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

Article	Citations
Joint engagement in the home environment is frequent, multimodal, timely, and structured	29
Diversity and representation in infant research: Barriers and bridges toward a globalized science of infant development	28
Beyond talk: Contributions of quantity and quality of communication to language success across socioeconomic strata	26
Cognitive function in toddlers with congenital heart disease: The impact of a stimulating home environment	24
Online measures of looking and learning in infancy	18
Development and validation of the Early Executive Functions Questionnaire: A carer‐administered measure of Executive Functions suitable for 9‐ to 30‐month‐olds	17
The early development of tempo adjustment and synchronization during joint drumming: A study of 18‐ to 42‐month‐old children	15
Toward a dimensional model of risk and protective factors influencing children's early cognitive, social, and emotional development during the COVID‐19 pandemic	15
Not all babies are in the same boat: Exploring the effects of socioeconomic status, parental attitudes, and activities during the 2020 COVID‐19 pandemic on early Executive Functions	14
Social interaction targets enhance 13‐month‐old infants' associative learning	14
Mechanisms of social evaluation in infancy: A preregistered exploration of infants’ eye‐movement and pupillary responses to prosocial and antisocial events	14
The impact of parent and child media use on early parent–infant attachment	14
A parent gesture intervention as a means to increase parent declarative pointing and child vocabulary	13
A Bayesian meta‐analysis of infants’ ability to perceive audio–visual congruence for speech	13
Paid maternal leave is associated with better language and socioemotional outcomes during toddlerhood	13
Capturing touch in parent–infant interaction: A comparison of methods	12
The effect of the COVID‐19 pandemic on infant development and maternal mental health in the first 2 years of life	12
Why the parent's gaze is so powerful in organizing the infant's gaze: The relationship between parental referential cues and infant object looking	12
Visual perception grounding of social cognition in preverbal infants	11
The terrible twos: How children cope with frustration and tantrums and the effect of maternal and paternal behaviors	11
Tablet assessment of word comprehension reveals coarse word representations in 18–⁠20‐month‐old toddlers	11
The development of gaze following in monolingual and bilingual infants: A multi‐laboratory study	11
Clinically depressed and typically developing mother–infant dyads: Domain base rates and correspondences, relationship contingencies and attunement	10
Associations between acoustic features of maternal speech and infants’ emotion regulation following a social stressor	10
A self‐comfort oriented pattern of regulatory behavior and avoidant attachment are more likely among infants born moderate‐to‐late preterm	10

Habla conmigo, daddy! Fathers’ language input in North American bilingual Latinx families	10
Sequential learning of emotional faces is statistical at 12 months of age	9
Language familiarity influences own‐race face recognition in 9‐ and 12‐month‐old infants	9
A longitudinal study of the differential social‐cognitive foundations of early prosocial behaviors	8
The effect of masks on the visual preference for faces in the first year of life	8
Atypical ERP responses to audiovisual speech integration and sensory responsiveness in infants at risk for autism spectrum disorder	8
A meta‐analysis of infants’ word‐form recognition	8
Infants’ abilities to respond to cues for joint attention vary by family socioeconomic status	8
Sing for me, Mama! Infants' discrimination of novel vowels in song	8
Maternal prenatal mood problems and lower maternal emotional availability associated with lower quality of child's emotional availability and higher negative affect during still‐face procedure	8
Symbolic play provides a fertile context for language development	8
iCatcher: A neural network approach for automated coding of young children's eye movements	7
Caregivers' everyday moral reasoning predicts young children's aggressive, prosocial, and moral development: Evidence from ambulatory assessment	7
Rule learning transfer across linguistic and visual modalities in 7‐month‐old infants	7
Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID‐19	7
The impact of face masks on infants' learning of faces: An eye tracking study	7
The mountain stream of infant development	7
Mother‐infant emotional availability through the COVID‐19 pandemic: Examining continuity, stability, and bidirectional associations	7
Multimodal representational gestures in the transition to multi‐word productions	7
Replacing eye trackers in ongoing studies: A comparison of eye‐tracking data quality between the Tobii Pro TX300 and the Tobii Pro Spectrum	7
Validation of an open source, remote web‐based eye‐tracking method (WebGazer) for research in early childhood	7
Talker variability shapes early word representations in English‐learning 8‐month‐olds	7
The road to conventional tool use: Developmental changes in children's material engagement with artifacts in nursery school	6
The development of visual attention in early infancy: Insights from a free‐viewing paradigm	6
Specifying links between infants' theory of mind, associative learning, and selective trust	6
Attrition rate in infant fNIRS research: A meta‐analysis	6
Infant locomotion shapes proximity to adults during everyday play in the U.S.	6
Infants who experience more adult‐initiated conversations have better expressive language in toddlerhood	6
Gesture development in infancy: Effects of gender but not bilingualism	5
Maternal sensitivity during mealtime and free play: Differences and explanatory factors	5
Further evidence for the multidimensional nature of maternal sensitivity: differential links with child socioemotional functioning at preschool age	5
Statistical learning in infancy predicts vocabulary size in toddlerhood	5
Mismatched response predicts behavioral speech discrimination outcomes in infants with hearing loss and normal hearing	5
Assessing behavior in children aged 12–24 months using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire	5
Intersensory processing of faces and voices at 6 months predicts language outcomes at 18, 24, and 36 months of age	5
The real‐time effects of parent speech on infants' multimodal attention and dyadic coordination	5
Automated measurement of infant and mother Duchenne facial expressions in the Face‐to‐Face/Still‐Face	4
Qualitative and quantitative aspects of child‐directed parental talk and the relation to 2‐year‐old's developing vocabulary	4
How experience shapes infants' communicative behaviour: Comparing gaze following in infants with and without pandemic experience	4
Average fixation duration in infancy: Stability and predictive utility	4
Longitudinal assessment of social attention in preterm and term infants: Its relation to social communication and language outcome	4
Infants born preterm and infants born full‐term generate more selective leg joint movement during the scaffolded mobile task	4
Looking represents choosing in toddlers: Exploring the equivalence between multimodal measures in forced‐choice tasks	4
Pretending emotions in the early years: The role of language and symbolic play	4
Fine‐tuning language discrimination: Bilingual and monolingual infants’ detection of language switching	4
Infants born full term and preterm increase the height of anti‐gravity leg movements during a kick‐activated mobile task using a scaffolded task environment	4
Experienced crawlers avoid real and water drop‐offs, even when they are walking	4
Using video observation in the family context: The association between camera‐related behaviors and parental sensitivity	4
Understanding developmental cascades and experience: Diversity matters	4
Lability of prenatal stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic links to negative affect in infancy	4

Attachment and joint attention in infants: The role of expectation