OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Early Childhood Literacy is 2. 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
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
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
Teachers’ beliefs about children and children’s literacy development: The mediating role of responsive teaching	3
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
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