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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
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2‐Year‐olds’ free play during the COVID‐19 pandemic	42
Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID‐19	24
Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID‐19	23
Engaging with happy‐sounding music promotes helping behavior in 18‐month‐olds	23
Does social modeling increase infants’ willingness to accept unfamiliar foods?	21
Parent attention‐orienting behavior is associated with neural entropy in infancy	19
Exploring cascading effects of sensory processing on language skills and social‐communicative difficulties through play in young children at elevated likelihood for autism	18
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Infants use contextual memory to attend and learn in naturalistic scenes	15
The Association Between Pointing and Walking in Infants: A Longitudinal Observational Study	15
Infants' reliance on rhythm to distinguish languages: A critical review	14
Specificity of phonological representations in U.S. English‐speaking late talkers and typical talkers	14
Cognitive control in infancy: Attentional predictors using a tablet‐based measure	14
Language environment and early language production in Slovenian infants: An exploratory study using daylong recordings	12
Caregivers as experimenters: Reducing unfamiliarity helps shy children learn words	12
Assessing the language of 2 year‐olds: From theory to practice	12
Exploring Developmental Connections: Sleep Patterns, Self‐Locomotion, and Vocabulary Growth in Early Childhood	11
Visual statistical learning in infancy: Discrimination of fine‐grained regularities depends on early test trials	11
Plasticity in older infants' perception of phonetic contrasts: The role of selective attention in context	11
Attention control in preterm and term 5‐month‐old infants: Cross‐task stability increases with gestational age	11
The Infant Behavior Questionnaire Factor Structure Varies With Sample Characteristics	10
Neural mechanisms of language development in infancy	10
Infant externalizing behavior and parent depressive symptoms: Prospective predictors of parental pandemic related distress	10
Correlates of infant pointing frequency in the first year	10

Average fixation duration in infancy: Stability and predictive utility	9
Do Facial Masks Impact Infants' Joint Attention? A Within‐Participant Laboratory Study	9
Newborns' perception of approach and withdrawal from biological movement: A closeness story	9
Emotional Movement Kinematics Guide Twelve‐Month‐Olds’ Visual, but Not Manual, Exploration	9
Prenatal influences on postnatal neuroplasticity: Integrating DOHaD and sensitive/critical period frameworks to understand biological embedding in early development	9
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Twelve months old infants' evaluation of observed comforting behavior using a choice paradigm: The role of animacy cues and self‐distress	8
The Dynamics of Looking and Smiling Differ for Young Infants at Elevated Likelihood for ASD	8
Preverbal infants’ sensitivity to grammatical dependencies	8
Input Properties Shape Word Segmentation Performance Across Child Development: A Computational Modeling Study	8
How do maternal emotional regulation difficulties modulate the mother–infant behavioral synchrony?	8
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Effects of face masks on language comprehension in bilingual children	7
Biobehavioral Correlates of Infants' Social Bidding During the Still‐Face Paradigm	7
Issue Information	7
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Testing predictions of a neural process model of visual attention in infancy across competitive and non‐competitive contexts	7
From woof woof to dog: Interactions between parents' use of sound symbolic words and infants' vocabulary development	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	6
Issue Information	6
Parentese Elicits Infant Speech‐Like Vocalizations in Typically Developing and Autistic Infants	6
Not too shy to point! Exploring the relationship between shyness and pointing in the second year	6
The Developmental Origins of Joint Attention: Infants' Early Joint Attention Bids	6
Revisiting the Object‐Processing Paradigm in the Study of Gaze Cues: What Two Decades of Research Have Taught Us About Infant Social Learning	6
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Evidence of Cross‐Cultural Differences in Maternal Mind‐Mindedness	6
An object's categorizability impacts whether infants encode surface features into their object representations	6
Issue Information	6
Positive coparenting previous to the COVID‐19 pandemic can buffer regulatory problems in infants facing the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
Infant motor development predicts the dynamics of movement during sleep	6
Changes in selective attention to articulating mouth across infancy: Sex differences and associations with language outcomes	5
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Shaping linguistic input in parent‐infant interactions: The influence of the Infant's temperament	5
Analyzing the effect of sibling number on input and output in the first 18 months	5
Issue Information	5
Parental Sensitivity and Infant Social Withdrawal During Mother–Infant and Father–Infant Interactions	5
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
Locomotion development and infants' object interaction in a day‐care environment	5
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Beyond the Dyad: Infant Vocal Cues Organize Conversational‐Turn Taking in Infant‐Toddler Classrooms	5
Habla conmigo, daddy! Fathers’ language input in North American bilingual Latinx families	5
Co‐regulation, relationship quality, and infant distress vocalizations observed during mother‐infant interactions: Influences of maternal depression and different contexts	5
The mediating role of parental embodied mentalizing in the longitudinal association between prenatal spousal support and toddler emotion recognition	4
High‐quality early care and education for low‐income families: Toddlers’ cognitive and emotional functioning during the COVID‐19 pandemic	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
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
Patterns of attention‐sensitive communication contribute to 7–20‐month‐olds' emerging pragmatic skills	4
Infant preference for specific phonetic cue relations in the contrast between voiced and voiceless stops	4
Issue Information	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
The road to conventional tool use: Developmental changes in children's material engagement with artifacts in nursery school	4