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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of caregiver inhibitory control on infant visual working memory	40
Co-regulation of movements during infant feeding	32
Parent Well-Being and Language Input Predict Child Face-Voice Matching and Expressive Language Outcomes	29
Shared positive emotion during parent-toddler play and parent and child well-being in Mexican origin families	23
Editorial Board	21
A longitudinal study of boys’ and girls’ injury-risk behaviors and parent supervision during infancy	20
Emerging sensitivity to talking mouth in infants with low and elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder: A longitudinal study	20
German infants’ discrimination of the English /æ/-/ɛ/ contrast: Evidence from a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study	18
Socioeconomic resources moderate the relationship between maternal prenatal obsessive-compulsive symptoms and infant negative affectivity	17
Flexibility and organization in parent-child interaction through the lens of the dynamic system approach: A systematic review of State Space Grid studies	17
The interplay between cognition and emotion during infancy and toddlerhood: Special issue editorial	17
The role of syntactic cues in monolingual and bilingual two-year-olds’ novel word disambiguation	17
The longitudinal contributions of child language, negative emotionality, and maternal positive affect on toddler executive functioning development	17
Studying hot executive function in infancy: Insights from research on emotional development	16
Applying a Transformer-based machine-learning model to classify caregiver and infant behaviours during dyadic interactions	15
Lower limb inter-joint coordination patterns are associated with walking experience in toddlers according to limb and stance periods	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	14
Association between Hyperemesis Gravidarum in pregnancy on postnatal ability of infants to attend to a play task with their mother	14
Home learning environment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Associations with young children’s cognitive and socioemotional development	14
Infants’ use of the index finger for social and non-social purposes during the first two years of life: A cross-cultural study	13
Does the feeding method affect the quality of infant and maternal sleep? A systematic review	13
A qualitative exploration of parents’ experiences of infant and toddler sleep and feeding during the United Kingdom COVID-19 lockdown(s)	13
Person-centered profiles of child temperament: A comparison of coder, mother, and experimenter ratings	13
Measurement of the quality of mother-infant feeding interactions across the first year: Reliability and stability of the parent-child early relational assessment	12

Infant frontal EEG asymmetry across an emotion-eliciting task: Leveraging novel quantitative approaches to discern links with parent-child interactions	12
Hush, little baby: The role of C-tactile afferents in babywearing infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal	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 impact of maternal gaze responsiveness on infants’ gaze following and later vocabulary development	12
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	12
Advances in understanding the perception-production link: Evidence from infant eye, brain, and motor behavior	12
Predictors of television at bedtime and associations with toddler sleep and behavior in a medicaid-eligible, racial/ethnic minority sample	12
Interactional preludes to infants’ affective climax – Mother-infant interaction around infant smiling in two cultures	11
The United States reference values of the Bayley III motor scale are suitable in Suriname	11
Behavioural reactions to an emotion evoking task in infants at increased likelihood for autism spectrum disorder	11
Revisiting perceptual sensitivity to non-native speech in a diverse sample of bilinguals	11
German-learning infants recognize common nouns without additional frequency cues	11
Mother-child and father-child “serve and return” interactions at 9 months: Associations with children’s language skills at 18 and 24 months	11
Executive functions predict restricted and repetitive behaviors in toddlers under 36 months old with autism spectrum disorder	11
The context matters: The use of communicative intentions by mothers to their children during playtime and mealtime	11
It takes a village: Caregiver diversity and language contingency in the UK and rural Gambia	11
Revisiting associations between infant cognitive functioning and maternal caregiving quality using eye-tracking and Bayesian cognitive modelling	10
Human infants’ perception and understanding of others’ actions	10
Infants’ pointing at nine months is associated with maternal sensitivity but not vocabulary	10
Editorial Board	10
Association between breastfeeding duration and neurodevelopment in Chinese children aged 2 to 3 years	10
Emotion regulation in infancy through the lens of individual differences: Insights and future directions	10
Do infants expect physically competent agents to gain access to contested resources?	10
Maternal-infant bonding and partner support during pregnancy and postpartum: Associations with early child social-emotional development	10
Exploring maternal touch in the infant’s first 18 months of Life: A study on an Italian sample	9
Mother-infant co-regulation from 0 to 2 years: The role of copy behaviors. A systematic review	9
Speech perception 40 years after Werker and Tees (1984)	9
Narrative as co-regulation: A review of embodied narrative in infant development	9
Maternal perinatal hypertensive disorders and parenting in infancy	8
Understanding early aggression: Empirically derived guidance on type, frequency, and severity in infants and toddlers	8
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	8
Predicting language outcomes at 3 years using individual differences in morphological segmentation in infancy	8
Effects of multilingualism on Australian infants’ language environments in early childhood education centers	8
The impact of remembered emotion socialization on maternal sensitivity to distress via beliefs about crying	8
Does attention sharing support attention focusing? Investigating the link between infants' sustained attention and joint attention with caregivers	8
Infant sleep: Impacts on cognitive, social, and physical development	8
Preverbal infants tune manual choices on subliminal affective information	8
Generalizability and representation in studies of infant perceptual narrowing: Considerations for future research	8
Social communication skills profile in infants with sex chromosome trisomy at 12 months of age	8
The breadth and specificity of 18-month-old’s infant-initiated interactions in naturalistic home settings	8
Editorial Board	7
Socioemotional development of infants and toddlers in the first months of foster care: A brief synthesis of 25 years of research	7
Higher attention bias for fear at 8 months of age is associated with better socioemotional competencies during toddlerhood	7
Maternal depressive symptoms and infant temperament in the first year of life predict child behavior at 36 months of age	7
Investigating parental scaffolding and visual experiences in toddlers with autism and high familial likelihood for later autism diagnosis: A head-mounted eye-tracker study	7
Using complexity science to understand the role of co-sleeping (bedsharing) in mother-infant co-regulatory processes	7
Estimating infants’ language exposure: A comparison of random and volume sampling from daylong recordings collected in a bilingual community	7
Phonetic perceptual reorganization across the first year of life: Looking back	7
Early object skill supports growth in role-differentiated bimanual manipulation in infants	7
Prenatal maternal stress during the COVID-19 pandemic and birth outcomes: Is the newborn spared?	7

Caregivers’ vocabulary use for children with cochlear implants and children with normal hearing during the first year of post-activation	7
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	7
Cumulative risk, infant sleep, and infant social-emotional development	7
Prenatal maternal depression predicts neural maturation and negative emotion in infants	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 influence of language experience in non-native speech perception: Discrimination of three-way Thai stop contrasts by Korean and Japanese infants	7
A quarter century review of research on infant behavior	7
Composite scores for the NIH Baby Toolbox®	7
Infant sensitivity to age-based social categories in full-body displays	6
Early antecedents of emotion differentiation and regulation: Experience tunes the appraisal thresholds of emotional development in infancy	6
Editorial Board	6
Sensory processing in typically developing toddlers with and without sleep problems	6
Responding to distressed infants: Does mothers’ positive versus negative affect matter for infants' behavior and physiology?	6
Biological and environmental factors may affect children’s executive function through motor and sensorimotor development: Preterm birth and cerebral palsy	6
Microstate analysis in infancy	6
The utility of multiple assessments in infancy and toddlerhood to predict middle childhood ADHD symptoms: Temperamental, behavioral, and genetic contributions	6
Distributional learning of bimodal and trimodal phoneme categories in monolingual and bilingual infants	6
Trajectories of infant positive emotion during the still face paradigm are associated with toddler temperament	6
Cross-cultural measurement invariance of a developmental assessment tool in a small-scale intervention study	6
Humour from 12 to 36 months: Insights into children’s socio-cognitive and language development	6
Building language learning: Relations between infant attention and social contingency in the first year of life	6
A systematic review of the concept of self-regulation in infants between 0 and 36 months in Latin America	6
Neonatal neurobehavior and infant temperament amongst offspring born to parents with and without ADHD	6
Dyadic interactions during infant learning: Exploring infant-parent exchanges in experimental eye-tracking studies	6
Paternal mind-mindedness and infant-toddler social-emotional problems	6
Editorial Board	6
Predictors of screen exposure among infants under 2 years of age during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Nonverbal emotion perception and vocabulary in late infancy	6
The direct and indirect effects of parenting behaviors and functional brain network efficiency on self-regulation from infancy to early childhood: A longitudinal mediation model	6
Before first words: Infants’ ability to map words to goals	6
Better reflective functioning in mothers linked to longer joint attention with infants	6