OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Early Childhood Literacy is 2. 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
Young children’s digital literacy practices in the sociocultural contexts of their homes	44
Use of touchscreen technology by 0–3-year-old children: Parents’ practices and perspectives in Norway, Portugal and Japan	26
Porous boundaries: Reconceptualising the home literacy environment as a digitally networked space for 0–3 year olds	20
Disrupting ableism: Strengths-based representations of disability in children’s picture books	11
Negotiating screen time: A mother’s struggle over ‘no screen time’ with her infant son	11
Playing Minecraft: Young children’s postdigital play	10
Space and practices: Engagement of children under 3 with tablets and televisions in homes in Spain, Sweden and England	9
Unfolding joy in young children’s literacy practices in a Finnish early years classroom	8
Teachers’ beliefs about children and children’s literacy development: The mediating role of responsive teaching	7
The impact of COVID-19 on early childhood reading practices	7
Understanding parents’ conflicting beliefs about children’s digital book reading	7
Learning through everyday activities: Improving preschool language and literacy outcomes via family workshops	7
Prioritizing Pro-Blackness in literacy research, scholarship, and teaching	6
Parent book choices: How do parents select books to share with infants and toddlers with language impairment?	6
“And then it’s my turn”: Negotiating participation in tablet activities in early childhood education and care	5
Mapping young children’s conceptualisations of the images they encounter in their familiar environments	4
Prison abolition literacies as Pro-Black pedagogy in early childhood education	4
Book sharing with young children: A study of book sharing in four Australian long day care centres	4
Exploring literacy engagement in a significant disability context	4
Conducting racial awareness research with African American children: Unearthing their sociopolitical knowledge through Pro-Black literacy methods	4
Cognitively challenging talk during shared reading: Effects of parent gender, child gender and relations with story comprehension	4
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	4
Reading identities across language contexts: The role of language of text and talk for multilingual learners	3
Co-participatory multimodal intergenerational storytelling: Preschool children’s relationship with modality creating elder inclusion	3
Beyond the written word: The role of text on preschool teachers’ book sharing styles	3

The elevation of Black Girls’ hair: An analysis of visual representations in Children’s picturebooks	3
Children’s digital play as collective family resilience in the face of the pandemic	3
Iranian Preschoolers Vocabulary Development: Background Television and Socio-economic status	3
Unboxing care: Constructions of happiness and gratitude in a Brazilian transnational family’s video production in the United States	3
Children’s language play as collaborative improvisations–rethinking paths to literacy	3
‘Where would you be in the picture?’: Using reader-response with children in primary school	3
@Home collective(ly): Opening doors and doing books with literacy-cast	2
Agency in a first-grade writing workshop: A case study of two composers	2
“But there is a God”: Teaching Nat Turner in early childhood education	2
Early literacy and child wellbeing: Exploring the efficacy of a home-based literacy intervention on children’s foundational literacy skills	2
Family learning and working in lockdown: Navigating crippling fear and euphoric joy to support children’s literacy	2
Inventing expert in English language arts: A case study of critical literacies in a third grade classroom	2
Morning circle as a community of practice: Co-teachers’ transmodality in a dual language bilingual education preschool classroom	2
Designing on the page: Composing picturebooks in a Kevin Henkes author study	2
In their own words: Parents’ voices about a book-provision program	2
“The dinosaurs are so loud; they can’t sleep. Zzzz”: Supporting emergent bilingual children’s reading comprehension through digital literacies	2
An animated story created by a group of young children	2
Assessment, accountability, and access: Constrained skill mastery as instructional gatekeeper	2
The effects of e-stories on preschoolers’ narrative comprehension, retelling and reading attitudes among poor and good comprehenders	2
Special issue Children under three at home: The place of digital media in their literacy practices	2
From stories at bedtime to a love of reading: Parental practices and beliefs About reading with infants	2
Mexican-American preschoolers as co-creators of zones of proximal development during retellings of culturally relevant stories: A participatory study	2
‘Like, I’m playing, but with this’. Materialization and affect in early childhood literacy	2
Depictions of teachers and teacher practices in picture books about starting kindergarten	2
The literacy-enhancing potential of singing versus spoken language in public library storytimes: A text analytics approach	2