OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Early Childhood Literacy is 3. 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
Encountering the world with voice search: A young immigrant and emergent bilingual child’s digital literacies	6
Letter from the Guest Editors	6
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
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
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
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
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
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
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