OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Early Childhood Literacy is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Animated movements, animating methods: An interaction geography approach to space and affect in early childhood education	24
Valuing and supporting the complex writing processes of emergent writers	20
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Teaching	19
Portrayals of disabilities in Children’s fiction: A literature review of anglophone, francophone and hispanophone studies	14
Teaching and learning indigenous languages: An Atayal book project	14
Drama during story time supports preschoolers’ understanding of story character feeling states	13
Early literacy experiences of two children during Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa: A semi- ethnographic study	12
Encountering the world with voice search: A young immigrant and emergent bilingual child’s digital literacies	11
Storying worlds: Thinking and doing otherwise in young children’s story pedagogy	10
Book Review: Teaching Essential Literacy Skills in the Early Years Classroom: A Guide for Students and Teachers	8
Letter from the Guest Editors	8
Conducting racial awareness research with African American children: Unearthing their sociopolitical knowledge through Pro-Black literacy methods	7
Observers of the world: Primary grade students imagining solutions for broken environmental and social systems	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	7
Katy transforms storytime: Culturally sustaining pedagogy in the community	7
Looking more closely at the Children’s Technology Play Space: Bringing space, bodies, materials and knowing together through investigation with microscopes	7
A multimodal content analysis of popular early childhood stories and read-alouds on YouTube	6
Cartographies of voice: Children’s multimodal literacies, agency, and identity in public pedagogy	6
“School is light and we are blind”: Afghan refugee parents’/guardians’ beliefs about literacy and language(s)	6
Parents’ perceptions on young children’s online English learning at home: A mixed-methods study	5
The effect of the creative drama method on preschool children’s fairy tale comprehension: The case of “The Bremen Town Musicians”	5
Bridging the Self’s worlds: Young girls’ creative TikTok expressions of multimodal literacy during Covid-19	5
Prison abolition literacies as Pro-Black pedagogy in early childhood education	5
Patterns in naturally occurring interactions in early writing instruction	5
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	5

Creating books and sustaining Indigenous languages with two Atayal communities	4
Creating a web of multimodal resources: Examining meaning-making during a children’s book project in a multilingual community	4
Professional Book Recommendation	4
Prioritizing Pro-Blackness in literacy research, scholarship, and teaching	4
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
Centering Black women’s ways of knowing: A review of critical literacies research in early childhood	4
The meaning-making in kindergarten children’s visual narrative compositions	4
Playing Minecraft: Young children’s postdigital play	4
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	4
More moments to move: Incorporating creative movement dance into read-alouds	4