OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Early Childhood Research Quarterly is 6. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A pilot study of a micro-course to promote positive teaching practices and prevent exclusionary discipline in early childhood	51
Editorial Board	42
Asian and Asian American early educators’ racial discrimination experiences and student well-being during COVID-19: A moderated mediation model	36
Scaling high quality: An implementation study of Boston’s Universal Pre-K expansion to community-based programs	33
Supporting teachers to enact science talk in early elementary classrooms: The role of professional learning and curriculum	32
Identifying effective strategies to instruct parents during parent-implemented intervention: The role of parent practice with feedback	30
Mother-father relationships and child social-emotional adjustment: Mediation through maternal and paternal parenting	30
Concerted cultivation, parent-child closeness, and young children’s school readiness in China: An actor-partner interdependence moderation model	29
The association between family relationship patterns and preschoolers’ social and behavioral competence in Chinese urban families	29
Advancing equitable access to high quality early childhood education through a trauma- and resilience-informed community schools approach	27
My child lags behind: Parents’ perceptions of children's needs for language support, their home-literacy practices, and children's language skills	25
From preschool to politics: Early socialization in Tulsa	25
Developmental health and vulnerability among young children in Pakistan: Findings from a large-scale early childhood development assessment in Karachi	25
Examining the relationship between discrimination, access to material resources, and black children's behavioral functioning during COVID-19	23
Measuring preschool children's engagement behaviors during classroom shared reading: Construct and concurrent validity of the shared reading engagement rating scale	23
Student-teacher conflict or student-school conflict? Exploring bidirectional relationships between externalizing behavior and teacher conflict	21
#MathActivities on #SocialMedia: Examining content, design, and alignment with mathematical cognition research	20
Measuring resilience in young children: The Child and Youth Resilience Measure- Early Childhood (CYRM-EC)	20
Toxic pathways: Exploring the impacts of vicarious and environmental racism on black youth in early childhood	20
Why is ECE enrollment so complicated? An analysis of barriers and co-created solutions from the frontlines	19
“They felt the safe space”: Practitioner experiences of delivering Mellow Babies, a targeted, early intervention program for parents and their babies	19
Are family-teacher communication quality and child and family characteristics associated with head start children's classroom engagement? It's complicated	19
A randomized controlled trial of HighScope’s teacher professional learning on preschoolers' executive function skills	18
Monitoring early childhood development at the population level: The ECDI2030	18
Profiles of home language experiences of Spanish-English dual language learners in migrant and seasonal head start programs	18

The role of friends in the development of children’s classroom behavioral engagement and peer acceptance in kindergarten: A dyadic approach	18
Effects of online parent coaching on Filipino children's skills	17
Corrigendum to “Academic impacts of a mindfulness-based intervention on early grades students attending high-needs schools” [Early Childhood Research Quarterly 74 (2026) 106–116]	17
To excel and to be happy: Parenting behaviors, parenting stress, and sociocultural contexts in Dutch and urban Chinese families	17
Mediating role of parent-teacher cocaring relationships in the associations between teacher-child relationships and parenting stress in Early Head Start	17
Talking, praising and teaching: How parent interaction during a learning task relates to children's early learning	17
“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 c	17
Understanding associations between early social-emotional screening status and primary school children´s social-emotional well-being in Finland	16
Utilizing state workforce registries and targeted surveys to investigate workforce wellbeing	16
Policies addressing suspension and expulsion in state early care and education subsystems: A national census of policy alignment and integration	16
When Ebony and Malik share stories in school: White teachers’ perceptions of children's use of African American English during oral storytelling	15
Effects of a peer-mediated intervention on the language and socialization experiences and skills of preschool children	15
Retention and turnover of teaching staff in a high-quality early childhood network	15
Is participation in the target poverty alleviation program associated with early childhood development? Evidence from Southwest China	15
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 quality	15
Latent profiles, predictors, and consequences of preschool teachers’ wellbeing in ECEC institutions	15
Transitions in patterns of caregiver involvement before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A latent transition analysis	14
Can the sustaining environments hypothesis be sustained? Testing moderation of sustained public preschool benefits by kindergarten classroom quality	14
Home literacy environment and Chinese Children’s second language development: A cross-lagged analysis	14
Participation of early care and education centers in the child care subsidy system: A statewide mixed methods investigation	14
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the child care sector: Evidence from North Carolina	14
Teacher language quality in preschool classrooms: Examining associations with DLLs' oral language skills	13
You Do You[Tube]!The multifaceted roles of online video viewing in the lives of U.S. children	13
Does age moderate the influence of early life language experiences? A Naturalistic home observation study	13
The development and prediction of young children's behavioral mastery motivation	13
The effects of a high quality state-run preschool program as rated by a Quality Rating and Improvement System on children's school readiness	13
Gesture like a kitten and you won't forget your tale: Drama-based, embodied story time supports preschoolers’ narrative skills	13
Where has all the time gone? Describing time use in full- vs. half-day pre-Kindergarten	12
Child care use, preferences and access constraints among Native American, immigrant, refugee and Spanish-speaking families in New Mexico	12
Piecing together the puzzle: A mixed methods study of the Abecedarian Intervention	12
How are Difficulty Types Related to the Allocation of Special Needs Assistance in Early Childhood Education and Care	12
Pathways from marital relationships to children's social-emotional development in Korea: The role of parenting and social support	12
Family processes of socializing young children’s persistence in challenging tasks among racial/ethnic diverse low-income families	12
Pre-kindergarten classroom experiences and child outcomes through first grade	12
Close to home: Family-centered spatial analysis of access to early care and education	12
Effects of training parents in dialogic book‐sharing: The Early‐Years Provision in Children's Centers (EPICC) study	12
What a cool classroom! Voices of 5-year-olds on the design of physical learning environments	12
Potential moderators of the association between parental psychological distress and perceived child externalizing behaviors	11
Associations among early childhood educator compensation, wellbeing, and job commitment	11
Classroom social network antecedents of relational aggression and victimization for kindergarten children	11
Advice networks in early childhood education: Predicting teachers’ workplace experiences over time	11
Effects of using video-based coaching to promote preservice teachers’ interactional skills in Chinese preschool classrooms	11
How associations between executive function and early academic skills may have been missed: A quantile regression approach	11
Procrastination in early childhood: Associations with self-regulation, negative affectivity, and the home environment	11
Gender equity and motivational readiness for computational thinking in early childhood	11
Early intervention of language and behavior in monolingual and bilingual preschoolers with Developmental Language Disorders	11
Cognitively engaging physical activity has an immediate impact on preschool children's executive function	11
A pilot study of the impact and implementation of an anti-racism program for preschoolers	10
Associations between school characteristics and learning gains for pre-K attenders and non-attenders: Important constructs, limited evidence	10
Psychometric properties of the early number competence test in chinese preschool children: A one-year longitudinal study	10

Contributions of shared book reading to children's learning of new semantic facts through memory integration	10
Taking a deeper dive into understanding factors associated with head start staff turnover using a holistic well-being framework	9
Examining the child observation in preschool and teacher observation in preschool in community-based child care centers	9
Mathematics in U.S. Preschool and Kindergarten Classrooms	9
Adding family math to the equation: Promoting Head Start preschoolers’ mathematics learning at home and school	9
Parent predictors of the home math environment and associations with toddlers’ math skills	9
Teacher turnover and residential instability: Exploring joint and contextual associations with child behavior	9
Examining the effects of an infant-toddler school readiness intervention in center- and family-based programs: Are results generalizable?	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	8
Stability of parenting profiles in early childhood for African American children in households experiencing poverty	8
Reliability and validity evidence for the English and Spanish preschool narrative language measures-listening	8
Caregivers fine-tune their speech to support children’s word learning during shared book reading	8
Associations between a preschool tuition credit and children’s school success outcomes: Moving beyond test scores	8
Parenting programs in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region: A multilevel meta-analysis	8
Preterm birth and expressive language development across the first 5 years of life: A nationally-representative longitudinal path analysis	8
Reciprocal effects between phonological processing skills and Chinese word reading in kindergarten children: A longitudinal cross-lagged study	8
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	8
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	8
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	8
Increasing access in the ECE enrollment process: Evidence from an information intervention in New Orleans	8
Editorial Board	8
Maternal and paternal parenting stress: Direct and interactive associations with child externalizing and internalizing behavior problems	8
Exploring the role of educator personality on structural and process quality in early childhood education and care settings	8
COVID-19 and early childhood education: Implications for research, practice, and policy	7
Early childhood predictors of black children's achievement: Home, early care and education, and neighborhood contexts	7
Best practices for designing and reporting caregiver training in early childhood mathematics interventions	7
Quality and inequality in pre-primary and home environment inputs to early childhood development in Egypt	7
Exploring invariance of the measurement and prediction of ADHD behaviors in Latino children	7
Child social-emotional and behavioral problems and competencies contribute to changes in developmental functioning during Early Intervention	7
Guest editorial: Advancing our understanding of demographic (Mis)match in early childhood education	7
Expanding access to high-quality early care and education for families with low income in Maryland through child care subsidy policies	7
Associations between preschool quality and children's social-emotional development until 2nd grade of elementary school	7
When bigger looks better: CLASS results in public Montessori preschool classrooms	7
Accommodating life's demands: Childcare choices for student parents in higher education	7
Linking professional development to classroom quality: Differences by ECE sector	7
Development of teacher-child conversations during three years of teacher coaching in dialogic approach to reading	7
Vocabulary size predicts behavioral problems in emotionally reactive children	7
A sociometric approach to understanding characteristics of same- and other-gender friendships in young children	7
Does screen exposure necessarily relate to behavior problems? The buffering roles of emotion regulation and caregiver companionship	7
An initial yet rigorous test of multisensory alphabet instruction for english monolingual and emergent bilingual children	7
Kindergarten Health and Absenteeism: Implications for Academic Achievement and Racial and Ethnic Disparities	7
Experiences of child care providers serving subsidy-receiving children involved in the child protective services system: Implications for equitable access	7
Exploring the relation between early childhood education and historical and contemporary racism and bias for Black children	7
Urban-rural achievement gap in low- and middle-income countries: The role of early childhood education	6
Understanding U.S. households’ equitable access to infant and toddler care in the context of state CCDF eligibility-establishing policies	6
A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of coaching and the contribution of coaching processes to learning outcomes for early childhood teachers and children	6
What children get overlooked? The distribution of teachers’ attention in early childhood education: a mobile eye-tracking study	6
The Interrelations between home numeracy activities, children's attitudes toward mathematics, and their mathematics achievement	6
Integrating the PERMA model and SWPBS approach: effects on portuguese early childhood teachers’ well-being and children’s self-regulation	6
The impact of social pretend play on preschoolers’ social development: Results of an experimental study	6
School readiness of dual language learners in Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS): The role of dominant language of classroom interactions and socioeconomic status	6
Efficacy and perception of feasibility of structured games for achieving curriculum learning goals in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten low-income classrooms	6
Kia Tīmata Pai (Best Start) Video Project: Effects of an oral language professional development program (ENRICH) on educator-toddler conversations	6
From family socioeconomic status to vocabulary: The mediating roles of traditional and digital home literacy environment in Chinese preschoolers	6
Teacher-child racial/ethnic match from prekindergarten through first grade: Understanding early exposure and outcomes	6
Classroom chaos and program quality in early child care and education programs: A study from Turkey	6
A director like me: Teacher-leader racial/ethnic match and job outcomes in child care centers	6