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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Infants’ response to a mobile phone modified still‐face paradigm: Links to maternal behaviors and beliefs regarding technoference	31
Cracking the code: Social and contextual cues to language input in the home environment	27
Robust data and power in infant research: A case study of the effect of number of infants and number of trials in visual preference procedures	26
Beyond talk: Contributions of quantity and quality of communication to language success across socioeconomic strata	25
Joint engagement in the home environment is frequent, multimodal, timely, and structured	25
How do toddlers evaluate defensive actions toward third parties?	25
Cognitive function in toddlers with congenital heart disease: The impact of a stimulating home environment	22
What are the building blocks of parent–infant coordinated attention in free‐flowing interaction?	18
Preregistration in infant research—A primer	17
Development and validation of the Early Executive Functions Questionnaire: A carer‐administered measure of Executive Functions suitable for 9‐ to 30‐month‐olds	16
Online measures of looking and learning in infancy	15
Diversity and representation in infant research: Barriers and bridges toward a globalized science of infant development	14
Using pupillometry to investigate predictive processes in infancy	13
Experience with research paradigms relates to infants’ direction of preference	13
A parent gesture intervention as a means to increase parent declarative pointing and child vocabulary	13
The early development of tempo adjustment and synchronization during joint drumming: A study of 18‐ to 42‐month‐old children	13
14‐month‐olds exploit verbs’ syntactic contexts to build expectations about novel words	12
Parent–child joint media engagement in infancy	12
Social interaction targets enhance 13‐month‐old infants' associative learning	12
The impact of parent and child media use on early parent–infant attachment	12
Not all babies are in the same boat: Exploring the effects of socioeconomic status, parental attitudes, and activities during the 2020 COVID‐19 pandemic on early Executive Functions	11
Paid maternal leave is associated with better language and socioemotional outcomes during toddlerhood	11
Capturing touch in parent–infant interaction: A comparison of methods	11
Individual differences in infancy research: Letting the baby stand out from the crowd	11
A Bayesian meta‐analysis of infants’ ability to perceive audio–visual congruence for speech	11

A self‐comfort oriented pattern of regulatory behavior and avoidant attachment are more likely among infants born moderate‐to‐late preterm	10
The terrible twos: How children cope with frustration and tantrums and the effect of maternal and paternal behaviors	10
Toward a dimensional model of risk and protective factors influencing children's early cognitive, social, and emotional development during the COVID‐19 pandemic	10
Clinically depressed and typically developing mother–infant dyads: Domain base rates and correspondences, relationship contingencies and attunement	10
Mechanisms of social evaluation in infancy: A preregistered exploration of infants’ eye‐movement and pupillary responses to prosocial and antisocial events	9
The effect of the COVID‐19 pandemic on infant development and maternal mental health in the first 2 years of life	9
Why the parent's gaze is so powerful in organizing the infant's gaze: The relationship between parental referential cues and infant object looking	9
The development of gaze following in monolingual and bilingual infants: A multi‐laboratory study	9
Associations between acoustic features of maternal speech and infants’ emotion regulation following a social stressor	9
Visual perception grounding of social cognition in preverbal infants	9
Oh, Behave!	9
Infants’ sensitivity to shape changes in 2D visual forms	9
A meta‐analysis of infants’ word‐form recognition	8
Object exploration during the transition to sitting: A study of infants at heightened risk for autism spectrum disorder	8
Maternal prenatal mood problems and lower maternal emotional availability associated with lower quality of child's emotional availability and higher negative affect during still‐face procedure	8
Sequential learning of emotional faces is statistical at 12 months of age	8
Infants’ abilities to respond to cues for joint attention vary by family socioeconomic status	7
Multimodal coordination of vocal and gaze behavior in mother–infant dyads across the first year of life	7
A longitudinal study of the differential social‐cognitive foundations of early prosocial behaviors	7
Mother‐infant emotional availability through the COVID‐19 pandemic: Examining continuity, stability, and bidirectional associations	7
Habla conmigo, daddy! Fathers’ language input in North American bilingual Latinx families	7
Language familiarity influences own‐race face recognition in 9‐ and 12‐month‐old infants	7
Rule learning transfer across linguistic and visual modalities in 7‐month‐old infants	7
Robust effects of stress on early lexical representation	6
Replacing eye trackers in ongoing studies: A comparison of eye‐tracking data quality between the Tobii Pro TX300 and the Tobii Pro Spectrum	6
Symbolic play provides a fertile context for language development	6
Sing for me, Mama! Infants' discrimination of novel vowels in song	6
Infants' discrimination of consonant contrasts in the presence and absence of talker variability	6
Vocal imitation between mothers and their children with cochlear implants	6
Atypical ERP responses to audiovisual speech integration and sensory responsiveness in infants at risk for autism spectrum disorder	6
Tablet assessment of word comprehension reveals coarse word representations in 18–⁠20‐month‐old toddlers	6
Specifying links between infants' theory of mind, associative learning, and selective trust	6
Multimodal representational gestures in the transition to multi‐word productions	5
Maternal sensitivity during mealtime and free play: Differences and explanatory factors	5
Explaining individual differences in infant visual sensory seeking	5
What drives the attentional bias for fearful faces? An eye‐tracking investigation of 7‐month‐old infants’ visual scanning patterns	5
Factors affecting infant toy preferences: Age, gender, experience, motor development, and parental attitude	5
The impact of face masks on infants' learning of faces: An eye tracking study	5
The development of visual attention in early infancy: Insights from a free‐viewing paradigm	5
iCatcher: A neural network approach for automated coding of young children's eye movements	5
Mismatched response predicts behavioral speech discrimination outcomes in infants with hearing loss and normal hearing	5
The effect of masks on the visual preference for faces in the first year of life	5
Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID‐19	5
Fine‐tuning language discrimination: Bilingual and monolingual infants’ detection of language switching	4
Longitudinal assessment of social attention in preterm and term infants: Its relation to social communication and language outcome	4
Using video observation in the family context: The association between camera‐related behaviors and parental sensitivity	4
Assessing behavior in children aged 12–24 months using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire	4
Attachment and joint attention in infants: The role of expectation	4
Further evidence for the multidimensional nature of maternal sensitivity: differential links with child socioemotional functioning at preschool age	4
Infants born full term and preterm increase the height of anti‐gravity leg movements during a kick‐activated mobile task using a scaffolded task environment	4

Experienced crawlers avoid real and water drop‐offs, even when they are walking	4
Looking represents choosing in toddlers: Exploring the equivalence between multimodal measures in forced‐choice tasks	4
Play in Mexican‐American mothers and toddlers is frequent, multimodal, and rich in symbolic content	4
The mountain stream of infant development	4
Attrition rate in infant fNIRS research: A meta‐analysis	4
Caregivers' everyday moral reasoning predicts young children's aggressive, prosocial, and moral development: Evidence from ambulatory assessment	4