OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Infancy 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID‐19	37
Parent attention‐orienting behavior is associated with neural entropy in infancy	22
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Exploring cascading effects of sensory processing on language skills and social‐communicative difficulties through play in young children at elevated likelihood for autism	19
Engaging with happy‐sounding music promotes helping behavior in 18‐month‐olds	19
Does social modeling increase infants’ willingness to accept unfamiliar foods?	18
Infants use contextual memory to attend and learn in naturalistic scenes	17
Specificity of phonological representations in U.S. English‐speaking late talkers and typical talkers	16
Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID‐19	16
2‐Year‐olds’ free play during the COVID‐19 pandemic	15
Infants' reliance on rhythm to distinguish languages: A critical review	15
Cognitive control in infancy: Attentional predictors using a tablet‐based measure	14
Caregivers as experimenters: Reducing unfamiliarity helps shy children learn words	14
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Language environment and early language production in Slovenian infants: An exploratory study using daylong recordings	13
Exploring Developmental Connections: Sleep Patterns, Self‐Locomotion, and Vocabulary Growth in Early Childhood	13
Visual statistical learning in infancy: Discrimination of fine‐grained regularities depends on early test trials	12
Linguistic and developmental influences on superordinate facial configuration categorization in infancy	12
Plasticity in older infants' perception of phonetic contrasts: The role of selective attention in context	12
Average fixation duration in infancy: Stability and predictive utility	11
Neural mechanisms of language development in infancy	11
Prenatal influences on postnatal neuroplasticity: Integrating DOHaD and sensitive/critical period frameworks to understand biological embedding in early development	10
Infant externalizing behavior and parent depressive symptoms: Prospective predictors of parental pandemic related distress	10
Assessing the language of 2 year‐olds: From theory to practice	10

Newborns' perception of approach and withdrawal from biological movement: A closeness story	10
Attention control in preterm and term 5‐month‐old infants: Cross‐task stability increases with gestational age	10
Correlates of infant pointing frequency in the first year	10
Do Facial Masks Impact Infants' Joint Attention? A Within‐Participant Laboratory Study	9
How do maternal emotional regulation difficulties modulate the mother–infant behavioral synchrony?	9
Twelve months old infants' evaluation of observed comforting behavior using a choice paradigm: The role of animacy cues and self‐distress	9
Testing predictions of a neural process model of visual attention in infancy across competitive and non‐competitive contexts	9
Preverbal infants’ sensitivity to grammatical dependencies	9
Development and validation of the Early Executive Functions Questionnaire: A carer‐administered measure of Executive Functions suitable for 9‐ to 30‐month‐olds	9
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The Dynamics of Looking and Smiling Differ for Young Infants at Elevated Likelihood for ASD	8
Emotional Movement Kinematics Guide Twelve‐Month‐Olds’ Visual, but Not Manual, Exploration	8
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From woof woof to dog: Interactions between parents' use of sound symbolic words and infants' vocabulary development	7
Effects of face masks on language comprehension in bilingual children	7
Parental Sensitivity and Infant Social Withdrawal During Mother–Infant and Father–Infant Interactions	6
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An object's categorizability impacts whether infants encode surface features into their object representations	6
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The Developmental Origins of Joint Attention: Infants' Early Joint Attention Bids	6
Evidence of Cross‐Cultural Differences in Maternal Mind‐Mindedness	6
Not too shy to point! Exploring the relationship between shyness and pointing in the second year	6
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Biobehavioral Correlates of Infants' Social Bidding During the Still‐Face Paradigm	6
Why the parent's gaze is so powerful in organizing the infant's gaze: The relationship between parental referential cues and infant object looking	6
Infant motor development predicts the dynamics of movement during sleep	6
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Revisiting the Object‐Processing Paradigm in the Study of Gaze Cues: What Two Decades of Research Have Taught Us About Infant Social Learning	5
Locomotion development and infants' object interaction in a day‐care environment	5
Associations between acoustic features of maternal speech and infants’ emotion regulation following a social stressor	5
Violation of non‐adjacent rule dependencies elicits greater attention to a talker's mouth in 15‐month‐old infants	5
Changes in selective attention to articulating mouth across infancy: Sex differences and associations with language outcomes	5
Parentese Elicits Infant Speech‐Like Vocalizations in Typically Developing and Autistic Infants	5
A Bayesian meta‐analysis of infants’ ability to perceive audio–visual congruence for speech	5
When dogs meow: An electrophysiological study of lexical–semantic processing in toddlers	5
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Shaping linguistic input in parent‐infant interactions: The influence of the Infant's temperament	5
Positive coparenting previous to the COVID‐19 pandemic can buffer regulatory problems in infants facing the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
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Infants preferentially learn from surprising teachers	5
The mediating role of parental embodied mentalizing in the longitudinal association between prenatal spousal support and toddler emotion recognition	5
Fine‐tuning language discrimination: Bilingual and monolingual infants’ detection of language switching	4
Object play in Tajikistan: Infants engage with objects despite bounds on play	4
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Co‐regulation, relationship quality, and infant distress vocalizations observed during mother‐infant interactions: Influences of maternal depression and different contexts	4
15‐Month‐Olds’ Understanding of Imitation in Social and Instrumental Contexts	4
Lability of prenatal stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic links to negative affect in infancy	4
Mothers' use of touch across infants' development and its implications for word learning: Evidence from Korean dyadic interactions	4

The effectiveness of maternal regulatory attempts in the development of infant emotion regulation	4
Habla conmigo, daddy! Fathers’ language input in North American bilingual Latinx families	4
High‐quality early care and education for low‐income families: Toddlers’ cognitive and emotional functioning during the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
14‐month‐old infants detect a semantic mismatch when occluded objects are mislabeled	4
The road to conventional tool use: Developmental changes in children's material engagement with artifacts in nursery school	4
Patterns of attention‐sensitive communication contribute to 7–20‐month‐olds' emerging pragmatic skills	4
When Is the Still‐Face Not the Still‐Face: Mothers' Behavior in the Face‐to‐Face Still‐Face Procedure and Its Relationship to Infant Arousal	4
Infant preference for specific phonetic cue relations in the contrast between voiced and voiceless stops	4
Analyzing the effect of sibling number on input and output in the first 18 months	4