OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Early Education and Development is 5. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
STEM Labs: A promising professional learning approach to promote teacher–child interaction quality and science and engineering practices	47
Do Servant Leadership and Emotional Labor Matter for Kindergarten Teachers’ Organizational Commitment and Intention to Leave?	34
Executive Functioning and Early Math Skills in Young Children at Risk for Mathematical Difficulties: Evaluation of Interventions Efficacy and Transfer Effects	34
Socioeconomic Status and Children’s English Language and Literacy Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Home Literacy Environment	33
A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effectiveness and Mechanisms of Change in a School-Based Intervention Combining Universal and Indicated Prevention for Preschoolers’ Behavior Problems	31
The Effect of a Sibling Shared Reading Intervention on the Reading Development of Early School-Aged Children in Rural China	28
School-Based Early Childhood Education and Children’s Development in Urban Nepal	27
Head Start Educators’ Occupational Stress: Discovering Common Stressors and Underlying Causes Through the Improvement Science-Based Intervention Data	22
Preschool Teachers’ Child-Directed Talk: Unlocking Opportunities for Language Learning and Knowledge-Building	21
Does Participation Benefit Children’s Socio-Emotional Development? Positive Associations Between Children’s Participation and Self-Concept, Through Children’s Perceptions	19
Quality of Caregiver–child Interactions in Early Child Care Centers in Bangladesh: Measurement and Training	19
The Impact of Block Play on Young Children’s Production of Intrinsic Frame of Reference: A Quasi-Experiment	19
Understanding Young Children’s Learning and Development in the Wake of the Pandemic: Evidence from Acelero Head Start Programs	19
Chinese Preschool Teachers’ Use of Concept Development Strategies to Elicit Children’s Higher-Order Thinking During Whole-Group Science Teaching	16
Media Use in Daily Routines and Young Children’s Social Skills	16
The Link Between Black Preschoolers’ Effortful Control and Their Positive and Conflictual Teacher Interactions: Moderating Role of Family Involvement and Emotionally Supportive Classrooms	16
How Early Digital Experience Shapes Young Brains During 0-12 Years: A Scoping Review	16
Preschool Children’s Evaluations of Prototypic and Accidental Moral Transgressions Differ by Economic Strata	15
Imaginative Children in the Classroom: Mixed-Methods Examining Teacher Reported Behavior, Play Observations and Child Assessments	15
Influence of Maternal Cognitions on Child Mental Health and Educational Experiences at Home During COVID-19	15
Validity, Reliability, and Relevance of a Measurement Tool for Childcare Providers’ Work-Related Stress and Job Satisfaction	14
A Majority-World Perspective on Early Childhood Teachers’ Understanding of Children’s Social-Emotional Development: An Exploratory, Cross-National Study in Nepal and Kenya	13
What Factors Drive School Districts to Adopt Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK): Evidence from Wisconsin	13
The Social Validity of Content Enriched Shared Book Reading Vocabulary Instruction and Preschool DLLs’ Language Outcomes	13
Learning to Name Uppercase and Lowercase Letters in Preschoolers and Kindergarteners: An Investigation of the Effects of Child- and Letter-Related Factors	13

Does Preschool Education Moderate the Associations Between Paternal, Maternal, and Allocaregivers’ Engagement and Children’s Literacy and Social Skills in African Countries?	13
How Does Comprehensive Art Education Facilitate Children’s Creativity? A Mixed-Methods Study in China	12
Cross-Lagged Associations Between Caregiver-Child and Teacher-Child Relationships and Approaches to Learning in Rural Preschoolers: The Moderating Role of Boarding Status	12
Validation of the Coping with Children’s Negative Emotions Scale Adapted to the Early Childhood Education and Care Context	11
Picturebooks Increase the Frequency and Diversity of Emotion Vocabulary in Children’s Language Environments: Modeling Potential Benefits to Emotional Literacy, with Pedagogical Resources	11
Persistence Development across the Transition to School: A Latent Profile Transition Analysis	11
Online Learning and Parent Satisfaction during COVID-19: Child Competence in Independent Learning as a Moderator	11
Profiles of Professional Wellbeing and Turnover Intentions Among Australian Early Childhood Educators	11
Who, What, and Where: Classroom Contexts for Preschool Writing Experiences	11
Differences in Characteristics Between Head Start Participants and Non-Participants Among Head Start Eligible Families with Young Children	11
Short-Term Effects of an Outdoor Activities Intervention on Children’s Stress, Socio emotional, Behavioral, and Cognitive Regulation Skills	11
Variations in Kindergarten Teachers’ Cognitive Activations in Math-related Activities by Child Factors	10
Highlighting ECE Teachers’ Proximal Processes as Designers: An Investigation of Teachers’ Design Thinking Engagement, TPACK Efficacy, and Design Vitality	10
Young Children’s and Teachers’ Perceptions of Affective Teacher-Child Relationships: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between the Netherlands and China	10
Digital Transformations in Early Learning: From Touch Interactions to AI Conversations	10
Do Early Care and Education Programs Improve When Enrolled in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems? Longitudinal Evidence from One System	9
Teachers’ Emotional Expressiveness and Coping Reactions to Students’ Emotions: Associations with Students’ Social-Emotional Competences and School Adjustment	9
Questions that Fuel the Mind: Exploring the Associations between Teacher-Child Higher-Level Interaction and Preschoolers’ Development of Executive Functions	9
Self-Reported Depressive Symptoms Among Preschool Teachers: Associations with Children’s Social-Emotional, Cognitive, and Executive Functioning Skills	9
Opportunities to Talk Matter in Shared Reading: The Mediating Roles of Children’s Engagement and Verbal Participation in Narrative Listening Comprehension	9
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Profiles and Predictors of Physical Abuse and Behavior Problems in Chinese Preschool-Aged Children	9
The Roles of Student-Teacher Relationship Quality and Classroom Self-Regulatory Supports for Children’s Self-Regulatory Skills in Kindergarten and First Grade	9
Nudging Early Educators’ Knowledge, Beliefs, and Practices: An Embedded Randomized Controlled Trial of Text Message Supports	8
Fostering Dual Language Learners’ Participation in Head Start Classroom Conversations Through Code-Switching in Whole Group and Small Group Settings	8
From Pre-Service Preparation to Professional Development: Early Childhood Teachers’ Learning Experiences, ECE Quality, and Child Development in China	8
Spanish Validation of the Two-Factor Interpersonal Reactivity Index: Evidence for the Relationship Between Empathy, Social Competence, and Emotion Regulation	8
Chinese Preschoolers’ Pattern Creation: Performance and Predictors	8
Process Quality in Toddler Classrooms in Four European Countries	8
Validation of the Chinese Empathy Questionnaire for Pre-School Children	8
Development of English Picture Vocabulary Test as an Assessment Tool for Very Young EFL Learners’ Receptive and Expressive Language Skills	8
What Factors are Associated with Young Children’s Language Learning Environment? A Systematic Review of Language Environment Analysis (LENA) Measures	8
Childcare Providers and COVID-19: The Role of Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy in Sustaining Subjective Well-Being	8
Exploring Links Between Social Competence, Immigrant Background, and Children’s Preschool Adjustment	8
Exploring Gender Disparity in Chinese Children’s Literature: The Impact of Authorship and Narrative Elements	7
The Effect of Self-Concept and Self-Efficacy on Learning Engagement and Subsequent Reading Performance: The Difference Between L1 and L2 Reading in First-Grade Students	7
Embodied and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) in Early Childhood: Situating Culturally Relevant SEL in Asian, African, and North American Contexts	7
The Mediating Role of Maternal Psychological Capital on the Relationship between Social Support and Parenting Competence: Evidence from Chinese Mothers	7
Head Start in Low-Wealth, Rural Communities: Evidence from the Family Life Project	7
Home Environment and Development of English as A Second/Foreign Language for Young Children in Asian Contexts: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis^*	7
A Focus Group Study on Participatory Practices in Early Childhood Education and Care Across Four European Countries	7
Children’s School Feelings and Adaptation During the Transition From Kindergarten to Primary School in China	7
Children’s Learning Experiences in Rural Boarding Preschools: Classroom Quality and Associations with Developmental Outcomes	7
Socioemotional Competencies of Indonesian Preschoolers: Comparisons between the Pre-Pandemic and Pandemic Periods and among DKI Jakarta, DI Yogyakarta and West Java Provinces	6
Relative Contributions of Mothers, Fathers, and Other Caregivers’ Cognitive and Socioemotional Stimulation on Ghanaian Children’s School Readiness	6
Parents’ Psychological Distress During COVID-19: Correlates and Relations with Parents’ Engagement in Early Education	6
A Validation Study of the Assessing Classroom Sociocultural Equity Scale (ACSES) in Pre-Kindergarten to Third Grade Classrooms	6
Children’s Picture Books: A Systematic Analysis of Features in the Domain of Mathematics	6
The Effects of Student–Teacher Ethnoracial Matching on Chronic Absenteeism: Exploring the Role of Relational Dynamics in Early Education	6
Developmental Pattern, Latent Profiles, and Family Predictors of Chinese Preschoolers’ Sympathy	6

Self-Regulation Scaffolding Behaviors of Teachers in Chilean Preschool Classrooms	6
Preschool Behavioural and Emotional Outcomes Associated with Participation in Early Childhood Education and Care	6
Investigating Preschool Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Number Comparison	6
Assessing Educator Responsivity in Outdoor Early Childhood Education and Care Settings: Validating the Outdoor Environment Version of the Responsive Interactions for Learning Measure	6
Preschool Education Demand in China by 2035: A Prediction Analysis	6
Aladdin’s Genie or Pandora’s Box for Early Childhood Education? Experts Chat on the Roles, Challenges, and Developments of ChatGPT	6
Family SES and Self-Regulated Learning in Chinese Preschoolers: A Mediation Analysis of Parental Educational Expectation and Home-based Involvement	6
Instrument Development and Validation of the Home Child Care Version of the Assessment for Quality Improvement	6
Patterns of Classroom Organization in Classrooms Where Children Exhibit Higher and Lower Language Gains	5
Validation of the Pennsylvania Kindergarten Entry Inventory: Examining Neglected Validities in Large-scale, Teacher-Report Assessment	5
Preschool Children’s Engagement and School Readiness Skills: Exploring Differences between Spanish-speaking Dual Language Learners and Monolingual English-speaking Preschoolers	5
What About the Influence of Outdoor Quality on Preschoolers’ Cognitive and Social Skills?	5
Associations between Consistent and High-quality Teacher-child Interactions and Preschool Children’s Self-regulation and Activity in the Stress Response System	5
Knowledge-Building Through Categorization: Boosting Children’s Vocabulary and Content Knowledge in a Shared Book Reading Program	5
Digital Technology in Preschool Classrooms: A Qualitative Case Study	5
Maternal Overcontrol and Young Children’s Internalizing Problems in China: The Roles of Social Competence and Teacher-Child Conflict	5
Classroom Engagement Scale: Validation of a Teacher-Report Assessment Used to Scale in the Kindergarten Report Card of a Large Urban School District	5
Chinese Model of Digital Leadership in Early Childhood Settings: A Grounded Theory Study	5
Exploring Playful Opportunities for STEM Learning in Early Elementary School	5
Adaptive Caregiving Beliefs and Professional Competence Among Chinese Childcare Center Teachers: A Moderated Mediation Model	5
The Role of State Subsidy Policies in Early Education Programs’ Decisions to Accept Subsidies: Evidence from Nationally Representative Data	5
Does Screen Media Hurt Young Children’s Social Development? Longitudinal Associations Between Parental Engagement, Children’s Screen Time, and Their Social Competence	5
Filmando Interacciones Para Nutrir El Desarrollo: A Randomized Pilot of A Strength-Based Video Coaching Program with Mexican American Fathers	5
SES, Relative Deprivation, Perceived Kindergarten Support and Turnover Intention in Chinese Teachers during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Moderated Mediation Model	5
Can Temperament Predict School Readiness in At-Risk Kindergarteners? A Combination of Variable-Oriented and Person-Oriented Approaches	5