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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Teaching	18
Iranian Preschoolers Vocabulary Development: Background Television and Socio-economic status	15
Portrayals of disabilities in Children’s fiction: A literature review of anglophone, francophone and hispanophone studies	12
Teaching and learning indigenous languages: An Atayal book project	10
Valuing and supporting the complex writing processes of emergent writers	9
Copresence in authoring conversations	9
Animated movements, animating methods: An interaction geography approach to space and affect in early childhood education	9
Early literacy experiences of two children during Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa: A semi- ethnographic study	8
Storying worlds: Thinking and doing otherwise in young children’s story pedagogy	8
Letter from the Guest Editors	6
Drama during story time supports preschoolers’ understanding of story character feeling states	6
Book Review: Teaching Essential Literacy Skills in the Early Years Classroom: A Guide for Students and Teachers	6
Book Reviews: Working with young children in museums: Weaving theory and practice	6
Encountering the world with voice search: A young immigrant and emergent bilingual child’s digital literacies	6
Assessment, accountability, and access: Constrained skill mastery as instructional gatekeeper	6
School quality matters: A multilevel analysis of school effects on the early reading achievement of Black girls	5
Katy transforms storytime: Culturally sustaining pedagogy in the community	5
Special issue series (two issues) of the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy	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
“School is light and we are blind”: Afghan refugee parents’/guardians’ beliefs about literacy and language(s)	5
Conducting racial awareness research with African American children: Unearthing their sociopolitical knowledge through Pro-Black literacy methods	5
Finding Max’s wolves: Literacy socialization in the margins	5
The effects of e-stories on preschoolers’ narrative comprehension, retelling and reading attitudes among poor and good comprehenders	4
Prison abolition literacies as Pro-Black pedagogy in early childhood education	4
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	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
Making the invisible visible: Young Chinese heritage language learners’ reading process through retrospective miscue analysis	3
Playing Minecraft: Young children’s postdigital play	3
“The dinosaurs are so loud; they can’t sleep. Zzzz”: Supporting emergent bilingual children’s reading comprehension through digital literacies	3
The meaning-making in kindergarten children’s visual narrative compositions	3
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	3
Patterns in naturally occurring interactions in early writing instruction	3
Professional Book Recommendation	3
Prioritizing Pro-Blackness in literacy research, scholarship, and teaching	3
Creating books and sustaining Indigenous languages with two Atayal communities	3
Bridging the Self’s worlds: Young girls’ creative TikTok expressions of multimodal literacy during Covid-19	3
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Pedagogy	3
Centering Black women’s ways of knowing: A review of critical literacies research in early childhood	3
Exploring literacy engagement in a significant disability context	3
H is for Hurricane, M is for Maria: Supporting literacy in Vieques	2
From stories at bedtime to a love of reading: Parental practices and beliefs about reading with infants	2
In their own words: Parents’ voices about a book-provision program	2
Creating a web of multimodal resources: Examining meaning-making during a children’s book project in a multilingual community	2
‘The toys you sleep with’: Embracing otherwise literacies in early childhood wor(l)ds	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
Writing experiences in early childhood classrooms where children made higher language gains	2
Early childhood educators as language teachers: Preschool teachers’ understanding of language learning and language use	2
Revolutionary love: A framework for teaching in pursuit of a multiracial democracy	2
Book Review: Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared in Action	2
Windows & mirrors but mostly windows: Early childhood administrators view on diverse books	2
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: Research methods for early childhood education	2
Book Review: Linguistic Justice: Black language, literacy, identity, and pedagogy. By April Baker Bell	2
Morning circle as a community of practice: Co-teachers’ transmodality in a dual language bilingual education preschool classroom	2
Storybook reading: Literacy and teacher knowledge in early childhood education	2
Exploring teacher candidates’ discursive shifts in translanguaging pedagogies during literacy instruction	1
Teacher expertise in early childhood instruction: Cross-analysis of language policy and culturally sustaining pedagogies with multilingual learners	1
‘That’s my dumb husband’: Wild things, battle bears and heteronormative responses in an afterschool reading club	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
The elevation of Black Girls’ hair: An analysis of visual representations in Children’s picturebooks	1
Professional Book Recommendation	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
“That storrey reminse you to be cefl”: A multimodal analysis of a first-grader’s blended genre composition	1
Agency in a first-grade writing workshop: A case study of two composers	1
Book Review: Literacies that Move and Matter: Nexus Analysis for Contemporary Childhoods	1
I talk normal: A comparative case study of raciolinguistic socialization in preschool	1
Starting small: Engaging young learners with literacy through multilingual storytelling	1
Representing tradition: The construction of culturally-specific visual narratives in Chinese picture books and hand scroll paintings	1
In memoriam Michele Knobel, PhD (1966–2021)	1
“You need to learn the spelling”: Playing, teaching, and learning of trilingual siblings with refugee backgrounds	1
Lessons learned from remote, early-literacy instruction	1
Lockdown literacies	1

Toddlers as active, competent story weavers: Lexie’s story