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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Teaching and learning indigenous languages: An Atayal book project	18
Valuing and supporting the complex writing processes of emergent writers	14
Animated movements, animating methods: An interaction geography approach to space and affect in early childhood education	12
Iranian Preschoolers Vocabulary Development: Background Television and Socio-economic status	12
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Teaching	12
Portrayals of disabilities in Children’s fiction: A literature review of anglophone, francophone and hispanophone studies	10
Copresence in authoring conversations	9
Drama during story time supports preschoolers’ understanding of story character feeling states	9
Encountering the world with voice search: A young immigrant and emergent bilingual child’s digital literacies	8
Book Reviews: Working with young children in museums: Weaving theory and practice	8
Trilingualism and reading difficulty in a third (school) language: A case study of an at-risk child in French immersion	7
Early literacy experiences of two children during Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa: A semi- ethnographic study	6
Unfolding joy in young children’s literacy practices in a Finnish early years classroom	6
Assessment, accountability, and access: Constrained skill mastery as instructional gatekeeper	6
“And then it’s my turn”: Negotiating participation in tablet activities in early childhood education and care	6
Katy transforms storytime: Culturally sustaining pedagogy in the community	5
Special issue series (two issues) of the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy	5
Conducting racial awareness research with African American children: Unearthing their sociopolitical knowledge through Pro-Black literacy methods	5
Book Review: Teaching Essential Literacy Skills in the Early Years Classroom: A Guide for Students and Teachers	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
“School is light and we are blind”: Afghan refugee parents’/guardians’ beliefs about literacy and language(s)	5
School quality matters: A multilevel analysis of school effects on the early reading achievement of Black girls	5
Letter from the Guest Editors	5
Observers of the world: Primary grade students imagining solutions for broken environmental and social systems	5
Teachers’ beliefs about children and children’s literacy development: The mediating role of responsive teaching	4

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