OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Attachment & Human 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Commentary: attachment theory goes to school	64
Classes of child-mother attachment disorganization from infancy to the preschool years	50
Correction	36
Minding the Baby versus usual care: effects on parental sensitivity and parent-child interaction in a cluster quasi-randomized trial	27
Associations between parents’ adult attachment, Co-parenting and parent-child relationships: an actor-partner interdependence model	20
A call to represent the current diversity of family forms in attachment research	18
Development of the virtual-VIPP and a systematic review of online support for families during the COVID-19 pandemic	16
Race, discrimination, and racism as “growing points” for consideration: attachment theory and research with African American families	16
Adult attachment assessed via the ASA and AAI: Empirical convergence and links with autonomic physiological responding during attachment assessments	15
Examining the link between parental relationship functioning and parent sensitivity: a meta-analysis	14
Mary Main’s contributions to our family systems approach to interventions with parents of young children	13
Early childhood attachment stability to mothers, fathers, and both parents as a network: associations with parents' well-being, marital relationship, and child behavior problems	12
Taking perspective on attachment theory and research: nine fundamental questions	12
Toddler disorganized attachment in relation to cortical thickness and socioemotional problems in late childhood	11
Can the family drawing be a useful tool for assessing attachment representations in children? A systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Innovations in attachment-based interventions in pandemic times: feasibility of online attachment-based interventions	9
Exploring attachment representations and traumatic reenactment in foster children	9
Do empathy and oxytocin predict responsiveness to a crying infant simulator in expecting and non-expecting couples? A multilevel study	9
What do we know about parental embodied mentalizing? A systematic review of the construct, assessment, empirical findings, gaps and further steps	9
Stressful life events and prenatal representations of the child	9
Neural correlates of distress and comfort in individuals with avoidant, anxious and secure attachment style: an fMRI study	8
Enhancing visitation in the child welfare system for children separated from their birth parents: pilot results of fostering relationships	8
Mary Main: portrait and tribute	6
Father-separation and well-being in forcibly displaced Syrian children	6
A meta-analysis of the distribution of preschool and early childhood attachment as assessed in the strange situation procedure and its modified versions	6

Cross-modal coherence and incoherence of early infant interactive behavior: links to attachment in infants born very preterm or full-term	6
Insecure attachment and support-seeking during COVID-19: a sequential mixed methods investigation	5
The contributions of maternal oxytocin and maternal sensitivity to infant attachment security	5
Attachment to fathers and mothers in preschoolers with an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis	5
Concepts travel faster than thought: an empirical study of the use of attachment classifications in child protection investigations	5
Effects of maternal trauma and associated psychopathology on atypical maternal behavior and infant social withdrawal six months postpartum	5
The combined contribution of maternal sensitivity and disrupted affective communication to infant attachment in an Israeli sample	5
Deactivating attachment strategies associate with early processing of facial emotion and familiarity in middle childhood: an ERP study	5
Revisiting the childcare–attachment question: under what conditions is childcare participation associated with mother–child attachment security?	5
Evidence of a developmental shift in the nature attachment representations: a longitudinal taxometric investigation of secure base script knowledge from middle childhood into adolescence	5