OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Early Years is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
On becoming an infant-toddler pedagogue: perceived contributions of heuristic play in initial professional education	17
Birth to 3: a critical space for early childhood workforce transformation in South Africa	11
Transition at a standstill: preschoolers’ motor development during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Evaluating the impact of book gifting on the reading behaviours of parents and young children	7
Leadership development and system building in early childhood education and care: current issues and recommendations	6
Shadowing methodology and the role of the Educational Leader	6
Parents’ perspectives on inclusive practices in early childhood education and care: facilitators and barriers for children with Cerebral Palsy	6
What does it (not) mean to be “Froebelian”?: exploring Scottish early years professionals’ perspectives	6
Autonomous and responsible? Parental rationalities for their involvement in ECEC in the Czech Republic	6
Encouraging and assessing preschool children’s musical creativity	5
Teacher–child interactions during picture book reading in Chinese preschool classrooms: a comparative study of novice and experienced teachers	5
Dialogical conceptualisations of leadership in social enterprise early years group	5
Child–educator disagreements in Finnish early childhood education and care: young children’s possibilities for influence	4
Mental state language in Chinese educator-infant conversational interactions during structured and free play	4
Metacognition and self-regulation in young children: does it matter if metacognitive experiences are communicated?	4
Teaching as a new mission: Swedish preschool teachers’ collegial discussions	4
“Disregarded and undervalued”: early childhood teacher’s experiences of stress and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Parental death in young children’s lives: health professionals’ and kindergarten teachers’ contributions in meaning-making	4
Young children’s expression of gender and sexuality a multimodal research method	4
“We’ve got to fight; that’s the story of our lives”: advocacy experience of immigrant families of children with autism spectrum disorder	3
Creating Conditions for Chinese Kindergarten Teachers’ Professional Development in a Play-based Setting	3
Parent–child play and coping: experiences of parents and young children during the pandemic	3
Norwegian ECEC teachers’ play practices with children aged 2-3 years	3
Professional vision of early childhood teachers: relations to knowledge, work experience and teacher child-interaction	3
Early childhood education professionals’ mentalization: a pilot study	3

A critical analysis of Chinese Early Childhood Education policy documents from the perspective of education for sustainable development	3
What is the capacity of A in the contexts of STEM?	3
Supervisory discussions during the early childhood education and care student teacher practicum period – the cultural scripts, phases and discourses	3
Socioeconomic status differences in the linguistic environment: a study with Spanish-speaking populations in Argentina	3
Exploring public and private preschool teachers’ beliefs and practices regarding gifted children from three to six years old in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	3
China’s preschool teacher workforce development 2010–2020: crossing the river by feeling the stones	3
Building professionalism through professional associations and unions	3
Quality in children’s digital picture books: seven key strands for educational reflections for shared dialogue-based reading in early childhood settings	3
An exploratory study of Chilean early childhood teachers’ professional learning communities	3
“Oh, you’ve never done that before?!” Preservice teachers being ‘stirred in’ to unfamiliar practices with infants and toddlers	3
Who belongs in preschool? Perspectives of children and educators	3
‘I can’t teach without ICT’: unpacking and problematising teachers’ perceptions of the use of ICT in kindergartens in China	3
Beyond the rules, behind a smile: children’s oppositional actions in nurseries	2
Folk Pedagogies of Change: Developing an Early Years Education Development Strategy for China	2
List of reviewers from 2022	2
The policy-research-practice triangle in New Zealand early childhood education: Complexities, impossibilities and silences	2
Moments of togetherness: humour and playful interactions in the toddler peer group	2
(Care)fully reconstituting cruel professionalism with and for early childhood educators: how caring activism can resist uncaring conditions	2
Workforce diversity and quality improvement policies in early childhood education in East Asia	2
The role of parents’ gender in parenting attitudes and parental permission to engage in risky play	2
Strengthening infant and toddler pedagogy through an online specialised postgraduate qualification: building on initial teacher education and teaching experience	2
Relationships between teacher–child relationships, resilience, and emotional competence: an empirical study of left-behind children in regional China	2
‘I can teach you that’: a study of musical interaction as a learning-generating practice in Swedish preschool everyday environments	2
Supporting childcare professionals in approaching multilingualism: insights from a collaborative process for professional development	2
Service children’s wellbeing in the context of three- to four-year-old Army children experiencing a parental deployment	2
Exploring the experiences of parents and young children during the COVID-19 outbreak	2
International perspectives on wellbeing and democratic living in early childhood curricula	2
An infant-toddler field experience in resistance to settler colonialism in teacher preparation: perspectives and practices of teachers and teacher candidates	1
The process of becoming a nursery caregiver: the interactive perspective	1
The effects of number naming systems and age factor variables on counting skills: Turkish and Dutch children	1
Early childhood education and care context and cortisol from saliva and hair among 3–6-year-old children	1
Reconceptualising professional learning and development through a Froebelian lens: early childhood educators’ perspectives on professional identities in the UK and Italy, where is the love?	1
Observing dressing in a collaborative or trusting environment: the right to participate in one's own care at the Emmi Pikler nursery school in Budapest	1
Latent analysis of the relationship between burnout experienced by Chinese preschool teachers and their professional engagement and career development aspirations	1
Pedagogical coaches in childcare: opening the black box between input and output	1
Preventing violence against children (0–3 years) in nurseries: effectiveness of participatory training	1
Understanding the leadership perceptions of ECE leaders in Israel	1
The quality of nursery settings in Jamaica using ITERS-3; harnessing the lessons for improved practices in childcare facilities	1
Learning from COVID: recognising the centrality of the relational in early years practice and research	1
Preschool outdoor education environment quality predicts children’s environmental attitude, awareness and affinity towards nature (biophilia)	1
Preparing and supporting professionals working with infants and toddlers	1
International perspectives on early childhood education curriculum development: reflections on a documentary review	1
Preschool children’s understanding of the musical concept of tempo by engaging in strategies from mathematical generalisation	1
Peer Victimization among pupils in leisure-time centres: teachers’ reflections on their professional work	1
Crisis and adaptability: a model of early childhood teacher resilience across five countries	1
Impact of Kindergarten Teachers’ Scientific Processing Skills Training on Children’s Science and Mathematics Development	1
Introducing cultural-historical genetic-analytical model for studying child’s play: the matryoshka principle – situations within situations covered by situations	1
Links between teachers’ planning, assessment and development time and implementation of curriculum in early childhood education	1
Unlock the father–child relationship during lockdown: an investigation of socioemotional experiences of Wuhan preschool children and parents under COVID-19	1
Ongoing attachments with stuffed toys: conceptualizing childhood and teaching through transitional objects	1

The impact of a relationship-building strategy on teachers’ perceptions of preschooler behavior: a 2 X 10 approach	1
Perceived challenges of early childhood educators in promoting unstructured outdoor play: an ecological systems perspective	1
Barriers to involvement in parenting activities in school-based preschools in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Canada	1
Investigating multi-tasking and task rotation as aspects of the complexity of early childhood educators’ work	1
An analysis of the factors affecting access to the early childhood education and care: a systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis	1
Supporting educators’ emotional work with infants and their families around transitions at the start of the day	1
Pathways to educational integration: affordances and constraints on migrant children's participation in Swedish preschool teaching activities	1
Children’s involvement in home-based childcare: are boys more susceptible to caregiver sensitivity than girls?	1
How do early childhood education leaders shape professional learning communities?	1
Preschool teachers’ perceptions on the use of questioning strategy during storytelling to develop children’s critical thinking in Central China	1
Working with families: an investigation of early childhood educators’ emotional labour and wellbeing	1
Infant/toddler mentor teachers’ professional learning through weekly co-planning meetings with preservice teachers	1
Evaluating Turkish preschool teachers’ knowledge of early mathematical development	1
‘He will play because it is play’. Exploring Ghanaian early years parents’ ethno-theories about play and learning	1
Measuring the impact of concept knowledge and laboratory intervention on pre-service kindergarten teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge in science education	1
How does nature support early language learning? A systematic literature review	1
Did you do something today, or did you solely play? Barriers and facilitators for the use of play in early childhood educational contexts	1
Effects of a professional development program on emergent literacy-promoting practices and environments in early childhood education and care	1