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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
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2‐Year‐olds’ free play during the COVID‐19 pandemic	45
Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID‐19	25
Caregivers as experimenters: Reducing unfamiliarity helps shy children learn words	24
Exploring cascading effects of sensory processing on language skills and social‐communicative difficulties through play in young children at elevated likelihood for autism	24
Specificity of phonological representations in U.S. English‐speaking late talkers and typical talkers	22
Infants use contextual memory to attend and learn in naturalistic scenes	20
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The Association Between Pointing and Walking in Infants: A Longitudinal Observational Study	17
Cognitive control in infancy: Attentional predictors using a tablet‐based measure	16
Infants' reliance on rhythm to distinguish languages: A critical review	16
Parent attention‐orienting behavior is associated with neural entropy in infancy	16
Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID‐19	15
Language environment and early language production in Slovenian infants: An exploratory study using daylong recordings	14
Exploring Developmental Connections: Sleep Patterns, Self‐Locomotion, and Vocabulary Growth in Early Childhood	13
Attention control in preterm and term 5‐month‐old infants: Cross‐task stability increases with gestational age	13
Plasticity in older infants' perception of phonetic contrasts: The role of selective attention in context	13
Infant externalizing behavior and parent depressive symptoms: Prospective predictors of parental pandemic related distress	12
The Infant Behavior Questionnaire Factor Structure Varies With Sample Characteristics	12
Prenatal influences on postnatal neuroplasticity: Integrating DOHaD and sensitive/critical period frameworks to understand biological embedding in early development	12
Newborns' perception of approach and withdrawal from biological movement: A closeness story	11
Correlates of infant pointing frequency in the first year	11
Neural mechanisms of language development in infancy	10
Assessing the language of 2 year‐olds: From theory to practice	10
Average fixation duration in infancy: Stability and predictive utility	10

Emotional Movement Kinematics Guide Twelve‐Month‐Olds’ Visual, but Not Manual, Exploration	10
Holistic and Analytic Attention in Infancy: A Cross‐Cultural Study in Sweden and Zimbabwe	10
Do Facial Masks Impact Infants' Joint Attention? A Within‐Participant Laboratory Study	10
Testing predictions of a neural process model of visual attention in infancy across competitive and non‐competitive contexts	9
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The Dynamics of Looking and Smiling Differ for Young Infants at Elevated Likelihood for ASD	9
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Preverbal infants’ sensitivity to grammatical dependencies	9
Input Properties Shape Word Segmentation Performance Across Child Development: A Computational Modeling Study	9
How do maternal emotional regulation difficulties modulate the mother–infant behavioral synchrony?	8
Effects of face masks on language comprehension in bilingual children	8
Twelve months old infants' evaluation of observed comforting behavior using a choice paradigm: The role of animacy cues and self‐distress	8
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Parental Values Are Associated With How Parents Feel About Their Infants' Sleep, but Not the Quality of Infants' Sleep	8
From woof woof to dog: Interactions between parents' use of sound symbolic words and infants' vocabulary development	7
The Developmental Origins of Joint Attention: Infants' Early Joint Attention Bids	7
Why the parent's gaze is so powerful in organizing the infant's gaze: The relationship between parental referential cues and infant object looking	7
Issue Information	7
Biobehavioral Correlates of Infants' Social Bidding During the Still‐Face Paradigm	7
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Infant motor development predicts the dynamics of movement during sleep	7
Evidence of Cross‐Cultural Differences in Maternal Mind‐Mindedness	7
An object's categorizability impacts whether infants encode surface features into their object representations	7
Not too shy to point! Exploring the relationship between shyness and pointing in the second year	7
Revisiting the Object‐Processing Paradigm in the Study of Gaze Cues: What Two Decades of Research Have Taught Us About Infant Social Learning	6
Changes in selective attention to articulating mouth across infancy: Sex differences and associations with language outcomes	6
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Positive coparenting previous to the COVID‐19 pandemic can buffer regulatory problems in infants facing the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
Shaping linguistic input in parent‐infant interactions: The influence of the Infant's temperament	6
Locomotion development and infants' object interaction in a day‐care environment	6
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Parentese Elicits Infant Speech‐Like Vocalizations in Typically Developing and Autistic Infants	6
Parental Sensitivity and Infant Social Withdrawal During Mother–Infant and Father–Infant Interactions	6
Lability of prenatal stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic links to negative affect in infancy	5
High‐quality early care and education for low‐income families: Toddlers’ cognitive and emotional functioning during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
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Co‐regulation, relationship quality, and infant distress vocalizations observed during mother‐infant interactions: Influences of maternal depression and different contexts	5
Habla conmigo, daddy! Fathers’ language input in North American bilingual Latinx families	5
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Violation of non‐adjacent rule dependencies elicits greater attention to a talker's mouth in 15‐month‐old infants	5
Infants preferentially learn from surprising teachers	5
14‐month‐old infants detect a semantic mismatch when occluded objects are mislabeled	5
Mothers' use of touch across infants' development and its implications for word learning: Evidence from Korean dyadic interactions	5
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	5
Beyond the Dyad: Infant Vocal Cues Organize Conversational‐Turn Taking in Infant‐Toddler Classrooms	5
Analyzing the effect of sibling number on input and output in the first 18 months	5
The mediating role of parental embodied mentalizing in the longitudinal association between prenatal spousal support and toddler emotion recognition	5
Patterns of attention‐sensitive communication contribute to 7–20‐month‐olds' emerging pragmatic skills	4

The road to conventional tool use: Developmental changes in children's material engagement with artifacts in nursery school	4
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Infant preference for specific phonetic cue relations in the contrast between voiced and voiceless stops	4
15‐Month‐Olds’ Understanding of Imitation in Social and Instrumental Contexts	4
Object play in Tajikistan: Infants engage with objects despite bounds on play	4
The Relation Between Goal‐Predictive Gaze Behavior and Imitation—A Live Eye‐Tracking Study in 12‐Month‐Olds	4
The effectiveness of maternal regulatory attempts in the development of infant emotion regulation	4
Issue Information	4