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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Disrupting ableism: Strengths-based representations of disability in children’s picture books	16
Parent book choices: How do parents select books to share with infants and toddlers with language impairment?	13
Playing Minecraft: Young children’s postdigital play	12
The impact of COVID-19 on early childhood reading practices	11
Teachers’ beliefs about children and children’s literacy development: The mediating role of responsive teaching	10
Unfolding joy in young children’s literacy practices in a Finnish early years classroom	8
Book sharing with young children: A study of book sharing in four Australian long day care centres	6
Prioritizing Pro-Blackness in literacy research, scholarship, and teaching	6
Cognitively challenging talk during shared reading: Effects of parent gender, child gender and relations with story comprehension	6
Learning through everyday activities: Improving preschool language and literacy outcomes via family workshops	6
“And then it’s my turn”: Negotiating participation in tablet activities in early childhood education and care	6
Conducting racial awareness research with African American children: Unearthing their sociopolitical knowledge through Pro-Black literacy methods	5
“They never told us that Black is beautiful”: Fostering Black joy and Pro-Blackness pedagogies in early childhood classrooms	5
Children’s digital play as collective family resilience in the face of the pandemic	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	5
Exploring literacy engagement in a significant disability context	4
From stories at bedtime to a love of reading: Parental practices and beliefs About reading with infants	4
The elevation of Black Girls’ hair: An analysis of visual representations in Children’s picturebooks	4
Playing the story: Learning with young Children’s in/visible composing collaborations in outdoor narrative play	4
Unboxing care: Constructions of happiness and gratitude in a Brazilian transnational family’s video production in the United States	4
Children’s language play as collaborative improvisations–rethinking paths to literacy	3
Agency in a first-grade writing workshop: A case study of two composers	3
‘Like, I’m playing, but with this’. Materialization and affect in early childhood literacy	3
It’s the talk that counts: a review of how the extra-textual talk of caregivers during shared book reading with young children has been categorized and measured	3

The effects of e-stories on preschoolers’ narrative comprehension, retelling and reading attitudes among poor and good comprehenders	3
Morning circle as a community of practice: Co-teachers’ transmodality in a dual language bilingual education preschool classroom	3
Co-participatory multimodal intergenerational storytelling: Preschool children’s relationship with modality creating elder inclusion	3
Family learning and working in lockdown: Navigating crippling fear and euphoric joy to support children’s literacy	3
The literacy-enhancing potential of singing versus spoken language in public library storytimes: A text analytics approach	3
Reading identities across language contexts: The role of language of text and talk for multilingual learners	3
School quality matters: A multilevel analysis of school effects on the early reading achievement of Black girls	3
Beyond the written word: The role of text on preschool teachers’ book sharing styles	3
Iranian Preschoolers Vocabulary Development: Background Television and Socio-economic status	3
Designing on the page: Composing picturebooks in a Kevin Henkes author study	2
An animated story created by a group of young children	2
Encountering the world with voice search: A young immigrant and emergent bilingual child’s digital literacies	2
Early literacy experiences of two children during Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa: A semi- ethnographic study	2
In their own words: Parents’ voices about a book-provision program	2
“The dinosaurs are so loud; they can’t sleep. Zzzz”: Supporting emergent bilingual children’s reading comprehension through digital literacies	2
Early literacy going digital: Interweaving formal and informal literacy learning through digital media	2
Assessment, accountability, and access: Constrained skill mastery as instructional gatekeeper	2
@Home collective(ly): Opening doors and doing books with literacy-cast	2
How they got to Sesame Street: Children’s Television Workshop’s appropriation of advertising tactics for effective childhood literacy education	2
“But there is a God”: Teaching Nat Turner in early childhood education	2
Depictions of teachers and teacher practices in picture books about starting kindergarten	2
Animated movements, animating methods: An interaction geography approach to space and affect in early childhood education	2