Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Papers
(The median citation count of Early Childhood Research Quarterly 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.)
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Does executive function affect children's peer relationships more than emotion understanding? A Longitudinal study based on latent growth model38
Bidirectional relations between self-control and cooperation among Japanese preschoolers: A random-intercept cross-lagged panel analysis38
The role of language in the association between theory of mind and executive functioning in early childhood: New longitudinal evidence35
Maternal and paternal parenting stress: Direct and interactive associations with child externalizing and internalizing behavior problems32
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Socialization discontinuity as an explanation for disparities in teacher-child relationships25
“A win-win for all of us": COVID-19 sheds light on the essentialness of child care as key infrastructure24
Effect of the timing of initial exposure to maternal depression on children's school readiness22
Preterm birth and expressive language development across the first 5 years of life: A nationally-representative longitudinal path analysis22
A machine learning approach to identifying non-parental caregivers' risk for harsh caregiving towards infants in daycare centers21
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Identifying effective strategies to instruct parents during parent-implemented intervention: The role of parent practice with feedback20
Fathers, faith, and family gender messages: Are religiosity and gender talk related to children's gender attitudes and preferences?19
Executive function in kindergarten and development of behavioral competence: The moderating role of positive parenting practices19
Relations between caregivers’ emotion regulation strategies, parenting styles, and preschoolers’ emotional competence in Chinese parenting and grandparenting19
Tiered universal and targeted early childhood interventions: Enhancing attendance across families with varying needs19
Corrigendum to “Examining the relationship between discrimination, access to material resources, and black children's behavioral functioning during COVID-19” [Early Childhood Research Quarterly Volume18
Measuring and predicting teachers’ commitment to implementing evidence-based programs18
The impacts of Abecedarian and Head Start on educational attainment: Reasoning about unobserved mechanisms from temporal patterns of indirect effects17
Reliability and validity evidence for the English and Spanish preschool narrative language measures-listening17
Unpacking the home numeracy environment: Examining dimensions of number activities in early childhood16
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Early Childhood Education Teacher's Beliefs about a Match in Home Language Proficiency with Emergent Bilingual Learners15
Direct and interactive effects of attendance rates on growth in language, literacy and mathematics skills for children enrolled in voluntary preschool programs15
Exploring how early childhood exclusionary practices persist for multiply marginalized children15
Teacher-child racial congruence and young children's preschool adjustment15
Exploring the impacts of linguistics, working memory, age, and gender on the quantity-number competencies model15
Investigating children's interactions in preschool classrooms: An overview of research using automated sensing technologies14
How a child entangles empathy and computational thinking in reasoning about fairness14
Training on number comparison, but not number line estimation, improves preschoolers’ symbolic approximate arithmetic14
Is skill heterogeneity in kindergarten classrooms associated with the persistence of pre-K gains? Evidence from the IES early learning network13
Promotion of early childhood development and mental health in quality rating and improvement systems for early care and education: A review of state quality indicators13
Phonological processing and spatial attention contribute to mathematics performance in different ways: A 3-year longitudinal study13
Universal preschool and cognitive skills – the role of school starting age as a moderating factor13
The impact of work-related wellbeing and workplace culture and climate on intention to leave in the early childhood sector13
Results from a randomized trial of the effective classroom interactions for toddler educators professional development intervention12
The association between family relationship patterns and preschoolers’ social and behavioral competence in Chinese urban families12
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 services12
Who calls for help? Assessing the reach of the Ohio preschool expulsion prevention partnership12
An investigation into the concreteness of manipulatives in mathematical instruction: Do the object and its label matter?12
The role of the traditional and digital home literacy environment in Chinese Kindergartners’ language and early literacy12
Children's task persistence in first grade: The role of parent-child and teacher-child relationships12
Exploring the role of educator personality on structural and process quality in early childhood education and care settings12
Stop hurting each other: Bidirectional longitudinal relationships and sex differences between parents’ negative expressiveness and offspring’s problem behaviors12
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 sociodemogr11
Asian and Asian American early educators’ racial discrimination experiences and student well-being during COVID-19: A moderated mediation model11
Parental sensitivity and intrusiveness in gay-, lesbian-, and heterosexual-parent families with infants conceived using artificial reproductive techniques: Do parents’ gender and caregiver role matter11
Examining duration of family enrollment in subsidized child care after policy change: Disaggregated outcomes for diverse populations in New Mexico11
Standards, curriculum, and assessment in early childhood education: Examining alignment across multiple state systems11
Spatial skills and counting sequence knowledge: Investigating reciprocal longitudinal relations in early years11
A pilot study of a micro-course to promote positive teaching practices and prevent exclusionary discipline in early childhood11
Reducing childcare subsidy instability through eligibility period extensions: Equity impacts of 12-month recertification requirements11
Kindergarten academic and social skills and exposure to peers with pre-kindergarten experience11
Self-regulation development among young Spanish-English dual language learners10
Caregivers’ perceptions on caregiver-implemented intervention and coaching10
Maternal and paternal insensitivity, adaptive engagement, and school readiness skills among economically disadvantaged children: A dynamic approach10
Caregivers’ perceived changes in engaged time with preschool-aged children during COVID-19: Familial correlates and relations to children's learning behavior and emotional distress10
First do no harm: How teachers support or undermine children's self-regulation10
Reading with 1–2 year olds impacts academic achievement at 8–11 years10
Mother-father relationships and child social-emotional adjustment: Mediation through maternal and paternal parenting10
Parenting programs in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region: A multilevel meta-analysis9
Widely used measures of classroom quality are largely unrelated to preschool skill development9
Designing culturally situated playful environments for early STEM learning with a Latine community9
Impacts of two public preschool programs on school readiness in San Francisco9
The spatial inequality of early care and education centers9
Stability of parenting profiles in early childhood for African American children in households experiencing poverty9
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 systems9
Instructional alignment is associated with PreK persistence: Evidence from the Boston Public Schools9
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Parents’ physically performative behaviors during shared book reading: A comparison of mothers and fathers9
Examining interactions between educators and across children: Evaluating the validity of the responsive interactions for Learning - Educator-Child Dyad version9
Is starting earlier better? A propensity score analysis of toddler-year impacts for English only and Spanish-speaking dual language learners9
Toxic pathways: Exploring the impacts of vicarious and environmental racism on black youth in early childhood8
Challenges in the transition to kindergarten and children's well-being through elementary school: Do school transition supports matter?8
Effects of cumulative family risks on school readiness skills: A cross-cultural study between the U.S. and Korea8
Classroom skill compositions and preschoolers’ early academic and executive function outcomes8
Early childhood predictors of black children's achievement: Home, early care and education, and neighborhood contexts8
Racial/ethnic wealth gaps and material hardship disparities among U.S. households with young children: An investigation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic8
Examining the relationship between discrimination, access to material resources, and black children's behavioral functioning during COVID-198
To excel and to be happy: Parenting behaviors, parenting stress, and sociocultural contexts in Dutch and urban Chinese families8
Quality and inequality in pre-primary and home environment inputs to early childhood development in Egypt8
Blame, shame, and rejection: Families’ experiences with preschool suspension and expulsion8
Hard-to-staff centers: Exploring center-level variation in the persistence of child care teacher turnover8
A mixed-methods approach to understanding early childhood special educators’ well-being8
Preschool children's engagement with a social robot compared to a human instructor8
Student-teacher conflict or student-school conflict? Exploring bidirectional relationships between externalizing behavior and teacher conflict8
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Does screen exposure necessarily relate to behavior problems? The buffering roles of emotion regulation and caregiver companionship7
Granny and mama: Grandmothers’ and mothers’ interactions with toddlers during block play in urban China7
Predictors and outcomes of being retained twice in elementary school7
Parental Problematic Smartphone Use and Children's Executive Function: The Mediating Role of Technoference and the Moderating Role of Children's Age7
So, what is it? Examining parent-child interactions while talking about artifacts in a museum7
Academic Achievement in Grades 1 to 6: Association with Child, Parental and Socio-Familial Characteristics 5 Months After Birth7
Family ecological resources and risks: The moderating role of Early Head Start7
Talking, praising and teaching: How parent interaction during a learning task relates to children's early learning7
Monitoring early childhood development at the population level: The ECDI20307
Research on fathers: pathways to coming of age7
State leaders in early childhood education: Perspectives on instructional policy supports and alignment7
Lead teacher, assistant teacher, and peer racial/ethnic match and child outcomes for Black children enrolled in enhanced high-quality early care and education programs7
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Accommodating life's demands: Childcare choices for student parents in higher education6
The contribution of inhibitory control to early literacy skills in 4‐ to 5‐year‐old children6
My child lags behind: Parents’ perceptions of children's needs for language support, their home-literacy practices, and children's language skills6
The link between hours of center-based childcare and child development in 3- to 6-year-olds: Evidence from Singapore6
When bigger looks better: CLASS results in public Montessori preschool classrooms6
A sociometric approach to understanding characteristics of same- and other-gender friendships in young children6
Young children's cortisol levels at out-of-home child care: A meta-analysis6
Measuring preschool children's engagement behaviors during classroom shared reading: Construct and concurrent validity of the shared reading engagement rating scale6
A meta-analysis of teacher language practices in early childhood classrooms6
Parental early math support: The role of parental knowledge about early math development6
Access to high-quality early care and education: Analysis of Australia's national integrated data6
The role of educators’ racial beliefs in developing relationships with white toddlers and preschool children6
Who has a same race or ethnicity teacher in kindergarten? Comparing disparities in access for students with and without disabilities6
Profiles of home language experiences of Spanish-English dual language learners in migrant and seasonal head start programs6
From preschool to politics: Early socialization in Tulsa6
Designing formative assessments of early childhood computational thinking6
A teacher's choice: Preschool teachers’ selection and use of picture books for mathematics instruction6
Why is ECE enrollment so complicated? An analysis of barriers and co-created solutions from the frontlines6
Investigating the association between professional development and educators’ beliefs in U.S. center- and home-based early childhood education5
Expanding access to high-quality early care and education for families with low income in Maryland through child care subsidy policies5
Investigating child care decision-making to understand access among families with low incomes5
Impacts of COVID-19 on the early care and education sector in California: Variations across program types5
Equitable use of subsidized child care in Georgia5
Understanding the wellbeing of early educators in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic: Lessons from Louisiana5
Sharing in child caring: Does equal parenting involvement moderate the relationship between fathers’ and mothers’ sensitivity and toddlers’ receptive language ability ?5
Mission FEEL! A novel emotion understanding intervention for preschoolers: A proof-of-concept study5
Exploring the relation between early childhood education and historical and contemporary racism and bias for Black children5
Advancing equitable access to high quality early childhood education through a trauma- and resilience-informed community schools approach5
Text to talk: Effects of a home-school vocabulary texting intervention on prekindergarten vocabulary5
Advancing research on equitable access to early care and education in the United States5
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Supporting the understanding of cardinal number knowledge in preschoolers: Evidence from instructional practices based on finger patterns5
Measuring resilience in young children: The Child and Youth Resilience Measure- Early Childhood (CYRM-EC)5
Does Head Start or public Pre-Kindergarten enrollment matter? Associations with children's long-term school attendance in Baltimore City5
“Tell me what I'm doing wrong”: Criticism of parenting choices and mental health during COVID-195
Introduction to ECRQ special issue measuring quality in early care and education: Past, present, and future5
Best practices for designing and reporting caregiver training in early childhood mathematics interventions5
Implementation and Challenges of Online Education during the COVID-19 Outbreak: A National Survey of Children and Parents in China5
Are family-teacher communication quality and child and family characteristics associated with head start children's classroom engagement? It's complicated5
Sing it or speak it?: the effects of sung and rhythmically spoken songs on preschool children's word learning5
Factors affecting enrollment of children with disabilities in child care and early education programs: A mixed methods study of Arkansas center-based programs5
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 Mathematics4
Associations between preschool quality and children's social-emotional development until 2nd grade of elementary school4
The importance of home numeracy environment in preschoolers’ spontaneous focusing on numerosity: A mediation study4
Strategies, recommendations, and validation of remote executive function tasks for use with young children4
Exploring predictors and outcomes of racial/ethnic match between children and providers in Early Head Start4
Teacher-child racial/ethnic match from prekindergarten through first grade: Understanding early exposure and outcomes4
Introduction to the Special Issue: Advancing the science of early childhood expulsion prevention4
Book sharing and reminiscing: Caregivers’ conversational style and children's language and literacy development in low-income Costa Rican families4
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 practice4
Maternal question use and child language outcomes: The moderating role of children's vocabulary skills and socioeconomic status4
Adverse childhood experiences, stress, and resilience among early childhood teachers4
Teaching spanish‐speaking caregivers to implement EMT en Español: a small randomized trial4
Latent classes of early childhood development and their predictors in Low- and middle-income countries: Results from multiple indicator cluster surveys 2010 - 20204
Program-wide implementation of the Pyramid Model: Supporting fidelity at the program and classroom levels4
The playful learning curriculum: A randomized controlled trial4
An examination of the use and outcomes of readiness assessments, retention policies, and title 1 funding for kindergarten children in the United States4
One size does not fit all: Associations between child characteristics, differential treatment of children by educators and quality in child care centers4
Learning experiences vary across young children in the same classroom: evidence from the individualizing student instruction measure in the Boston Public Schools4
Free play predicts self-regulation years later: Longitudinal evidence from a large Australian sample of toddlers and preschoolers4
Family socio-economic status and Chinese Preschoolers’ anxious symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: the roles of parental investment, parenting style, home quarantine length, and regional pandemic r4
Reciprocal patterns of peer speech in preschoolers with and without hearing loss4
Longitudinal relations among teacher-student closeness, cognitive flexibility, intrinsic reading motivation, and reading achievement4
“They felt the safe space”: Practitioner experiences of delivering Mellow Babies, a targeted, early intervention program for parents and their babies4
Different settings, different patterns of impacts: Effects of a Pre-K math intervention in a mixed-delivery system4
Understanding associations between early social-emotional screening status and primary school children´s social-emotional well-being in Finland3
Impact of the Chicago universal pre-kindergarten expansion: Effects on pre-kindergarten capacity and enrollment and implications for equity3
Context matters: The importance of investigating random effects in hierarchical models for early childhood education researchers3
Can peers help sustain the positive effects of an early childhood mathematics intervention?3
Experiences of child care providers serving subsidy-receiving children involved in the child protective services system: Implications for equitable access3
Outcomes associated with school mobility from public school Pre-K to kindergarten3
High residential mobility and young children's healthy development in low-income families: Exploring the moderating role of Head Start3
Introduction to the Supplemental Issue: Advancing developmental science on the impact of racism in the early years3
Broadening understanding of executive function in children with different hearing histories: The roles of fathers and coparenting3
The religio-spiritual capital of the Black Church: A conceptual model for combatting antiblackness in the early years3
Child care usage among families with young children staying in homeless shelters3
Attachment configurations to mothers and fathers during infancy predict compliance, defiance, and effortful control in toddlerhood3
Cluster randomized controlled trial of a phone-based caregiver support and parenting program for Syrian and Jordanian families with young children3
Exploring home visitors’ use and perceptions of developmental monitoring: A mixed methods study3
A conceptual model to understand and address racial disparities in exclusionary discipline through teacher-child relationships3
Child social-emotional and behavioral problems and competencies contribute to changes in developmental functioning during Early Intervention3
Systems approaches for uncovering mechanisms of structural racism impacting children's environmental health and development3
Vocabulary size predicts behavioral problems in emotionally reactive children3
Exploring treatment impact heterogeneity across sites: Challenges and opportunities for early childhood researchers3
Home food practices and Latino kindergarteners’ academic skills3
An investigation of Head Start preschool children's executive function, early literacy, and numeracy learning in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic2
Effects of online parent coaching on Filipino children's skills2
The impact of social pretend play on preschoolers’ social development: Results of an experimental study2
Comparing center-based with home-based child care: type of care moderates the association between process quality and child functioning2
Political prioritization of early childhood education during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative policy analysis of low- and middle-income countries2
Policies addressing suspension and expulsion in state early care and education subsystems: A national census of policy alignment and integration2
Fostering toddlers’ numeracy and mathematical language skills through a professional development intervention on interaction quality in toddler classrooms2
Longitudinal trajectories of approaches to learning among Chinese preschoolers: Family predictors and academic outcomes2
Variations in risk, resilience, and protective factors for cognitive and socioemotional development among 3- to 4-year-old children in Nigeria: A multilevel modeling2
Computational thinking in early childhood education: The impact of programming a tangible robot on developing debugging knowledge2
A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of coaching and the contribution of coaching processes to learning outcomes for early childhood teachers and children2
Activity settings, content, and pedagogical strategies in preschool classrooms: Do these influence the interactions we observe?2
Pandemic-related threats and well-being: A longitudinal study of preschool teachers in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Coding as another language: Research-based curriculum for early childhood computer science2
Silent expectations: An exploration of women pre-Kindergarten teachers’ mental health and wellness during Covid-19 and beyond2
COVID-19 and early childhood education: Implications for research, practice, and policy2
Can the sustaining environments hypothesis be sustained? Testing moderation of sustained public preschool benefits by kindergarten classroom quality2
An exploration of robot programming as a foundation for spatial reasoning and computational thinking in preschoolers’ guided play2
Rhythm and movement delivered by teachers supports self-regulation skills of preschool-aged children in disadvantaged communities: A clustered RCT2
Engagement in the preschool classroom: Brief measures for use with children from ethno-racially diverse and low-income backgrounds2
Evidence of the Effectiveness of a Home Visiting Model in Rural Communities: Early Steps to School Success2
Parent time investments in their children's learning during a policy-mandated shutdown: parent, child, and household influences2
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School entry skills and young adult outcomes2
Examining individual children's peer engagement in pre-kindergarten classrooms: Relations with classroom-level teacher-child interaction quality2
Urban-rural achievement gap in low- and middle-income countries: The role of early childhood education2
Data collection and analysis for preschoolers: An engaging context for integrating mathematics and computational thinking with digital tools2
Impacts of the beginning education: early childcare at home (BEECH) program for family child care providers and young children2
Supportive language strategies for preschool dual language learners: Associations with early language outcomes2
A word about probability: Do general and specific vocabulary knowledge predict probabilistic reasoning in young children?2
Exploring an early numeracy screening measure for English learners in primary grades2
Family systems and relationships: dyadic and triadic contexts in-the-moment and over time2
Early Childhood Teachers of Color in New York City: heightened stress, lower quality of life, declining health, and compromised sleep amidst COVID-192
Teachers of refugee children opening up dialogic spaces across interruptions and change2
Paternal mind-mindedness and child executive functioning in the kindergarten classroom2
Linking professional development to classroom quality: Differences by ECE sector2
The reciprocal relationship between vocabulary knowledge and word reading in Chinese primary-school children2
Classroom age composition and preschoolers’ language and literacy gains: The role of classroom engagement2
Testing block play as an effective mechanism for promoting early math, executive function, and spatial skills in preschoolers from low-income backgrounds2
Neglected validities: A diagnostic look at the state of early childhood assessment2
Longitudinal study on early literacy and subsequent performance in Turkish low-SES children2
Pathways to arithmetic, geometry, and measurement in preschool children: The role of general cognitive and language skills2
Longitudinal associations among teacher–child relationship quality, behavioral engagement, and academic achievement2
Accountability-driven school reform: are there unintended effects on younger children in untested grades?2
The Interrelations between home numeracy activities, children's attitudes toward mathematics, and their mathematics achievement2
Child, teacher and preschool characteristics and child-teacher relationships in Greek preschools2
What's missing? A multi-method approach to gaining a fuller understanding of early care and education decision-making2
Math for 2s and 3s: The impact of parent-child math activities on parents’ beliefs and behaviors and young children's math skill development2
Residential and preschool neighborhoods: Exploring patterns of socioeconomic match and its association with child skills across Massachusetts2
Guest editorial: Advancing our understanding of demographic (Mis)match in early childhood education2
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