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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Preschoolers’ Profiles of Self-regulation, Social-emotional and Behavior Skills and Its Prediction for a Successful Behavior Adaptation during the Transitional Period from Preschool to Elementary Scho	48
Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Widened the Urban-Rural Gap in Early Child Development in China? Evidence from the Rural Side	32
Purposes, Places, and Participants: A Systematic Review of Teacher Language Practices and Child Oral Language Outcomes in Early Childhood Classrooms	27
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	27
Teacher-Child Interaction Domains Measured by the CLASS and Children’s Pre-Literacy Skills: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	24
School-Based Early Childhood Education and Children’s Development in Urban Nepal	23
Exploring Chinese Early Childhood Teachers’ Mathematical Belief Profiles and Associated Teacher Characteristics	22
Maternal Failure Mindsets and Parenting Styles: Exploring the Mediating Role of Maternal Attributions of Children’s Academic Failures	21
Intersectional Typologies of Children with Cultural Minority Backgrounds: Relation to School Readiness in Head Start	18
Assessing Quality in Classrooms that Blend State Pre-Kindergarten and Head Start Funding: The Case of Michigan	18
Executive Functioning and Early Math Skills in Young Children at Risk for Mathematical Difficulties: Evaluation of Interventions Efficacy and Transfer Effects	18
Home Environment and Development of English as A Second/Foreign Language for Young Children in Asian Contexts: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis^*	16
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	16
Associations of Specific Indicators of Adult–Child Interaction Quality and Child Language Outcomes: What Teaching Practices Influence Language?	15
STEM Labs: A promising professional learning approach to promote teacher–child interaction quality and science and engineering practices	15
Exploring Links Between Social Competence, Immigrant Background, and Children’s Preschool Adjustment	15
Preschool Parents’ Views of Distance Learning during COVID-19	14
The Accessibility, Quality, and Administration of Childcare Services for Birth to 3 Years under China’s Universal Two-child Policy	14
The Effect of a Sibling Shared Reading Intervention on the Reading Development of Early School-Aged Children in Rural China	13
An examination of the heterogenous nature of literacy development in Spanish-speaking preschool children	13
Measuring Being “Developmentally on Track”: Comparing Direct Assessment and Caregiver Report of Early Childhood Development in Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar	13
Student-Teacher Ethnoracial Matching in the Earliest Grades: Benefits for Executive Function Skills?	12
Head Start in Low-Wealth, Rural Communities: Evidence from the Family Life Project	12
Exploring the Theory of Preschool Skill Convergence Through a National Survey of Kindergarten Teachers	12
The Associations of Parental Support with First-Grade Primary School L2 Chinese Learners’ Ideal Selves, Motivation, Engagement, and Reading Test Performance in Hong Kong: A Person-Centered Approach	11

Stories beyond Books: Teacher Storytelling Supports Children’s Literacy Skills	11
Does Teacher and Peer Racial/Ethnic Match Play a Role in Preschool Absenteeism?	11
Correction	10
Academics of the Early Primary Grades: Investigating the Alignment of Instructional Practices from Pre-K to Third Grade	10
Relations Between Unsociability, Theory of Mind, and Adjustment Among Kindergartners in China	10
Early Childhood Special Education Teachers’ Job Burnout and Psychological Stress	10
Children’s Learning Experiences in Rural Boarding Preschools: Classroom Quality and Associations with Developmental Outcomes	9
The Educational Technology Divide in Glocalisation: A Perspective for Interpreting Early Childhood Teachers’ Practices of ICT Implementation	9
Self-Regulation and Academic Achievement from Early to Middle Childhood Among Children in Low-Income Neighborhoods	9
Maternal Warmth and Prosocial Behaviors Among Chinese Preschool Children: The Roles of Social Competence Sibling Presence	9
Children’s School Feelings and Adaptation During the Transition From Kindergarten to Primary School in China	9
The Effect of Ecological Environment on Language-Minority Students’ Math and Reading Development: A Hierarchical Linear Analysis of a Longitudinal Study	8
The Interplay among Parents’ Stress, Nonparental Childcare, and Child Language Development among Low-Income Toddlers	8
Validation of the Chinese Empathy Questionnaire for Pre-School Children	8
Do Servant Leadership and Emotional Labor Matter for Kindergarten Teachers’ Organizational Commitment and Intention to Leave?	8
Mapping the Literature to Identify Early Childhood Coaches’ Backgrounds and Training	8
Changes in Early Care and Education Settings Amid COVID-19: Voices of Parents	8
Learning Behaviors Mediate Associations between Parent-reported Peer Play Skills and Literacy and Mathematics Skills for Low-income Preschool Children	8
Behavior Management and Engagement During Small-Group Instruction as Predictors of Preschoolers’ Literacy Skill Outcomes	8
Embedding a Parenting Skills Program in Public PreK: Outcomes of a Quasi-Experimental Mixed Methods Study	8
Mothers’ Reactions to Children’s Emotion Expressions in Different Cultural Contexts: Comparisons across Nepal, Korea, and Germany	8
Aladdin’s Genie or Pandora’s Box for Early Childhood Education? Experts Chat on the Roles, Challenges, and Developments of ChatGPT	8
Enhancing Teachers’ Pedagogical Awareness of Teaching Early Mathematical Skills – A Mixed Methods Study of Tailored Professional Development Program	8
Socioeconomic Status and Children’s English Language and Literacy Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Home Literacy Environment	8
Nurturing Preschool Children’s Social Skills and Reducing Behavioral Difficulties Through Teacher Practices: The Answer of the Incredible Years Classroom Management Programme	7
The Impact of Block Play on Young Children’s Production of Intrinsic Frame of Reference: A Quasi-Experiment	7
How Early Digital Experience Shapes Young Brains During 0-12 Years: A Scoping Review	7
Profiles of Well-Being Among Early Childhood Educators	7
Translating Vision into Reality for Early Education & Development	7
Chinese Preschool Teachers’ Use of Concept Development Strategies to Elicit Children’s Higher-Order Thinking During Whole-Group Science Teaching	6
Early Childhood Professional Well-being as a Predictor of the Risk of Turnover in Early Head Start & Head Start Settings	6
Understanding Young Children’s Learning and Development in the Wake of the Pandemic: Evidence from Acelero Head Start Programs	6
Mind Mapping during Interactive Book Reading in Early Childhood Classrooms: Does It Support Young Children’s Language Competence?	6
Self-Regulation Scaffolding Behaviors of Teachers in Chilean Preschool Classrooms	6
A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Emotion Socialization Intervention in Norwegian Kindergartens	6
Bidirectional Relations among Paired Associate Learning, Language-Specific Skills and Chinese Word Reading in Kindergarten Children	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
Parent-Grandparent Co-Parenting and preschoolers’ Self-Control in China : The Roles of Maternal and Grandparental Parenting Styles	6
Examining Child, Family, Classroom, and School Factors Associated with Latinx Children’s Early Science Achievement	6
Mind-sets in Early Childhood: The Relations Among Growth Mindset, Engagement and Well-Being Among First Grade Students	6
Preschool Education Demand in China by 2035: A Prediction Analysis	6
Embodied and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) in Early Childhood: Situating Culturally Relevant SEL in Asian, African, and North American Contexts	6
Redshirting for Remediation or Advantage? Which Australian Families Delay Children's School Entry and Why	6
Supporting Responsive Caregiving for the Youngest Children: Psychometric Evidence of the Quality of Care for Infants and Toddlers (QCIT) Observational Measure	6
Exploring Gender Disparity in Chinese Children’s Literature: The Impact of Authorship and Narrative Elements	6
The Mediating Role of Maternal Psychological Capital on the Relationship between Social Support and Parenting Competence: Evidence from Chinese Mothers	5
Kindergarten Teachers’ Emotional Labor and Occupational Well-Being: How Do Different Interpersonal Relationships Matter?	5
Parenting Styles and Social Competence in Chinese Preschoolers: A Moderated Mediation Model of Singleton and Self-regulation	5
Developmental Pattern, Latent Profiles, and Family Predictors of Chinese Preschoolers’ Sympathy	5
Towards Better Cultural Enlightenment: Identify Chinese Preschoolers’ Cultural Cognition Traits and Predictors	5

An Exploration of Early Childhood Teachers’ Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge (TPACK) in Mainland China	5
Media Use in Daily Routines and Young Children’s Social Skills	5
How Do Combinations of Transition Activities Available to Children and Families Predict Successful Kindergarten Transitions?	5
Are Chinese Parents Willing to Have a Second Child? Investigation on the Ideal and Realistic Fertility Willingness of Different Income Family	5
Why Do Child Care Teachers Leave? Why Do They Stay? – Pre-Pandemic Evidence	5
A Cross-Cultural Examination of Parents’ Book Selection & Shared Reading Practices in Spain and Israel	5
Influences of Gender and Socioeconomic Status on Children’s Use of Robotics in Early Childhood Education: A Systematic Review	5
“Let’s Write Each Other Messages”: Association Between Involvement in Writing in a Preschool Online Forum and Early Literacy Progress	5
How Parental Migration Status Affects Early Development of Rural Children: The Indirect Role of Family Socioeconomic Status and Home Environment	5
A Focus Group Study on Participatory Practices in Early Childhood Education and Care Across Four European Countries	5