OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Early Childhood Research Quarterly is 5. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Does executive function affect children's peer relationships more than emotion understanding? A Longitudinal study based on latent growth model	32
Bidirectional relations between self-control and cooperation among Japanese preschoolers: A random-intercept cross-lagged panel analysis	29
Maternal and paternal parenting stress: Direct and interactive associations with child externalizing and internalizing behavior problems	28
Socialization discontinuity as an explanation for disparities in teacher-child relationships	25
Editorial Board	25
“A win-win for all of us": COVID-19 sheds light on the essentialness of child care as key infrastructure	22
Preterm birth and expressive language development across the first 5 years of life: A nationally-representative longitudinal path analysis	21
Effect of the timing of initial exposure to maternal depression on children's school readiness	20
Editorial Board	19
The impacts of Abecedarian and Head Start on educational attainment: Reasoning about unobserved mechanisms from temporal patterns of indirect effects	19
Is starting earlier better? A propensity score analysis of toddler-year impacts for English only and Spanish-speaking dual language learners	18
Editorial Board	18
A machine learning approach to identifying non-parental caregivers' risk for harsh caregiving towards infants in daycare centers	18
Executive function in kindergarten and development of behavioral competence: The moderating role of positive parenting practices	17
Impacts of two public preschool programs on school readiness in San Francisco	17
Parents’ physically performative behaviors during shared book reading: A comparison of mothers and fathers	17
Fathers, faith, and family gender messages: Are religiosity and gender talk related to children's gender attitudes and preferences?	16
Maternal and paternal insensitivity, adaptive engagement, and school readiness skills among economically disadvantaged children: A dynamic approach	15
Corrigendum to “Examining the relationship between discrimination, access to material resources, and black children's behavioral functioning during COVID-19” [Early Childhood Research Quarterly Volume	14
Reliability and validity evidence for the English and Spanish preschool narrative language measures-listening	14
Identifying effective strategies to instruct parents during parent-implemented intervention: The role of parent practice with feedback	14
Measuring and predicting teachers’ commitment to implementing evidence-based programs	14
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 systems	13
Exploring the impacts of linguistics, working memory, age, and gender on the quantity-number competencies model	13
Unpacking the home numeracy environment: Examining dimensions of number activities in early childhood	13

Editorial Board	13
Direct and interactive effects of attendance rates on growth in language, literacy and mathematics skills for children enrolled in voluntary preschool programs	13
Exploring how early childhood exclusionary practices persist for multiply marginalized children	13
Training on number comparison, but not number line estimation, improves preschoolers’ symbolic approximate arithmetic	12
Designing culturally situated playful environments for early STEM learning with a Latine community	12
How a child entangles empathy and computational thinking in reasoning about fairness	12
Early Childhood Education Teacher's Beliefs about a Match in Home Language Proficiency with Emergent Bilingual Learners	12
Teacher-child racial congruence and young children's preschool adjustment	12
Investigating children's interactions in preschool classrooms: An overview of research using automated sensing technologies	12
Examining interactions between educators and across children: Evaluating the validity of the responsive interactions for Learning - Educator-Child Dyad version	12
Stability of parenting profiles in early childhood for African American children in households experiencing poverty	12
Phonological processing and spatial attention contribute to mathematics performance in different ways: A 3-year longitudinal study	11
Universal preschool and cognitive skills – the role of school starting age as a moderating factor	11
The impact of work-related wellbeing and workplace culture and climate on intention to leave in the early childhood sector	11
Is skill heterogeneity in kindergarten classrooms associated with the persistence of pre-K gains? Evidence from the IES early learning network	11
Promotion of early childhood development and mental health in quality rating and improvement systems for early care and education: A review of state quality indicators	11
Results from a randomized trial of the effective classroom interactions for toddler educators professional development intervention	10
Exploring the role of educator personality on structural and process quality in early childhood education and care settings	10
An investigation into the concreteness of manipulatives in mathematical instruction: Do the object and its label matter?	10
Who calls for help? Assessing the reach of the Ohio preschool expulsion prevention partnership	10
The role of the traditional and digital home literacy environment in Chinese Kindergartners’ language and early literacy	10
The association between family relationship patterns and preschoolers’ social and behavioral competence in Chinese urban families	10
The role of language in the association between theory of mind and executive functioning in early childhood: New longitudinal evidence	10
Children's task persistence in first grade: The role of parent-child and teacher-child relationships	10
Stop hurting each other: Bidirectional longitudinal relationships and sex differences between parents’ negative expressiveness and offspring’s problem behaviors	10
Asian and Asian American early educators’ racial discrimination experiences and student well-being during COVID-19: A moderated mediation model	9
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 services	9
Reading with 1–2 year olds impacts academic achievement at 8–11 years	9
First do no harm: How teachers support or undermine children's self-regulation	9
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 sociodemogr	9
Reducing childcare subsidy instability through eligibility period extensions: Equity impacts of 12-month recertification requirements	9
Tiered universal and targeted early childhood interventions: Enhancing attendance across families with varying needs	9
Caregivers’ perceived changes in engaged time with preschool-aged children during COVID-19: Familial correlates and relations to children's learning behavior and emotional distress	9
Kindergarten academic and social skills and exposure to peers with pre-kindergarten experience	9
Spatial skills and counting sequence knowledge: Investigating reciprocal longitudinal relations in early years	9
Examining duration of family enrollment in subsidized child care after policy change: Disaggregated outcomes for diverse populations in New Mexico	9
Standards, curriculum, and assessment in early childhood education: Examining alignment across multiple state systems	9
Parental sensitivity and intrusiveness in gay-, lesbian-, and heterosexual-parent families with infants conceived using artificial reproductive techniques: Do parents’ gender and caregiver role matter	9
Self-regulation development among young Spanish-English dual language learners	9
A pilot study of a micro-course to promote positive teaching practices and prevent exclusionary discipline in early childhood	9
Caregivers’ perceptions on caregiver-implemented intervention and coaching	8
Editorial Board	8
Learning experiences vary across young children in the same classroom: evidence from the individualizing student instruction measure in the Boston Public Schools	8
Maternal question use and child language outcomes: The moderating role of children's vocabulary skills and socioeconomic status	8
Early childhood predictors of black children's achievement: Home, early care and education, and neighborhood contexts	8
Mother-father relationships and child social-emotional adjustment: Mediation through maternal and paternal parenting	8
Parenting programs in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region: A multilevel meta-analysis	8
Widely used measures of classroom quality are largely unrelated to preschool skill development	8
Hard-to-staff centers: Exploring center-level variation in the persistence of child care teacher turnover	8
Free play predicts self-regulation years later: Longitudinal evidence from a large Australian sample of toddlers and preschoolers	8

Relations between caregivers’ emotion regulation strategies, parenting styles, and preschoolers’ emotional competence in Chinese parenting and grandparenting	8
The spatial inequality of early care and education centers	8
Instructional alignment is associated with PreK persistence: Evidence from the Boston Public Schools	8
Effects of cumulative family risks on school readiness skills: A cross-cultural study between the U.S. and Korea	8
To excel and to be happy: Parenting behaviors, parenting stress, and sociocultural contexts in Dutch and urban Chinese families	8
Editorial Board	7
Editorial Board	7
Granny and mama: Grandmothers’ and mothers’ interactions with toddlers during block play in urban China	7
Quality and inequality in pre-primary and home environment inputs to early childhood development in Egypt	7
So, what is it? Examining parent-child interactions while talking about artifacts in a museum	7
Academic Achievement in Grades 1 to 6: Association with Child, Parental and Socio-Familial Characteristics 5 Months After Birth	7
Associations between preschool quality and children's social-emotional development until 2nd grade of elementary school	7
Monitoring early childhood development at the population level: The ECDI2030	7
An examination of the use and outcomes of readiness assessments, retention policies, and title 1 funding for kindergarten children in the United States	7
Research on fathers: pathways to coming of age	7
State leaders in early childhood education: Perspectives on instructional policy supports and alignment	7
Classroom skill compositions and preschoolers’ early academic and executive function outcomes	7
Does screen exposure necessarily relate to behavior problems? The buffering roles of emotion regulation and caregiver companionship	6
Lead teacher, assistant teacher, and peer racial/ethnic match and child outcomes for Black children enrolled in enhanced high-quality early care and education programs	6
The importance of home numeracy environment in preschoolers’ spontaneous focusing on numerosity: A mediation study	6
Profiles of home language experiences of Spanish-English dual language learners in migrant and seasonal head start programs	6
The contribution of inhibitory control to early literacy skills in 4‐ to 5‐year‐old children	6
From preschool to politics: Early socialization in Tulsa	6
Accommodating life's demands: Childcare choices for student parents in higher education	6
Parental Problematic Smartphone Use and Children's Executive Function: The Mediating Role of Technoference and the Moderating Role of Children's Age	6
Preschool children's engagement with a social robot compared to a human instructor	6
Talking, praising and teaching: How parent interaction during a learning task relates to children's early learning	6
Measuring preschool children's engagement behaviors during classroom shared reading: Construct and concurrent validity of the shared reading engagement rating scale	6
A meta-analysis of teacher language practices in early childhood classrooms	6
Young children's cortisol levels at out-of-home child care: A meta-analysis	6
Family ecological resources and risks: The moderating role of Early Head Start	6
Editorial Board	6
Predictors and outcomes of being retained twice in elementary school	6
Who has a same race or ethnicity teacher in kindergarten? Comparing disparities in access for students with and without disabilities	6
Parental early math support: The role of parental knowledge about early math development	6
Adverse childhood experiences, stress, and resilience among early childhood teachers	6
My child lags behind: Parents’ perceptions of children's needs for language support, their home-literacy practices, and children's language skills	6
When bigger looks better: CLASS results in public Montessori preschool classrooms	5
The link between hours of center-based childcare and child development in 3- to 6-year-olds: Evidence from Singapore	5
Factors affecting enrollment of children with disabilities in child care and early education programs: A mixed methods study of Arkansas center-based programs	5
Mission FEEL! A novel emotion understanding intervention for preschoolers: A proof-of-concept study	5
Different settings, different patterns of impacts: Effects of a Pre-K math intervention in a mixed-delivery system	5
Racism under the skin: Connecting the dots between the threats of structural inequities and the biological embedding of adversity	5
Why is ECE enrollment so complicated? An analysis of barriers and co-created solutions from the frontlines	5
A teacher's choice: Preschool teachers’ selection and use of picture books for mathematics instruction	5
Designing formative assessments of early childhood computational thinking	5
Exploring the relation between early childhood education and historical and contemporary racism and bias for Black children	5
“Tell me what I'm doing wrong”: Criticism of parenting choices and mental health during COVID-19	5
Sharing in child caring: Does equal parenting involvement moderate the relationship between fathers’ and mothers’ sensitivity and toddlers’ receptive language ability ?	5
The role of educators’ racial beliefs in developing relationships with white toddlers and preschool children	5
A sociometric approach to understanding characteristics of same- and other-gender friendships in young children	5
Access to high-quality early care and education: Analysis of Australia's national integrated data	5
Does Head Start or public Pre-Kindergarten enrollment matter? Associations with children's long-term school attendance in Baltimore City	5
Measuring resilience in young children: The Child and Youth Resilience Measure- Early Childhood (CYRM-EC)	5
Book sharing and reminiscing: Caregivers’ conversational style and children's language and literacy development in low-income Costa Rican families	5