Early Child Development and Care

Papers
(The TQCC of Early Child Development and Care is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Revisiting Piaget, his contribution to South African early childhood education24
Young children’s selective trust decision between relative versus precise expressions17
Understanding the role of parental self-efficacy for supporting children’s early learning in the home mathematics environment16
The impact of Couple Relationship Education (CRE) on parents of young children’s couple functioning, family harmony, parenting and their children’s aggressive behaviour14
Parents’ and toddlers’ emotion regulation: the importance of emotion talk14
The effect of project-based STEAM activities on the social and cognitive skills of preschool children11
Developmental outcomes in children treated for focal and non-focal forms of congenital hyperinsulinism10
Integrating a hybrid mode into kindergarten STEM education: its impact on young children’s critical thinking skills during the COVID-19 pandemic9
Socioeconomic status and caregiving sensitivity among Chinese childcare centre teachers: adaptive caregiving belief as a mediator and childcare centre type as a moderator9
Prosocial development in early childhood: strategies of teachers and parents during the COVID-19 pandemic in China9
Gender differences in the development of children's social and emotional competencies during the pre-school year8
Challenges and opportunities: book discussions of gender non-conformity in two preschool classrooms8
Influence of relative age effect (RAE) on motor performance of preschool children: a systematic review7
Predictors of preschoolers’ classroom engagement: teacher–child interactions, teacher–child relationships, and child’s self-control7
Attachment to teacher, internalizing and externalizing symptoms: the mediating role of executive functions7
Indirect reciprocity and the compensatory role of empathy in preschoolers7
The more familiar the others, the higher the morality: children’s preference for familiar others in moral expectations early appears in the negative moral context6
Subjective school wellbeing of refugee and local children: Voices from having, loving, and being dimensions6
The metamorphosis of early childhood theorists and pioneers6
The role of environmental and individual factors in pre-academic achievement for kindergarten children6
Executive function ratings in educational settings: concurrent relations with cognitive and affective theory of mind6
The relationship between mothers’ obsessive and compulsive behaviours regarding baby care and breastfeeding self-efficacy: the mediator role of postpartum depression6
Preschool-aged children's agency in shared book reading: the relation to the literacy environment in Czech families5
Teachers’ perceived impact of COVID-19 on Early Child Development in urban China: evidence from a National Survey Study5
Boys, weapon toys, war play and meaning-making: prohibiting play in early childhood education settings?5
Children’s drawings of student-teacher relationship quality: examining change over the first year of school.5
Poverty in early childhood and future educational achievements5
Fathers’ stimulation of toddlers’ cognitive development contributes to children’s executive function skills at five years of age5
Social relationships, interactions and learning in early childhood – theoretical approaches, empirical findings and challenges5
Sleep problems, sleep environment and daily routines in Turkish preschoolers5
Maternal satisfaction with professional health care for excessive infant crying: does it meet maternal needs?5
Demographic characteristics as determinants of toddlers’ physical and social spontaneity in kindergarten5
Needs and readiness to use tele-practice for identification and rehabilitation of children with hearing and speech-language disorders: perceptions of public sector care providers in South India5
Preventative intervention home visitation programme for mothers with fussy infants: a mixed methods, pilot assessment of maternal self-efficacy, mental health, infant-bonding, and programme experience4
Children’s engagement in Quebec childcare centres: progression from 3 to 5 years old and predictor variables4
Preschool screen-media usage predicts mental imagery two years later4
The effect of active brain-breaks on fundamental movement skills and executive functioning of Grade one children in Cape Town, South Africa4
Behavioral self-regulation development in at-risk families: the role of family resources4
Social exclusion, and mistrust of state-led early childhood care and education policies: a qualitative case study in the estate sector of Sri Lanka4
Relations between teacher–child interaction quality and children’s playfulness4
Vulnerable preschoolers mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic in Argentina: A cross-sectional study4
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Early childhood development in Bangladesh and its socio-demographic determinants of importance4
Maternal sensitivity, early interactions and infant attachment: a systematic review4
The relationship of parents’ attributes and practices with the promotion of recommended movement behaviours in young children during school suspensions4
Fathers’ emotional experiences while parenting toddlers: a qualitative exploration4
Breastfeeding and its relationship with motor development of infants at 3–4 months of age4
Interaction quality in German early childcare settings: investigating the domains of CLASS Toddler and the associations with structural characteristics4
Family resilience and problem behaviours in Chinese preschool children: the chain mediating role of maternal parenting stress and parenting self-efficacy4
Relationship between permissive parenting style and atypical behaviour in preschool children, with generalized anxiety as mediator4
Socioeconomic status and young children’s sleep/wake problems: the moderating role of maternal mindful parenting4
The predictive effect of problematic behaviours on cognitive tempo and attention level in 60–66 months old children3
Early detection of mental disorders in child psychiatry: the accuracy of parental concerns3
Parenting programmes targeting parents of children with disabilities: a scoping review on programmes' characteristics and co-parenting contents3
The relationship between preschool children’s electronic product use and problem behaviours: a moderated mediation model3
Early childhood education pioneers and their curriculum programs3
The influence of birth order and sibling age gap on children’s sharing decision3
How does a mother perceive her child's mind? Developmental changes in child behaviours that enable mothers to perceive their child’s minds3
Family social capital in kindergarten: predicting third-grade learning and developmental outcomes for low-SES urban children3
The effect of biological nurturing on breastfeeding success and self-efficacy in primiparous women: a randomized controlled study3
Mothers’ implicit and explicit attitudes towards infant crying: predicting postpartum depressive symptoms3
‘Chairs of Conflict Resolution’: training young children to resolve conflicts in Greek kindergartens3
Caregiving dispositions as predictors of postpartum depression and mother-baby bonding: parental self-efficacy and marital satisfaction as resources3
Do parental stimulation practices modify the effect of child’s health status on early developmental risk? Findings from a hospitalized cohort3
Child development and family relationships in families following ART3
Media use and children's self-regulation: a narrative review3
The impact of COVID-related school disruption on kindergarten children’s development3
Screen preference and extraversion: key factors in the link between mother phubbing and preschoolers’ problematic media use3
The relationship between theory of mind and peer acceptance in preschool children: a test of the counterfactual hypothesis in the social domain3
Research status and evolutionary trends on early childhood sports in China: a perspective of co-word analysis3
The effect of sensorimotor interventions on feeding readiness and oral feeding success in preterm infants: a randomized controlled trial3
Family functioning of pre-schoolers and its relationship with prosocial behaviour: latent profile analysis and network perspective2
The experiences of early childhood development care centre staff in providing care and learning support in a low socioeconomic community in South Africa2
‘It’s Very Spooky in Here’: young children’s fears and anxieties in the natural environment2
A study on the effect of Montessori Education on self-regulation skills in preschoolers2
Home environment and social skills of Japanese preschool children pre- and post-COVID-192
Effects of social inhibition and group relations on altruistic behaviour of children under conditions of reputational threat2
Home quarantine duration and Chinese preschoolers’ sleep problems during COVID-19: child screen time as an explanatory mechanism and real interpersonal interactions in family setting as a contextualiz2
The relationships between the COVID-19 fears of mothers and their mother-infant bonding and breastfeeding self-efficacy in the postpartum period2
The kindergarten in the religious kibbutz – The intersection between religious education and kibbutz education2
Promotion of school readiness in home visiting: creating a key driver diagram for continuous quality improvement2
Ethnic-racial socialization in early childhood: effects of parent–teacher congruency on children’s social and emotional development2
Children on the borders between institution, home and leisure: space to fend for yourself when leaving the school-age educare centre2
Unprecedented times: what we have learned about remote instruction in early childhood during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Combined screening of early childhood development, hearing and vision by community health workers using mHealth tools in a low-income community2
Closeness and conflict in teacher-child relationships in preschool: the role of child personality types2
The efficacy of cognitive–behavioural play therapy and puppet play therapy on bilingual children’s expressive, receptive language disorders2
Parenting styles and young children’s problem behaviours: the mediating role of electronic media usage2
Co-regulation in dyadic parent–child relationships: a video analysis of well-functioning interactions2
‘I can do this by my own self’: how four preschool-aged children navigated mobile technologies at home2
Early motor development in China: secular trends among 4-year-olds2
The effect of the operating room tour watched with a 3D virtual reality headset on children's fear and anxiety before the surgery – a randomized controlled study2
Children born very or extremely preterm transitioning to school: a cross-sectional study examining predictors of school readiness, school adjustment, and support needs2
Dancing With children or dancing for children? Measuring the effects of a dance intervention in children’s confidence and agency2
Developmental characteristics and mental health of low birth weight children at 2 years in relation to sociodemographic risk factors2
Effects of swimming on the development of motor skill competency in Chinese preschool children2
Physical and sensory environment interventions to support children’s social and emotional development in early childhood education and care settings: a systematic review2
The transition from early intervention to preschool for children with multiple disabilities: a narrative review2
The impact of fathers’ gender perspectives and involvement on children’s resilience2
Promoting social competence and social inclusion in the preschool: a peer-based relational intervention2
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