OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Early Childhood Literacy is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Teaching and learning indigenous languages: An Atayal book project	20
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Teaching	19
Valuing and supporting the complex writing processes of emergent writers	14
Portrayals of disabilities in Children’s fiction: A literature review of anglophone, francophone and hispanophone studies	11
Animated movements, animating methods: An interaction geography approach to space and affect in early childhood education	10
Storying worlds: Thinking and doing otherwise in young children’s story pedagogy	10
Iranian Preschoolers Vocabulary Development: Background Television and Socio-economic status	10
Early literacy experiences of two children during Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa: A semi- ethnographic study	9
Drama during story time supports preschoolers’ understanding of story character feeling states	8
Copresence in authoring conversations	7
Encountering the world with voice search: A young immigrant and emergent bilingual child’s digital literacies	7
Book Review: Teaching Essential Literacy Skills in the Early Years Classroom: A Guide for Students and Teachers	7
Identifying anti-Blackness and committing to Pro-Blackness in early literacy pedagogy and research: A guide for child care settings, schools, teacher preparation programs, and researchers	6
Observers of the world: Primary grade students imagining solutions for broken environmental and social systems	6
Letter from the Guest Editors	6
Katy transforms storytime: Culturally sustaining pedagogy in the community	6
Conducting racial awareness research with African American children: Unearthing their sociopolitical knowledge through Pro-Black literacy methods	6
School quality matters: A multilevel analysis of school effects on the early reading achievement of Black girls	6
Finding Max’s wolves: Literacy socialization in the margins	6
The effect of the creative drama method on preschool Children’s fairy tale comprehension: The case of “The Bremen Town Musicians”	5
“School is light and we are blind”: Afghan refugee parents’/guardians’ beliefs about literacy and language(s)	5
Cartographies of voice: Children’s multimodal literacies, agency, and identity in public pedagogy	5
Looking more closely at the Children’s Technology Play Space: Bringing space, bodies, materials and knowing together through investigation with microscopes	5
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Pedagogy	4
“The dinosaurs are so loud; they can’t sleep. Zzzz”: Supporting emergent bilingual children’s reading comprehension through digital literacies	4

Parents’ perceptions on young children’s online English learning at home: A mixed-methods study	4
The effects of e-stories on preschoolers’ narrative comprehension, retelling and reading attitudes among poor and good comprehenders	4
Playing Minecraft: Young children’s postdigital play	4
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	4
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	4
Making the invisible visible: Young Chinese heritage language learners’ reading process through retrospective miscue analysis	4
Professional Book Recommendation	4
Bridging the Self’s worlds: Young girls’ creative TikTok expressions of multimodal literacy during Covid-19	4
Patterns in naturally occurring interactions in early writing instruction	4
Prison abolition literacies as Pro-Black pedagogy in early childhood education	4
Creating books and sustaining Indigenous languages with two Atayal communities	3
Centering Black women’s ways of knowing: A review of critical literacies research in early childhood	3
Exploring literacy engagement in a significant disability context	3
The meaning-making in kindergarten children’s visual narrative compositions	3
Creating a web of multimodal resources: Examining meaning-making during a children’s book project in a multilingual community	3
Prioritizing Pro-Blackness in literacy research, scholarship, and teaching	3
Book Review: Linguistic Justice: Black language, literacy, identity, and pedagogy. By April Baker Bell	2
Book Review: Research methods for early childhood education	2
Disabilities in children’s literature: Is the representation accurate and authentic?	2
Windows & mirrors but mostly windows: Early childhood administrators view on diverse books	2
Children's Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Teaching	2
Ready, set, action! Preservice preschool teachers’ journey from preparation to implementation of literacy activities	2
Revolutionary love: A framework for teaching in pursuit of a multiracial democracy	2
Book Review: Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared in Action	2
Morning circle as a community of practice: Co-teachers’ transmodality in a dual language bilingual education preschool classroom	2
“It is a lovely gift to get from the public health nurse”: Public health nurse perspectives on involvement in an infant book gifting scheme	2
Exploring teacher candidates’ discursive shifts in translanguaging pedagogies during literacy instruction	2
‘The toys you sleep with’: Embracing otherwise literacies in early childhood wor(l)ds	2
In their own words: Parents’ voices about a book-provision program	2
Early childhood educators as language teachers: Preschool teachers’ understanding of language learning and language use	2
From stories at bedtime to a love of reading: Parental practices and beliefs about reading with infants	2
Storybook reading: Literacy and teacher knowledge in early childhood education	2
Writing experiences in early childhood classrooms where children made higher language gains	2
Book Review: Literacies that Move and Matter: Nexus Analysis for Contemporary Childhoods	1
‘That’s my dumb husband’: Wild things, battle bears and heteronormative responses in an afterschool reading club	1
0-3-Year-old children’s digital language and literacy practices at home: A scoping review of the literature	1
Immersive planetarium and science center experiences as catalysts for literacy learning	1
Starting small: Engaging young learners with literacy through multilingual storytelling	1
Lessons learned from remote, early-literacy instruction	1
Lockdown literacies	1
Reading picture books with infants and toddlers TorrJane. Reading Picture Books with Infants and Toddlers. London, New York: Routledge, 2023, p. 138, ISBN 9780367768911.	1
“You need to learn the spelling”: Playing, teaching, and learning of trilingual siblings with refugee backgrounds	1
Professional Book Recommendation	1
“That storrey reminse you to be cefl”: A multimodal analysis of a first-grader’s blended genre composition	1
Teacher expertise in early childhood instruction: Cross-analysis of language policy and culturally sustaining pedagogies with multilingual learners	1
Names y nombres: Names as gateways to biliteracy in multilingual early childhood classrooms	1
Empowering agentic literacies: A case study on advocacy and activism in a preschool classroom	1
In memoriam Michele Knobel, PhD (1966–2021)	1
Theorizing the Children’s Museum: CHAT, literacies, and the family-centered children’s museum	1
Representing tradition: The construction of culturally-specific visual narratives in Chinese picture books and hand scroll paintings	1

Book Review: Nordic Childhoods in the Digital Age: Insights into Contemporary Research on Communication, Learning and Education	1
Agency in a first-grade writing workshop: A case study of two composers	1