OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Early Childhood Research Quarterly is 7. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The association between family relationship patterns and preschoolers’ social and behavioral competence in Chinese urban families	42
Editorial Board	42
A pilot study of a micro-course to promote positive teaching practices and prevent exclusionary discipline in early childhood	38
Asian and Asian American early educators’ racial discrimination experiences and student well-being during COVID-19: A moderated mediation model	38
Identifying effective strategies to instruct parents during parent-implemented intervention: The role of parent practice with feedback	37
Fathers, faith, and family gender messages: Are religiosity and gender talk related to children's gender attitudes and preferences?	34
First do no harm: How teachers support or undermine children's self-regulation	31
Mother-father relationships and child social-emotional adjustment: Mediation through maternal and paternal parenting	30
Toxic pathways: Exploring the impacts of vicarious and environmental racism on black youth in early childhood	29
Advancing equitable access to high quality early childhood education through a trauma- and resilience-informed community schools approach	28
Editorial Board	27
Are family-teacher communication quality and child and family characteristics associated with head start children's classroom engagement? It's complicated	25
Sharing in child caring: Does equal parenting involvement moderate the relationship between fathers’ and mothers’ sensitivity and toddlers’ receptive language ability ?	24
Text to talk: Effects of a home-school vocabulary texting intervention on prekindergarten vocabulary	24
Talking, praising and teaching: How parent interaction during a learning task relates to children's early learning	23
From preschool to politics: Early socialization in Tulsa	23
Measuring preschool children's engagement behaviors during classroom shared reading: Construct and concurrent validity of the shared reading engagement rating scale	23
A meta-analysis of teacher language practices in early childhood classrooms	22
“They felt the safe space”: Practitioner experiences of delivering Mellow Babies, a targeted, early intervention program for parents and their babies	22
Measuring resilience in young children: The Child and Youth Resilience Measure- Early Childhood (CYRM-EC)	22
Student-teacher conflict or student-school conflict? Exploring bidirectional relationships between externalizing behavior and teacher conflict	22
Examining the relationship between discrimination, access to material resources, and black children's behavioral functioning during COVID-19	20
My child lags behind: Parents’ perceptions of children's needs for language support, their home-literacy practices, and children's language skills	19
The role of friends in the development of children’s classroom behavioral engagement and peer acceptance in kindergarten: A dyadic approach	19
#MathActivities on #SocialMedia: Examining content, design, and alignment with mathematical cognition research	18

Profiles of home language experiences of Spanish-English dual language learners in migrant and seasonal head start programs	18
To excel and to be happy: Parenting behaviors, parenting stress, and sociocultural contexts in Dutch and urban Chinese families	18
Why is ECE enrollment so complicated? An analysis of barriers and co-created solutions from the frontlines	17
Monitoring early childhood development at the population level: The ECDI2030	17
Different settings, different patterns of impacts: Effects of a Pre-K math intervention in a mixed-delivery system	17
Developmental health and vulnerability among young children in Pakistan: Findings from a large-scale early childhood development assessment in Karachi	17
Understanding associations between early social-emotional screening status and primary school children´s social-emotional well-being in Finland	16
Attachment configurations to mothers and fathers during infancy predict compliance, defiance, and effortful control in toddlerhood	16
Political prioritization of early childhood education during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative policy analysis of low- and middle-income countries	16
Policies addressing suspension and expulsion in state early care and education subsystems: A national census of policy alignment and integration	16
Supporting the understanding of cardinal number knowledge in preschoolers: Evidence from instructional practices based on finger patterns	16
Effects of online parent coaching on Filipino children's skills	16
Effects of a peer-mediated intervention on the language and socialization experiences and skills of preschool children	15
Strategies, recommendations, and validation of remote executive function tasks for use with young children	15
The sound of self-regulation: Music program relates to an advantage for children at risk	15
Paternal mind-mindedness and child executive functioning in the kindergarten classroom	15
Transitions in patterns of caregiver involvement before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A latent transition analysis	15
“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	15
‘What do YOU think?’: Children's questions, teacher's responses and children's follow-up across diverse preschool settings	14
Home literacy environment and Chinese Children’s second language development: A cross-lagged analysis	14
When Ebony and Malik share stories in school: White teachers’ perceptions of children's use of African American English during oral storytelling	14
Parent and teacher ratings of Spanish-speaking Latino preschoolers’ behaviors: Validation of the Spanish parent and English teacher Conner's early childhood short forms	14
Retention and turnover of teaching staff in a high-quality early childhood network	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
You Do You[Tube]!The multifaceted roles of online video viewing in the lives of U.S. children	14
Can the sustaining environments hypothesis be sustained? Testing moderation of sustained public preschool benefits by kindergarten classroom quality	14
Teacher language quality in preschool classrooms: Examining associations with DLLs' oral language skills	13
The development and prediction of young children's behavioral mastery motivation	13
Does age moderate the influence of early life language experiences? A Naturalistic home observation study	13
Supporting and engaging with diverse families during the early years: emerging approaches that matter for children and families	13
Gesture like a kitten and you won't forget your tale: Drama-based, embodied story time supports preschoolers’ narrative skills	13
Close to home: Family-centered spatial analysis of access to early care and education	13
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the child care sector: Evidence from North Carolina	13
Participation of early care and education centers in the child care subsidy system: A statewide mixed methods investigation	13
Effects of using video-based coaching to promote preservice teachers’ interactional skills in Chinese preschool classrooms	13
Family processes of socializing young children’s persistence in challenging tasks among racial/ethnic diverse low-income families	12
Gender equity and motivational readiness for computational thinking in early childhood	12
Procrastination in early childhood: Associations with self-regulation, negative affectivity, and the home environment	12
Advice networks in early childhood education: Predicting teachers’ workplace experiences over time	12
Child care use, preferences and access constraints among Native American, immigrant, refugee and Spanish-speaking families in New Mexico	12
Effects of training parents in dialogic book‐sharing: The Early‐Years Provision in Children's Centers (EPICC) study	12
Pathways from marital relationships to children's social-emotional development in Korea: The role of parenting and social support	12
Where has all the time gone? Describing time use in full- vs. half-day pre-Kindergarten	12
What a cool classroom! Voices of 5-year-olds on the design of physical learning environments	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
Parent predictors of the home math environment and associations with toddlers’ math skills	11
Differences between Pre-K and Kindergarten classroom experiences: do they predict children's social-emotional skills and self-regulation across the transition to kindergarten?	11
Contributions of shared book reading to children's learning of new semantic facts through memory integration	11
Increasing access in the ECE enrollment process: Evidence from an information intervention in New Orleans	11
Development of children's informal understanding of division through sharing: Contributions of reasoning demands and problem situations	11

Teacher turnover and residential instability: Exploring joint and contextual associations with child behavior	11
Examining the child observation in preschool and teacher observation in preschool in community-based child care centers	11
Potential moderators of the association between parental psychological distress and perceived child externalizing behaviors	11
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
Classroom social network antecedents of relational aggression and victimization for kindergarten children	10
Hypotheses in adult-child interactions stimulate children's reasoning and verbalizations	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
Reliability and validity evidence for the English and Spanish preschool narrative language measures-listening	10
Cognitively engaging physical activity has an immediate impact on preschool children's executive function	10
Examining the effects of an infant-toddler school readiness intervention in center- and family-based programs: Are results generalizable?	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
Reciprocal effects between phonological processing skills and Chinese word reading in kindergarten children: A longitudinal cross-lagged study	10
Early intervention of language and behavior in monolingual and bilingual preschoolers with Developmental Language Disorders	10
Adding family math to the equation: Promoting Head Start preschoolers’ mathematics learning at home and school	10
Associations between school characteristics and learning gains for pre-K attenders and non-attenders: Important constructs, limited evidence	10
Mathematics in U.S. Preschool and Kindergarten Classrooms	10
Stability of parenting profiles in early childhood for African American children in households experiencing poverty	10
Preterm birth and expressive language development across the first 5 years of life: A nationally-representative longitudinal path analysis	9
Exploring the relation between early childhood education and historical and contemporary racism and bias for Black children	9
Parenting programs in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region: A multilevel meta-analysis	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
Widely used measures of classroom quality are largely unrelated to preschool skill development	9
Exploring the role of educator personality on structural and process quality in early childhood education and care settings	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
Maternal and paternal insensitivity, adaptive engagement, and school readiness skills among economically disadvantaged children: A dynamic approach	9
Maternal and paternal parenting stress: Direct and interactive associations with child externalizing and internalizing behavior problems	9
Expanding access to high-quality early care and education for families with low income in Maryland through child care subsidy policies	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 contribution of inhibitory control to early literacy skills in 4‐ to 5‐year‐old children	8
When bigger looks better: CLASS results in public Montessori preschool classrooms	8
An initial yet rigorous test of multisensory alphabet instruction for english monolingual and emergent bilingual children	8
Associations between preschool quality and children's social-emotional development until 2nd grade of elementary school	8
Early childhood predictors of black children's achievement: Home, early care and education, and neighborhood contexts	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
Quality and inequality in pre-primary and home environment inputs to early childhood development in Egypt	8
Best practices for designing and reporting caregiver training in early childhood mathematics interventions	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
Early Childhood Teachers of Color in New York City: heightened stress, lower quality of life, declining health, and compromised sleep amidst COVID-19	8
Child social-emotional and behavioral problems and competencies contribute to changes in developmental functioning during Early Intervention	7
Editorial Board	7
Through the lens of early educators: Understanding the use of expulsion and suspension in childcare programs	7
The impact of social pretend play on preschoolers’ social development: Results of an experimental study	7
A word about probability: Do general and specific vocabulary knowledge predict probabilistic reasoning in young children?	7
A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of coaching and the contribution of coaching processes to learning outcomes for early childhood teachers and children	7
Teacher-child racial/ethnic match from prekindergarten through first grade: Understanding early exposure and outcomes	7
A director like me: Teacher-leader racial/ethnic match and job outcomes in child care centers	7
Preschool teachers’ language-related pedagogical beliefs and their relation to observed classroom quality	7
Classroom age composition and preschoolers’ language and literacy gains: The role of classroom engagement	7
Exploring invariance of the measurement and prediction of ADHD behaviors in Latino children	7
Urban-rural achievement gap in low- and middle-income countries: The role of early childhood education	7
A peer-mediated approach to support emergent bilingual preschoolers	7
Classrooms with high rates of absenteeism and individual success: Exploring students’ achievement, executive function, and socio-behavioral outcomes	7
The Interrelations between home numeracy activities, children's attitudes toward mathematics, and their mathematics achievement	7