OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Early Childhood Education Research Journal is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Panel of Referees	71
Harnessing abilities and talents: parents’ perspectives on responsive inclusive early childhood education	52
Capturing family soundscapes for a deeper understanding and knowledge of early childhood music education: the contributions made by LENA® technology	31
From the uncertain times to today: unveiling the early childhood education research with keywords	29
Unleashing the potential: illuminating pedagogical strategies employed by early childhood educators in stem education for cultivating algorithmic thinking skills in young learners	20
Fear and Othering in the inclusive early childhood classroom: remnants from the past	19
Finnish ECEC personnel’s views on the challenging nature of promoting social justice: a sustainability research perspective	18
My world of machines: an integrated STEM education curriculum for early childhood teachers	17
Investigation of the effectiveness of the training given on home accidents and safety precautions	17
Young children’s interactions with a social robot during a drawing task	16
An exploratory study of children’s peer touch in a Swedish preschool: touch forms, bodily arrangements, and social constellations	15
Special educators’ approaches to supporting autistic children in mainstream preschools: ethical and social perspectives	15
The learning early childhood education and care institution as an inclusion arena	12
The impact of earthquake anxiety on preschool teachers: coping strategies and educational implications	12
‘How are rainbows made?': profiles of early childhood teachers' beliefs and their associations with responses to young children's causal questions	12
Exploring children’s perceptions of family relationships in China through kinetic family drawing: insights from 5- to 6-year olds	12
Educators’ perceptions of Australia’s early childhood education and care quality assurance rating system	11
It’s up to you if you want to take part . Supporting young children’s informed choice about research participation with simple visual booklets	11
Children’s critical thinking skills: perceptions of Norwegian early childhood educators	10
Pedagogical documentation as a strategy for planning and communicating children’s learning and pedagogical day-to-day life	9
Special Issue on Pedagogical Documentation – Researching a Powerful and Evolving Idea	9
The effects of shared book reading on language and literacy development of ESL/EFL learners: a multi-level meta-analysis	9
Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)-interfaced robotic toys in early childhood settings: a case for children’s inquiry literacy	8
Assessing Global and Math-Specific Teacher-Child Interaction Quality in Early Childcare Settings: A Systematic Literature Review of Instruments Used in Research	8
Evaluating popular STEM applications for young children	8

The visibility of ethics within early childhood research; revised standards for our international community of practice	8
Tensions, assumptions and situated ethics: attuning to the unpredictability of ethics in early childhood research participation	8
Enrichment and safety -the parents of young children constructing early childhood education and care institution in Finland	8
Im/migrant parents’ voices as enabling professional learning communities in early childhood education and care	8
Early childhood educators’ emotional exhaustion and the frequency of educational activities in preschool	8
Relationships between socioecological characteristics and families’ playground use in different seasons in Finland	7
Examining associations among provider-family relationships, provider coping strategies, and family child care providers’ relationships with children	7
Relations between reading skill level in fifth grade and functional language skills at toddler age	7
Correction	7
The development of early childhood teachers’ sociodramatic and imaginative play skills through a drama-based professional development program	6
Noblesse oblige? Job position and early childhood leadership in China: the moderating role of school type	6
Educators’ perspectives on parental belonging in preschool communities	6
The social language environment – domain: ECEC teachers’ self-reported ratings of strategies in teaching literacy	6
EECERA ethical code for early childhood researchers	6
Transformation in early childhood education: proposing a community-based approach	6
Attitudes towards reading amongst kindergarten and Grade 1 children	6
Curriculum design and content in Czech pre-primary education: approaches and experiences of student teachers	6
Parental attachment and emotion regulation in children: the mediating role of working memory	6
Improving the quality of adaptive learning support provided by kindergarten teachers in play-based mathematical learning situations	6
Bridging early childhood education and inclusive practices in classrooms that serve children with disabilities: a narrative portrait	5
Exploring children’s well-being in daycare: how do children feel all day?	5
Zoom play: Affectively mobilised collective play across Family Day Care settings	5
The effects of teacher-led and teacher-guided interventions on preschool children’s motor competency	5
Educators’ responses to children’s grieving: exploring emotional configurations in flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care	5
Conceptualizing diversity in ECEC policy: implications for the role of diverse preschool in Sweden	5
What if children affected by sleep disorder and aggression could regulate their emotions?	5
Understanding preschool teachers’ pedagogical leadership through individual and collective reflection	5
Using teach ECE to observe the quality of online teaching during the pandemic: an exploratory study in a pre-school in Chile	5
« Yeah, I am making new stuff! »: responsivity to and negotiations of agency during digital storytelling in preschool	5
The role of active methodologies in the socio-emotional development of children at risk: a case study in 3 public schools in the Basque Country	5
Effect of gender-neutral activities on preschool children’s gender stereotypes	4
The pathways to assent in early childhood research: what do parents of young children want?	4
Practitioner inquiry: troubling certainty	4
A decolonizing approach to early learning: toddlers’ and preschoolers’ engagement with the land and indigenous ways of knowing	4
Engaging children in what-if thinking through read-aloud conversations in early childhood education for sustainability	4
A cultural-historical perspective of young children gaining autonomy in the playground	4
A Significant Events Approach to Children’s Rights with children under three in early childhood education and care	4
Editorial	4
What’s your image of the child?Examining trajectories of prospective ECE teachers’ beliefs during practicum	4
Children save lives: evaluation of a first aid training in Norwegian kindergartens	4
Tracking possible differences between female- and male staff in promoting physical activity towards girls and boys in the outdoor playground of the kindergarten	4
Australian multilingual early childhood educators’ use of languages in early childhood education settings: findings of a qualitative (pilot) study	4
Fraught with frights or full of fun: perspectives of risky play among six-to-eight-year olds	3
Reflections from the higher education classroom: the role of playful pedagogy in the professional formation of early childhood students	3
The effect of home literacy environment on preschool children’s learning dispositions	3
Risk willingness in play: exploring children’s behaviour in a virtual reality playground	3
Cultural heritage in early childhood education: a systematic review	3
Editorial	3
ChatGPT, care and the ethical dilemmas entangled with teaching and research in the early years	3
Children’s participation when transitioning between early childhood education and care settings: potentials for readjusting institutional logics	3

Professional development for ethical practice transformation	3
Vocal fatigue of kindergarten teachers in China and its influential factors: a chain mediating model	3
Exploring parents’ perceptions of preschoolers’ risky outdoor play using a socio-ecological lens	3
Inviting inquiry on pedagogical documentation in Singapore: perspectives of parents and teachers	3
On the way towards integration? From monologic to dialogic encounters in Swedish rural preschools	3
A cultural-historical study of how a conceptual playworld creates conditions for personally meaningful mathematics in the Chinese kindergarten context	3
Documenting towards democratic early education curriculum in the Republic of Croatia	3
Professional development opportunities and a newly built daycare center: incentives in ECEC teacher job advertisements in Finland	3
Teachers’ interactions with children in micro-level transitions in Norwegian preschools	3
The relation between structural family characteristics and parental attitudes with respect to the use of ECEC for one- and two-year-old children in Germany	3
Preschool children’s agency in education for sustainability: the case of Sweden	3
Professional development for praxis transformation in early childhood education and care: a systematic review	3
How can children best learn map skills? a step-by-step approach	3
Interprofessional collaboration in ECEC: a review of European countries with different levels of system integration	3
The role of pedagogical documentation in child and parent participation: an investigation of educator and parent perspectives in a Reggio Emilia-inspired preschool	3
The impact of the ‘accelerated childhood’ culture in the UK's ECEC: practitioners’ and policy makers’ views during a professional development course*	3
Complexities of men’s engagement in early childhood care and development in Africa	3
‘Tell me the whole story’: moving from narrative comprehension to narrative production skills	3
Editorial	3
A visual ethnography of parent-child interactions during ‘story-time’ in Chinese family settings	3