OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Infancy 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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Specificity of phonological representations in U.S. English‐speaking late talkers and typical talkers	28
Infants use contextual memory to attend and learn in naturalistic scenes	27
Caregivers as experimenters: Reducing unfamiliarity helps shy children learn words	24
Infants' reliance on rhythm to distinguish languages: A critical review	24
The Association Between Pointing and Walking in Infants: A Longitudinal Observational Study	20
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2‐Year‐olds’ free play during the COVID‐19 pandemic	20
Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID‐19	18
Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID‐19	17
Exploring cascading effects of sensory processing on language skills and social‐communicative difficulties through play in young children at elevated likelihood for autism	15
Parent attention‐orienting behavior is associated with neural entropy in infancy	14
Cognitive control in infancy: Attentional predictors using a tablet‐based measure	14
Attention control in preterm and term 5‐month‐old infants: Cross‐task stability increases with gestational age	13
Language environment and early language production in Slovenian infants: An exploratory study using daylong recordings	13
Plasticity in older infants' perception of phonetic contrasts: The role of selective attention in context	12
Prenatal influences on postnatal neuroplasticity: Integrating DOHaD and sensitive/critical period frameworks to understand biological embedding in early development	12
Assessing the language of 2 year‐olds: From theory to practice	12
Holistic and Analytic Attention in Infancy: A Cross‐Cultural Study in Sweden and Zimbabwe	12
Exploring Developmental Connections: Sleep Patterns, Self‐Locomotion, and Vocabulary Growth in Early Childhood	12
Neural mechanisms of language development in infancy	12
Infant externalizing behavior and parent depressive symptoms: Prospective predictors of parental pandemic related distress	11
Correlates of infant pointing frequency in the first year	11
Newborns' perception of approach and withdrawal from biological movement: A closeness story	11
Average fixation duration in infancy: Stability and predictive utility	11

The Infant Behavior Questionnaire Factor Structure Varies With Sample Characteristics	11
Emotional Movement Kinematics Guide Twelve‐Month‐Olds’ Visual, but Not Manual, Exploration	10
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Do Facial Masks Impact Infants' Joint Attention? A Within‐Participant Laboratory Study	10
The Dynamics of Looking and Smiling Differ for Young Infants at Elevated Likelihood for ASD	9
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Twelve months old infants' evaluation of observed comforting behavior using a choice paradigm: The role of animacy cues and self‐distress	9
Parental Values Are Associated With How Parents Feel About Their Infants' Sleep, but Not the Quality of Infants' Sleep	9
How Does Paternal Odor Influence Perception of Fearful and Happy Faces in Infancy?	8
Input Properties Shape Word Segmentation Performance Across Child Development: A Computational Modeling Study	8
Speaking of Screens: Longitudinal Associations Between the Home Media and Home Language Environment During Early Childhood	8
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Issue Information	7
From woof woof to dog: Interactions between parents' use of sound symbolic words and infants' vocabulary development	7
Evidence of Cross‐Cultural Differences in Maternal Mind‐Mindedness	7
Biobehavioral Correlates of Infants' Social Bidding During the Still‐Face Paradigm	7
Screen Media Exposure and Inhibitory Control: A Longitudinal Study From Infancy to Toddlerhood	7
An object's categorizability impacts whether infants encode surface features into their object representations	7
Effects of face masks on language comprehension in bilingual children	7
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Shaping linguistic input in parent‐infant interactions: The influence of the Infant's temperament	6
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Why the parent's gaze is so powerful in organizing the infant's gaze: The relationship between parental referential cues and infant object looking	6
Not too shy to point! Exploring the relationship between shyness and pointing in the second year	6
Positive coparenting previous to the COVID‐19 pandemic can buffer regulatory problems in infants facing the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
Changes in selective attention to articulating mouth across infancy: Sex differences and associations with language outcomes	6
Infant motor development predicts the dynamics of movement during sleep	6
The Developmental Origins of Joint Attention: Infants' Early Joint Attention Bids	6
Locomotion development and infants' object interaction in a day‐care environment	6
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Analyzing the effect of sibling number on input and output in the first 18 months	5
Parentese Elicits Infant Speech‐Like Vocalizations in Typically Developing and Autistic Infants	5
Beyond the Dyad: Infant Vocal Cues Organize Conversational‐Turn Taking in Infant‐Toddler Classrooms	5
Infants preferentially learn from surprising teachers	5
Revisiting the Object‐Processing Paradigm in the Study of Gaze Cues: What Two Decades of Research Have Taught Us About Infant Social Learning	5
Parental Sensitivity and Infant Social Withdrawal During Mother–Infant and Father–Infant Interactions	5
14‐month‐old infants detect a semantic mismatch when occluded objects are mislabeled	5
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Patterns of attention‐sensitive communication contribute to 7–20‐month‐olds' emerging pragmatic skills	4
High‐quality early care and education for low‐income families: Toddlers’ cognitive and emotional functioning during the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
The Relation Between Goal‐Predictive Gaze Behavior and Imitation—A Live Eye‐Tracking Study in 12‐Month‐Olds	4
15‐Month‐Olds’ Understanding of Imitation in Social and Instrumental Contexts	4
Co‐regulation, relationship quality, and infant distress vocalizations observed during mother‐infant interactions: Influences of maternal depression and different contexts	4
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Object play in Tajikistan: Infants engage with objects despite bounds on play	4
Mothers' use of touch across infants' development and its implications for word learning: Evidence from Korean dyadic interactions	4
Violation of non‐adjacent rule dependencies elicits greater attention to a talker's mouth in 15‐month‐old infants	4

Infant preference for specific phonetic cue relations in the contrast between voiced and voiceless stops	4
The effectiveness of maternal regulatory attempts in the development of infant emotion regulation	4