OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Early Childhood Literacy is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Teaching and learning indigenous languages: An Atayal book project	18
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Teaching	15
Valuing and supporting the complex writing processes of emergent writers	12
Portrayals of disabilities in Children’s fiction: A literature review of anglophone, francophone and hispanophone studies	11
Iranian Preschoolers Vocabulary Development: Background Television and Socio-economic status	10
Animated movements, animating methods: An interaction geography approach to space and affect in early childhood education	9
Storying worlds: Thinking and doing otherwise in young children’s story pedagogy	8
Copresence in authoring conversations	8
Early literacy experiences of two children during Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa: A semi- ethnographic study	7
Book Reviews: Working with young children in museums: Weaving theory and practice	6
Book Review: Teaching Essential Literacy Skills in the Early Years Classroom: A Guide for Students and Teachers	6
Drama during story time supports preschoolers’ understanding of story character feeling states	6
Encountering the world with voice search: A young immigrant and emergent bilingual child’s digital literacies	6
Letter from the Guest Editors	6
School quality matters: A multilevel analysis of school effects on the early reading achievement of Black girls	5
Cartographies of voice: Children’s multimodal literacies, agency, and identity in public pedagogy	5
Identifying anti-Blackness and committing to Pro-Blackness in early literacy pedagogy and research: A guide for child care settings, schools, teacher preparation programs, and researchers	5
Finding Max’s wolves: Literacy socialization in the margins	5
Katy transforms storytime: Culturally sustaining pedagogy in the community	5
Conducting racial awareness research with African American children: Unearthing their sociopolitical knowledge through Pro-Black literacy methods	5
Patterns in naturally occurring interactions in early writing instruction	4
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	4
Looking more closely at the Children’s Technology Play Space: Bringing space, bodies, materials and knowing together through investigation with microscopes	4
Bridging the Self’s worlds: Young girls’ creative TikTok expressions of multimodal literacy during Covid-19	4
Prison abolition literacies as Pro-Black pedagogy in early childhood education	4

“School is light and we are blind”: Afghan refugee parents’/guardians’ beliefs about literacy and language(s)	4
The effects of e-stories on preschoolers’ narrative comprehension, retelling and reading attitudes among poor and good comprehenders	4
Making the invisible visible: Young Chinese heritage language learners’ reading process through retrospective miscue analysis	4
Parents’ perceptions on young children’s online English learning at home: A mixed-methods study	4
Observers of the world: Primary grade students imagining solutions for broken environmental and social systems	4
Playing Minecraft: Young children’s postdigital play	3
Creating books and sustaining Indigenous languages with two Atayal communities	3
Exploring literacy engagement in a significant disability context	3
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Pedagogy	3
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	3
Centering Black women’s ways of knowing: A review of critical literacies research in early childhood	3
Professional Book Recommendation	3
“The dinosaurs are so loud; they can’t sleep. Zzzz”: Supporting emergent bilingual children’s reading comprehension through digital literacies	3
Creating a web of multimodal resources: Examining meaning-making during a children’s book project in a multilingual community	3
Children's Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Teaching	2
Disabilities in children’s literature: Is the representation accurate and authentic?	2
Book Review: Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared in Action	2
Revolutionary love: A framework for teaching in pursuit of a multiracial democracy	2
Early childhood educators as language teachers: Preschool teachers’ understanding of language learning and language use	2
Morning circle as a community of practice: Co-teachers’ transmodality in a dual language bilingual education preschool classroom	2
“It is a lovely gift to get from the public health nurse”: Public health nurse perspectives on involvement in an infant book gifting scheme	2
Exploring teacher candidates’ discursive shifts in translanguaging pedagogies during literacy instruction	2
Book Review: Research methods for early childhood education	2
The meaning-making in kindergarten children’s visual narrative compositions	2
Book Review: Linguistic Justice: Black language, literacy, identity, and pedagogy. By April Baker Bell	2
Windows & mirrors but mostly windows: Early childhood administrators view on diverse books	2
Storybook reading: Literacy and teacher knowledge in early childhood education	2
Writing experiences in early childhood classrooms where children made higher language gains	2
In their own words: Parents’ voices about a book-provision program	2
Prioritizing Pro-Blackness in literacy research, scholarship, and teaching	2
From stories at bedtime to a love of reading: Parental practices and beliefs about reading with infants	2
‘The toys you sleep with’: Embracing otherwise literacies in early childhood wor(l)ds	2
‘That’s my dumb husband’: Wild things, battle bears and heteronormative responses in an afterschool reading club	1
In memoriam Michele Knobel, PhD (1966–2021)	1
Ready, set, action! Preservice preschool teachers’ journey from preparation to implementation of literacy activities	1
Agency in a first-grade writing workshop: A case study of two composers	1
Toddlers as active, competent story weavers: Lexie’s story	1
Lessons learned from remote, early-literacy instruction	1
Reading picture books with infants and toddlers TorrJane. Reading Picture Books with Infants and Toddlers. London, New York: Routledge, 2023, p. 138, ISBN 9780367768911.	1
Professional Book Recommendation	1
Immersive planetarium and science center experiences as catalysts for literacy learning	1
Starting small: Engaging young learners with literacy through multilingual storytelling	1
Book Review: Nordic Childhoods in the Digital Age: Insights into Contemporary Research on Communication, Learning and Education	1
Names y nombres: Names as gateways to biliteracy in multilingual early childhood classrooms	1
“You need to learn the spelling”: Playing, teaching, and learning of trilingual siblings with refugee backgrounds	1
0-3-Year-old children’s digital language and literacy practices at home: A scoping review of the literature	1
Representing tradition: The construction of culturally-specific visual narratives in Chinese picture books and hand scroll paintings	1
“That storrey reminse you to be cefl”: A multimodal analysis of a first-grader’s blended genre composition	1
Theorizing the Children’s Museum: CHAT, literacies, and the family-centered children’s museum	1
Teacher expertise in early childhood instruction: Cross-analysis of language policy and culturally sustaining pedagogies with multilingual learners	1

Book Review: Literacies that Move and Matter: Nexus Analysis for Contemporary Childhoods