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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Teaching and learning indigenous languages: An Atayal book project	16
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Teaching	15
Portrayals of disabilities in Children’s fiction: A literature review of anglophone, francophone and hispanophone studies	11
Valuing and supporting the complex writing processes of emergent writers	10
Iranian Preschoolers Vocabulary Development: Background Television and Socio-economic status	9
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
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
Drama during story time supports preschoolers’ understanding of story character feeling states	6
School quality matters: A multilevel analysis of school effects on the early reading achievement of Black girls	6
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
Letter from the Guest Editors	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
Special issue series (two issues) of the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy	5
Katy transforms storytime: Culturally sustaining pedagogy in the community	5
“School is light and we are blind”: Afghan refugee parents’/guardians’ beliefs about literacy and language(s)	5
Prison abolition literacies as Pro-Black pedagogy in early childhood education	4
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	4
Cartographies of voice: Children’s multimodal literacies, agency, and identity in public pedagogy	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
The effects of e-stories on preschoolers’ narrative comprehension, retelling and reading attitudes among poor and good comprehenders	4
Looking more closely at the Children’s Technology Play Space: Bringing space, bodies, materials and knowing together through investigation with microscopes	4
Playing Minecraft: Young children’s postdigital play	3
Patterns in naturally occurring interactions in early writing instruction	3
Creating books and sustaining Indigenous languages with two Atayal communities	3
Professional Book Recommendation	3
Making the invisible visible: Young Chinese heritage language learners’ reading process through retrospective miscue analysis	3
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	3
Exploring literacy engagement in a significant disability context	3
Bridging the Self’s worlds: Young girls’ creative TikTok expressions of multimodal literacy during Covid-19	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 Pedagogy	3