OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Attachment & Human Development is 7. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues	56
Working toward anti-racist perspectives in attachment theory, research, and practice	45
The effectiveness of parenting programs in regard to improving parental reflective functioning: a meta-analysis	32
Taking perspective on attachment theory and research: nine fundamental questions	32
Longitudinal study of the cascading effects of racial discrimination on parenting and adjustment among African American youth	27
Mothers’ preparation for bias and responses to children’s distress predict positive adjustment among Black children: an attachment perspective	23
Prospecting the attachment research field: a move to the level of engagement	23
Replication crisis lost in translation? On translational caution and premature applications of attachment theory	21
Six attachment discourses: convergence, divergence and relay	21
Father–child attachment in Black families: risk and protective processes	18
Improving the parent–child relationship and child adjustment through parental reflective functioning group intervention	17
Associations of peripheral blood DNA methylation and estimated monocyte proportion differences during infancy with toddler attachment style	15
Attachment perspectives on race, prejudice, and anti-racism: Introduction to the Special Issue	15
Probing the association between maternal anxious attachment style and mother-child brain-to-brain coupling during passive co-viewing of visual stimuli	14
Infant mental health home visiting: intervention dosage and therapist experience interact to support improvements in maternal reflective functioning	14
Attachment research and anti-racism: learning from Black and Brown scholars	13
Mothers’ parental mentalization, attachment dimensions and mother-infant relational patterns	13
Enhancing the “broaden-and-build” cycle of attachment security as a means of overcoming prejudice, discrimination, and racism	12
Adult attachment is related to maternal neural response to infant cues: an ERP study	12
Convergent validity and stability of secure base script knowledge from young adulthood to midlife	11
Neighborhood poverty, allostatic load, and changes in cellular aging in African American young adults: the moderating role of attachment	11
Multiple facets of attachment in residential-care, late adopted, and community adolescents: an interview-based comparative study	11
Video observations of sensitive caregiving “off the beaten track”: introduction to the special issue	10
Increasing maternal sensitivity to infant distress through attachment-based intervention: a randomized controlled trial	9
Race, discrimination, and racism as “growing points” for consideration: attachment theory and research with African American families	9

Parental support and insecure attachment development: the cortisol stress response as a moderator	8
Then and now: the legacy and future of attachment research	8
Associations of maternal sensitivity and embodied mentalizing with infant-mother attachment security at one year in depressed and non-depressed dyads	8
Can the family drawing be a useful tool for assessing attachment representations in children? A systematic review and meta-analysis	8
eConnect: implementation and preliminary evaluation of a virtually delivered attachment-based parenting intervention during COVID-19	8
Growing points in attachment disorganization: looking back to advance forward	8
It takes a village: a call for engaging attachment with adjunct disciplines to clarify “in-house” clinical conundrums	7
Observing maternal sensitivity in a South African township: an exploratory study into behavioral features using different measures	7
Intergenerational transmission of trauma from mother to infant: the mediating role of disrupted prenatal maternal representations of the child	7
Failure to resolve loss and compromised mentalizing in female inpatients with major depressive disorder	7
Charting the social neuroscience of human attachment (SoNeAt)	7
Concepts travel faster than thought: an empirical study of the use of attachment classifications in child protection investigations	7
Parents’ resolution of their child’s diagnosis: A scoping review	7
Attachment dimensions and cortisol responses during the strange situation among young children adopted internationally	7
Deactivating attachment strategies associate with early processing of facial emotion and familiarity in middle childhood: an ERP study	7
Does secure base script knowledge mediate associations between observed parental caregiving during childhood and adult romantic relationship quality and health?	7