OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Early Years is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
What does it (not) mean to be “Froebelian”?: exploring Scottish early years professionals’ perspectives	14
Challenges, struggles and needs in assessment: voices of early childhood teachers	13
Navigating ‘the bumpy road’ from research to practice: improving the impact of research on spatial reasoning practice with young children	12
Pre-service and in-service preschool teachers’ abilities to analyze and respond to children’s preconceptions: evidence from situational judgement tests	12
An exploratory study of Chilean early childhood teachers’ professional learning communities	11
A critical analysis of Chinese Early Childhood Education policy documents from the perspective of education for sustainable development	11
Encouraging and assessing preschool children’s musical creativity	9
Parent–child play and coping: experiences of parents and young children during the pandemic	9
Supporting early years professional development to enhance high-quality conversational interactions in early childhood care and education settings: the ShREC approach	8
Mature play needs a mature player: experimental investigation of the effective scaffolding in the preschoolers’ play	8
Transition at a standstill: preschoolers’ motor development during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Did you do something today, or did you solely play? Barriers and facilitators for the use of play in early childhood educational contexts	7
Using art criticism to investigate aesthetic appreciation in children with high and low aesthetic judgment	6
School readiness: a qualitative analysis of early childhood education and first-grade teachers´ beliefs in Uruguay	6
Infant/toddler mentor teachers’ professional learning through weekly co-planning meetings with preservice teachers	6
Content validity, aims and risks of self-assessment in centre-based childcare in the Netherlands: a mixed methods study	6
Moments of togetherness: humour and playful interactions in the toddler peer group	6
Bridging teachers’ beliefs and confidence: A DAP-TPACK framework for AR-integrated STEM education	6
Investigating the School Adjustment Process of Children in a Multicultural Preschool Classroom in the Context of Teacher and Peer Relations	6
Service children’s wellbeing in the context of three- to four-year-old Army children experiencing a parental deployment	6
Supporting childcare professionals in approaching multilingualism: insights from a collaborative process for professional development	5
Digital storytelling in early childhood education: teachers’ experiences	5
’We are teachers too’: reclaiming professionalism in early childhood education from within	5
‘We cry together every day’ – expressing complex emotion in research with early childhood practitioners	5
Crisis and adaptability: a model of early childhood teacher resilience across five countries	5

Wellbeing and adjustment processes in Early Childhood Education and Care centers in the post-Covid-19 era: the teachers’ perspective	5
Obituary: Liz Brooker April 1946–August 2022	5
Learning through play or learning sexism through play? Why critical gender literacy matters in kindergarten education	5
Learning from COVID: recognising the centrality of the relational in early years practice and research	5
The quality of nursery settings in Jamaica using ITERS-3; harnessing the lessons for improved practices in childcare facilities	5
Relationship between preschoolers' social-emotional competence and early academic competence: a meta-analysis	5
Online reflective supervision training with early care and education supervisors	5
Physical touch as a pedagogical action for male preschool teachers and children in ECEC	4
Is there a place for love in an early childhood setting?	4
Taiwanese parents’ perspectives on the implementation of self‐determination for children with developmental delays in a family setting	4
Connecting teachers’ emotional support and young children’s self-regulated learning	4
Children’s transitions in early childhood education and care: various combinations of dis-/continuities	4
A systematic review of technology-assisted preschoolers’ language learning: technologies, theoretical foundations, and implications	4
Using action research to infuse nature-based loose parts play into the Kindergarten Program	4
Peer interactions and communicative engagement in a Montessori preschool: a case study in a mixed-age classroom	4
Home-based early intervention services for children with disabilities in Saudi Arabia: opportunities and challenges from a specialists perspective	4
The role of teachers in, and the importance of, self-discovery for developing science process skills	3
Promotion of traditional music culture in preschool piano education: integration of traditional music features	3
Exploring educators’ and parents’ perceptions of gender as a correlate of toddlers’ physical activity: two faces of the same coin?	3
Use of questions, comments, and scaffolding in extratextual talk during shared book reading in classrooms where children exhibit above- and below-average language gains	3
Compliance to compassion: how COVID-19 changed the way educators use social media to collaborate with families	3
Reconceptualising the third teacher: a study of trainee experiences of work-based learning on level 3 early years programmes	3
Fostering children’s racialized identities in early childhood education	3
Closing the equity gap? An overview of progress toward implementing South Africa’s national integrated early childhood development policy	3
Mentoring processes in kindergarten student teachers’ training	3
Fundamental motor skills enhancement in a preschool setting through a structured physical education programme	3
Professionalization in early childhood education: how do educators craft their work?	3
Construct validity of the sensory integration infant routines questionnaire (SIIRQ)	3
Examining the relationship between four to six year olds' school readiness levels and their parents’ tolerance of risky play	3
Promoting professionalism and quality in preschool practice with the youngest children through action research	3
How kindergarten teachers in China create conditions for children’s mathematics concept learning	3
Playful males: intersections between masculinities and professional identity in Early Childhood Education in Brazil and Italy	3
Universal mental health support in the early years in the context of the UK: early years professionals’ views	3
Norwegian ECEC teachers’ play practices with children aged 2-3 years	2
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on preschool teachers’ identity	2
Children’s involvement in home-based childcare: are boys more susceptible to caregiver sensitivity than girls?	2
An exploratory study of early childhood coaches’ practices and professional learning needs	2
Can we play with science? Preschool teachers’ discussion about play-responsive teaching and how science content can be introduced into play with support of digital tools	2
Initial teacher training and early childhood education in Spain: the commitment to inclusion and eco-social issues	2
Ukrainian refugee children in Czech early childhood settings: why some families are more successful than others when integrating into a new environment	2
‘Nobody left behind’: barriers to engagement in early years digitally mediated leadership development	2
Unveiling stages and pathways: a multidimensional model of kindergarten teachers’ professional development based on a large-scale national survey	2
Early childhood education professionals’ mentalization: a pilot study	2
Influencers of high-quality infant and toddler programmes: structural and process quality in Aotearoa New Zealand	2
Building professionalism through professional associations and unions	2
The role of parents’ gender in parenting attitudes and parental permission to engage in risky play	2
Inclusive active play curriculum in pre-service Canadian early childhood education programs	2
Correction	2
Peer-mediated education and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in preschool inclusive programs: the power of games	2
When environmental knowledge falls short: how collectivism shapes pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors of early childhood educators	2

Early childhood preservice teachers’ learning about children’s metacognitive thinking processes and constructivist pedagogy	2
The relationship between preschool teachers’ sense of teaching efficacy and turnover intention during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mediation model	2
Preschool outdoor education environment quality predicts children’s environmental attitude, awareness and affinity towards nature (biophilia)	2
“Oh, you’ve never done that before?!” Preservice teachers being ‘ stirred in’ to unfamiliar practices with infants and toddlers	2
Toddlers’ attachment behaviours and the quality of their transitions from home to kindergarten	2
The role of placement and practicum in the professional readiness of ECEC educators working with infants and toddlers	2
Quality in children’s digital picture books: seven key strands for educational reflections for shared dialogue-based reading in early childhood settings	2
How parents read young learners’ digital engagement: a posthumanist inquiry into the temporality of co-evolving learning practices in AI game space	2
Adjustment to preschool after COVID-19 in Turkey: teachers’ perspectives	2
Comparing teachers’ and parents’ perspectives on early childhood literacy education	2
Preschool teachers' pedagogical knowledge, awareness and perspectives of early childhood mathematics education	2
Standing at the door: a sociomaterial approach to understanding parental involvement in ECEC	2
How do early childhood education leaders shape professional learning communities?	2
How does nature support early language learning? A systematic literature review	2
Creating Conditions for Chinese Kindergarten Teachers’ Professional Development in a Play-based Setting	2
The effects of board games on math skills in children attending prekindergarten and kindergarten: A systematic review	1
Effects of teachers’ experience and beliefs on the frequency of math teaching*	1
The development of Birth to Five Matters guidance : reflections on the critical agency and collective advocacy of an English early childhood coalition	1
Orchestrating multiactivity in flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care	1
The preschool teachers’ union in Iceland: a critical analysis of influence and challenges	1
Correction	1
Nurturing considerate minds: kindergarten classroom as Trailblazer	1
‘Why does she have dark skin?’: the ways Black women early childhood educators engage in intersectional pedagogies	1
Value in time: associations between early childhood educators’ time stress and curriculum implementation	1
Making toddlers’ numerical competence visible – without relying solely on verbal utterances	1
Concepts of early childhood learning and development in Cameroon, West Africa	1
Enhancing quality: the influence of educational resources on preprimary schools in Gambella Regional State, Ethiopia	1
Anthropocentric and ecocentric epistemological orientations toward sustainability among Turkish preschool teachers	1
On becoming an infant-toddler pedagogue: perceived contributions of heuristic play in initial professional education	1
Development and validation of Preschool Psychosocial Resilience Indicators Test for Natural Disasters (PRINDS)	1
(Re)thinking mobility justice in early learning standards through an intersectional lens	1
The ‘it’ factor: expectations of ‘good’ early childhood teachers in Australia	1
Pre-primary educators’ views on peace education as a strategy for building a sustainable society in Tanzania	1
List of reviewers from 2024	1
Impact of kindergarten teachers’ scientific processing skills training on children’s science and mathematics development	1
Building professionalism in early childhood development in South Africa: professional associations and unions	1
Measuring the impact of concept knowledge and laboratory intervention on pre-service kindergarten teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge in science education	1
Empowering little learners: revolutionizing distance learning (DL) for Tabuk Region kindergarten students with disabilities	1
Preschoolers’ and their parents’ mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic in Estonia and Germany	1
Augmented reality-enhanced drama: fostering social information processing in early childhood*	1
The policy-research-practice triangle in New Zealand early childhood education: Complexities, impossibilities and silences	1
Thinking out of feeling: Vygotsky and the emotional transition from early childhood to school age in Korean Language	1
Barriers to involvement in parenting activities in school-based preschools in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Canada	1
Birth to 3: a critical space for early childhood workforce transformation in South Africa	1
Exploring disaster literacy: early childhood education teachers’ perspective on school safety	1
Building professionalism: Chilean ECEC leaders’ views on their participation in professional associations	1
If you give them the chance, they will thrive: exploring literacy development through the arts in early childhood education	1
Participation profiles in Chilean ECE professional associations and unions: assemblages of agency and professional field orientation	1
An infant-toddler field experience in resistance to settler colonialism in teacher preparation: perspectives and practices of teachers and teacher candidates	1
STEAM education with young learners: five different design processes	1
International perspectives on early childhood education curriculum development: reflections on a documentary review	1
Fostering excellence: professional associations and the cultivation of teachers’ professional identities	1
Preschool children’s understanding of the musical concept of tempo by engaging in strategies from mathematical generalisation	1
‘I’d like to find out more about what we can actually do after this degree because I’m not 100% sure’: exploring emergent and divergent aspirations of Early Childhood undergraduates	1
Beyond the rules, behind a smile: children’s oppositional actions in nurseries	1
bell hooks and Picture Books: Equity in Early Childhood Education	1
Perceptions of teachers regarding enhancing early literacy skills among deaf pre-primary children in Tanzania	1
Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model: a holistic evaluation of the health-promoting capacity of early childhood institutions in Turkey	1
A comparison between preschool children’s verbal participation during the shared reading of a wordless and a text-based rendition of Aesop’s fable The Lion and the Mouse	1