Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Papers
(The median citation count of Early Childhood Research Quarterly 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board39
Fathers, faith, and family gender messages: Are religiosity and gender talk related to children's gender attitudes and preferences?38
Identifying effective strategies to instruct parents during parent-implemented intervention: The role of parent practice with feedback36
The association between family relationship patterns and preschoolers’ social and behavioral competence in Chinese urban families34
A pilot study of a micro-course to promote positive teaching practices and prevent exclusionary discipline in early childhood31
Asian and Asian American early educators’ racial discrimination experiences and student well-being during COVID-19: A moderated mediation model30
First do no harm: How teachers support or undermine children's self-regulation27
Toxic pathways: Exploring the impacts of vicarious and environmental racism on black youth in early childhood25
Mother-father relationships and child social-emotional adjustment: Mediation through maternal and paternal parenting25
Advancing equitable access to high quality early childhood education through a trauma- and resilience-informed community schools approach25
Editorial Board24
Talking, praising and teaching: How parent interaction during a learning task relates to children's early learning24
Measuring preschool children's engagement behaviors during classroom shared reading: Construct and concurrent validity of the shared reading engagement rating scale21
Different settings, different patterns of impacts: Effects of a Pre-K math intervention in a mixed-delivery system21
Sharing in child caring: Does equal parenting involvement moderate the relationship between fathers’ and mothers’ sensitivity and toddlers’ receptive language ability ?20
Are family-teacher communication quality and child and family characteristics associated with head start children's classroom engagement? It's complicated20
Text to talk: Effects of a home-school vocabulary texting intervention on prekindergarten vocabulary20
From preschool to politics: Early socialization in Tulsa20
Profiles of home language experiences of Spanish-English dual language learners in migrant and seasonal head start programs19
“They felt the safe space”: Practitioner experiences of delivering Mellow Babies, a targeted, early intervention program for parents and their babies19
Monitoring early childhood development at the population level: The ECDI203018
To excel and to be happy: Parenting behaviors, parenting stress, and sociocultural contexts in Dutch and urban Chinese families18
Measuring resilience in young children: The Child and Youth Resilience Measure- Early Childhood (CYRM-EC)17
Examining the relationship between discrimination, access to material resources, and black children's behavioral functioning during COVID-1917
Why is ECE enrollment so complicated? An analysis of barriers and co-created solutions from the frontlines17
Student-teacher conflict or student-school conflict? Exploring bidirectional relationships between externalizing behavior and teacher conflict16
Supporting the understanding of cardinal number knowledge in preschoolers: Evidence from instructional practices based on finger patterns16
Strategies, recommendations, and validation of remote executive function tasks for use with young children15
Understanding associations between early social-emotional screening status and primary school children´s social-emotional well-being in Finland15
My child lags behind: Parents’ perceptions of children's needs for language support, their home-literacy practices, and children's language skills15
Political prioritization of early childhood education during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative policy analysis of low- and middle-income countries15
A meta-analysis of teacher language practices in early childhood classrooms15
Parent and teacher ratings of Spanish-speaking Latino preschoolers’ behaviors: Validation of the Spanish parent and English teacher Conner's early childhood short forms14
Effects of online parent coaching on Filipino children's skills14
Gesture like a kitten and you won't forget your tale: Drama-based, embodied story time supports preschoolers’ narrative skills14
The sound of self-regulation: Music program relates to an advantage for children at risk14
Attachment configurations to mothers and fathers during infancy predict compliance, defiance, and effortful control in toddlerhood14
When Ebony and Malik share stories in school: White teachers’ perceptions of children's use of African American English during oral storytelling14
Paternal mind-mindedness and child executive functioning in the kindergarten classroom14
Policies addressing suspension and expulsion in state early care and education subsystems: A national census of policy alignment and integration14
‘What do YOU think?’: Children's questions, teacher's responses and children's follow-up across diverse preschool settings13
Participation of early care and education centers in the child care subsidy system: A statewide mixed methods investigation13
The development and prediction of young children's behavioral mastery motivation13
Can the sustaining environments hypothesis be sustained? Testing moderation of sustained public preschool benefits by kindergarten classroom quality13
Transitions in patterns of caregiver involvement before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A latent transition analysis13
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 quality12
Retention and turnover of teaching staff in a high-quality early childhood network12
Supporting and engaging with diverse families during the early years: emerging approaches that matter for children and families12
Home literacy environment and Chinese Children’s second language development: A cross-lagged analysis12
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the child care sector: Evidence from North Carolina12
Teacher language quality in preschool classrooms: Examining associations with DLLs' oral language skills12
You Do You[Tube]!The multifaceted roles of online video viewing in the lives of U.S. children12
What a cool classroom! Voices of 5-year-olds on the design of physical learning environments11
Close to home: Family-centered spatial analysis of access to early care and education11
Does age moderate the influence of early life language experiences? A Naturalistic home observation study11
Pathways from marital relationships to children's social-emotional development in Korea: The role of parenting and social support11
Differences between Pre-K and Kindergarten classroom experiences: do they predict children's social-emotional skills and self-regulation across the transition to kindergarten?11
Child care use, preferences and access constraints among Native American, immigrant, refugee and Spanish-speaking families in New Mexico11
Effects of training parents in dialogic book‐sharing: The Early‐Years Provision in Children's Centers (EPICC) study11
The effects of a high quality state-run preschool program as rated by a Quality Rating and Improvement System on children's school readiness11
Where has all the time gone? Describing time use in full- vs. half-day pre-Kindergarten11
Effects of using video-based coaching to promote preservice teachers’ interactional skills in Chinese preschool classrooms11
Advice networks in early childhood education: Predicting teachers’ workplace experiences over time10
Procrastination in early childhood: Associations with self-regulation, negative affectivity, and the home environment10
Teacher turnover and residential instability: Exploring joint and contextual associations with child behavior10
Potential moderators of the association between parental psychological distress and perceived child externalizing behaviors10
Hypotheses in adult-child interactions stimulate children's reasoning and verbalizations10
Examining the child observation in preschool and teacher observation in preschool in community-based child care centers10
Gender equity and motivational readiness for computational thinking in early childhood10
Development of children's informal understanding of division through sharing: Contributions of reasoning demands and problem situations10
Increasing access in the ECE enrollment process: Evidence from an information intervention in New Orleans10
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 systems9
Adding family math to the equation: Promoting Head Start preschoolers’ mathematics learning at home and school9
Associations between school characteristics and learning gains for pre-K attenders and non-attenders: Important constructs, limited evidence9
Early intervention of language and behavior in monolingual and bilingual preschoolers with Developmental Language Disorders9
Examining the effects of an infant-toddler school readiness intervention in center- and family-based programs: Are results generalizable?9
Mathematics in U.S. Preschool and Kindergarten Classrooms9
Contributions of shared book reading to children's learning of new semantic facts through memory integration9
Classroom social network antecedents of relational aggression and victimization for kindergarten children9
Cognitively engaging physical activity has an immediate impact on preschool children's executive function9
Parent predictors of the home math environment and associations with toddlers’ math skills9
Maternal and paternal insensitivity, adaptive engagement, and school readiness skills among economically disadvantaged children: A dynamic approach8
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 services8
Exploring the role of educator personality on structural and process quality in early childhood education and care settings8
Widely used measures of classroom quality are largely unrelated to preschool skill development8
Best practices for designing and reporting caregiver training in early childhood mathematics interventions8
Parental sensitivity and intrusiveness in gay-, lesbian-, and heterosexual-parent families with infants conceived using artificial reproductive techniques: Do parents’ gender and caregiver role matter8
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 sociodemogr8
Parenting programs in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region: A multilevel meta-analysis8
Accommodating life's demands: Childcare choices for student parents in higher education8
Expanding access to high-quality early care and education for families with low income in Maryland through child care subsidy policies8
Reliability and validity evidence for the English and Spanish preschool narrative language measures-listening8
Promotion of early childhood development and mental health in quality rating and improvement systems for early care and education: A review of state quality indicators8
Maternal and paternal parenting stress: Direct and interactive associations with child externalizing and internalizing behavior problems8
Preterm birth and expressive language development across the first 5 years of life: A nationally-representative longitudinal path analysis8
Stability of parenting profiles in early childhood for African American children in households experiencing poverty8
Quality and inequality in pre-primary and home environment inputs to early childhood development in Egypt8
The contribution of inhibitory control to early literacy skills in 4‐ to 5‐year‐old children8
A sociometric approach to understanding characteristics of same- and other-gender friendships in young children7
A word about probability: Do general and specific vocabulary knowledge predict probabilistic reasoning in young children?7
Vocabulary size predicts behavioral problems in emotionally reactive children7
Classroom age composition and preschoolers’ language and literacy gains: The role of classroom engagement7
Exploring the relation between early childhood education and historical and contemporary racism and bias for Black children7
Associations between preschool quality and children's social-emotional development until 2nd grade of elementary school7
COVID-19 and early childhood education: Implications for research, practice, and policy7
Experiences of child care providers serving subsidy-receiving children involved in the child protective services system: Implications for equitable access7
Linking professional development to classroom quality: Differences by ECE sector7
When bigger looks better: CLASS results in public Montessori preschool classrooms7
Does screen exposure necessarily relate to behavior problems? The buffering roles of emotion regulation and caregiver companionship7
Guest editorial: Advancing our understanding of demographic (Mis)match in early childhood education7
The Interrelations between home numeracy activities, children's attitudes toward mathematics, and their mathematics achievement7
Early childhood predictors of black children's achievement: Home, early care and education, and neighborhood contexts7
Program-wide implementation of the Pyramid Model: Supporting fidelity at the program and classroom levels6
Urban-rural achievement gap in low- and middle-income countries: The role of early childhood education6
Editorial Board6
A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of coaching and the contribution of coaching processes to learning outcomes for early childhood teachers and children6
Positive deviance in the Oregon kindergarten assessment: Identifying schools and communities that are beating the odds6
Implementation of a comprehensive state effort to reduce exclusionary discipline in early care and education settings: Arkansas's policy6
Through the lens of early educators: Understanding the use of expulsion and suspension in childcare programs6
A peer-mediated approach to support emergent bilingual preschoolers6
Child social-emotional and behavioral problems and competencies contribute to changes in developmental functioning during Early Intervention6
The impact of social pretend play on preschoolers’ social development: Results of an experimental study6
A director like me: Teacher-leader racial/ethnic match and job outcomes in child care centers6
Self-regulation mediates the relations between family factors and preschool readiness6
Child care tradeoffs among Massachusetts mothers6
Parents’ epistemological beliefs to children's early numeracy abilities: Pathways through parents’ home practices and children's numeracy interest6
Efficacy and perception of feasibility of structured games for achieving curriculum learning goals in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten low-income classrooms6
Teacher-child racial/ethnic match from prekindergarten through first grade: Understanding early exposure and outcomes6
Early Childhood Teachers of Color in New York City: heightened stress, lower quality of life, declining health, and compromised sleep amidst COVID-196
Classroom chaos and program quality in early child care and education programs: A study from Turkey6
Classrooms with high rates of absenteeism and individual success: Exploring students’ achievement, executive function, and socio-behavioral outcomes6
Preschool teachers’ language-related pedagogical beliefs and their relation to observed classroom quality6
An ecological perspective on early educator well-being at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic6
Big little leap: The role of transition difficulties in children's skill development during kindergarten6
Direct and interactive effects of attendance rates on growth in language, literacy and mathematics skills for children enrolled in voluntary preschool programs5
A machine learning approach to identifying non-parental caregivers' risk for harsh caregiving towards infants in daycare centers5
Editorial Board5
The association between maternal social information processing and preschool children social and learning problems via maternal insightfulness and children's social information processing5
Profiles of home language environment in Head Start classrooms: Patterns and associated developmental skills for Spanish-English dual language learners5
Inequality in access to early childhood care and education programs among 3- to 4-year-olds: Trends and variations across low- and middle-income countries5
Cortisol across preschool day relates to teacher ratings of executive functioning for children facing economic hardship5
Fostering healthy social and emotional climates in early childhood classrooms through infant and early childhood mental health consultation5
Following the leader: Associations between leader support and teacher retention in child care settings5
Reading with 1–2 year olds impacts academic achievement at 8–11 years5
Impacts of two public preschool programs on school readiness in San Francisco5
Self-regulation development among young Spanish-English dual language learners5
Interactions between child temperament and family environment in relation to school readiness: Diathesis-stress, differential susceptibility, or vantage sensitivity?5
The gender gap in early language development among children from peri-urban China5
Another case of the theory to practice gap: South Korean early childhood education and care5
Barriers to early childhood education for Black families and calls for equitable solutions from a qualitative study using peer researchers and an antiracist lens5
Effects of the MMCI course and coaching on pre-service ECE teachers’ beliefs, knowledge, and skill5
Reducing childcare subsidy instability through eligibility period extensions: Equity impacts of 12-month recertification requirements5
Training on number comparison, but not number line estimation, improves preschoolers’ symbolic approximate arithmetic5
Effect of the timing of initial exposure to maternal depression on children's school readiness5
Editorial Board5
Payment rates and the stability of subsidized child care: Evidence from Minnesota's child care assistance program5
Consultative roles of early childhood special education teachers: A modeler, an advisor, and a spontaneous practitioner5
Evidence-based educational interventions to reduce intergroup bias among young children in conflict zones5
Are food and nutrition assistance programs fostering an equitable early care and education (ECE) food environment? A systematic review utilizing the RE-AIM framework5
Associations of smartphone and tablet use in early childhood with psychosocial, cognitive and sleep factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis5
Teacher-child relationship quality and kindergarten outcomes: The moderating role of classroom activity settings5
An investigation into the concreteness of manipulatives in mathematical instruction: Do the object and its label matter?5
Racism under the skin: Connecting the dots between the threats of structural inequities and the biological embedding of adversity4
Adverse childhood experiences, stress, and resilience among early childhood teachers4
Associations of state-funded prekindergarten with early elementary literacy and absences4
Home food practices and Latino kindergarteners’ academic skills4
Equitable use of subsidized child care in Georgia4
Effects of cumulative family risks on school readiness skills: A cross-cultural study between the U.S. and Korea4
Latine Caregivers’ Approaches to Engaging Young Children in Mathematics4
Impacts of COVID-19 on the early care and education sector in California: Variations across program types4
Challenges in the transition to kindergarten and children's well-being through elementary school: Do school transition supports matter?4
Cluster randomized controlled trial of a phone-based caregiver support and parenting program for Syrian and Jordanian families with young children4
Exploring home visitors’ use and perceptions of developmental monitoring: A mixed methods study4
Advancing research on equitable access to early care and education in the United States4
Mission FEEL! A novel emotion understanding intervention for preschoolers: A proof-of-concept study4
Parental early math support: The role of parental knowledge about early math development4
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 practice4
Introduction to the Supplemental Issue: Advancing developmental science on the impact of racism in the early years4
Relations between caregivers’ emotion regulation strategies, parenting styles, and preschoolers’ emotional competence in Chinese parenting and grandparenting4
Book sharing and reminiscing: Caregivers’ conversational style and children's language and literacy development in low-income Costa Rican families4
The role of full- and half-day preschool attendance in the formation of children's social networks3
American and Chinese parents’ math talk during numeracy and routine activities: Do parental beliefs matter?3
Family engagement in early learning opportunities at home and in early childhood education centers in Colombia3
Coding as another language: Research-based curriculum for early childhood computer science3
Family systems and relationships: dyadic and triadic contexts in-the-moment and over time3
Parent time investments in their children's learning during a policy-mandated shutdown: parent, child, and household influences3
Parent child directed speech in dyadic and triadic interaction: Associations with co-parenting dynamics and child language outcomes3
The relationship between child-centered teaching attitudes in childcare centers and the socio-emotional development of Japanese toddlers3
Supporting Spanish-English DLLs in Head Start: Peer Language Match, Instructional Language Match, and Emotional Support as Predictors of Approaches to Learning and Social Skills3
Home mathematics environment and math performance of Chilean students in kindergarten and Grades 1 to 33
Embedded instruction for young children with disabilities: A systematic review and meta-analysis of single-case experimental research studies3
Impact of the Chicago universal pre-kindergarten expansion: Effects on pre-kindergarten capacity and enrollment and implications for equity3
Broadening understanding of executive function in children with different hearing histories: The roles of fathers and coparenting3
Relational uncertainty: Does parental perception of adopted children's academic success change over time?3
“We need to prepare and adjust”: The school readiness beliefs and practices of Korean families with preschool-aged children3
Scientific inquiry of race, ethnicity, and racial inequality in Early Childhood Research Quarterly3
Can positive school climate ameliorate racial-ethnic disparities in pre-kindergarten quality? Evidence from a large urban school district3
When kids be talkin’ Black: White educators’ beliefs about the effects of African American English on young children's achievement3
Exploring an early numeracy screening measure for English learners in primary grades3
Supportive language strategies for preschool dual language learners: Associations with early language outcomes3
Impacts of the beginning education: early childcare at home (BEECH) program for family child care providers and young children3
Can peers help sustain the positive effects of an early childhood mathematics intervention?3
Latine caregiver math talk across contexts and its relation to child math outcomes3
Preschool children's engagement with a social robot compared to a human instructor2
Scaffolding young children's computational thinking with teacher talk in a technology-mediated classroom2
Investigating the association between professional development and educators’ beliefs in U.S. center- and home-based early childhood education2
Early cognitive predictors of language, literacy, and mathematics outcomes in the primary grades2
The role of language in the association between theory of mind and executive functioning in early childhood: New longitudinal evidence2
Beyond computing: Computational thinking is associated with sequencing ability and self-regulation among Chinese young children2
Kindergarten academic and social skills and exposure to peers with pre-kindergarten experience2
Impacts of the four-day school week on early elementary achievement2
Exploring the impacts of linguistics, working memory, age, and gender on the quantity-number competencies model2
Consistent routines matter: Child routines mediated the association between interparental functioning and school readiness2
Research on fathers: pathways to coming of age2
Impacts of a personalized book giveaway intervention in low-SES households2
Children's task persistence in first grade: The role of parent-child and teacher-child relationships2
Context matters: The importance of investigating random effects in hierarchical models for early childhood education researchers2
Blame, shame, and rejection: Families’ experiences with preschool suspension and expulsion2
A teacher's choice: Preschool teachers’ selection and use of picture books for mathematics instruction2
Participation in early childhood education in Kosovo: (Re-)migration and international orientation as a resource for the participation of early childhood education institutions2
Hard-to-staff centers: Exploring center-level variation in the persistence of child care teacher turnover2
Children's absenteeism from pre-K to kindergarten: A focus on children receiving child care subsidies2
Understanding the wellbeing of early educators in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic: Lessons from Louisiana2
Essential elements of infant and early childhood mental health consultation: Inside the black box of preschool expulsion prevention2
Does executive function affect children's peer relationships more than emotion understanding? A Longitudinal study based on latent growth model2
Content-rich instruction and cognitive demand in prek: using systematic observations to predict child gains2
Designing culturally situated playful environments for early STEM learning with a Latine community2
Home language use with children, dialogue with multilingual parents and professional development in ECEC2
Who calls for help? Assessing the reach of the Ohio preschool expulsion prevention partnership2
Teacher attunement to preschool children's peer preferences: Associations with child and classroom-level variables2
“A win-win for all of us": COVID-19 sheds light on the essentialness of child care as key infrastructure2
The impact of work-related wellbeing and workplace culture and climate on intention to leave in the early childhood sector2
Latent classes of early childhood development and their predictors in Low- and middle-income countries: Results from multiple indicator cluster surveys 2010 - 20202
Teaching spanish‐speaking caregivers to implement EMT en Español: a small randomized trial2
Learning experiences vary across young children in the same classroom: evidence from the individualizing student instruction measure in the Boston Public Schools2
The intersection of teacher-child language & ethnic match for Hispanic/Latine dual language learners in early elementary school2
The link between hours of center-based childcare and child development in 3- to 6-year-olds: Evidence from Singapore2
Both sides of the screen: Predictors of parents’ and teachers’ depression and food insecurity during COVID-19-related distance learning2
The impacts of Abecedarian and Head Start on educational attainment: Reasoning about unobserved mechanisms from temporal patterns of indirect effects2
Validating a measure of growing pattern understanding in Chinese preschool children2
The spatial inequality of early care and education centers2
Multidimensional patterns of early care and education access through a family centered lens2
Caregivers’ perceptions on caregiver-implemented intervention and coaching2
Predicting child externalizing behavior ratings in Head Start: Investigating the impact of child and teacher influences2
Phonological processing and spatial attention contribute to mathematics performance in different ways: A 3-year longitudinal study2
Variations in the home language environment and early language development in a peri-urban community in China2
Center-based early care and education programs and quality indicators: A latent class analysis2
The role of the traditional and digital home literacy environment in Chinese Kindergartners’ language and early literacy2
Lead teacher, assistant teacher, and peer racial/ethnic match and child outcomes for Black children enrolled in enhanced high-quality early care and education programs2
One size does not fit all: Associations between child characteristics, differential treatment of children by educators and quality in child care centers2
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