quality in central Germany	3
The impact of begin to ECSEL on children’s self-regulation, executive functions and learning	3
Children developing self-regulation skills in a Kids’ Skills intervention programme in Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care	3
Children’s epistemic and interpersonal trust decisions for precise versus relative testimony	3
Exploring caregivers’ perceptions on their role in promoting early childhood development	3
Effect of using white noise, embracing and facilitated tucking on pain during heel lance blood sampling in newborns	3
Gender differences in the development of children's social and emotional competencies during the pre-school year	3
How maternal traumatic childhood experiences affect adolescent and young mother–infant interaction at 3 months	3
Examining the indirect effects of kindergarteners’ executive functions on their academic achievement in the middle grades of elementary school	3

Study of perception of parents and their children about day-to-day outdoor play spaces	3
Improving early childhood teachers’ emotional skills supporting children’s academic socio-emotional development	3
Difficulties experienced in providing care of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit during COVID-19	3
Vygotsky’s contributions to understandings of emotional development through early childhood play	3
How do children build knowledge in early childhood education? Susan Isaacs, Young Children Are Researchers and what happens next	3
Socioeconomic status and young children’s sleep/wake problems: the moderating role of maternal mindful parenting	3
Mikhail Bakhtin: a two-faced encounter with child becoming(s) through dialogue	3
Is there a connection between children’s language skills, creativity, and play?	3
Preschool children’s behavioural intentions towards and perceptions of peers with disabilities in a preschool classroom	3
Young children’s play during a time of social distancing	3
Friedrich Froebel: interpolation, extrapolation	3
Sibling struggles: the impact of siblings upon child development in rural China	3
The role of partnership practices in strengthening parental trust	3
Reflection on methodologies and prioritizing children’s perspectives on protection needs within informal urban settings	3
Caregiver–child relationships in after-school care: the role of gender and the gender match	3