OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Early Years 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.)

Article	Citations
Birth to 3: a critical space for early childhood workforce transformation in South Africa	20
Transition at a standstill: preschoolers’ motor development during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Navigating ‘the bumpy road’ from research to practice: improving the impact of research on spatial reasoning practice with young children	10
Young children’s expression of gender and sexuality a multimodal research method	9
What does it (not) mean to be “Froebelian”?: exploring Scottish early years professionals’ perspectives	8
Evaluating the impact of book gifting on the reading behaviours of parents and young children	8
Shadowing methodology and the role of the Educational Leader	6
Parents’ perspectives on inclusive practices in early childhood education and care: facilitators and barriers for children with Cerebral Palsy	6
Autonomous and responsible? Parental rationalities for their involvement in ECEC in the Czech Republic	6
Teacher–child interactions during picture book reading in Chinese preschool classrooms: a comparative study of novice and experienced teachers	5
Dialogical conceptualisations of leadership in social enterprise early years group	5
Leadership development and system building in early childhood education and care: current issues and recommendations	5
Encouraging and assessing preschool children’s musical creativity	5
China’s preschool teacher workforce development 2010–2020: crossing the river by feeling the stones	4
Who belongs in preschool? Perspectives of children and educators	4
Parent–child play and coping: experiences of parents and young children during the pandemic	4
A critical analysis of Chinese Early Childhood Education policy documents from the perspective of education for sustainable development	4
Toddlers’ attachment behaviours and the quality of their transitions from home to kindergarten	4
What is the capacity of A in the contexts of STEM?	4
Early childhood education professionals’ mentalization: a pilot study	4
Building professionalism through professional associations and unions	4
“We’ve got to fight; that’s the story of our lives”: advocacy experience of immigrant families of children with autism spectrum disorder	4
“Oh, you’ve never done that before?!” Preservice teachers being ‘stirred in’ to unfamiliar practices with infants and toddlers	4
On becoming an infant-toddler pedagogue: perceived contributions of heuristic play in initial professional education	3
Exploring public and private preschool teachers’ beliefs and practices regarding gifted children from three to six years old in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	3

‘I can’t teach without ICT’: unpacking and problematising teachers’ perceptions of the use of ICT in kindergartens in China	3
The role of parents’ gender in parenting attitudes and parental permission to engage in risky play	3
Norwegian ECEC teachers’ play practices with children aged 2-3 years	3
Supervisory discussions during the early childhood education and care student teacher practicum period – the cultural scripts, phases and discourses	3
Creating Conditions for Chinese Kindergarten Teachers’ Professional Development in a Play-based Setting	3
The policy-research-practice triangle in New Zealand early childhood education: Complexities, impossibilities and silences	3
Parental death in young children’s lives: health professionals’ and kindergarten teachers’ contributions in meaning-making	3
Service children’s wellbeing in the context of three- to four-year-old Army children experiencing a parental deployment	3
An exploratory study of Chilean early childhood teachers’ professional learning communities	3
Metacognition and self-regulation in young children: does it matter if metacognitive experiences are communicated?	3
Professional vision of early childhood teachers: relations to knowledge, work experience and teacher child-interaction	3
“Disregarded and undervalued”: early childhood teacher’s experiences of stress and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Mental state language in Chinese educator-infant conversational interactions during structured and free play	3
Child–educator disagreements in Finnish early childhood education and care: young children’s possibilities for influence	3
Quality in children’s digital picture books: seven key strands for educational reflections for shared dialogue-based reading in early childhood settings	3
Beyond the rules, behind a smile: children’s oppositional actions in nurseries	2
Moments of togetherness: humour and playful interactions in the toddler peer group	2
Do kindergarten teachers’ art skills matter? Evidence from the triangulated perspectives of Chinese stakeholders	2
Strengthening infant and toddler pedagogy through an online specialised postgraduate qualification: building on initial teacher education and teaching experience	2
Introducing cultural-historical genetic-analytical model for studying child’s play: the matryoshka principle – situations within situations covered by situations	2
Observing dressing in a collaborative or trusting environment: the right to participate in one's own care at the Emmi Pikler nursery school in Budapest	2
Perceived challenges of early childhood educators in promoting unstructured outdoor play: an ecological systems perspective	2
(Care)fully reconstituting cruel professionalism with and for early childhood educators: how caring activism can resist uncaring conditions	2
Folk Pedagogies of Change: Developing an Early Years Education Development Strategy for China	2
Relationships between teacher–child relationships, resilience, and emotional competence: an empirical study of left-behind children in regional China	2
International perspectives on wellbeing and democratic living in early childhood curricula	2
Workforce diversity and quality improvement policies in early childhood education in East Asia	2
How do early childhood education leaders shape professional learning communities?	2
Did you do something today, or did you solely play? Barriers and facilitators for the use of play in early childhood educational contexts	2
List of reviewers from 2022	2
Exploring the experiences of parents and young children during the COVID-19 outbreak	2
‘I can teach you that’: a study of musical interaction as a learning-generating practice in Swedish preschool everyday environments	2
Barriers to involvement in parenting activities in school-based preschools in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Canada	2
An analysis of the factors affecting access to the early childhood education and care: a systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis	2
The quality of nursery settings in Jamaica using ITERS-3; harnessing the lessons for improved practices in childcare facilities	2
How does nature support early language learning? A systematic literature review	2