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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Panel of Referees	62
Finnish ECEC personnel’s views on the challenging nature of promoting social justice: a sustainability research perspective	45
Harnessing abilities and talents: parents’ perspectives on responsive inclusive early childhood education	24
Capturing family soundscapes for a deeper understanding and knowledge of early childhood music education: the contributions made by LENA® technology	22
An exploratory study of children’s peer touch in a Swedish preschool: touch forms, bodily arrangements, and social constellations	21
Young children’s interactions with a social robot during a drawing task	16
My world of machines: an integrated STEM education curriculum for early childhood teachers	14
Investigation of the effectiveness of the training given on home accidents and safety precautions	14
From the uncertain times to today: unveiling the early childhood education research with keywords	13
Unleashing the potential: illuminating pedagogical strategies employed by early childhood educators in stem education for cultivating algorithmic thinking skills in young learners	13
Fear and Othering in the inclusive early childhood classroom: remnants from the past	13
Educators’ perceptions of Australia’s early childhood education and care quality assurance rating system	12
Children’s critical thinking skills: perceptions of Norwegian early childhood educators	11
Pedagogical documentation as a strategy for planning and communicating children’s learning and pedagogical day-to-day life	11
The learning early childhood education and care institution as an inclusion arena	10
Special Issue on Pedagogical Documentation – Researching a Powerful and Evolving Idea	10
It’s up to you if you want to take part . Supporting young children’s informed choice about research participation with simple visual booklets	10
Exploring children’s perceptions of family relationships in China through kinetic family drawing: insights from 5- to 6-year olds	9
‘How are rainbows made?': profiles of early childhood teachers' beliefs and their associations with responses to young children's causal questions	9
The visibility of ethics within early childhood research; revised standards for our international community of practice	9
The impact of earthquake anxiety on preschool teachers: coping strategies and educational implications	9
Assessing Global and Math-Specific Teacher-Child Interaction Quality in Early Childcare Settings: A Systematic Literature Review of Instruments Used in Research	9
Tensions, assumptions and situated ethics: attuning to the unpredictability of ethics in early childhood research participation	8
Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)-interfaced robotic toys in early childhood settings: a case for children’s inquiry literacy	8
Evaluating popular STEM applications for young children	8

Early childhood educators’ emotional exhaustion and the frequency of educational activities in preschool	8
Examining associations among provider-family relationships, provider coping strategies, and family child care providers’ relationships with children	7
Im/migrant parents’ voices as enabling professional learning communities in early childhood education and care	7
The development of early childhood teachers’ sociodramatic and imaginative play skills through a drama-based professional development program	7
Relations between reading skill level in fifth grade and functional language skills at toddler age	7
Enrichment and safety -the parents of young children constructing early childhood education and care institution in Finland	7
Attitudes towards reading amongst kindergarten and Grade 1 children	6
Mathematical beliefs and self-reported practices of Chinese early childhood teachers in the context of teaching mathematics during block play	6
Relationships between socioecological characteristics and families’ playground use in different seasons in Finland	6
Curriculum design and content in Czech pre-primary education: approaches and experiences of student teachers	6
Bridging early childhood education and inclusive practices in classrooms that serve children with disabilities: a narrative portrait	6
Noblesse oblige? Job position and early childhood leadership in China: the moderating role of school type	6
Parental attachment and emotion regulation in children: the mediating role of working memory	6
EECERA ethical code for early childhood researchers	6
Exploring children’s well-being in daycare: how do children feel all day?	6
Dealing with transition in formal meetings of parents and pedagogic staff	6
The social language environment – domain: ECEC teachers’ self-reported ratings of strategies in teaching literacy	6
Research in early childhood teacher domain-specific professional knowledge – a systematic review	6
Correction	6
Transformation in early childhood education: proposing a community-based approach	5
Educators’ responses to children’s grieving: exploring emotional configurations in flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care	5
« Yeah, I am making new stuff! »: responsivity to and negotiations of agency during digital storytelling in preschool	5
Conceptualizing diversity in ECEC policy: implications for the role of diverse preschool in Sweden	5
Using teach ECE to observe the quality of online teaching during the pandemic: an exploratory study in a pre-school in Chile	4
Educators’ perspectives on parental belonging in preschool communities	4
What if children affected by sleep disorder and aggression could regulate their emotions?	4
Tracking possible differences between female- and male staff in promoting physical activity towards girls and boys in the outdoor playground of the kindergarten	4
Understanding preschool teachers’ pedagogical leadership through individual and collective reflection	4
Zoom play: Affectively mobilised collective play across Family Day Care settings	4
The role of active methodologies in the socio-emotional development of children at risk: a case study in 3 public schools in the Basque Country	4
Improving the quality of adaptive learning support provided by kindergarten teachers in play-based mathematical learning situations	4
Children save lives: evaluation of a first aid training in Norwegian kindergartens	4
A Significant Events Approach to Children’s Rights with children under three in early childhood education and care	4
Fraught with frights or full of fun: perspectives of risky play among six-to-eight-year olds	3
Complexities of men’s engagement in early childhood care and development in Africa	3
How can children best learn map skills? a step-by-step approach	3
Professional development for praxis transformation in early childhood education and care: a systematic review	3
Practitioner inquiry: troubling certainty	3
Cultural heritage in early childhood education: a systematic review	3
Australian multilingual early childhood educators’ use of languages in early childhood education settings: findings of a qualitative (pilot) study	3
Professional development opportunities and a newly built daycare center: incentives in ECEC teacher job advertisements in Finland	3
Editorial	3
ChatGPT, care and the ethical dilemmas entangled with teaching and research in the early years	3
Inviting inquiry on pedagogical documentation in Singapore: perspectives of parents and teachers	3
What’s your image of the child?Examining trajectories of prospective ECE teachers’ beliefs during practicum	3
Editorial	3
A decolonizing approach to early learning: toddlers’ and preschoolers’ engagement with the land and indigenous ways of knowing	3
Reflections from the higher education classroom: the role of playful pedagogy in the professional formation of early childhood students	3
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	3
Effect of gender-neutral activities on preschool children’s gender stereotypes	3

Professional development for ethical practice transformation	3
Exploring parents’ perceptions of preschoolers’ risky outdoor play using a socio-ecological lens	3
Engaging children in what-if thinking through read-aloud conversations in early childhood education for sustainability	3
A cultural-historical perspective of young children gaining autonomy in the playground	3
Children’s perspectives about belonging in educational settings in five European countries	2
‘Tell me the whole story’: moving from narrative comprehension to narrative production skills	2
Children’s bodily positioning in accounts of naptime in early childhood education and care: a Foucauldian perspective	2
Limited representation of disability in early childhood classrooms: data from South Korea	2
Teachers’ interactions with children in micro-level transitions in Norwegian preschools	2
On the way towards integration? From monologic to dialogic encounters in Swedish rural preschools	2
Investigation of foreign body aspiration knowledge and first-aid self-efficacy of child development department students	2
The effect of home literacy environment on preschool children’s learning dispositions	2
Interprofessional collaboration in ECEC: a review of European countries with different levels of system integration	2
Risk willingness in play: exploring children’s behaviour in a virtual reality playground	2
Engineers and engineering through the eyes of preschoolers: a phenomenographic study of children’s drawings	2
Tracing theoretical concepts in student/teacher conversations during a practicum	2
Conceptual PlayWorld: creating motivating conditions for new kindergarten practices in China to support engineering education	2
How do pre-school teachers in Turkey make sense of emotional and behavioural disorder risk?	2
Leave only footprints: how children communicate a sense of ownership and belonging in an art gallery	2
Vocal fatigue of kindergarten teachers in China and its influential factors: a chain mediating model	2
Preschool children’s agency in education for sustainability: the case of Sweden	2
Ecological conditions and interpersonal skills leading to ECE teacher competences in working with immigrant children in Slovenia	2
Semiotic landscapes as constructions of multilingualism – a case study of two kindergartens	2
Teacher inquiry and learning stories: a site for pedagogical change	2
Do my words convey what children are saying? Researching school life with very young children: dilemmas for ‘authentic listening’	2
Preschool children’s discourses on gender during dramatic play from critical perspective	2
Toward exploring a new path for parenting within a digital environment: an investigation of Korean fathers’ online involvement in parenting	2
The impact of the ‘accelerated childhood’ culture in the UK's ECEC: practitioners’ and policy makers’ views during a professional development course*	2
Newcomer object ownership negotiations when transitioning from home care to early childhood education and care in Finland	2
Documenting towards democratic early education curriculum in the Republic of Croatia	2
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	2
The inclusion of children with disabilities in early childhood education: interdisciplinary research and dialogue	2
Children’s participation when transitioning between early childhood education and care settings: potentials for readjusting institutional logics	2
A cultural-historical study of how a conceptual playworld creates conditions for personally meaningful mathematics in the Chinese kindergarten context	2
The influence of parenting style on sibling relations among children aged 4–6 in rural areas in Northern China–a regression model	2
A visual ethnography of parent-child interactions during ‘story-time’ in Chinese family settings	2
How similar is Hong Kong’s play-based learning pedagogy to Fröbel’s Spielpädagogik?	2