OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Early Education and Development 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
School-Based Early Childhood Education and Children’s Development in Urban Nepal	52
STEM Labs: A promising professional learning approach to promote teacher–child interaction quality and science and engineering practices	44
A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effectiveness and Mechanisms of Change in a School-Based Intervention Combining Universal and Indicated Prevention for Preschoolers’ Behavior Problems	34
Executive Functioning and Early Math Skills in Young Children at Risk for Mathematical Difficulties: Evaluation of Interventions Efficacy and Transfer Effects	34
The Effect of a Sibling Shared Reading Intervention on the Reading Development of Early School-Aged Children in Rural China	30
Do Servant Leadership and Emotional Labor Matter for Kindergarten Teachers’ Organizational Commitment and Intention to Leave?	30
Socioeconomic Status and Children’s English Language and Literacy Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Home Literacy Environment	28
The Impact of Block Play on Young Children’s Production of Intrinsic Frame of Reference: A Quasi-Experiment	25
Chinese Preschool Teachers’ Use of Concept Development Strategies to Elicit Children’s Higher-Order Thinking During Whole-Group Science Teaching	22
Does Participation Benefit Children’s Socio-Emotional Development? Positive Associations Between Children’s Participation and Self-Concept, Through Children’s Perceptions	18
Quality of Caregiver–child Interactions in Early Child Care Centers in Bangladesh: Measurement and Training	18
Media Use in Daily Routines and Young Children’s Social Skills	18
How Early Digital Experience Shapes Young Brains During 0-12 Years: A Scoping Review	18
Understanding Young Children’s Learning and Development in the Wake of the Pandemic: Evidence from Acelero Head Start Programs	18
Assessing Quality Quickly: Validation of the Responsive Interactions for Learning - Educator (RIFL-Ed.) Measure	16
Learning Behaviors Mediate Associations between Parent-reported Peer Play Skills and Literacy and Mathematics Skills for Low-income Preschool Children	16
Learning to Name Uppercase and Lowercase Letters in Preschoolers and Kindergarteners: An Investigation of the Effects of Child- and Letter-Related Factors	16
Does Preschool Education Moderate the Associations Between Paternal, Maternal, and Allocaregivers’ Engagement and Children’s Literacy and Social Skills in African Countries?	15
The Social Validity of Content Enriched Shared Book Reading Vocabulary Instruction and Preschool DLLs’ Language Outcomes	15
Validity, Reliability, and Relevance of a Measurement Tool for Childcare Providers’ Work-Related Stress and Job Satisfaction	15
A Majority-World Perspective on Early Childhood Teachers’ Understanding of Children’s Social-Emotional Development: An Exploratory, Cross-National Study in Nepal and Kenya	15
What Factors Drive School Districts to Adopt Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK): Evidence from Wisconsin	13
Imaginative Children in the Classroom: Mixed-Methods Examining Teacher Reported Behavior, Play Observations and Child Assessments	13
Influence of Maternal Cognitions on Child Mental Health and Educational Experiences at Home During COVID-19	13
Differences in Characteristics Between Head Start Participants and Non-Participants Among Head Start Eligible Families with Young Children	13

Preschool Children’s Evaluations of Prototypic and Accidental Moral Transgressions Differ by Economic Strata	13
Short-Term Effects of an Outdoor Activities Intervention on Children’s Stress, Socio emotional, Behavioral, and Cognitive Regulation Skills	12
Picturebooks Increase the Frequency and Diversity of Emotion Vocabulary in Children’s Language Environments: Modeling Potential Benefits to Emotional Literacy, with Pedagogical Resources	12
Cross-Lagged Associations Between Caregiver-Child and Teacher-Child Relationships and Approaches to Learning in Rural Preschoolers: The Moderating Role of Boarding Status	12
Young Children’s and Teachers’ Perceptions of Affective Teacher-Child Relationships: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between the Netherlands and China	11
Digital Transformations in Early Learning: From Touch Interactions to AI Conversations	11
Profiles of Professional Wellbeing and Turnover Intentions Among Australian Early Childhood Educators	11
How Does Comprehensive Art Education Facilitate Children’s Creativity? A Mixed-Methods Study in China	11
Validation of the Coping with Children’s Negative Emotions Scale Adapted to the Early Childhood Education and Care Context	11
Variations in Kindergarten Teachers’ Cognitive Activations in Math-related Activities by Child Factors	10
Highlighting ECE Teachers’ Proximal Processes as Designers: An Investigation of Teachers’ Design Thinking Engagement, TPACK Efficacy, and Design Vitality	10
Who, What, and Where: Classroom Contexts for Preschool Writing Experiences	10
Persistence Development across the Transition to School: A Latent Profile Transition Analysis	10
Online Learning and Parent Satisfaction during COVID-19: Child Competence in Independent Learning as a Moderator	10
Chinese Preschoolers’ Pattern Creation: Performance and Predictors	9
Self-Reported Depressive Symptoms Among Preschool Teachers: Associations with Children’s Social-Emotional, Cognitive, and Executive Functioning Skills	9
Correction	9
The Roles of Student-Teacher Relationship Quality and Classroom Self-Regulatory Supports for Children’s Self-Regulatory Skills in Kindergarten and First Grade	9
Questions that Fuel the Mind: Exploring the Associations between Teacher-Child Higher-Level Interaction and Preschoolers’ Development of Executive Functions	9
Do Early Care and Education Programs Improve When Enrolled in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems? Longitudinal Evidence from One System	9
Nudging Early Educators’ Knowledge, Beliefs, and Practices: An Embedded Randomized Controlled Trial of Text Message Supports	9
Teachers’ Emotional Expressiveness and Coping Reactions to Students’ Emotions: Associations with Students’ Social-Emotional Competences and School Adjustment	8
From Pre-Service Preparation to Professional Development: Early Childhood Teachers’ Learning Experiences, ECE Quality, and Child Development in China	8
Childcare Providers and COVID-19: The Role of Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy in Sustaining Subjective Well-Being	8
Exploring Links Between Social Competence, Immigrant Background, and Children’s Preschool Adjustment	8
Opportunities to Talk Matter in Shared Reading: The Mediating Roles of Children’s Engagement and Verbal Participation in Narrative Listening Comprehension	8
Process Quality in Toddler Classrooms in Four European Countries	8
An Exploratory Study about Patterns of Parental Home Literacy Activities during the COVID-19 Confinement among Spanish Families	8
Spanish Validation of the Two-Factor Interpersonal Reactivity Index: Evidence for the Relationship Between Empathy, Social Competence, and Emotion Regulation	8
Development of English Picture Vocabulary Test as an Assessment Tool for Very Young EFL Learners’ Receptive and Expressive Language Skills	8
Profiles and Predictors of Physical Abuse and Behavior Problems in Chinese Preschool-Aged Children	8
Fostering Dual Language Learners’ Participation in Head Start Classroom Conversations Through Code-Switching in Whole Group and Small Group Settings	8
Validation of the Chinese Empathy Questionnaire for Pre-School Children	8
Home Environment and Development of English as A Second/Foreign Language for Young Children in Asian Contexts: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis^*	7
A Focus Group Study on Participatory Practices in Early Childhood Education and Care Across Four European Countries	7
The Effect of Self-Concept and Self-Efficacy on Learning Engagement and Subsequent Reading Performance: The Difference Between L1 and L2 Reading in First-Grade Students	7
The Mediating Role of Maternal Psychological Capital on the Relationship between Social Support and Parenting Competence: Evidence from Chinese Mothers	7
Children’s Learning Experiences in Rural Boarding Preschools: Classroom Quality and Associations with Developmental Outcomes	7
Head Start in Low-Wealth, Rural Communities: Evidence from the Family Life Project	7
Preschool Education Demand in China by 2035: A Prediction Analysis	7
Children’s School Feelings and Adaptation During the Transition From Kindergarten to Primary School in China	7
Exploring Gender Disparity in Chinese Children’s Literature: The Impact of Authorship and Narrative Elements	6
Developmental Pattern, Latent Profiles, and Family Predictors of Chinese Preschoolers’ Sympathy	6
Embodied and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) in Early Childhood: Situating Culturally Relevant SEL in Asian, African, and North American Contexts	6
Family SES and Self-Regulated Learning in Chinese Preschoolers: A Mediation Analysis of Parental Educational Expectation and Home-based Involvement	6
A Validation Study of the Assessing Classroom Sociocultural Equity Scale (ACSES) in Pre-Kindergarten to Third Grade Classrooms	6
The Effects of Student–Teacher Ethnoracial Matching on Chronic Absenteeism: Exploring the Role of Relational Dynamics in Early Education	6
Relative Contributions of Mothers, Fathers, and Other Caregivers’ Cognitive and Socioemotional Stimulation on Ghanaian Children’s School Readiness	6
Parents’ Psychological Distress During COVID-19: Correlates and Relations with Parents’ Engagement in Early Education	6
Adaptive Caregiving Beliefs and Professional Competence Among Chinese Childcare Center Teachers: A Moderated Mediation Model	6

Self-Regulation Scaffolding Behaviors of Teachers in Chilean Preschool Classrooms	6
Aladdin’s Genie or Pandora’s Box for Early Childhood Education? Experts Chat on the Roles, Challenges, and Developments of ChatGPT	6
Socioemotional Competencies of Indonesian Preschoolers: Comparisons between the Pre-Pandemic and Pandemic Periods and among DKI Jakarta, DI Yogyakarta and West Java Provinces	6
Preschool Behavioural and Emotional Outcomes Associated with Participation in Early Childhood Education and Care	6
Instrument Development and Validation of the Home Child Care Version of the Assessment for Quality Improvement	6
Validation of the Pennsylvania Kindergarten Entry Inventory: Examining Neglected Validities in Large-scale, Teacher-Report Assessment	5
SES, Relative Deprivation, Perceived Kindergarten Support and Turnover Intention in Chinese Teachers during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Moderated Mediation Model	5
The Role of State Subsidy Policies in Early Education Programs’ Decisions to Accept Subsidies: Evidence from Nationally Representative Data	5
Children’s Picture Books: A Systematic Analysis of Features in the Domain of Mathematics	5
Preschool Children’s Engagement and School Readiness Skills: Exploring Differences between Spanish-speaking Dual Language Learners and Monolingual English-speaking Preschoolers	5
Knowledge-Building Through Categorization: Boosting Children’s Vocabulary and Content Knowledge in a Shared Book Reading Program	5
Patterns of Classroom Organization in Classrooms Where Children Exhibit Higher and Lower Language Gains	5
Classroom Engagement Scale: Validation of a Teacher-Report Assessment Used to Scale in the Kindergarten Report Card of a Large Urban School District	5
Does Screen Media Hurt Young Children’s Social Development? Longitudinal Associations Between Parental Engagement, Children’s Screen Time, and Their Social Competence	5
Digital Technology in Preschool Classrooms: A Qualitative Case Study	5
Can Temperament Predict School Readiness in At-Risk Kindergarteners? A Combination of Variable-Oriented and Person-Oriented Approaches	5
Associations between Consistent and High-quality Teacher-child Interactions and Preschool Children’s Self-regulation and Activity in the Stress Response System	5
Chinese Model of Digital Leadership in Early Childhood Settings: A Grounded Theory Study	5
Maternal Overcontrol and Young Children’s Internalizing Problems in China: The Roles of Social Competence and Teacher-Child Conflict	5
Investigating Preschool Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Number Comparison	5
Exploring Playful Opportunities for STEM Learning in Early Elementary School	5