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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Infants use contextual memory to attend and learn in naturalistic scenes	30
Specificity of phonological representations in U.S. English‐speaking late talkers and typical talkers	30
Caregivers as experimenters: Reducing unfamiliarity helps shy children learn words	28
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2‐Year‐olds’ free play during the COVID‐19 pandemic	25
The Association Between Pointing and Walking in Infants: A Longitudinal Observational Study	25
Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID‐19	23
Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID‐19	18
Exploring cascading effects of sensory processing on language skills and social‐communicative difficulties through play in young children at elevated likelihood for autism	17
Language environment and early language production in Slovenian infants: An exploratory study using daylong recordings	16
Cognitive control in infancy: Attentional predictors using a tablet‐based measure	15
Parent attention‐orienting behavior is associated with neural entropy in infancy	14
Infants' reliance on rhythm to distinguish languages: A critical review	14
Neural mechanisms of language development in infancy	13
Exploring Developmental Connections: Sleep Patterns, Self‐Locomotion, and Vocabulary Growth in Early Childhood	13
Brain Activity of Young Children in Bangladesh Is Associated With Biopsychosocial Conditions at the Individual‐, Family‐, and Household‐Level	13
The Infant Behavior Questionnaire Factor Structure Varies With Sample Characteristics	12
Infant externalizing behavior and parent depressive symptoms: Prospective predictors of parental pandemic related distress	12
Plasticity in older infants' perception of phonetic contrasts: The role of selective attention in context	12
Holistic and Analytic Attention in Infancy: A Cross‐Cultural Study in Sweden and Zimbabwe	12
Newborns' perception of approach and withdrawal from biological movement: A closeness story	12
Attention control in preterm and term 5‐month‐old infants: Cross‐task stability increases with gestational age	12
Assessing the language of 2 year‐olds: From theory to practice	11
Parental Mind‐Mindedness and Child Executive Functions During Toddlerhood: A Biparental and Longitudinal Study	11

Correlates of infant pointing frequency in the first year	11
Emotional Movement Kinematics Guide Twelve‐Month‐Olds’ Visual, but Not Manual, Exploration	10
Prenatal influences on postnatal neuroplasticity: Integrating DOHaD and sensitive/critical period frameworks to understand biological embedding in early development	10
Do Facial Masks Impact Infants' Joint Attention? A Within‐Participant Laboratory Study	9
How Does Paternal Odor Influence Perception of Fearful and Happy Faces in Infancy?	9
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Speaking of Screens: Longitudinal Associations Between the Home Media and Home Language Environment During Early Childhood	9
Parental Values Are Associated With How Parents Feel About Their Infants' Sleep, but Not the Quality of Infants' Sleep	8
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Input Properties Shape Word Segmentation Performance Across Child Development: A Computational Modeling Study	8
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Not too shy to point! Exploring the relationship between shyness and pointing in the second year	7
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Screen Media Exposure and Inhibitory Control: A Longitudinal Study From Infancy to Toddlerhood	7
Biobehavioral Correlates of Infants' Social Bidding During the Still‐Face Paradigm	7
Effects of face masks on language comprehension in bilingual children	7
Evidence of Cross‐Cultural Differences in Maternal Mind‐Mindedness	7
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The Dynamics of Looking and Smiling Differ for Young Infants at Elevated Likelihood for ASD	7
Twelve months old infants' evaluation of observed comforting behavior using a choice paradigm: The role of animacy cues and self‐distress	7
Predictive Sentence Parsing in Monolingual and Bilingual Learners	7
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Infant motor development predicts the dynamics of movement during sleep	6
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Revisiting the Object‐Processing Paradigm in the Study of Gaze Cues: What Two Decades of Research Have Taught Us About Infant Social Learning	6
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The Developmental Origins of Joint Attention: Infants' Early Joint Attention Bids	6
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Positive coparenting previous to the COVID‐19 pandemic can buffer regulatory problems in infants facing the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
Parentese Elicits Infant Speech‐Like Vocalizations in Typically Developing and Autistic Infants	6
An object's categorizability impacts whether infants encode surface features into their object representations	6
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Locomotion development and infants' object interaction in a day‐care environment	6
Changes in selective attention to articulating mouth across infancy: Sex differences and associations with language outcomes	6
Co‐regulation, relationship quality, and infant distress vocalizations observed during mother‐infant interactions: Influences of maternal depression and different contexts	5
The Relation Between Goal‐Predictive Gaze Behavior and Imitation—A Live Eye‐Tracking Study in 12‐Month‐Olds	5
Beyond the Dyad: Infant Vocal Cues Organize Conversational‐Turn Taking in Infant‐Toddler Classrooms	5
Parental Sensitivity and Infant Social Withdrawal During Mother–Infant and Father–Infant Interactions	5
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14‐month‐old infants detect a semantic mismatch when occluded objects are mislabeled	5
High‐quality early care and education for low‐income families: Toddlers’ cognitive and emotional functioning during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
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Infants' Multimodal Requests and Protests Elicit Responses From Mothers During Everyday Home Activities	5
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Shaping linguistic input in parent‐infant interactions: The influence of the Infant's temperament	5
Developmental Shift in Multimodal Cue Usage in Early Mother‐Child Conversational Initiation	5
Infant preference for specific phonetic cue relations in the contrast between voiced and voiceless stops	5
Acoustic Features, Parental Perception and Developmental Correlations of Crying in Preterm Infants: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis	5
Analyzing the effect of sibling number on input and output in the first 18 months	5

Mothers' use of touch across infants' development and its implications for word learning: Evidence from Korean dyadic interactions	4
The road to conventional tool use: Developmental changes in children's material engagement with artifacts in nursery school	4
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The effectiveness of maternal regulatory attempts in the development of infant emotion regulation	4
When Is the Still‐Face Not the Still‐Face: Mothers' Behavior in the Face‐to‐Face Still‐Face Procedure and Its Relationship to Infant Arousal	4
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Patterns of attention‐sensitive communication contribute to 7–20‐month‐olds' emerging pragmatic skills	4
15‐Month‐Olds’ Understanding of Imitation in Social and Instrumental Contexts	4
Lability of prenatal stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic links to negative affect in infancy	4
Object play in Tajikistan: Infants engage with objects despite bounds on play	4