OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Attachment & Human Development is 8. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues	49
Don’t forget student-teacher dependency! A Meta-analysis on associations with students’ school adjustment and the moderating role of student and teacher characteristics	39
Working toward anti-racist perspectives in attachment theory, research, and practice	34
The effectiveness of parenting programs in regard to improving parental reflective functioning: a meta-analysis	29
Longitudinal study of the cascading effects of racial discrimination on parenting and adjustment among African American youth	22
Early childhood attachment stability and change: a meta-analysis	21
Taking perspective on attachment theory and research: nine fundamental questions	21
Dependency in teacher–child relationships: deepening our understanding of the construct	21
Replication crisis lost in translation? On translational caution and premature applications of attachment theory	19
Six attachment discourses: convergence, divergence and relay	19
Prospecting the attachment research field: a move to the level of engagement	18
Emerging patterns of infant regulatory behavior in the Still-Face paradigm at 3 and 9 months predict mother-infant attachment at 12 months	16
Probing the association between maternal anxious attachment style and mother-child brain-to-brain coupling during passive co-viewing of visual stimuli	15
Father–child attachment in Black families: risk and protective processes	15
Improving the parent–child relationship and child adjustment through parental reflective functioning group intervention	14
Mothers’ preparation for bias and responses to children’s distress predict positive adjustment among Black children: an attachment perspective	14
Infant mental health home visiting: intervention dosage and therapist experience interact to support improvements in maternal reflective functioning	13
Teachers’ and children’s perceptions about their relationships: examining the construct of dependency in the Greek sociocultural context	13
Attachment perspectives on race, prejudice, and anti-racism: Introduction to the Special Issue	11
With(out) a little help from my friends: insecure attachment in adolescence, support-seeking, and adult negativity and hostility	11
Associations of peripheral blood DNA methylation and estimated monocyte proportion differences during infancy with toddler attachment style	10
Enhancing the “broaden-and-build” cycle of attachment security as a means of overcoming prejudice, discrimination, and racism	10
Adult attachment is related to maternal neural response to infant cues: an ERP study	10
Attachment research and anti-racism: learning from Black and Brown scholars	10
Neighborhood poverty, allostatic load, and changes in cellular aging in African American young adults: the moderating role of attachment	9

Video observations of sensitive caregiving “off the beaten track”: introduction to the special issue	9
Childhood abuse and neglect experiences, Hostile-Helpless attachment, and reflective functioning in mentally ill filicidal mothers	9
The mediating role of child-teacher dependency in the association between early mother-child attachment and behavior problems in middle childhood	9
Multiple facets of attachment in residential-care, late adopted, and community adolescents: an interview-based comparative study	9
Can the family drawing be a useful tool for assessing attachment representations in children? A systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Improving parent–child interactions in maltreating families with the Attachment Video-feedback Intervention: Parental childhood trauma as a moderator of treatment effects	8
Then and now: the legacy and future of attachment research	8
Mothers’ parental mentalization, attachment dimensions and mother-infant relational patterns	8
Teacher-child dependency in preschool: links with teacher-child closeness, conflict and children’s effortful control	8