Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Papers
(The median citation count of Early Childhood Research Quarterly 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Asian and Asian American early educators’ racial discrimination experiences and student well-being during COVID-19: A moderated mediation model52
Mother-father relationships and child social-emotional adjustment: Mediation through maternal and paternal parenting50
The association between family relationship patterns and preschoolers’ social and behavioral competence in Chinese urban families42
Editorial Board42
A pilot study of a micro-course to promote positive teaching practices and prevent exclusionary discipline in early childhood40
Identifying effective strategies to instruct parents during parent-implemented intervention: The role of parent practice with feedback37
First do no harm: How teachers support or undermine children's self-regulation36
Fathers, faith, and family gender messages: Are religiosity and gender talk related to children's gender attitudes and preferences?35
The role of friends in the development of children’s classroom behavioral engagement and peer acceptance in kindergarten: A dyadic approach34
Different settings, different patterns of impacts: Effects of a Pre-K math intervention in a mixed-delivery system33
“They felt the safe space”: Practitioner experiences of delivering Mellow Babies, a targeted, early intervention program for parents and their babies32
#MathActivities on #SocialMedia: Examining content, design, and alignment with mathematical cognition research32
Are family-teacher communication quality and child and family characteristics associated with head start children's classroom engagement? It's complicated31
Student-teacher conflict or student-school conflict? Exploring bidirectional relationships between externalizing behavior and teacher conflict31
To excel and to be happy: Parenting behaviors, parenting stress, and sociocultural contexts in Dutch and urban Chinese families29
Examining the relationship between discrimination, access to material resources, and black children's behavioral functioning during COVID-1928
Monitoring early childhood development at the population level: The ECDI203026
Text to talk: Effects of a home-school vocabulary texting intervention on prekindergarten vocabulary26
From preschool to politics: Early socialization in Tulsa25
Editorial Board25
Measuring preschool children's engagement behaviors during classroom shared reading: Construct and concurrent validity of the shared reading engagement rating scale25
Talking, praising and teaching: How parent interaction during a learning task relates to children's early learning22
Sharing in child caring: Does equal parenting involvement moderate the relationship between fathers’ and mothers’ sensitivity and toddlers’ receptive language ability ?22
Advancing equitable access to high quality early childhood education through a trauma- and resilience-informed community schools approach22
Profiles of home language experiences of Spanish-English dual language learners in migrant and seasonal head start programs21
Developmental health and vulnerability among young children in Pakistan: Findings from a large-scale early childhood development assessment in Karachi21
Concerted cultivation, parent-child closeness, and young children’s school readiness in China: An actor-partner interdependence moderation model21
Toxic pathways: Exploring the impacts of vicarious and environmental racism on black youth in early childhood21
Why is ECE enrollment so complicated? An analysis of barriers and co-created solutions from the frontlines21
Supporting the understanding of cardinal number knowledge in preschoolers: Evidence from instructional practices based on finger patterns21
My child lags behind: Parents’ perceptions of children's needs for language support, their home-literacy practices, and children's language skills20
Effects of online parent coaching on Filipino children's skills20
A meta-analysis of teacher language practices in early childhood classrooms20
Effects of a peer-mediated intervention on the language and socialization experiences and skills of preschool children20
Measuring resilience in young children: The Child and Youth Resilience Measure- Early Childhood (CYRM-EC)20
“It is almost impossible to get a spot when you need it”: Understanding parental knowledge and experiences of Canada’s new child care policy promoting access to quality early childhood education and c19
Attachment configurations to mothers and fathers during infancy predict compliance, defiance, and effortful control in toddlerhood19
Strategies, recommendations, and validation of remote executive function tasks for use with young children19
Political prioritization of early childhood education during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative policy analysis of low- and middle-income countries19
When Ebony and Malik share stories in school: White teachers’ perceptions of children's use of African American English during oral storytelling18
Understanding associations between early social-emotional screening status and primary school children´s social-emotional well-being in Finland18
Gesture like a kitten and you won't forget your tale: Drama-based, embodied story time supports preschoolers’ narrative skills18
Policies addressing suspension and expulsion in state early care and education subsystems: A national census of policy alignment and integration18
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the child care sector: Evidence from North Carolina18
Paternal mind-mindedness and child executive functioning in the kindergarten classroom18
You Do You[Tube]!The multifaceted roles of online video viewing in the lives of U.S. children17
Teacher language quality in preschool classrooms: Examining associations with DLLs' oral language skills17
The sound of self-regulation: Music program relates to an advantage for children at risk17
Parent and teacher ratings of Spanish-speaking Latino preschoolers’ behaviors: Validation of the Spanish parent and English teacher Conner's early childhood short forms17
Participation of early care and education centers in the child care subsidy system: A statewide mixed methods investigation17
The development and prediction of young children's behavioral mastery motivation17
Transitions in patterns of caregiver involvement before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A latent transition analysis17
Can the sustaining environments hypothesis be sustained? Testing moderation of sustained public preschool benefits by kindergarten classroom quality17
Supporting and engaging with diverse families during the early years: emerging approaches that matter for children and families16
Home literacy environment and Chinese Children’s second language development: A cross-lagged analysis16
Retention and turnover of teaching staff in a high-quality early childhood network16
Do Katie and Connor tell better stories than Aaliyah and Jamaal? Teachers’ perceptions of children's oral narratives as a function of race and narrative quality16
‘What do YOU think?’: Children's questions, teacher's responses and children's follow-up across diverse preschool settings16
Where has all the time gone? Describing time use in full- vs. half-day pre-Kindergarten15
Potential moderators of the association between parental psychological distress and perceived child externalizing behaviors15
What a cool classroom! Voices of 5-year-olds on the design of physical learning environments15
Pathways from marital relationships to children's social-emotional development in Korea: The role of parenting and social support15
Advice networks in early childhood education: Predicting teachers’ workplace experiences over time15
Child care use, preferences and access constraints among Native American, immigrant, refugee and Spanish-speaking families in New Mexico15
Effects of training parents in dialogic book‐sharing: The Early‐Years Provision in Children's Centers (EPICC) study15
Effects of using video-based coaching to promote preservice teachers’ interactional skills in Chinese preschool classrooms15
Family processes of socializing young children’s persistence in challenging tasks among racial/ethnic diverse low-income families15
Procrastination in early childhood: Associations with self-regulation, negative affectivity, and the home environment15
Close to home: Family-centered spatial analysis of access to early care and education14
Differences between Pre-K and Kindergarten classroom experiences: do they predict children's social-emotional skills and self-regulation across the transition to kindergarten?14
Gender equity and motivational readiness for computational thinking in early childhood14
Does age moderate the influence of early life language experiences? A Naturalistic home observation study14
Development of children's informal understanding of division through sharing: Contributions of reasoning demands and problem situations14
Contributions of shared book reading to children's learning of new semantic facts through memory integration13
Increasing access in the ECE enrollment process: Evidence from an information intervention in New Orleans13
Examining the effects of an infant-toddler school readiness intervention in center- and family-based programs: Are results generalizable?13
Classroom social network antecedents of relational aggression and victimization for kindergarten children13
A pilot study of the impact and implementation of an anti-racism program for preschoolers13
Adding family math to the equation: Promoting Head Start preschoolers’ mathematics learning at home and school13
The effects of a high quality state-run preschool program as rated by a Quality Rating and Improvement System on children's school readiness13
Mathematics in U.S. Preschool and Kindergarten Classrooms13
Teacher turnover and residential instability: Exploring joint and contextual associations with child behavior13
Examining the child observation in preschool and teacher observation in preschool in community-based child care centers12
Parental sensitivity and intrusiveness in gay-, lesbian-, and heterosexual-parent families with infants conceived using artificial reproductive techniques: Do parents’ gender and caregiver role matter12
Extra help for extra needs: Family perspectives on New Mexico's supplemental child care subsidy program for families at risk for involvement with child protective services12
Cognitively engaging physical activity has an immediate impact on preschool children's executive function12
Cultural and contextual understanding of parent engagement among Latine parents of pre-K children in low-income neighborhoods: The role of immigration enforcement threat, parent health and sociodemogr12
Early intervention of language and behavior in monolingual and bilingual preschoolers with Developmental Language Disorders12
Hypotheses in adult-child interactions stimulate children's reasoning and verbalizations12
Associations between school characteristics and learning gains for pre-K attenders and non-attenders: Important constructs, limited evidence12
Parent predictors of the home math environment and associations with toddlers’ math skills12
Preterm birth and expressive language development across the first 5 years of life: A nationally-representative longitudinal path analysis12
Maternal and paternal parenting stress: Direct and interactive associations with child externalizing and internalizing behavior problems11
The mixed-delivery pre-k opportunity gap? Differences in demographics, quality, and children's gains in community-based versus public school programs across five large-scale systems11
Parenting programs in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region: A multilevel meta-analysis11
Maternal and paternal insensitivity, adaptive engagement, and school readiness skills among economically disadvantaged children: A dynamic approach11
Stability of parenting profiles in early childhood for African American children in households experiencing poverty11
Reciprocal effects between phonological processing skills and Chinese word reading in kindergarten children: A longitudinal cross-lagged study11
Reliability and validity evidence for the English and Spanish preschool narrative language measures-listening11
Widely used measures of classroom quality are largely unrelated to preschool skill development11
Promotion of early childhood development and mental health in quality rating and improvement systems for early care and education: A review of state quality indicators11
Experiences of child care providers serving subsidy-receiving children involved in the child protective services system: Implications for equitable access10
Quality and inequality in pre-primary and home environment inputs to early childhood development in Egypt10
The contribution of inhibitory control to early literacy skills in 4‐ to 5‐year‐old children10
Expanding access to high-quality early care and education for families with low income in Maryland through child care subsidy policies10
Associations between preschool quality and children's social-emotional development until 2nd grade of elementary school10
Exploring the relation between early childhood education and historical and contemporary racism and bias for Black children10
Early childhood predictors of black children's achievement: Home, early care and education, and neighborhood contexts10
Best practices for designing and reporting caregiver training in early childhood mathematics interventions10
An initial yet rigorous test of multisensory alphabet instruction for english monolingual and emergent bilingual children10
Does screen exposure necessarily relate to behavior problems? The buffering roles of emotion regulation and caregiver companionship10
Exploring the role of educator personality on structural and process quality in early childhood education and care settings10
A sociometric approach to understanding characteristics of same- and other-gender friendships in young children10
When bigger looks better: CLASS results in public Montessori preschool classrooms10
Accommodating life's demands: Childcare choices for student parents in higher education10
Early Childhood Teachers of Color in New York City: heightened stress, lower quality of life, declining health, and compromised sleep amidst COVID-199
Exploring invariance of the measurement and prediction of ADHD behaviors in Latino children9
COVID-19 and early childhood education: Implications for research, practice, and policy9
Urban-rural achievement gap in low- and middle-income countries: The role of early childhood education9
A word about probability: Do general and specific vocabulary knowledge predict probabilistic reasoning in young children?9
Guest editorial: Advancing our understanding of demographic (Mis)match in early childhood education9
Classroom age composition and preschoolers’ language and literacy gains: The role of classroom engagement9
Teacher-child racial/ethnic match from prekindergarten through first grade: Understanding early exposure and outcomes9
Vocabulary size predicts behavioral problems in emotionally reactive children9
Linking professional development to classroom quality: Differences by ECE sector9
Program-wide implementation of the Pyramid Model: Supporting fidelity at the program and classroom levels9
A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of coaching and the contribution of coaching processes to learning outcomes for early childhood teachers and children9
Classroom chaos and program quality in early child care and education programs: A study from Turkey8
An ecological perspective on early educator well-being at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic8
Positive deviance in the Oregon kindergarten assessment: Identifying schools and communities that are beating the odds8
Editorial Board8
Efficacy and perception of feasibility of structured games for achieving curriculum learning goals in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten low-income classrooms8
Child social-emotional and behavioral problems and competencies contribute to changes in developmental functioning during Early Intervention8
A director like me: Teacher-leader racial/ethnic match and job outcomes in child care centers8
Classrooms with high rates of absenteeism and individual success: Exploring students’ achievement, executive function, and socio-behavioral outcomes8
Child care tradeoffs among Massachusetts mothers8
Parents’ epistemological beliefs to children's early numeracy abilities: Pathways through parents’ home practices and children's numeracy interest8
Through the lens of early educators: Understanding the use of expulsion and suspension in childcare programs8
The impact of social pretend play on preschoolers’ social development: Results of an experimental study8
The Interrelations between home numeracy activities, children's attitudes toward mathematics, and their mathematics achievement8
Big little leap: The role of transition difficulties in children's skill development during kindergarten8
Self-regulation mediates the relations between family factors and preschool readiness8
Barriers to early childhood education for Black families and calls for equitable solutions from a qualitative study using peer researchers and an antiracist lens8
A peer-mediated approach to support emergent bilingual preschoolers8
School readiness of dual language learners in Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS): The role of dominant language of classroom interactions and socioeconomic status8
Preschool teachers’ language-related pedagogical beliefs and their relation to observed classroom quality8
Evidence-based educational interventions to reduce intergroup bias among young children in conflict zones7
Inequality in access to early childhood care and education programs among 3- to 4-year-olds: Trends and variations across low- and middle-income countries7
Consultative roles of early childhood special education teachers: A modeler, an advisor, and a spontaneous practitioner7
Effects of the MMCI course and coaching on pre-service ECE teachers’ beliefs, knowledge, and skill7
Following the leader: Associations between leader support and teacher retention in child care settings7
The association between maternal social information processing and preschool children social and learning problems via maternal insightfulness and children's social information processing7
Associations of smartphone and tablet use in early childhood with psychosocial, cognitive and sleep factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis7
Are food and nutrition assistance programs fostering an equitable early care and education (ECE) food environment? A systematic review utilizing the RE-AIM framework7
Profiles of home language environment in Head Start classrooms: Patterns and associated developmental skills for Spanish-English dual language learners7
Another case of the theory to practice gap: South Korean early childhood education and care7
Interactions between child temperament and family environment in relation to school readiness: Diathesis-stress, differential susceptibility, or vantage sensitivity?7
The gender gap in early language development among children from peri-urban China7
Payment rates and the stability of subsidized child care: Evidence from Minnesota's child care assistance program7
Implementation of a comprehensive state effort to reduce exclusionary discipline in early care and education settings: Arkansas's policy7
Cortisol across preschool day relates to teacher ratings of executive functioning for children facing economic hardship7
Editorial Board7
Non-contact time implementation in early childhood center-based programs: A mixed methods study7
Fostering healthy social and emotional climates in early childhood classrooms through infant and early childhood mental health consultation7
Teacher-child relationship quality and kindergarten outcomes: The moderating role of classroom activity settings7
Mission FEEL! A novel emotion understanding intervention for preschoolers: A proof-of-concept study6
Editorial Board6
Effect of the timing of initial exposure to maternal depression on children's school readiness6
Direct and interactive effects of attendance rates on growth in language, literacy and mathematics skills for children enrolled in voluntary preschool programs6
Equitable use of subsidized child care in Georgia6
Challenges in the transition to kindergarten and children's well-being through elementary school: Do school transition supports matter?6
Adverse childhood experiences, stress, and resilience among early childhood teachers6
Training on number comparison, but not number line estimation, improves preschoolers’ symbolic approximate arithmetic6
Interrogating the role of anti-Blackness in the early care and education experiences of Black children and families: A call for advancing equitable science and practice6
Reducing childcare subsidy instability through eligibility period extensions: Equity impacts of 12-month recertification requirements6
Self-regulation development among young Spanish-English dual language learners6
Reading with 1–2 year olds impacts academic achievement at 8–11 years6
Latine Caregivers’ Approaches to Engaging Young Children in Mathematics6
Effects of cumulative family risks on school readiness skills: A cross-cultural study between the U.S. and Korea6
Impacts of COVID-19 on the early care and education sector in California: Variations across program types6
Editorial Board6
A machine learning approach to identifying non-parental caregivers' risk for harsh caregiving towards infants in daycare centers6
Impacts of two public preschool programs on school readiness in San Francisco6
An investigation into the concreteness of manipulatives in mathematical instruction: Do the object and its label matter?6
Relations between caregivers’ emotion regulation strategies, parenting styles, and preschoolers’ emotional competence in Chinese parenting and grandparenting6
Associations of state-funded prekindergarten with early elementary literacy and absences6
Measuring executive functions in context: Self-regulating behavior in the kindergarten classroom6
Broadening understanding of executive function in children with different hearing histories: The roles of fathers and coparenting5
Advancing research on equitable access to early care and education in the United States5
Supportive language strategies for preschool dual language learners: Associations with early language outcomes5
Parental early math support: The role of parental knowledge about early math development5
Embedded instruction for young children with disabilities: A systematic review and meta-analysis of single-case experimental research studies5
Cluster randomized controlled trial of a phone-based caregiver support and parenting program for Syrian and Jordanian families with young children5
The Head Start teacher paradox: Working conditions, whole well-being, and classroom quality5
Exploring an early numeracy screening measure for English learners in primary grades5
Exploring home visitors’ use and perceptions of developmental monitoring: A mixed methods study5
Racism under the skin: Connecting the dots between the threats of structural inequities and the biological embedding of adversity5
Book sharing and reminiscing: Caregivers’ conversational style and children's language and literacy development in low-income Costa Rican families5
Impacts of the beginning education: early childcare at home (BEECH) program for family child care providers and young children5
American and Chinese parents’ math talk during numeracy and routine activities: Do parental beliefs matter?5
Parent time investments in their children's learning during a policy-mandated shutdown: parent, child, and household influences5
Impact of the Chicago universal pre-kindergarten expansion: Effects on pre-kindergarten capacity and enrollment and implications for equity5
Family systems and relationships: dyadic and triadic contexts in-the-moment and over time5
Introduction to the Supplemental Issue: Advancing developmental science on the impact of racism in the early years5
Peer effects in small-group language instruction5
Can peers help sustain the positive effects of an early childhood mathematics intervention?5
Parent child directed speech in dyadic and triadic interaction: Associations with co-parenting dynamics and child language outcomes5
When kids be talkin’ Black: White educators’ beliefs about the effects of African American English on young children's achievement5
Home food practices and Latino kindergarteners’ academic skills5
Coding as another language: Research-based curriculum for early childhood computer science5
Can positive school climate ameliorate racial-ethnic disparities in pre-kindergarten quality? Evidence from a large urban school district4
Impacts of a personalized book giveaway intervention in low-SES households4
Validating a measure of growing pattern understanding in Chinese preschool children4
Family engagement in early learning opportunities at home and in early childhood education centers in Colombia4
Latine caregiver math talk across contexts and its relation to child math outcomes4
Supporting Spanish-English DLLs in Head Start: Peer Language Match, Instructional Language Match, and Emotional Support as Predictors of Approaches to Learning and Social Skills4
Impacts of the four-day school week on early elementary achievement4
Introduction to Special Issue Contributions of father-child relationship to children's development within the larger family system: A focus on observational measures4
Center-based early care and education programs and quality indicators: A latent class analysis4
Multidimensional patterns of early care and education access through a family centered lens4
Teacher attunement to preschool children's peer preferences: Associations with child and classroom-level variables4
Home mathematics environment and math performance of Chilean students in kindergarten and Grades 1 to 34
Relational uncertainty: Does parental perception of adopted children's academic success change over time?4
Both sides of the screen: Predictors of parents’ and teachers’ depression and food insecurity during COVID-19-related distance learning4
Scientific inquiry of race, ethnicity, and racial inequality in Early Childhood Research Quarterly4
Unravelling the pathways among relational language, number ordering skills, and number line estimation performance in Hong Kong kindergarten children4
Content-rich instruction and cognitive demand in prek: using systematic observations to predict child gains4
Consistent routines matter: Child routines mediated the association between interparental functioning and school readiness4
Predicting child externalizing behavior ratings in Head Start: Investigating the impact of child and teacher influences4
“We need to prepare and adjust”: The school readiness beliefs and practices of Korean families with preschool-aged children4
The role of full- and half-day preschool attendance in the formation of children's social networks4
The relationship between child-centered teaching attitudes in childcare centers and the socio-emotional development of Japanese toddlers4
Essential elements of infant and early childhood mental health consultation: Inside the black box of preschool expulsion prevention4
Understanding the wellbeing of early educators in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic: Lessons from Louisiana3
Lead teacher, assistant teacher, and peer racial/ethnic match and child outcomes for Black children enrolled in enhanced high-quality early care and education programs3
Learning experiences vary across young children in the same classroom: evidence from the individualizing student instruction measure in the Boston Public Schools3
Teaching spanish‐speaking caregivers to implement EMT en Español: a small randomized trial3
Designing culturally situated playful environments for early STEM learning with a Latine community3
A teacher's choice: Preschool teachers’ selection and use of picture books for mathematics instruction3
The link between hours of center-based childcare and child development in 3- to 6-year-olds: Evidence from Singapore3
Hard-to-staff centers: Exploring center-level variation in the persistence of child care teacher turnover3
Investigating the association between professional development and educators’ beliefs in U.S. center- and home-based early childhood education3
One size does not fit all: Associations between child characteristics, differential treatment of children by educators and quality in child care centers3
The impact of work-related wellbeing and workplace culture and climate on intention to leave in the early childhood sector3
Preschool children's engagement with a social robot compared to a human instructor3
Blame, shame, and rejection: Families’ experiences with preschool suspension and expulsion3
Research on fathers: pathways to coming of age3
The role of the traditional and digital home literacy environment in Chinese Kindergartners’ language and early literacy3
Phonological processing and spatial attention contribute to mathematics performance in different ways: A 3-year longitudinal study3
The impacts of Abecedarian and Head Start on educational attainment: Reasoning about unobserved mechanisms from temporal patterns of indirect effects3
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