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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Minding the Baby versus usual care: effects on parental sensitivity and parent-child interaction in a cluster quasi-randomized trial	58
Classes of child-mother attachment disorganization from infancy to the preschool years	38
Correction	19
Development of the virtual-VIPP and a systematic review of online support for families during the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Commentary: attachment theory goes to school	14
Adult attachment assessed via the ASA and AAI: Empirical convergence and links with autonomic physiological responding during attachment assessments	14
Associations between parents’ adult attachment, Co-parenting and parent-child relationships: an actor-partner interdependence model	12
Race, discrimination, and racism as “growing points” for consideration: attachment theory and research with African American families	11
Mary Main’s contributions to our family systems approach to interventions with parents of young children	10
Examining the link between parental relationship functioning and parent sensitivity: a meta-analysis	10
A call to represent the current diversity of family forms in attachment research	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
Taking perspective on attachment theory and research: nine fundamental questions	9
Do empathy and oxytocin predict responsiveness to a crying infant simulator in expecting and non-expecting couples? A multilevel study	8
Toddler disorganized attachment in relation to cortical thickness and socioemotional problems in late childhood	8
Innovations in attachment-based interventions in pandemic times: feasibility of online attachment-based interventions	7
What do we know about parental embodied mentalizing? A systematic review of the construct, assessment, empirical findings, gaps and further steps	7
Exploring attachment representations and traumatic reenactment in foster children	7
Can the family drawing be a useful tool for assessing attachment representations in children? A systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Neural correlates of distress and comfort in individuals with avoidant, anxious and secure attachment style: an fMRI study	6
Enhancing visitation in the child welfare system for children separated from their birth parents: pilot results of fostering relationships	6
Stressful life events and prenatal representations of the child	6
Father-separation and well-being in forcibly displaced Syrian children	5
Cross-modal coherence and incoherence of early infant interactive behavior: links to attachment in infants born very preterm or full-term	5
Mary Main: portrait and tribute	5

A meta-analysis of the distribution of preschool and early childhood attachment as assessed in the strange situation procedure and its modified versions	5
Relational roots of retributive vs. restorative justice: attachment insecurity predicts harsher responses to crime	5
Revisiting the childcare–attachment question: under what conditions is childcare participation associated with mother–child attachment security?	4
Concepts travel faster than thought: an empirical study of the use of attachment classifications in child protection investigations	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
Variants of Callous-unemotional traits in childhood: investigation of attachment profile and hostile attribution bias	4
Insecure attachment and support-seeking during COVID-19: a sequential mixed methods investigation	4
The combined contribution of maternal sensitivity and disrupted affective communication to infant attachment in an Israeli sample	4
Effects of maternal trauma and associated psychopathology on atypical maternal behavior and infant social withdrawal six months postpartum	4
Deactivating attachment strategies associate with early processing of facial emotion and familiarity in middle childhood: an ERP study	4
The contributions of maternal oxytocin and maternal sensitivity to infant attachment security	4
Attachment to fathers and mothers in preschoolers with an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis	4