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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Portrayals of disabilities in Children’s fiction: A literature review of anglophone, francophone and hispanophone studies	18
Teaching and learning indigenous languages: An Atayal book project	14
Valuing and supporting the complex writing processes of emergent writers	12
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Teaching	11
Iranian Preschoolers Vocabulary Development: Background Television and Socio-economic status	9
Early literacy experiences of two children during Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa: A semi- ethnographic study	8
Animated movements, animating methods: An interaction geography approach to space and affect in early childhood education	8
Copresence in authoring conversations	8
Encountering the world with voice search: A young immigrant and emergent bilingual child’s digital literacies	7
Drama during story time supports preschoolers’ understanding of story character feeling states	7
Assessment, accountability, and access: Constrained skill mastery as instructional gatekeeper	6
Trilingualism and reading difficulty in a third (school) language: A case study of an at-risk child in French immersion	6
Unfolding joy in young children’s literacy practices in a Finnish early years classroom	6
Book Reviews: Working with young children in museums: Weaving theory and practice	6
Letter from the Guest Editors	5
Conducting racial awareness research with African American children: Unearthing their sociopolitical knowledge through Pro-Black literacy methods	5
“And then it’s my turn”: Negotiating participation in tablet activities in early childhood education and care	5
Book Review: Teaching Essential Literacy Skills in the Early Years Classroom: A Guide for Students and Teachers	5
School quality matters: A multilevel analysis of school effects on the early reading achievement of Black girls	5
Katy transforms storytime: Culturally sustaining pedagogy in the community	5
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	5
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	4
“School is light and we are blind”: Afghan refugee parents’/guardians’ beliefs about literacy and language(s)	4
Observers of the world: Primary grade students imagining solutions for broken environmental and social systems	4
Paradigmatic fronteras: Troubling available design and translanguaging with sticky literacy	4

Prison abolition literacies as Pro-Black pedagogy in early childhood education	4
Finding Max’s wolves: Literacy socialization in the margins	4
Special issue series (two issues) of the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy	4
The effects of e-stories on preschoolers’ narrative comprehension, retelling and reading attitudes among poor and good comprehenders	3
Making the invisible visible: Young Chinese heritage language learners’ reading process through retrospective miscue analysis	3
Patterns in naturally occurring interactions in early writing instruction	3
Playing Minecraft: Young children’s postdigital play	3
Teachers’ beliefs about children and children’s literacy development: The mediating role of responsive teaching	3
The meaning-making in kindergarten children’s visual narrative compositions	2
Bridging the Self’s worlds: Young girls’ creative TikTok expressions of multimodal literacy during Covid-19	2
Creating a web of multimodal resources: Examining meaning-making during a children’s book project in a multilingual community	2
Centering Black women’s ways of knowing: A review of critical literacies research in early childhood	2
Book Review: Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared in Action	2
Professional Book Recommendation	2
Exploring literacy engagement in a significant disability context	2
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Pedagogy	2
“The dinosaurs are so loud; they can’t sleep. Zzzz”: Supporting emergent bilingual children’s reading comprehension through digital literacies	2
Early childhood educators as language teachers: Preschool teachers’ understanding of language learning and language use	2
Prioritizing Pro-Blackness in literacy research, scholarship, and teaching	2
Creating books and sustaining Indigenous languages with two Atayal communities	2
Book Review: Linguistic Justice: Black language, literacy, identity, and pedagogy. By April Baker Bell	2
Revolutionary love: A framework for teaching in pursuit of a multiracial democracy	2
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	2
Starting small: Engaging young learners with literacy through multilingual storytelling	1
“It is a lovely gift to get from the public health nurse”: Public health nurse perspectives on involvement in an infant book gifting scheme	1
Windows & mirrors but mostly windows: Early childhood administrators view on diverse books	1
Book Review: Research methods for early childhood education	1
Morning circle as a community of practice: Co-teachers’ transmodality in a dual language bilingual education preschool classroom	1
Depictions of teachers and teacher practices in picture books about starting kindergarten	1
Representing tradition: The construction of culturally-specific visual narratives in Chinese picture books and hand scroll paintings	1
‘That’s my dumb husband’: Wild things, battle bears and heteronormative responses in an afterschool reading club	1
Toddlers as active, competent story weavers: Lexie’s story	1
Disabilities in children’s literature: Is the representation accurate and authentic?	1
Supporting literacies for children of color: A strength-based approach to pre-school literacy by (Daniel R )	1
In their own words: Parents’ voices about a book-provision program	1
Children's Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Teaching	1
Exploring teacher candidates’ discursive shifts in translanguaging pedagogies during literacy instruction	1
Teacher expertise in early childhood instruction: Cross-analysis of language policy and culturally sustaining pedagogies with multilingual learners	1
“You need to learn the spelling”: Playing, teaching, and learning of trilingual siblings with refugee backgrounds	1
H is for Hurricane, M is for Maria: Supporting literacy in Vieques	1
Storybook reading: Literacy and teacher knowledge in early childhood education	1
‘The toys you sleep with’: Embracing otherwise literacies in early childhood wor(l)ds	1
From stories at bedtime to a love of reading: Parental practices and beliefs about reading with infants	1
Writing experiences in early childhood classrooms where children made higher language gains	1
“That storrey reminse you to be cefl”: A multimodal analysis of a first-grader’s blended genre composition	1
Professional Book Recommendation	1
In memoriam Michele Knobel, PhD (1966–2021)	1