Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Papers
(The median citation count of Early Childhood Research Quarterly is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board54
Asian and Asian American early educators’ racial discrimination experiences and student well-being during COVID-19: A moderated mediation model51
Fathers, faith, and family gender messages: Are religiosity and gender talk related to children's gender attitudes and preferences?44
Scaling high quality: An implementation study of Boston’s Universal Pre-K expansion to community-based programs43
First do no harm: How teachers support or undermine children's self-regulation40
Supporting teachers to enact science talk in early elementary classrooms: The role of professional learning and curriculum38
Mother-father relationships and child social-emotional adjustment: Mediation through maternal and paternal parenting36
A pilot study of a micro-course to promote positive teaching practices and prevent exclusionary discipline in early childhood35
Identifying effective strategies to instruct parents during parent-implemented intervention: The role of parent practice with feedback35
The association between family relationship patterns and preschoolers’ social and behavioral competence in Chinese urban families33
The role of friends in the development of children’s classroom behavioral engagement and peer acceptance in kindergarten: A dyadic approach33
Different settings, different patterns of impacts: Effects of a Pre-K math intervention in a mixed-delivery system32
Measuring preschool children's engagement behaviors during classroom shared reading: Construct and concurrent validity of the shared reading engagement rating scale31
“They felt the safe space”: Practitioner experiences of delivering Mellow Babies, a targeted, early intervention program for parents and their babies31
#MathActivities on #SocialMedia: Examining content, design, and alignment with mathematical cognition research29
To excel and to be happy: Parenting behaviors, parenting stress, and sociocultural contexts in Dutch and urban Chinese families28
Are family-teacher communication quality and child and family characteristics associated with head start children's classroom engagement? It's complicated28
Student-teacher conflict or student-school conflict? Exploring bidirectional relationships between externalizing behavior and teacher conflict28
Why is ECE enrollment so complicated? An analysis of barriers and co-created solutions from the frontlines26
Text to talk: Effects of a home-school vocabulary texting intervention on prekindergarten vocabulary25
Monitoring early childhood development at the population level: The ECDI203025
Editorial Board25
Examining the relationship between discrimination, access to material resources, and black children's behavioral functioning during COVID-1925
Sharing in child caring: Does equal parenting involvement moderate the relationship between fathers’ and mothers’ sensitivity and toddlers’ receptive language ability ?23
From preschool to politics: Early socialization in Tulsa23
Toxic pathways: Exploring the impacts of vicarious and environmental racism on black youth in early childhood22
Talking, praising and teaching: How parent interaction during a learning task relates to children's early learning22
A meta-analysis of teacher language practices in early childhood classrooms21
Advancing equitable access to high quality early childhood education through a trauma- and resilience-informed community schools approach21
Concerted cultivation, parent-child closeness, and young children’s school readiness in China: An actor-partner interdependence moderation model21
My child lags behind: Parents’ perceptions of children's needs for language support, their home-literacy practices, and children's language skills21
Developmental health and vulnerability among young children in Pakistan: Findings from a large-scale early childhood development assessment in Karachi21
Profiles of home language experiences of Spanish-English dual language learners in migrant and seasonal head start programs21
Supporting the understanding of cardinal number knowledge in preschoolers: Evidence from instructional practices based on finger patterns21
Effects of online parent coaching on Filipino children's skills20
Measuring resilience in young children: The Child and Youth Resilience Measure- Early Childhood (CYRM-EC)20
Effects of a peer-mediated intervention on the language and socialization experiences and skills of preschool children20
Strategies, recommendations, and validation of remote executive function tasks for use with young children20
Understanding associations between early social-emotional screening status and primary school children´s social-emotional well-being in Finland19
“It is almost impossible to get a spot when you need it”: Understanding parental knowledge and experiences of Canada’s new child care policy promoting access to quality early childhood education and c19
Political prioritization of early childhood education during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative policy analysis of low- and middle-income countries19
Policies addressing suspension and expulsion in state early care and education subsystems: A national census of policy alignment and integration19
Paternal mind-mindedness and child executive functioning in the kindergarten classroom19
Utilizing state workforce registries and targeted surveys to investigate workforce wellbeing18
Gesture like a kitten and you won't forget your tale: Drama-based, embodied story time supports preschoolers’ narrative skills18
Attachment configurations to mothers and fathers during infancy predict compliance, defiance, and effortful control in toddlerhood18
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the child care sector: Evidence from North Carolina18
When Ebony and Malik share stories in school: White teachers’ perceptions of children's use of African American English during oral storytelling18
Parent and teacher ratings of Spanish-speaking Latino preschoolers’ behaviors: Validation of the Spanish parent and English teacher Conner's early childhood short forms17
Home literacy environment and Chinese Children’s second language development: A cross-lagged analysis17
Transitions in patterns of caregiver involvement before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A latent transition analysis17
Retention and turnover of teaching staff in a high-quality early childhood network17
The development and prediction of young children's behavioral mastery motivation17
You Do You[Tube]!The multifaceted roles of online video viewing in the lives of U.S. children17
Do Katie and Connor tell better stories than Aaliyah and Jamaal? Teachers’ perceptions of children's oral narratives as a function of race and narrative quality17
Can the sustaining environments hypothesis be sustained? Testing moderation of sustained public preschool benefits by kindergarten classroom quality16
Pathways from marital relationships to children's social-emotional development in Korea: The role of parenting and social support16
Participation of early care and education centers in the child care subsidy system: A statewide mixed methods investigation16
Is participation in the target poverty alleviation program associated with early childhood development? Evidence from Southwest China16
Supporting and engaging with diverse families during the early years: emerging approaches that matter for children and families16
The sound of self-regulation: Music program relates to an advantage for children at risk16
‘What do YOU think?’: Children's questions, teacher's responses and children's follow-up across diverse preschool settings16
Where has all the time gone? Describing time use in full- vs. half-day pre-Kindergarten16
Teacher language quality in preschool classrooms: Examining associations with DLLs' oral language skills16
Procrastination in early childhood: Associations with self-regulation, negative affectivity, and the home environment15
Effects of using video-based coaching to promote preservice teachers’ interactional skills in Chinese preschool classrooms15
Family processes of socializing young children’s persistence in challenging tasks among racial/ethnic diverse low-income families15
Potential moderators of the association between parental psychological distress and perceived child externalizing behaviors15
Does age moderate the influence of early life language experiences? A Naturalistic home observation study14
Development of children's informal understanding of division through sharing: Contributions of reasoning demands and problem situations14
Differences between Pre-K and Kindergarten classroom experiences: do they predict children's social-emotional skills and self-regulation across the transition to kindergarten?14
How are Difficulty Types Related to the Allocation of Special Needs Assistance in Early Childhood Education and Care14
Gender equity and motivational readiness for computational thinking in early childhood14
Child care use, preferences and access constraints among Native American, immigrant, refugee and Spanish-speaking families in New Mexico14
Close to home: Family-centered spatial analysis of access to early care and education14
Piecing together the puzzle: A mixed methods study of the Abecedarian Intervention14
The effects of a high quality state-run preschool program as rated by a Quality Rating and Improvement System on children's school readiness14
Effects of training parents in dialogic book‐sharing: The Early‐Years Provision in Children's Centers (EPICC) study14
Contributions of shared book reading to children's learning of new semantic facts through memory integration13
Examining the effects of an infant-toddler school readiness intervention in center- and family-based programs: Are results generalizable?13
Parent predictors of the home math environment and associations with toddlers’ math skills13
Advice networks in early childhood education: Predicting teachers’ workplace experiences over time13
Classroom social network antecedents of relational aggression and victimization for kindergarten children13
Examining the child observation in preschool and teacher observation in preschool in community-based child care centers13
Teacher turnover and residential instability: Exploring joint and contextual associations with child behavior13
What a cool classroom! Voices of 5-year-olds on the design of physical learning environments13
Increasing access in the ECE enrollment process: Evidence from an information intervention in New Orleans13
A pilot study of the impact and implementation of an anti-racism program for preschoolers13
Hypotheses in adult-child interactions stimulate children's reasoning and verbalizations13
Preterm birth and expressive language development across the first 5 years of life: A nationally-representative longitudinal path analysis12
Early intervention of language and behavior in monolingual and bilingual preschoolers with Developmental Language Disorders12
Cognitively engaging physical activity has an immediate impact on preschool children's executive function12
Cultural and contextual understanding of parent engagement among Latine parents of pre-K children in low-income neighborhoods: The role of immigration enforcement threat, parent health and sociodemogr12
Associations between school characteristics and learning gains for pre-K attenders and non-attenders: Important constructs, limited evidence12
Caregivers fine-tune their speech to support children’s word learning during shared book reading12
Adding family math to the equation: Promoting Head Start preschoolers’ mathematics learning at home and school12
Mathematics in U.S. Preschool and Kindergarten Classrooms12
Parenting programs in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region: A multilevel meta-analysis11
Stability of parenting profiles in early childhood for African American children in households experiencing poverty11
Promotion of early childhood development and mental health in quality rating and improvement systems for early care and education: A review of state quality indicators11
Maternal and paternal insensitivity, adaptive engagement, and school readiness skills among economically disadvantaged children: A dynamic approach11
Reliability and validity evidence for the English and Spanish preschool narrative language measures-listening11
Widely used measures of classroom quality are largely unrelated to preschool skill development11
Editorial Board11
Expanding access to high-quality early care and education for families with low income in Maryland through child care subsidy policies10
When bigger looks better: CLASS results in public Montessori preschool classrooms10
Associations between a preschool tuition credit and children’s school success outcomes: Moving beyond test scores10
Early childhood predictors of black children's achievement: Home, early care and education, and neighborhood contexts10
Exploring the relation between early childhood education and historical and contemporary racism and bias for Black children10
Exploring the role of educator personality on structural and process quality in early childhood education and care settings10
The mixed-delivery pre-k opportunity gap? Differences in demographics, quality, and children's gains in community-based versus public school programs across five large-scale systems10
Best practices for designing and reporting caregiver training in early childhood mathematics interventions10
An initial yet rigorous test of multisensory alphabet instruction for english monolingual and emergent bilingual children10
The contribution of inhibitory control to early literacy skills in 4‐ to 5‐year‐old children10
A sociometric approach to understanding characteristics of same- and other-gender friendships in young children10
Maternal and paternal parenting stress: Direct and interactive associations with child externalizing and internalizing behavior problems10
Parental sensitivity and intrusiveness in gay-, lesbian-, and heterosexual-parent families with infants conceived using artificial reproductive techniques: Do parents’ gender and caregiver role matter10
Associations between preschool quality and children's social-emotional development until 2nd grade of elementary school10
Accommodating life's demands: Childcare choices for student parents in higher education10
Quality and inequality in pre-primary and home environment inputs to early childhood development in Egypt10
Does screen exposure necessarily relate to behavior problems? The buffering roles of emotion regulation and caregiver companionship10
Reciprocal effects between phonological processing skills and Chinese word reading in kindergarten children: A longitudinal cross-lagged study10
Extra help for extra needs: Family perspectives on New Mexico's supplemental child care subsidy program for families at risk for involvement with child protective services10
Exploring invariance of the measurement and prediction of ADHD behaviors in Latino children9
Guest editorial: Advancing our understanding of demographic (Mis)match in early childhood education9
Integrating the PERMA model and SWPBS approach: effects on portuguese early childhood teachers’ well-being and children’s self-regulation9
Linking professional development to classroom quality: Differences by ECE sector9
Teacher-child racial/ethnic match from prekindergarten through first grade: Understanding early exposure and outcomes9
Experiences of child care providers serving subsidy-receiving children involved in the child protective services system: Implications for equitable access9
COVID-19 and early childhood education: Implications for research, practice, and policy9
Development of teacher-child conversations during three years of teacher coaching in dialogic approach to reading9
Classroom age composition and preschoolers’ language and literacy gains: The role of classroom engagement9
A word about probability: Do general and specific vocabulary knowledge predict probabilistic reasoning in young children?9
Vocabulary size predicts behavioral problems in emotionally reactive children9
Urban-rural achievement gap in low- and middle-income countries: The role of early childhood education9
The Interrelations between home numeracy activities, children's attitudes toward mathematics, and their mathematics achievement9
A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of coaching and the contribution of coaching processes to learning outcomes for early childhood teachers and children8
School readiness of dual language learners in Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS): The role of dominant language of classroom interactions and socioeconomic status8
Through the lens of early educators: Understanding the use of expulsion and suspension in childcare programs8
Big little leap: The role of transition difficulties in children's skill development during kindergarten8
A peer-mediated approach to support emergent bilingual preschoolers8
Child social-emotional and behavioral problems and competencies contribute to changes in developmental functioning during Early Intervention8
Program-wide implementation of the Pyramid Model: Supporting fidelity at the program and classroom levels8
Preschool teachers’ language-related pedagogical beliefs and their relation to observed classroom quality8
Editorial Board8
Classroom chaos and program quality in early child care and education programs: A study from Turkey8
Early Childhood Teachers of Color in New York City: heightened stress, lower quality of life, declining health, and compromised sleep amidst COVID-198
The impact of social pretend play on preschoolers’ social development: Results of an experimental study8
Efficacy and perception of feasibility of structured games for achieving curriculum learning goals in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten low-income classrooms8
A director like me: Teacher-leader racial/ethnic match and job outcomes in child care centers8
An ecological perspective on early educator well-being at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic8
Parents’ epistemological beliefs to children's early numeracy abilities: Pathways through parents’ home practices and children's numeracy interest7
Positive deviance in the Oregon kindergarten assessment: Identifying schools and communities that are beating the odds7
Children's friendship quality in early childhood education: the interplay with classroom quality, participation practices, and length of exposure to the ECE teacher7
Inequality in access to early childhood care and education programs among 3- to 4-year-olds: Trends and variations across low- and middle-income countries7
Profiles of home language environment in Head Start classrooms: Patterns and associated developmental skills for Spanish-English dual language learners7
Evidence-based educational interventions to reduce intergroup bias among young children in conflict zones7
Classrooms with high rates of absenteeism and individual success: Exploring students’ achievement, executive function, and socio-behavioral outcomes7
Are food and nutrition assistance programs fostering an equitable early care and education (ECE) food environment? A systematic review utilizing the RE-AIM framework7
The association between maternal social information processing and preschool children social and learning problems via maternal insightfulness and children's social information processing7
Implementation of a comprehensive state effort to reduce exclusionary discipline in early care and education settings: Arkansas's policy7
Payment rates and the stability of subsidized child care: Evidence from Minnesota's child care assistance program7
Self-regulation mediates the relations between family factors and preschool readiness7
Barriers to early childhood education for Black families and calls for equitable solutions from a qualitative study using peer researchers and an antiracist lens7
Cortisol across preschool day relates to teacher ratings of executive functioning for children facing economic hardship7
Associations of smartphone and tablet use in early childhood with psychosocial, cognitive and sleep factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis7
Consultative roles of early childhood special education teachers: A modeler, an advisor, and a spontaneous practitioner7
Child care tradeoffs among Massachusetts mothers7
Relations between caregivers’ emotion regulation strategies, parenting styles, and preschoolers’ emotional competence in Chinese parenting and grandparenting6
Editorial Board6
An investigation into the concreteness of manipulatives in mathematical instruction: Do the object and its label matter?6
Effects of the MMCI course and coaching on pre-service ECE teachers’ beliefs, knowledge, and skill6
A machine learning approach to identifying non-parental caregivers' risk for harsh caregiving towards infants in daycare centers6
Non-contact time implementation in early childhood center-based programs: A mixed methods study6
Teacher-child relationship quality and kindergarten outcomes: The moderating role of classroom activity settings6
Reading with 1–2 year olds impacts academic achievement at 8–11 years6
Effects of cumulative family risks on school readiness skills: A cross-cultural study between the U.S. and Korea6
Equitable use of subsidized child care in Georgia6
Impacts of COVID-19 on the early care and education sector in California: Variations across program types6
Editorial Board6
Impacts of two public preschool programs on school readiness in San Francisco6
Interactions between child temperament and family environment in relation to school readiness: Diathesis-stress, differential susceptibility, or vantage sensitivity?6
Following the leader: Associations between leader support and teacher retention in child care settings6
Editorial Board6
Direct and interactive effects of attendance rates on growth in language, literacy and mathematics skills for children enrolled in voluntary preschool programs6
Interrogating the role of anti-Blackness in the early care and education experiences of Black children and families: A call for advancing equitable science and practice6
Self-regulation development among young Spanish-English dual language learners6
Training on number comparison, but not number line estimation, improves preschoolers’ symbolic approximate arithmetic6
Another case of the theory to practice gap: South Korean early childhood education and care6
Reducing childcare subsidy instability through eligibility period extensions: Equity impacts of 12-month recertification requirements6
The gender gap in early language development among children from peri-urban China6
Effect of the timing of initial exposure to maternal depression on children's school readiness6
Fostering healthy social and emotional climates in early childhood classrooms through infant and early childhood mental health consultation6
Preschool dosage, outcomes, and mechanisms: Why are two years better than one?6
Mission FEEL! A novel emotion understanding intervention for preschoolers: A proof-of-concept study6
Exploring an early numeracy screening measure for English learners in primary grades5
Can peers help sustain the positive effects of an early childhood mathematics intervention?5
Challenges in the transition to kindergarten and children's well-being through elementary school: Do school transition supports matter?5
Parental early math support: The role of parental knowledge about early math development5
Peer effects in small-group language instruction5
Exploring home visitors’ use and perceptions of developmental monitoring: A mixed methods study5
Supportive language strategies for preschool dual language learners: Associations with early language outcomes5
Parent time investments in their children's learning during a policy-mandated shutdown: parent, child, and household influences5
Associations of state-funded prekindergarten with early elementary literacy and absences5
Adverse childhood experiences, stress, and resilience among early childhood teachers5
Book sharing and reminiscing: Caregivers’ conversational style and children's language and literacy development in low-income Costa Rican families5
Broadening understanding of executive function in children with different hearing histories: The roles of fathers and coparenting5
Father’s involvement is critical in social-emotional development in early childhood: A meta-analysis5
Impacts of the beginning education: early childcare at home (BEECH) program for family child care providers and young children5
Racism under the skin: Connecting the dots between the threats of structural inequities and the biological embedding of adversity5
Latine Caregivers’ Approaches to Engaging Young Children in Mathematics5
Advancing research on equitable access to early care and education in the United States5
Measuring executive functions in context: Self-regulating behavior in the kindergarten classroom5
The role of full- and half-day preschool attendance in the formation of children's social networks4
Validating a measure of growing pattern understanding in Chinese preschool children4
Both sides of the screen: Predictors of parents’ and teachers’ depression and food insecurity during COVID-19-related distance learning4
Variations in the home language environment and early language development in a peri-urban community in China4
Center-based early care and education programs and quality indicators: A latent class analysis4
Unravelling the pathways among relational language, number ordering skills, and number line estimation performance in Hong Kong kindergarten children4
Home mathematics environment and math performance of Chilean students in kindergarten and Grades 1 to 34
“We need to prepare and adjust”: The school readiness beliefs and practices of Korean families with preschool-aged children4
Latine caregiver math talk across contexts and its relation to child math outcomes4
Relational uncertainty: Does parental perception of adopted children's academic success change over time?4
Home food practices and Latino kindergarteners’ academic skills4
Cluster randomized controlled trial of a phone-based caregiver support and parenting program for Syrian and Jordanian families with young children4
Introduction to the Supplemental Issue: Advancing developmental science on the impact of racism in the early years4
Supporting Spanish-English DLLs in Head Start: Peer Language Match, Instructional Language Match, and Emotional Support as Predictors of Approaches to Learning and Social Skills4
Content-rich instruction and cognitive demand in prek: using systematic observations to predict child gains4
Home language use with children, dialogue with multilingual parents and professional development in ECEC4
Essential elements of infant and early childhood mental health consultation: Inside the black box of preschool expulsion prevention4
Predicting child externalizing behavior ratings in Head Start: Investigating the impact of child and teacher influences4
When kids be talkin’ Black: White educators’ beliefs about the effects of African American English on young children's achievement4
Can positive school climate ameliorate racial-ethnic disparities in pre-kindergarten quality? Evidence from a large urban school district4
American and Chinese parents’ math talk during numeracy and routine activities: Do parental beliefs matter?4
Family systems and relationships: dyadic and triadic contexts in-the-moment and over time4
The relationship of home-rearing environment with early childhood social competence and behavioral difficulties: Insights from Nepalese children4
The Head Start teacher paradox: Working conditions, whole well-being, and classroom quality4
The relationship between child-centered teaching attitudes in childcare centers and the socio-emotional development of Japanese toddlers4
Beyond computing: Computational thinking is associated with sequencing ability and self-regulation among Chinese young children4
Family engagement in early learning opportunities at home and in early childhood education centers in Colombia4
Multidimensional patterns of early care and education access through a family centered lens4
Scientific inquiry of race, ethnicity, and racial inequality in Early Childhood Research Quarterly4
Parent child directed speech in dyadic and triadic interaction: Associations with co-parenting dynamics and child language outcomes4
Influences of reading skills in mathematics achievement: A moderated mediation model4
Embedded instruction for young children with disabilities: A systematic review and meta-analysis of single-case experimental research studies4
Impact of the Chicago universal pre-kindergarten expansion: Effects on pre-kindergarten capacity and enrollment and implications for equity4
Coding as another language: Research-based curriculum for early childhood computer science4
The role of the traditional and digital home literacy environment in Chinese Kindergartners’ language and early literacy3
Who calls for help? Assessing the reach of the Ohio preschool expulsion prevention partnership3
Exploring the impacts of linguistics, working memory, age, and gender on the quantity-number competencies model3
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