OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Early Childhood Research Quarterly is 8. 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
Editorial Board	44
The association between family relationship patterns and preschoolers’ social and behavioral competence in Chinese urban families	43
A pilot study of a micro-course to promote positive teaching practices and prevent exclusionary discipline in early childhood	40
Asian and Asian American early educators’ racial discrimination experiences and student well-being during COVID-19: A moderated mediation model	38
Fathers, faith, and family gender messages: Are religiosity and gender talk related to children's gender attitudes and preferences?	37
First do no harm: How teachers support or undermine children's self-regulation	34
Mother-father relationships and child social-emotional adjustment: Mediation through maternal and paternal parenting	33
Identifying effective strategies to instruct parents during parent-implemented intervention: The role of parent practice with feedback	31
Toxic pathways: Exploring the impacts of vicarious and environmental racism on black youth in early childhood	30
Advancing equitable access to high quality early childhood education through a trauma- and resilience-informed community schools approach	29
Editorial Board	28
Text to talk: Effects of a home-school vocabulary texting intervention on prekindergarten vocabulary	27
From preschool to politics: Early socialization in Tulsa	25
Sharing in child caring: Does equal parenting involvement moderate the relationship between fathers’ and mothers’ sensitivity and toddlers’ receptive language ability ?	25
Measuring preschool children's engagement behaviors during classroom shared reading: Construct and concurrent validity of the shared reading engagement rating scale	24
Student-teacher conflict or student-school conflict? Exploring bidirectional relationships between externalizing behavior and teacher conflict	24
Talking, praising and teaching: How parent interaction during a learning task relates to children's early learning	23
“They felt the safe space”: Practitioner experiences of delivering Mellow Babies, a targeted, early intervention program for parents and their babies	23
Supporting the understanding of cardinal number knowledge in preschoolers: Evidence from instructional practices based on finger patterns	23
Different settings, different patterns of impacts: Effects of a Pre-K math intervention in a mixed-delivery system	22
#MathActivities on #SocialMedia: Examining content, design, and alignment with mathematical cognition research	22
Developmental health and vulnerability among young children in Pakistan: Findings from a large-scale early childhood development assessment in Karachi	22
The role of friends in the development of children’s classroom behavioral engagement and peer acceptance in kindergarten: A dyadic approach	19
Concerted cultivation, parent-child closeness, and young children’s school readiness in China: An actor-partner interdependence moderation model	19
Why is ECE enrollment so complicated? An analysis of barriers and co-created solutions from the frontlines	18

Examining the relationship between discrimination, access to material resources, and black children's behavioral functioning during COVID-19	18
To excel and to be happy: Parenting behaviors, parenting stress, and sociocultural contexts in Dutch and urban Chinese families	18
Measuring resilience in young children: The Child and Youth Resilience Measure- Early Childhood (CYRM-EC)	18
Profiles of home language experiences of Spanish-English dual language learners in migrant and seasonal head start programs	18
My child lags behind: Parents’ perceptions of children's needs for language support, their home-literacy practices, and children's language skills	18
Are family-teacher communication quality and child and family characteristics associated with head start children's classroom engagement? It's complicated	17
Political prioritization of early childhood education during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative policy analysis of low- and middle-income countries	17
Monitoring early childhood development at the population level: The ECDI2030	17
Policies addressing suspension and expulsion in state early care and education subsystems: A national census of policy alignment and integration	17
A meta-analysis of teacher language practices in early childhood classrooms	17
Effects of online parent coaching on Filipino children's skills	16
Transitions in patterns of caregiver involvement before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A latent transition analysis	16
Parent and teacher ratings of Spanish-speaking Latino preschoolers’ behaviors: Validation of the Spanish parent and English teacher Conner's early childhood short forms	16
Understanding associations between early social-emotional screening status and primary school children´s social-emotional well-being in Finland	16
Paternal mind-mindedness and child executive functioning in the kindergarten classroom	16
“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 c	16
Effects of a peer-mediated intervention on the language and socialization experiences and skills of preschool children	16
Attachment configurations to mothers and fathers during infancy predict compliance, defiance, and effortful control in toddlerhood	16
Strategies, recommendations, and validation of remote executive function tasks for use with young children	16
The sound of self-regulation: Music program relates to an advantage for children at risk	16
You Do You[Tube]!The multifaceted roles of online video viewing in the lives of U.S. children	15
Can the sustaining environments hypothesis be sustained? Testing moderation of sustained public preschool benefits by kindergarten classroom quality	15
Gesture like a kitten and you won't forget your tale: Drama-based, embodied story time supports preschoolers’ narrative skills	15
Retention and turnover of teaching staff in a high-quality early childhood network	14
‘What do YOU think?’: Children's questions, teacher's responses and children's follow-up across diverse preschool settings	14
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 quality	14
When Ebony and Malik share stories in school: White teachers’ perceptions of children's use of African American English during oral storytelling	14
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the child care sector: Evidence from North Carolina	14
Participation of early care and education centers in the child care subsidy system: A statewide mixed methods investigation	14
Home literacy environment and Chinese Children’s second language development: A cross-lagged analysis	14
Supporting and engaging with diverse families during the early years: emerging approaches that matter for children and families	14
The development and prediction of young children's behavioral mastery motivation	14
Advice networks in early childhood education: Predicting teachers’ workplace experiences over time	13
Procrastination in early childhood: Associations with self-regulation, negative affectivity, and the home environment	13
Teacher language quality in preschool classrooms: Examining associations with DLLs' oral language skills	13
Effects of using video-based coaching to promote preservice teachers’ interactional skills in Chinese preschool classrooms	13
Does age moderate the influence of early life language experiences? A Naturalistic home observation study	13
Where has all the time gone? Describing time use in full- vs. half-day pre-Kindergarten	13
Close to home: Family-centered spatial analysis of access to early care and education	13
Examining the child observation in preschool and teacher observation in preschool in community-based child care centers	12
Child care use, preferences and access constraints among Native American, immigrant, refugee and Spanish-speaking families in New Mexico	12
Pathways from marital relationships to children's social-emotional development in Korea: The role of parenting and social support	12
Gender equity and motivational readiness for computational thinking in early childhood	12
Increasing access in the ECE enrollment process: Evidence from an information intervention in New Orleans	12
Effects of training parents in dialogic book‐sharing: The Early‐Years Provision in Children's Centers (EPICC) study	12
Family processes of socializing young children’s persistence in challenging tasks among racial/ethnic diverse low-income families	12
Differences between Pre-K and Kindergarten classroom experiences: do they predict children's social-emotional skills and self-regulation across the transition to kindergarten?	12
The effects of a high quality state-run preschool program as rated by a Quality Rating and Improvement System on children's school readiness	12
What a cool classroom! Voices of 5-year-olds on the design of physical learning environments	12
Potential moderators of the association between parental psychological distress and perceived child externalizing behaviors	12

Development of children's informal understanding of division through sharing: Contributions of reasoning demands and problem situations	12
Contributions of shared book reading to children's learning of new semantic facts through memory integration	11
Mathematics in U.S. Preschool and Kindergarten Classrooms	11
Classroom social network antecedents of relational aggression and victimization for kindergarten children	11
Hypotheses in adult-child interactions stimulate children's reasoning and verbalizations	11
Early intervention of language and behavior in monolingual and bilingual preschoolers with Developmental Language Disorders	11
Parent predictors of the home math environment and associations with toddlers’ math skills	11
Examining the effects of an infant-toddler school readiness intervention in center- and family-based programs: Are results generalizable?	11
Associations between school characteristics and learning gains for pre-K attenders and non-attenders: Important constructs, limited evidence	11
Cognitively engaging physical activity has an immediate impact on preschool children's executive function	11
Exploring the role of educator personality on structural and process quality in early childhood education and care settings	10
Teacher turnover and residential instability: Exploring joint and contextual associations with child behavior	10
Stability of parenting profiles in early childhood for African American children in households experiencing poverty	10
Maternal and paternal insensitivity, adaptive engagement, and school readiness skills among economically disadvantaged children: A dynamic approach	10
Reliability and validity evidence for the English and Spanish preschool narrative language measures-listening	10
A pilot study of the impact and implementation of an anti-racism program for preschoolers	10
Promotion of early childhood development and mental health in quality rating and improvement systems for early care and education: A review of state quality indicators	10
Parental sensitivity and intrusiveness in gay-, lesbian-, and heterosexual-parent families with infants conceived using artificial reproductive techniques: Do parents’ gender and caregiver role matter	10
Widely used measures of classroom quality are largely unrelated to preschool skill development	10
Adding family math to the equation: Promoting Head Start preschoolers’ mathematics learning at home and school	10
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 sociodemogr	10
Maternal and paternal parenting stress: Direct and interactive associations with child externalizing and internalizing behavior problems	10
Parenting programs in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region: A multilevel meta-analysis	9
When bigger looks better: CLASS results in public Montessori preschool classrooms	9
An initial yet rigorous test of multisensory alphabet instruction for english monolingual and emergent bilingual children	9
Quality and inequality in pre-primary and home environment inputs to early childhood development in Egypt	9
Preterm birth and expressive language development across the first 5 years of life: A nationally-representative longitudinal path analysis	9
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 services	9
Reciprocal effects between phonological processing skills and Chinese word reading in kindergarten children: A longitudinal cross-lagged study	9
Best practices for designing and reporting caregiver training in early childhood mathematics interventions	9
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 systems	9
Exploring the relation between early childhood education and historical and contemporary racism and bias for Black children	9
Expanding access to high-quality early care and education for families with low income in Maryland through child care subsidy policies	9
Early childhood predictors of black children's achievement: Home, early care and education, and neighborhood contexts	9
A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of coaching and the contribution of coaching processes to learning outcomes for early childhood teachers and children	8
A word about probability: Do general and specific vocabulary knowledge predict probabilistic reasoning in young children?	8
A sociometric approach to understanding characteristics of same- and other-gender friendships in young children	8
Linking professional development to classroom quality: Differences by ECE sector	8
Vocabulary size predicts behavioral problems in emotionally reactive children	8
Classroom age composition and preschoolers’ language and literacy gains: The role of classroom engagement	8
Exploring invariance of the measurement and prediction of ADHD behaviors in Latino children	8
Accommodating life's demands: Childcare choices for student parents in higher education	8
Does screen exposure necessarily relate to behavior problems? The buffering roles of emotion regulation and caregiver companionship	8
COVID-19 and early childhood education: Implications for research, practice, and policy	8
Experiences of child care providers serving subsidy-receiving children involved in the child protective services system: Implications for equitable access	8
The Interrelations between home numeracy activities, children's attitudes toward mathematics, and their mathematics achievement	8
Urban-rural achievement gap in low- and middle-income countries: The role of early childhood education	8
Associations between preschool quality and children's social-emotional development until 2nd grade of elementary school	8
The contribution of inhibitory control to early literacy skills in 4‐ to 5‐year‐old children	8
Guest editorial: Advancing our understanding of demographic (Mis)match in early childhood education	8
Program-wide implementation of the Pyramid Model: Supporting fidelity at the program and classroom levels	8