OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Early Childhood Education Research Journal 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
Cultural heritage in early childhood education: a systematic review	61
Inviting inquiry on pedagogical documentation in Singapore: perspectives of parents and teachers	38
Tracking possible differences between female- and male staff in promoting physical activity towards girls and boys in the outdoor playground of the kindergarten	21
Tracing theoretical concepts in student/teacher conversations during a practicum	21
Finnish ECEC personnel’s views on the challenging nature of promoting social justice: a sustainability research perspective	20
Blurring the borders between research and practice: video as a tool to develop knowledge about language and empower (student) teachers in multilingual pre-school classrooms	14
Professional development for ethical practice transformation	13
Observation as a professional tool for early childhood teachers’ inquiry habit of mind : an interpretative phenomenological study	13
Professional development for praxis transformation in early childhood education and care: a systematic review	13
Unleashing the potential: illuminating pedagogical strategies employed by early childhood educators in stem education for cultivating algorithmic thinking skills in young learners	12
My world of machines: an integrated STEM education curriculum for early childhood teachers	12
Effect of gender-neutral activities on preschool children’s gender stereotypes	11
Out of the mouths of children: An investigation of 48- to 72-month-old children’s perceptions of father involvement	10
Editorial	10
Promoting the centrality of real world relationships and interactions with young children in an increasingly digitalised and virtual world	9
Exploring children’s participation from Froebelian practitioners’ perspectives in Scottish context	9
An exploration of what conditions facilitate experiences of compassion in one early childhood community	9
Panel of Referees	8
There is much we can learn from listening to the voices of research participants in academic inquiry	8
Editorial	8
Panel of Referees	8
Investigation of the effectiveness of the training given on home accidents and safety precautions	8
Collaboration as foundational in the transition from preschool to primary school: a shared action research project between educational settings	7
Young children’s learning in physics: a (dis-)trustful play with gravity, friction and counterforces?	7
Children’s bodily positioning in accounts of naptime in early childhood education and care: a Foucauldian perspective	7

Ecological conditions and interpersonal skills leading to ECE teacher competences in working with immigrant children in Slovenia	7
Harnessing abilities and talents: parents’ perspectives on responsive inclusive early childhood education	7
Limited representation of disability in early childhood classrooms: data from South Korea	7
Engineers and engineering through the eyes of preschoolers: a phenomenographic study of children’s drawings	6
Multilingual childhoods of refugee children in Icelandic preschools: educational practices and partnerships with parents	6
An observational study to assess the educational management of conflicts between young children in the Pikler-Lóczy educational approach. Implications in the early development of personality	6
Australian multilingual early childhood educators’ use of languages in early childhood education settings: findings of a qualitative (pilot) study	6
A decolonizing approach to early learning: toddlers’ and preschoolers’ engagement with the land and indigenous ways of knowing	6
Employees’ perception of the impacts of global health crisis on work performance and sentiments about future career: the case of early childhood education	6
Professionals’ Perceptions of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System as a structure for professional community and development	6
From the uncertain times to today: unveiling the early childhood education research with keywords	6
Estonian and Finnish early childhood education teachers’ views of well-being and changes at work during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Do my words convey what children are saying? Researching school life with very young children: dilemmas for ‘authentic listening’	6
Fear and Othering in the inclusive early childhood classroom: remnants from the past	6
Toward exploring a new path for parenting within a digital environment: an investigation of Korean fathers’ online involvement in parenting	5
Interacting and communicating with children: an exploratory study about educators’ behavior during a collaborative activity	5
Validating the early numeracy teacher rating scale for preschoolers (TRS–EN)	5
Young children’s interactions with a social robot during a drawing task	5
Newcomer object ownership negotiations when transitioning from home care to early childhood education and care in Finland	4
An exploratory study of children’s peer touch in a Swedish preschool: touch forms, bodily arrangements, and social constellations	4
Engaging children in what-if thinking through read-aloud conversations in early childhood education for sustainability	4
Exploring parents’ perceptions of preschoolers’ risky outdoor play using a socio-ecological lens	4
The importance of structural characteristics for interaction quality in Austrian preschools	4
Practitioner inquiry: troubling certainty	4
Children’s understanding and STEM-related experiences of solar energy and technologies in a smart kindergarten in Norway	4
What’s your image of the child?Examining trajectories of prospective ECE teachers’ beliefs during practicum	4
The effect of ECEC process quality on school performance and the mediating role of early social skills	4
A cultural-historical perspective of young children gaining autonomy in the playground	4
Children’s perspectives about belonging in educational settings in five European countries	3
Fraught with frights or full of fun: perspectives of risky play among six-to-eight-year olds	3
The learning early childhood education and care institution as an inclusion arena	3
Exploring children’s perceptions of family relationships in China through kinetic family drawing: insights from 5- to 6-year olds	3
Mind the crèche! Controversial perspectives on the educational quality of Romanian crèches	3
Gender equality in five- to six-year-old preschoolers’ early competences in science do not protect schoolgirls from gender stereotypes	3
Parental Involvement in early childhood education and care: exploring parents’ perspectives in rural China	3
Editorial	3
Tracking education for sustainable development in ECEC institutions’ annual plans	3
Young children’s assent and dissent in research: agency, privacy and relationships within ethical research spaces	3
Complexities of men’s engagement in early childhood care and development in Africa	3
Making connections with children: children’s rights, ethics and research methods	3
Capturing family soundscapes for a deeper understanding and knowledge of early childhood music education: the contributions made by LENA® technology	3
Parental engagement for quality pre-primary education: the case of Gambella Regional State, Ethiopia	3
The impact of earthquake anxiety on preschool teachers: coping strategies and educational implications	3
The gap between juridical and pedagogical discourses concerning preventing and countering abusive treatment in preschool policy documents	3
Professional passive practice mentoring system in study program ‘Teaching for pre-school education’ in Albanian HEI-s	3
‘Go away from this galaxy coronavirus’: children’s meanings and feelings of the Covid-19 pandemic through narrated drawings	2
Praxeological action research: a Froebelian approach for professional development, flourishment and wellbeing	2
Promotion of 3–5-year-old girls’ and boys’ physical activity in the outdoor playground of kindergarten, viewed from female and male kindergarten staff’s perspective	2
Children’s critical thinking skills: perceptions of Norwegian early childhood educators	2
Importance of children's play: the Croatian experience of future ECEC teachers	2

Individualized education program development in early childhood education: a disabled children’s childhood studies perspective	2
A window of change: how COVID-19 disrupted pedagogical approaches in Danish kindergartens	2
Transforming transitions to primary school: using children’s funds of knowledge and identity	2
Developing mathematical patterning in ECE classrooms: participatory research with teachers of 3–5-year-olds	2
Men in early childhood education and care: on navigating a gendered terrain	2
Reflections on coaching and mentoring in the transition to school space	2
Pedagogic mediation for praxis development: supporting leaders and mentors in the English ECEC context	2
It’s up to you if you want to take part. Supporting young children’s informed choice about research participation with simple visual booklets	2
Editorial	2
Time to play, time to think: meaningful moments in the forest	2
Sustainability, play and children´s agency: a comparative study of the Swedish and Turkish preschool curricula	2
Educators’ perceptions of Australia’s early childhood education and care quality assurance rating system	2
Academic rigour and ideology are not incompatible in early childhood research	2
Parents’ understandings and practices regarding play and learning	2
Children’s holistic learning during self-initiated outdoor play in a Norwegian kindergarten	2
How can children best learn map skills? a step-by-step approach	2
‘Finding a voice’: utilising Tronto’s ethic of care framework for developing students’ attentiveness to voice in a university module	2
Why parents chose to send their children to Irish-medium immersion preschools: learning from parental choice strategies in Celtic countries	2
Values in English and Swedish Pre School Teachers: a comparative case study in early childhood settings	2
Any questions? Young children questioning in their early childhood education settings	2
Nature of science in early years science teaching	2
Transition into school-aged care – how do services support children starting school?	2
The enculturation process in early childhood education and care: a mixed methods study	2
Research into multilingual issues in ECEC contexts: proposing a transdisciplinary research field	2
The relation between structural family characteristics and parental attitudes with respect to the use of ECEC for one- and two-year-old children in Germany	2