OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Infant Behavior & Development is 6. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Six-month-olds’ ability to use linguistic cues when interpreting others’ pointing actions	39
Co-regulation of movements during infant feeding	31
The impact of caregiver inhibitory control on infant visual working memory	27
Identifying when children with visual impairment share attention: A novel protocol and the impact of visual acuity	25
The maturational gradient of infant vocalizations: Developmental stages and functional modules	25
Birth order, stimulating environment, and maternal factors in developmental outcomes: A longitudinal Mexican study	23
Infants’ vocalizations at 6 months predict their productive vocabulary at one year	22
Learning blossoms: Caregiver-infant interactions in an outdoor garden setting	22
Shared positive emotion during parent-toddler play and parent and child well-being in Mexican origin families	21
A longitudinal study of boys’ and girls’ injury-risk behaviors and parent supervision during infancy	21
Socioeconomic resources moderate the relationship between maternal prenatal obsessive-compulsive symptoms and infant negative affectivity	20
Association between Hyperemesis Gravidarum in pregnancy on postnatal ability of infants to attend to a play task with their mother	20
The longitudinal contributions of child language, negative emotionality, and maternal positive affect on toddler executive functioning development	19
The role of syntactic cues in monolingual and bilingual two-year-olds’ novel word disambiguation	19
German infants’ discrimination of the English /æ/-/ɛ/ contrast: Evidence from a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study	19
Editorial Board	18
Cardiac physiological regulation across early infancy: The roles of infant surgency and parental involvement with mothers and fathers	18
Emerging sensitivity to talking mouth in infants with low and elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder: A longitudinal study	18
The interplay between cognition and emotion during infancy and toddlerhood: Special issue editorial	18
Associations among average parental educational attainment, maternal stress, and infant screen exposure at 6 months of age	17
Number and type of toys affect joint attention of mothers and infants	16
Studying hot executive function in infancy: Insights from research on emotional development	16
Flexibility and organization in parent-child interaction through the lens of the dynamic system approach: A systematic review of State Space Grid studies	15
Maternal secure base scripts predict child attachment security in an at-risk sample	14
A matter of habit? Stressful life events and cognitive flexibility in 15-month-olds	14

Concordance between subjective and objective measures of infant sleep varies by age and maternal mood: Implications for studies of sleep and cognitive development	14
Napping alone in the snow and cuddling with mommy at night: An exploratory, qualitative study of Norwegian beliefs on infant sleep	13
Antenatal depression and maternal infant directed speech during the first postnatal year	13
Nap timing makes a difference: Sleeping sooner rather than later after learning improves infants’ locomotor problem solving	13
Person-centered profiles of child temperament: A comparison of coder, mother, and experimenter ratings	13
Does the feeding method affect the quality of infant and maternal sleep? A systematic review	12
Infants’ use of the index finger for social and non-social purposes during the first two years of life: A cross-cultural study	12
Predictors of television at bedtime and associations with toddler sleep and behavior in a medicaid-eligible, racial/ethnic minority sample	12
The influence of infant temperamental negative affect and maternal depression on infant and maternal social positive engagement during the Still-Face procedure	12
The context matters: The use of communicative intentions by mothers to their children during playtime and mealtime	11
Lower limb inter-joint coordination patterns are associated with walking experience in toddlers according to limb and stance periods	11
Interactional preludes to infants’ affective climax – Mother-infant interaction around infant smiling in two cultures	11
The impact of maternal gaze responsiveness on infants’ gaze following and later vocabulary development	11
The United States reference values of the Bayley III motor scale are suitable in Suriname	11
The early ontogeny of infants’ imitation of on screen humans and robots	11
Remote screening protocol for functioning and contextual factors (e-Followkids) in Brazilian children with biological risk in the first 2 years: A longitudinal prospective study	10
Executive functions predict restricted and repetitive behaviors in toddlers under 36 months old with autism spectrum disorder	10
Behavioural reactions to an emotion evoking task in infants at increased likelihood for autism spectrum disorder	10
The privileging of ‘Support-From-Below’ in early spatial language acquisition	10
The origins of touchscreen competence: Examining infants’ exploration of touchscreens	10
Revisiting perceptual sensitivity to non-native speech in a diverse sample of bilinguals	10
Measurement of the quality of mother-infant feeding interactions across the first year: Reliability and stability of the parent-child early relational assessment	10
It takes a village: Caregiver diversity and language contingency in the UK and rural Gambia	10
Hush, little baby: The role of C-tactile afferents in babywearing infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal	9
Associations between technoference, quality of parent-infant interactions, and infants’ vocabulary development	9
Exploring maternal touch in the infant’s first 18 months of Life: A study on an Italian sample	9
Infant perception of causal motion produced by humans and inanimate objects	9
The impact of the home musical environment on infants’ language development	9
Association between breastfeeding duration and neurodevelopment in Chinese children aged 2 to 3 years	9
Maternal-infant bonding and partner support during pregnancy and postpartum: Associations with early child social-emotional development	9
Narrative as co-regulation: A review of embodied narrative in infant development	9
Mother-child and father-child “serve and return” interactions at 9 months: Associations with children’s language skills at 18 and 24 months	9
Developmental trajectories of infant nighttime awakenings are associated with infant-mother and infant-father attachment security	9
Infants’ pointing at nine months is associated with maternal sensitivity but not vocabulary	9
Speech perception 40 years after Werker and Tees (1984)	9
The impact of remembered emotion socialization on maternal sensitivity to distress via beliefs about crying	8
Can infants use video to update mental representations of absent objects?	8
The Welch Emotional Connection Screen: Adapting observational methods to pediatric primary care via resident training	8
Social communication skills profile in infants with sex chromosome trisomy at 12 months of age	8
Dynamic emotional messages differentially affect 6-month-old infants’ attention to eyes and gaze cues	8
Generalizability and representation in studies of infant perceptual narrowing: Considerations for future research	8
Mother-infant co-regulation from 0 to 2 years: The role of copy behaviors. A systematic review	8
Preverbal infants tune manual choices on subliminal affective information	7
Let’s make music as we normally do: A systematic review of how early natural musical interactions between infant and caregiver have been studied in research	7
Phonetic perceptual reorganization across the first year of life: Looking back	7
The breadth and specificity of 18-month-old’s infant-initiated interactions in naturalistic home settings	7
Maternal perinatal hypertensive disorders and parenting in infancy	7
Infant sleep: Impacts on cognitive, social, and physical development	7
Relationship of withdrawn, anxious/depressed and attention problems to cognitive performance in preterm children at 18 months and 36 months of age	7
Effects of multilingualism on Australian infants’ language environments in early childhood education centers	7

Editorial Board	7
Predicting language outcomes at 3 years using individual differences in morphological segmentation in infancy	7
A comparative study of mother-infant co-regulation of distance at home in Japan and Scotland	7
Touchscreens can promote infant object-interlocutor reference switching	7
Early object skill supports growth in role-differentiated bimanual manipulation in infants	7
Prenatal maternal depression predicts neural maturation and negative emotion in infants	7
Object individuation and labelling in 6-month-old infants	6
The effect of telephone-assisted breastfeeding monitoring on physiological jaundice, exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months, development of colic, and breastfeeding self-efficacy: A randomize	6
Advances in microanalysis: Magnifying the social microscope on mother-infant interactions	6
Understanding the differential impact of children’s TV on executive functions: a narrative-processing analysis	6
Estimating infants’ language exposure: A comparison of random and volume sampling from daylong recordings collected in a bilingual community	6
Early influence of language experience in non-native speech perception: Discrimination of three-way Thai stop contrasts by Korean and Japanese infants	6
The multimodality of infant's rhythmic movements as a modulator of the interaction with their caregivers	6
Cumulative risk, infant sleep, and infant social-emotional development	6
Maternal depressive symptoms and infant temperament in the first year of life predict child behavior at 36 months of age	6
Culture and the organization of infant sleep: A study in the Netherlands and the U.S.A.	6
Higher attention bias for fear at 8 months of age is associated with better socioemotional competencies during toddlerhood	6
A systematic review of the concept of self-regulation in infants between 0 and 36 months in Latin America	6
Using complexity science to understand the role of co-sleeping (bedsharing) in mother-infant co-regulatory processes	6
Digital media and children under 3 years of age	6
Prenatal maternal stress during the COVID-19 pandemic and birth outcomes: Is the newborn spared?	6