OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Attachment & Human Development is 8. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues	49
Don’t forget student-teacher dependency! A Meta-analysis on associations with students’ school adjustment and the moderating role of student and teacher characteristics	39
Working toward anti-racist perspectives in attachment theory, research, and practice	34
The effectiveness of parenting programs in regard to improving parental reflective functioning: a meta-analysis	29
Longitudinal study of the cascading effects of racial discrimination on parenting and adjustment among African American youth	22
Dependency in teacher–child relationships: deepening our understanding of the construct	21
Early childhood attachment stability and change: a meta-analysis	21
Taking perspective on attachment theory and research: nine fundamental questions	21
Six attachment discourses: convergence, divergence and relay	19
Replication crisis lost in translation? On translational caution and premature applications of attachment theory	19
Prospecting the attachment research field: a move to the level of engagement	18
Emerging patterns of infant regulatory behavior in the Still-Face paradigm at 3 and 9 months predict mother-infant attachment at 12 months	16
Father–child attachment in Black families: risk and protective processes	15
Probing the association between maternal anxious attachment style and mother-child brain-to-brain coupling during passive co-viewing of visual stimuli	15
Mothers’ preparation for bias and responses to children’s distress predict positive adjustment among Black children: an attachment perspective	14
Improving the parent–child relationship and child adjustment through parental reflective functioning group intervention	14
Infant mental health home visiting: intervention dosage and therapist experience interact to support improvements in maternal reflective functioning	13
Teachers’ and children’s perceptions about their relationships: examining the construct of dependency in the Greek sociocultural context	13
With(out) a little help from my friends: insecure attachment in adolescence, support-seeking, and adult negativity and hostility	11
Attachment perspectives on race, prejudice, and anti-racism: Introduction to the Special Issue	11
Adult attachment is related to maternal neural response to infant cues: an ERP study	10
Attachment research and anti-racism: learning from Black and Brown scholars	10
Associations of peripheral blood DNA methylation and estimated monocyte proportion differences during infancy with toddler attachment style	10
Enhancing the “broaden-and-build” cycle of attachment security as a means of overcoming prejudice, discrimination, and racism	10
The mediating role of child-teacher dependency in the association between early mother-child attachment and behavior problems in middle childhood	9

Multiple facets of attachment in residential-care, late adopted, and community adolescents: an interview-based comparative study	9
Neighborhood poverty, allostatic load, and changes in cellular aging in African American young adults: the moderating role of attachment	9
Video observations of sensitive caregiving “off the beaten track”: introduction to the special issue	9
Childhood abuse and neglect experiences, Hostile-Helpless attachment, and reflective functioning in mentally ill filicidal mothers	9
Teacher-child dependency in preschool: links with teacher-child closeness, conflict and children’s effortful control	8
Can the family drawing be a useful tool for assessing attachment representations in children? A systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Improving parent–child interactions in maltreating families with the Attachment Video-feedback Intervention: Parental childhood trauma as a moderator of treatment effects	8
Then and now: the legacy and future of attachment research	8
Mothers’ parental mentalization, attachment dimensions and mother-infant relational patterns	8