OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Infant Behavior & Development is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of caregiver inhibitory control on infant visual working memory	27
Co-regulation of movements during infant feeding	27
Shared positive emotion during parent-toddler play and parent and child well-being in Mexican origin families	23
The maturational gradient of infant vocalizations: Developmental stages and functional modules	23
A longitudinal study of boys’ and girls’ injury-risk behaviors and parent supervision during infancy	22
Association between Hyperemesis Gravidarum in pregnancy on postnatal ability of infants to attend to a play task with their mother	21
Socioeconomic resources moderate the relationship between maternal prenatal obsessive-compulsive symptoms and infant negative affectivity	20
Associations among average parental educational attainment, maternal stress, and infant screen exposure at 6 months of age	19
The role of syntactic cues in monolingual and bilingual two-year-olds’ novel word disambiguation	19
Concordance between subjective and objective measures of infant sleep varies by age and maternal mood: Implications for studies of sleep and cognitive development	19
Home learning environment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Associations with young children’s cognitive and socioemotional development	18
Editorial Board	15
German infants’ discrimination of the English /æ/-/ɛ/ contrast: Evidence from a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study	15
Emerging sensitivity to talking mouth in infants with low and elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder: A longitudinal study	15
The interplay between cognition and emotion during infancy and toddlerhood: Special issue editorial	14
Studying hot executive function in infancy: Insights from research on emotional development	14
Flexibility and organization in parent-child interaction through the lens of the dynamic system approach: A systematic review of State Space Grid studies	14
Development and validation of the NIH Baby Toolbox® Executive Function and Memory measures	14
A matter of habit? Stressful life events and cognitive flexibility in 15-month-olds	13
Nap timing makes a difference: Sleeping sooner rather than later after learning improves infants’ locomotor problem solving	13
The longitudinal contributions of child language, negative emotionality, and maternal positive affect on toddler executive functioning development	13
Napping alone in the snow and cuddling with mommy at night: An exploratory, qualitative study of Norwegian beliefs on infant sleep	13
The influence of infant temperamental negative affect and maternal depression on infant and maternal social positive engagement during the Still-Face procedure	12
Person-centered profiles of child temperament: A comparison of coder, mother, and experimenter ratings	12
Predictors of television at bedtime and associations with toddler sleep and behavior in a medicaid-eligible, racial/ethnic minority sample	12

Maternal secure base scripts predict child attachment security in an at-risk sample	11
Lower limb inter-joint coordination patterns are associated with walking experience in toddlers according to limb and stance periods	11
Does the feeding method affect the quality of infant and maternal sleep? A systematic review	11
The impact of maternal gaze responsiveness on infants’ gaze following and later vocabulary development	11
Infants’ use of the index finger for social and non-social purposes during the first two years of life: A cross-cultural study	11
Advances in understanding the perception-production link: Evidence from infant eye, brain, and motor behavior	10
Behavioural reactions to an emotion evoking task in infants at increased likelihood for autism spectrum disorder	10
Infant frontal EEG asymmetry across an emotion-eliciting task: Leveraging novel quantitative approaches to discern links with parent-child interactions	10
The context matters: The use of communicative intentions by mothers to their children during playtime and mealtime	10
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
Measurement of the quality of mother-infant feeding interactions across the first year: Reliability and stability of the parent-child early relational assessment	9
Revisiting associations between infant cognitive functioning and maternal caregiving quality using eye-tracking and Bayesian cognitive modelling	9
The privileging of ‘Support-From-Below’ in early spatial language acquisition	9
Do infants expect physically competent agents to gain access to contested resources?	9
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	9
Developmental trajectories of infant nighttime awakenings are associated with infant-mother and infant-father attachment security	9
Executive functions predict restricted and repetitive behaviors in toddlers under 36 months old with autism spectrum disorder	9
Hush, little baby: The role of C-tactile afferents in babywearing infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal	9
Infants’ pointing at nine months is associated with maternal sensitivity but not vocabulary	8
The United States reference values of the Bayley III motor scale are suitable in Suriname	8
It takes a village: Caregiver diversity and language contingency in the UK and rural Gambia	8
Exploring maternal touch in the infant’s first 18 months of Life: A study on an Italian sample	8
Mother-child and father-child “serve and return” interactions at 9 months: Associations with children’s language skills at 18 and 24 months	8
Interactional preludes to infants’ affective climax – Mother-infant interaction around infant smiling in two cultures	8
Emotion regulation in infancy through the lens of individual differences: Insights and future directions	8
Human infants’ perception and understanding of others’ actions	8
Revisiting perceptual sensitivity to non-native speech in a diverse sample of bilinguals	8
Maternal-infant bonding and partner support during pregnancy and postpartum: Associations with early child social-emotional development	8
The impact of remembered emotion socialization on maternal sensitivity to distress via beliefs about crying	7
Generalizability and representation in studies of infant perceptual narrowing: Considerations for future research	7
Mother-infant co-regulation from 0 to 2 years: The role of copy behaviors. A systematic review	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
Predicting language outcomes at 3 years using individual differences in morphological segmentation in infancy	7
Social communication skills profile in infants with sex chromosome trisomy at 12 months of age	7
The Welch Emotional Connection Screen: Adapting observational methods to pediatric primary care via resident training	7
Preverbal infants tune manual choices on subliminal affective information	7
Maternal perinatal hypertensive disorders and parenting in infancy	7
Narrative as co-regulation: A review of embodied narrative in infant development	7
Speech perception 40 years after Werker and Tees (1984)	7
Does attention sharing support attention focusing? Investigating the link between infants' sustained attention and joint attention with caregivers	7
Infant sleep: Impacts on cognitive, social, and physical development	7
A comparative study of mother-infant co-regulation of distance at home in Japan and Scotland	7
The breadth and specificity of 18-month-old’s infant-initiated interactions in naturalistic home settings	6
Relationship of withdrawn, anxious/depressed and attention problems to cognitive performance in preterm children at 18 months and 36 months of age	6
Maternal depressive symptoms and infant temperament in the first year of life predict child behavior at 36 months of age	6
Prenatal maternal depression predicts neural maturation and negative emotion in infants	6
Early object skill supports growth in role-differentiated bimanual manipulation in infants	6
Editorial Board	6
Socioemotional development of infants and toddlers in the first months of foster care: A brief synthesis of 25 years of research	6

Phonetic perceptual reorganization across the first year of life: Looking back	6
Effects of multilingualism on Australian infants’ language environments in early childhood education centers	6
Touchscreens can promote infant object-interlocutor reference switching	6
The origin of language and relative roles of voice and gesture in early communication development	5
Early antecedents of emotion differentiation and regulation: Experience tunes the appraisal thresholds of emotional development in infancy	5
Temperament and sleep behaviors in infants and toddlers living in low-income homes	5
Composite scores for the NIH Baby Toolbox®	5
Higher attention bias for fear at 8 months of age is associated with better socioemotional competencies during toddlerhood	5
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	5
Editorial Board	5
Reasons mothers bedshare: A review of its effects on infant behavior and development	5
Distributional learning of bimodal and trimodal phoneme categories in monolingual and bilingual infants	5
Editorial Board	5
Cumulative risk, infant sleep, and infant social-emotional development	5
Digital media and children under 3 years of age	5
Early influence of language experience in non-native speech perception: Discrimination of three-way Thai stop contrasts by Korean and Japanese infants	5
Object individuation and labelling in 6-month-old infants	5
Using complexity science to understand the role of co-sleeping (bedsharing) in mother-infant co-regulatory processes	5
The multimodality of infant's rhythmic movements as a modulator of the interaction with their caregivers	5
Cross-cultural measurement invariance of a developmental assessment tool in a small-scale intervention study	5
Microstate analysis in infancy	5
Predictors of screen exposure among infants under 2 years of age during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Prenatal maternal stress during the COVID-19 pandemic and birth outcomes: Is the newborn spared?	5
A systematic review of the concept of self-regulation in infants between 0 and 36 months in Latin America	5
Understanding the differential impact of children’s TV on executive functions: a narrative-processing analysis	5
Estimating infants’ language exposure: A comparison of random and volume sampling from daylong recordings collected in a bilingual community	5
Dyadic interactions during infant learning: Exploring infant-parent exchanges in experimental eye-tracking studies	5
Trajectories of infant positive emotion during the still face paradigm are associated with toddler temperament	5
Non-verbal and verbal parental mentalization as predictors of infant attachment security: Contributions of parental embodied mentalizing and mind-mindedness and the mediating role of maternal sensitiv	5
The Autism Detection in Early Childhood Tool: Level 2 autism spectrum disorder screening in a NICU Follow-up program	5