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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Panel of Referees	77
Fear and Othering in the inclusive early childhood classroom: remnants from the past	45
Investigation of the effectiveness of the training given on home accidents and safety precautions	27
Young children’s interactions with a social robot during a drawing task	20
Role of mentoring as a pathway for professional growth in early childhood teacher education	17
Finnish ECEC personnel’s views on the challenging nature of promoting social justice: a sustainability research perspective	14
An exploratory study of children’s peer touch in a Swedish preschool: touch forms, bodily arrangements, and social constellations	14
My world of machines: an integrated STEM education curriculum for early childhood teachers	13
Capturing family soundscapes for a deeper understanding and knowledge of early childhood music education: the contributions made by LENA® technology	13
Unleashing the potential: illuminating pedagogical strategies employed by early childhood educators in stem education for cultivating algorithmic thinking skills in young learners	12
‘How are rainbows made?': profiles of early childhood teachers' beliefs and their associations with responses to young children's causal questions	11
Special educators’ approaches to supporting autistic children in mainstream preschools: ethical and social perspectives	11
Harnessing abilities and talents: parents’ perspectives on responsive inclusive early childhood education	11
Beyond words: inclusion through arts rich experiences	10
Exploring children’s perceptions of family relationships in China through kinetic family drawing: insights from 5- to 6-year olds	9
Panel of Referees	8
Educators’ perceptions of Australia’s early childhood education and care quality assurance rating system	8
The impact of earthquake anxiety on preschool teachers: coping strategies and educational implications	8
Evaluating popular STEM applications for young children	8
Migrant children transitioning from kindergarten to primary school in Germany: educators’ and parents’ views of school transition activities	8
Breaking the cycle of disadvantage in early childhood: integrating social work and education through participatory and reflective parenting support	8
The visibility of ethics within early childhood research; revised standards for our international community of practice	8
The learning early childhood education and care institution as an inclusion arena	8
The effects of shared book reading on language and literacy development of ESL/EFL learners: a multi-level meta-analysis	7
Assessing Global and Math-Specific Teacher-Child Interaction Quality in Early Childcare Settings: A Systematic Literature Review of Instruments Used in Research	7

Correction	7
Im/migrant parents’ voices as enabling professional learning communities in early childhood education and care	7
Early childhood educators’ emotional exhaustion and the frequency of educational activities in preschool	7
Tensions, assumptions and situated ethics: attuning to the unpredictability of ethics in early childhood research participation	7
Representational mind-mindedness in Danish early childcare professionals: the role of child gender	6
The development of early childhood teachers’ sociodramatic and imaginative play skills through a drama-based professional development program	6
Enrichment and safety -the parents of young children constructing early childhood education and care institution in Finland	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	6
Noblesse oblige? Job position and early childhood leadership in China: the moderating role of school type	5
Attitudes towards reading amongst kindergarten and Grade 1 children	5
Transformation in early childhood education: proposing a community-based approach	5
Conceptualizing diversity in ECEC policy: implications for the role of diverse preschool in Sweden	5
Improving the quality of adaptive learning support provided by kindergarten teachers in play-based mathematical learning situations	5
Educators’ responses to children’s grieving: exploring emotional configurations in flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care	5
Curriculum design and content in Czech pre-primary education: approaches and experiences of student teachers	5
Educators’ perspectives on parental belonging in preschool communities	5
Developing a questionnaire to assess confidence of early years educators in using language support strategies	5
Understanding preschool teachers’ pedagogical leadership through individual and collective reflection	5
A funds of knowledge approach to explore how play-based pedagogies support mixed ethnic identity formation: listening to children’s perspectives	4
Exploring early childhood educators’ understanding of social sustainability in England: implications for policy and practice	4
Using teach ECE to observe the quality of online teaching during the pandemic: an exploratory study in a pre-school in Chile	4
Correction	4
Zoom play: Affectively mobilised collective play across Family Day Care settings	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
‘Play for inclusion in early childhood classrooms: understanding teachers’ perspectives and practices’	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
What if children affected by sleep disorder and aggression could regulate their emotions?	4
Children’s participation rights in practice: exploring circle time as a space for participation in preschool classrooms	4
The effects of teacher-led and teacher-guided interventions on preschool children’s motor competency	4
A Significant Events Approach to Children’s Rights with children under three in early childhood education and care	4
Editorial	3
The effect of home literacy environment on preschool children’s learning dispositions	3
Association between speech production and ECEC intensity: differences by family background	3
Robust children: exploring engagement with academic subjects, well-being and psychological safety in schoolchildren aged 6–9 years in Norway	3
‘Tell me the whole story’: moving from narrative comprehension to narrative production skills	3
Interprofessional collaboration in ECEC: a review of European countries with different levels of system integration	3
Reconceptualizing professional development through job-embedded approach: early childhood teachers’ views on benefits and challenges	3
Reflections from the higher education classroom: the role of playful pedagogy in the professional formation of early childhood students	3
Teacher inquiry and learning stories: a site for pedagogical change	3
Professional development for praxis transformation in early childhood education and care: a systematic review	3
A cultural-historical study of how a conceptual playworld creates conditions for personally meaningful mathematics in the Chinese kindergarten context	3
A visual ethnography of parent-child interactions during ‘story-time’ in Chinese family settings	3
Safeguarding in early childhood education: rights-based, socio-cultural, and ecological perspectives from Australia, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand	3
Australian multilingual early childhood educators’ use of languages in early childhood education settings: findings of a qualitative (pilot) study	3
Practitioner inquiry: troubling certainty	3
Inclusive ideals, everyday realities: preservice teachers’ conceptions and practices of circle time in early childhood classrooms in Türkiye	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
Bridging kindergarten and school through play: the role of play pedagogies in supporting transitions in Norway	3
Editorial	3
Exploring supportive practices in diverse educational childcare settings for children with high support needs in Canada	3
Professional development opportunities and a newly built daycare center: incentives in ECEC teacher job advertisements in Finland	3
Measuring child perspectives: ethical and methodological considerations on the development and validation of a self-report questionnaire for children aged 5–10	3
A cultural-historical perspective of young children gaining autonomy in the playground	3
Vocal fatigue of kindergarten teachers in China and its influential factors: a chain mediating model	3
A decolonizing approach to early learning: toddlers’ and preschoolers’ engagement with the land and indigenous ways of knowing	3
Inclusion as an ethical construct – moving beyond action and practice to inclusion as a place of encounter	3
How can children best learn map skills? a step-by-step approach	3
Cultural heritage in early childhood education: a systematic review	3
Professional development for ethical practice transformation	3
Our fundamental consideration of early childhood education and care: the need for dialogue	3
Complexities of men’s engagement in early childhood care and development in Africa	3
Effect of gender-neutral activities on preschool children’s gender stereotypes	3
Equality blindness in ECEC: global research narratives on social inequality	3
ChatGPT, care and the ethical dilemmas entangled with teaching and research in the early years	3
The impact of the ‘accelerated childhood’ culture in the UK's ECEC: practitioners’ and policy makers’ views during a professional development course	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
Children’s participation when transitioning between early childhood education and care settings: potentials for readjusting institutional logics	3
The pathways to assent in early childhood research: what do parents of young children want?	3
Early childhood language access and deaf-ethnic identity in a double minority context: implications for inclusive early education	3
‘I am the boss of the team’: power dynamics and teacher perceptions of parental involvement in youeryuan of rural China	3
Editorial	3
Engaging children in what-if thinking through read-aloud conversations in early childhood education for sustainability	3