OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Early Childhood Literacy is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Portrayals of disabilities in Children’s fiction: A literature review of anglophone, francophone and hispanophone studies	23
Animated movements, animating methods: An interaction geography approach to space and affect in early childhood education	19
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Teaching	18
Valuing and supporting the complex writing processes of emergent writers	13
Teaching and learning indigenous languages: An Atayal book project	13
Early literacy experiences of two children during Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa: A semi- ethnographic study	12
Encountering the world with voice search: A young immigrant and emergent bilingual child’s digital literacies	12
Storying worlds: Thinking and doing otherwise in young children’s story pedagogy	11
Drama during story time supports preschoolers’ understanding of story character feeling states	11
Letter from the Guest Editors	10
Book Review: Teaching Essential Literacy Skills in the Early Years Classroom: A Guide for Students and Teachers	8
Katy transforms storytime: Culturally sustaining pedagogy in the community	8
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	7
Looking more closely at the Children’s Technology Play Space: Bringing space, bodies, materials and knowing together through investigation with microscopes	7
Conducting racial awareness research with African American children: Unearthing their sociopolitical knowledge through Pro-Black literacy methods	7
Cartographies of voice: Children’s multimodal literacies, agency, and identity in public pedagogy	7
School quality matters: A multilevel analysis of school effects on the early reading achievement of Black girls	7
A multimodal content analysis of popular early childhood stories and read-alouds on YouTube	7
Observers of the world: Primary grade students imagining solutions for broken environmental and social systems	7
Finding Max’s wolves: Literacy socialization in the margins	6
Parents’ perceptions on young children’s online English learning at home: A mixed-methods study	6
The effect of the creative drama method on preschool Children’s fairy tale comprehension: The case of “The Bremen Town Musicians”	6
“School is light and we are blind”: Afghan refugee parents’/guardians’ beliefs about literacy and language(s)	6
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	5
Prison abolition literacies as Pro-Black pedagogy in early childhood education	5

Playing Minecraft: Young children’s postdigital play	5
Patterns in naturally occurring interactions in early writing instruction	5
Bridging the Self’s worlds: Young girls’ creative TikTok expressions of multimodal literacy during Covid-19	5
The meaning-making in kindergarten children’s visual narrative compositions	4
Creating books and sustaining Indigenous languages with two Atayal communities	4
Professional Book Recommendations in Support of Pro-Black Pedagogy and Research	4
Prioritizing Pro-Blackness in literacy research, scholarship, and teaching	4
Creating a web of multimodal resources: Examining meaning-making during a children’s book project in a multilingual community	4
“The dinosaurs are so loud; they can’t sleep. Zzzz”: Supporting emergent bilingual children’s reading comprehension through digital literacies	4
Centering Black women’s ways of knowing: A review of critical literacies research in early childhood	4
Exploring literacy engagement in a significant disability context	4
Children’s Book Celebrations and Recommendations for Pro-Black Pedagogy	4
Professional Book Recommendation	4
More moments to move: Incorporating creative movement dance into read-alouds	4