OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Attachment & Human Development is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Minding the Baby versus usual care: effects on parental sensitivity and parent-child interaction in a cluster quasi-randomized trial	24
Attachment states of mind and reflective functioning in mothers who regret parenthood	22
Classes of child-mother attachment disorganization from infancy to the preschool years	20
Associations between parents’ adult attachment, Co-parenting and parent-child relationships: an actor-partner interdependence model	14
A call to represent the current diversity of family forms in attachment research	14
Maternal empathy and emotional availability: the moderating role of child negative affectivity	14
Adult attachment assessed via the ASA and AAI: Empirical convergence and links with autonomic physiological responding during attachment assessments	14
Attachment security to mother is associated with lower trait expressive suppression among girls in middle childhood	11
Mary Main’s contributions to our family systems approach to interventions with parents of young children	11
Development of the virtual-VIPP and a systematic review of online support for families during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Examining the link between parental relationship functioning and parent sensitivity: a meta-analysis	11
Early childhood attachment stability to mothers, fathers, and both parents as a network: associations with parents' well-being, marital relationship, and child behavior problems	10
Toddler disorganized attachment in relation to cortical thickness and socioemotional problems in late childhood	10
Exploring attachment representations and traumatic reenactment in foster children	9
Innovations in attachment-based interventions in pandemic times: feasibility of online attachment-based interventions	9
Enhancing visitation in the child welfare system for children separated from their birth parents: pilot results of fostering relationships	9
Attachment in adoptees and non-adoptees from infancy to young adulthood: the Greek Metera study	8
Stressful life events and prenatal representations of the child	8
What do we know about parental embodied mentalizing? A systematic review of the construct, assessment, empirical findings, gaps and further steps	8
Cross-modal coherence and incoherence of early infant interactive behavior: links to attachment in infants born very preterm or full-term	7
Relational roots of retributive vs. restorative justice: attachment insecurity predicts harsher responses to crime	7
Father-separation and well-being in forcibly displaced Syrian children	7
Revisiting the childcare–attachment question: under what conditions is childcare participation associated with mother–child attachment security?	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
Concepts travel faster than thought: an empirical study of the use of attachment classifications in child protection investigations	6

Mary Main: portrait and tribute	6
Neural correlates of distress and comfort in individuals with avoidant, anxious and secure attachment style: an fMRI study	6
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
Insecure attachment and support-seeking during COVID-19: a sequential mixed methods investigation	5
Exploring interactive pathways to infant disorganized attachment in a sample of mothers with postpartum depression	4
Bridging parental attachment insecurity, social cognition, parenting, and temperament to elucidate the origins of antisocial orientation in preschoolers	4
Attachment security in Georgian foster children: the role of parental sensitivity and child internalizing and externalizing behavior	4
Deactivation, hyperactivation, and anomalous content in the attachment script assessment: stability over time and significance for parenting behavior and physiology	4
Effects of maternal trauma and associated psychopathology on atypical maternal behavior and infant social withdrawal six months postpartum	4
Mary Main's written legacy: a bibliometric analysis	4
Individual differences in infants’ expectations and preferences for responsive vs. unresponsive parent-puppets and their associations with early maternal behavior	4
Evidence of a developmental shift in the nature attachment representations: a longitudinal taxometric investigation of secure base script knowledge from middle childhood into adolescence	4
Variants of Callous-unemotional traits in childhood: investigation of attachment profile and hostile attribution bias	4