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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Panel of Referees	88
Fear and Othering in the inclusive early childhood classroom: remnants from the past	29
Investigation of the effectiveness of the training given on home accidents and safety precautions	21
Young children’s interactions with a social robot during a drawing task	19
Role of mentoring as a pathway for professional growth in early childhood teacher education	16
An exploratory study of children’s peer touch in a Swedish preschool: touch forms, bodily arrangements, and social constellations	15
Unleashing the potential: illuminating pedagogical strategies employed by early childhood educators in stem education for cultivating algorithmic thinking skills in young learners	14
Harnessing abilities and talents: parents’ perspectives on responsive inclusive early childhood education	13
Finnish ECEC personnel’s views on the challenging nature of promoting social justice: a sustainability research perspective	12
Capturing family soundscapes for a deeper understanding and knowledge of early childhood music education: the contributions made by LENA® technology	12
‘How are rainbows made?': profiles of early childhood teachers' beliefs and their associations with responses to young children's causal questions	11
My world of machines: an integrated STEM education curriculum for early childhood teachers	11
Exploring children’s perceptions of family relationships in China through kinetic family drawing: insights from 5- to 6-year olds	10
Breaking the cycle of disadvantage in early childhood: integrating social work and education through participatory and reflective parenting support	10
The impact of earthquake anxiety on preschool teachers: coping strategies and educational implications	9
The learning early childhood education and care institution as an inclusion arena	9
Migrant children transitioning from kindergarten to primary school in Germany: educators’ and parents’ views of school transition activities	9
Special educators’ approaches to supporting autistic children in mainstream preschools: ethical and social perspectives	9
Educators’ perceptions of Australia’s early childhood education and care quality assurance rating system	9
Beyond words: inclusion through arts rich experiences	9
Panel of Referees	9
Early childhood educators’ emotional exhaustion and the frequency of educational activities in preschool	8
The effects of shared book reading on language and literacy development of ESL/EFL learners: a multi-level meta-analysis	8
Evaluating popular STEM applications for young children	8
Tensions, assumptions and situated ethics: attuning to the unpredictability of ethics in early childhood research participation	8

Assessing Global and Math-Specific Teacher-Child Interaction Quality in Early Childcare Settings: A Systematic Literature Review of Instruments Used in Research	8
The visibility of ethics within early childhood research; revised standards for our international community of practice	8
Im/migrant parents’ voices as enabling professional learning communities in early childhood education and care	8
Editorial	7
Correction	7
Representational mind-mindedness in Danish early childcare professionals: the role of child gender	7
The development of early childhood teachers’ sociodramatic and imaginative play skills through a drama-based professional development program	7
Curriculum design and content in Czech pre-primary education: approaches and experiences of student teachers	6
Relationships between socioecological characteristics and families’ playground use in different seasons in Finland	6
Parental attachment and emotion regulation in children: the mediating role of working memory	6
The social language environment – domain: ECEC teachers’ self-reported ratings of strategies in teaching literacy	6
EECERA ethical code for early childhood researchers	5
The effects of teacher-led and teacher-guided interventions on preschool children’s motor competency	5
Transformation in early childhood education: proposing a community-based approach	5
Noblesse oblige? Job position and early childhood leadership in China: the moderating role of school type	5
Developing a questionnaire to assess confidence of early years educators in using language support strategies	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
Enrichment and safety -the parents of young children constructing early childhood education and care institution in Finland	5
Educators’ perspectives on parental belonging in preschool communities	5
Correction	5
Exploring early childhood educators’ understanding of social sustainability in England: implications for policy and practice	4
A funds of knowledge approach to explore how play-based pedagogies support mixed ethnic identity formation: listening to children’s perspectives	4
A Significant Events Approach to Children’s Rights with children under three in early childhood education and care	4
Australian multilingual early childhood educators’ use of languages in early childhood education settings: findings of a qualitative (pilot) study	4
Bridging early childhood education and inclusive practices in classrooms that serve children with disabilities: a narrative portrait	4
« Yeah, I am making new stuff! »: responsivity to and negotiations of agency during digital storytelling in preschool	4
‘Play for inclusion in early childhood classrooms: understanding teachers’ perspectives and practices’	4
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	4
Zoom play: Affectively mobilised collective play across Family Day Care settings	4
What if children affected by sleep disorder and aggression could regulate their emotions?	4
The pathways to assent in early childhood research: what do parents of young children want?	4
Attitudes towards reading amongst kindergarten and Grade 1 children	4
Supporting preschool children’s creativity during play: teachers’ beliefs in China	4
Engaging children in what-if thinking through read-aloud conversations in early childhood education for sustainability	4
Children’s participation rights in practice: exploring circle time as a space for participation in preschool classrooms	4
Professional development for ethical practice transformation	4
Using teach ECE to observe the quality of online teaching during the pandemic: an exploratory study in a pre-school in Chile	4
Understanding preschool teachers’ pedagogical leadership through individual and collective reflection	4
A decolonizing approach to early learning: toddlers’ and preschoolers’ engagement with the land and indigenous ways of knowing	3
Cultural heritage in early childhood education: a systematic review	3
Vocal fatigue of kindergarten teachers in China and its influential factors: a chain mediating model	3
Tracking possible differences between female- and male staff in promoting physical activity towards girls and boys in the outdoor playground of the kindergarten	3
Pedagogical practices for the infant-toddler’s first day of transition from home care to early childhood education and care	3
Safeguarding in early childhood education: rights-based, socio-cultural, and ecological perspectives from Australia, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand	3
Investigation of foreign body aspiration knowledge and first-aid self-efficacy of child development department students	3
Conceptual PlayWorld: creating motivating conditions for new kindergarten practices in China to support engineering education	3
Teacher inquiry and learning stories: a site for pedagogical change	3
Reconceptualizing professional development through job-embedded approach: early childhood teachers’ views on benefits and challenges	3
Editorial	3

Complexities of men’s engagement in early childhood care and development in Africa	3
Inclusion as an ethical construct – moving beyond action and practice to inclusion as a place of encounter	3
Exploring supportive practices in diverse educational childcare settings for children with high support needs in Canada	3
Inclusive ideals, everyday realities: preservice teachers’ conceptions and practices of circle time in early childhood classrooms in Türkiye	3
Our fundamental consideration of early childhood education and care: the need for dialogue	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
A visual ethnography of parent-child interactions during ‘story-time’ in Chinese family settings	3
Robust children: exploring engagement with academic subjects, well-being and psychological safety in schoolchildren aged 6–9 years in Norway	3
‘I am the boss of the team’: power dynamics and teacher perceptions of parental involvement in youeryuan of rural China	3
A cultural-historical perspective of young children gaining autonomy in the playground	3
‘I tried five times, and the sixth time I managed'. Children’s experiences with pedagogical videos on social and emotional learning	3
Editorial	3
Teachers’ interactions with children in micro-level transitions in Norwegian preschools	3
Association between speech production and ECEC intensity: differences by family background	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
The effect of home literacy environment on preschool children’s learning dispositions	3
Measuring child perspectives: ethical and methodological considerations on the development and validation of a self-report questionnaire for children aged 5–10	3
Professional development opportunities and a newly built daycare center: incentives in ECEC teacher job advertisements in Finland	3
Interprofessional collaboration in ECEC: a review of European countries with different levels of system integration	3
Reflections from the higher education classroom: the role of playful pedagogy in the professional formation of early childhood students	3
Professional development for praxis transformation in early childhood education and care: a systematic review	3
Early childhood language access and deaf-ethnic identity in a double minority context: implications for inclusive early education	3
Effect of gender-neutral activities on preschool children’s gender stereotypes	3
The inclusion of children with disabilities in early childhood education: interdisciplinary research and dialogue	3
Practitioner inquiry: troubling certainty	3
Artificial intelligence in early childhood education: a systematic review of trends, methods, and recommendations for quality education	3
Risk willingness in play: exploring children’s behaviour in a virtual reality playground	3
How similar is Hong Kong’s play-based learning pedagogy to Fröbel’s Spielpädagogik?	3
Children’s participation when transitioning between early childhood education and care settings: potentials for readjusting institutional logics	3
Equality blindness in ECEC: global research narratives on social inequality	3
A cultural-historical study of how a conceptual playworld creates conditions for personally meaningful mathematics in the Chinese kindergarten context	3
Bridging kindergarten and school through play: the role of play pedagogies in supporting transitions in Norway	3
How can children best learn map skills? a step-by-step approach	3
ChatGPT, care and the ethical dilemmas entangled with teaching and research in the early years	3