OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Attachment & Human Development is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Minding the Baby versus usual care: effects on parental sensitivity and parent-child interaction in a cluster quasi-randomized trial	23
Classes of child-mother attachment disorganization from infancy to the preschool years	21
Attachment states of mind and reflective functioning in mothers who regret parenthood	18
Maternal empathy and emotional availability: the moderating role of child negative affectivity	14
Associations between parents’ adult attachment, Co-parenting and parent-child relationships: an actor-partner interdependence model	14
Adult attachment assessed via the ASA and AAI: Empirical convergence and links with autonomic physiological responding during attachment assessments	14
Development of the virtual-VIPP and a systematic review of online support for families during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Mary Main’s contributions to our family systems approach to interventions with parents of young children	11
A call to represent the current diversity of family forms in attachment research	11
Examining the link between parental relationship functioning and parent sensitivity: a meta-analysis	10
Attachment security to mother is associated with lower trait expressive suppression among girls in middle childhood	10
Early childhood attachment stability to mothers, fathers, and both parents as a network: associations with parents' well-being, marital relationship, and child behavior problems	9
Innovations in attachment-based interventions in pandemic times: feasibility of online attachment-based interventions	9
Toddler disorganized attachment in relation to cortical thickness and socioemotional problems in late childhood	9
Exploring attachment representations and traumatic reenactment in foster children	8
Stressful life events and prenatal representations of the child	8
Attachment in adoptees and non-adoptees from infancy to young adulthood: the Greek Metera study	8
Enhancing visitation in the child welfare system for children separated from their birth parents: pilot results of fostering relationships	8
Relational roots of retributive vs. restorative justice: attachment insecurity predicts harsher responses to crime	7
What do we know about parental embodied mentalizing? A systematic review of the construct, assessment, empirical findings, gaps and further steps	7
Mary Main: portrait and tribute	6
Cross-modal coherence and incoherence of early infant interactive behavior: links to attachment in infants born very preterm or full-term	6
Father-separation and well-being in forcibly displaced Syrian children	6
A meta-analysis of the distribution of preschool and early childhood attachment as assessed in the strange situation procedure and its modified versions	6
Concepts travel faster than thought: an empirical study of the use of attachment classifications in child protection investigations	6

Revisiting the childcare–attachment question: under what conditions is childcare participation associated with mother–child attachment security?	5
Deactivating attachment strategies associate with early processing of facial emotion and familiarity in middle childhood: an ERP study	5
Neural correlates of distress and comfort in individuals with avoidant, anxious and secure attachment style: an fMRI study	5
Insecure attachment and support-seeking during COVID-19: a sequential mixed methods investigation	5
The combined contribution of maternal sensitivity and disrupted affective communication to infant attachment in an Israeli sample	4
Attachment security in Georgian foster children: the role of parental sensitivity and child internalizing and externalizing behavior	4
Bridging parental attachment insecurity, social cognition, parenting, and temperament to elucidate the origins of antisocial orientation in preschoolers	4
Individual differences in infants’ expectations and preferences for responsive vs. unresponsive parent-puppets and their associations with early maternal behavior	4
Evidence of a developmental shift in the nature attachment representations: a longitudinal taxometric investigation of secure base script knowledge from middle childhood into adolescence	4
Effects of maternal trauma and associated psychopathology on atypical maternal behavior and infant social withdrawal six months postpartum	4
Variants of Callous-unemotional traits in childhood: investigation of attachment profile and hostile attribution bias	4