OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Infancy is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
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Maternal Emotional Availability Supports Child Communicative Development Regardless of Child Temperament—Findings From the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study	21
Exploring cascading effects of sensory processing on language skills and social‐communicative difficulties through play in young children at elevated likelihood for autism	19
Infants' Expectations for Helping in Imitators	19
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Face‐Looking as a Real‐Time Process in Mind‐Mindedness: Timely Coordination Between Mothers' Gaze on Infants' Faces and Mind‐Related Comments	16
Exploring the Relationship Between Maternal Wellbeing, Infant Development, Smartphone Use, and Mother‐Infant Responsiveness	16
Parent attention‐orienting behavior is associated with neural entropy in infancy	15
Boosting the input: 9‐month‐olds’ sensitivity to low‐frequency phonotactic patterns in novel wordforms	14
Attachment security and problematic media use in infancy: A longitudinal study in the United States	14
The mediating role of parental embodied mentalizing in the longitudinal association between prenatal spousal support and toddler emotion recognition	13
Violation of non‐adjacent rule dependencies elicits greater attention to a talker's mouth in 15‐month‐old infants	13
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Exploring emotional face processing in 5‐month‐olds: The relation with quality of parent–child interaction and spatial frequencies	12
Ten easy steps to conducting transparent, reproducible meta‐analyses for infant researchers	11
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Validation of an open source, remote web‐based eye‐tracking method (WebGazer) for research in early childhood	10
Engaging with happy‐sounding music promotes helping behavior in 18‐month‐olds	10
Specifying links between infants' theory of mind, associative learning, and selective trust	10
Emerging coherence and relations to communication among executive function tasks in toddlers: Evidence from a Latin American sample	10
When dogs meow: An electrophysiological study of lexical–semantic processing in toddlers	10
Talker variability shapes early word representations in English‐learning 8‐month‐olds	10
Longitudinal assessment of social attention in preterm and term infants: Its relation to social communication and language outcome	9

High‐quality early care and education for low‐income families: Toddlers’ cognitive and emotional functioning during the COVID‐19 pandemic	9
Caregivers as experimenters: Reducing unfamiliarity helps shy children learn words	8
Infants' individuation of human faces across race and identity	8
Co‐regulation, relationship quality, and infant distress vocalizations observed during mother‐infant interactions: Influences of maternal depression and different contexts	8
Infants' reliance on rhythm to distinguish languages: A critical review	8
Mother‐infant emotional availability through the COVID‐19 pandemic: Examining continuity, stability, and bidirectional associations	7
Infants' lexical comprehension and lexical anticipation abilities are closely linked in early language development	7
Cognitive control in infancy: Attentional predictors using a tablet‐based measure	7
Persistent symptoms of maternal post‐traumatic stress following childbirth across the first months postpartum: Associations with perturbations in maternal behavior and infant avoidance of social gaze	7
Double it up: Vocabulary size comparisons between UK bilingual and monolingual toddlers	7
14‐month‐old infants detect a semantic mismatch when occluded objects are mislabeled	7
2‐Year‐olds’ free play during the COVID‐19 pandemic	7
Better in sync: Temporal dynamics explain multisensory word‐action‐object learning in early development	7
Analyzing the effect of sibling number on input and output in the first 18 months	6
Habla conmigo, daddy! Fathers’ language input in North American bilingual Latinx families	6
Less attention to emotional faces is associated with low empathy and prosociality in 12‐to 20‐month old infants	6
A Bayesian meta‐analysis of infants’ ability to perceive audio–visual congruence for speech	6
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Relation of infants' and mothers' pointing to infants' vocabulary measured directly and with parental reports	6
Does social modeling increase infants’ willingness to accept unfamiliar foods?	5
Parental Social and Musical Characteristics, the Home Music Environment, and Child Language Development in Infancy	5
Comparing apples to manzanas and oranges to naranjas: A new measure of English‐Spanish vocabulary for dual language learners	5
Specificity of phonological representations in U.S. English‐speaking late talkers and typical talkers	5
Infants preferentially learn from surprising teachers	5
Infants use contextual memory to attend and learn in naturalistic scenes	5
Associations between acoustic features of maternal speech and infants’ emotion regulation following a social stressor	5
Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID‐19	5
Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID‐19	5
15‐Month‐Olds’ Understanding of Imitation in Social and Instrumental Contexts	4
Body structure processing and attentional patterns in infancy and adulthood	4
Language environment and early language production in Slovenian infants: An exploratory study using daylong recordings	4
Symbolic play provides a fertile context for language development	4
Relations Between Paternal Child‐Rearing and Child Inhibited Temperament Across Infancy and Toddlerhood	4
Cultural Differences in Visual Attention Emerge in Infancy	4
A Longitudinal Study of Preterm Infants at 12 and 30 Months: Links Among Object Interactions, Joint Engagement, and Cognitive Development	4
Joint engagement in the home environment is frequent, multimodal, timely, and structured	4
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Infant preference for specific phonetic cue relations in the contrast between voiced and voiceless stops	4
Plasticity in older infants' perception of phonetic contrasts: The role of selective attention in context	4
The effect of the COVID‐19 pandemic on infant development and maternal mental health in the first 2 years of life	4
The mountain stream of infant development	4
Infants' Knowledge of Individual Words: Investigating Links Between Parent Report and Looking Time	4
Contingency enables the formation of social expectations about an artificial agent	3
Delineating Trajectories of Social‐Emotional Competence in Infants and Toddlers	3
Parent‐Reported Relations Between Vocabulary and Motor Development in Infancy: Differences Between Verbs and Nouns	3
Early social referencing predicts object mastery motivation in infancy: Social antecedents of object mastery motivation	3
Correlates of infant pointing frequency in the first year	3
Toddlers' prior social experience with speakers influences their word learning	3
The effectiveness of maternal regulatory attempts in the development of infant emotion regulation	3
Fine‐tuning language discrimination: Bilingual and monolingual infants’ detection of language switching	3

Object play in Tajikistan: Infants engage with objects despite bounds on play	3
Exploring Developmental Connections: Sleep Patterns, Self‐Locomotion, and Vocabulary Growth in Early Childhood	3
Average fixation duration in infancy: Stability and predictive utility	3
Mothers' use of touch across infants' development and its implications for word learning: Evidence from Korean dyadic interactions	3
Caregivers' everyday moral reasoning predicts young children's aggressive, prosocial, and moral development: Evidence from ambulatory assessment	3
The road to conventional tool use: Developmental changes in children's material engagement with artifacts in nursery school	3
Visual statistical learning in infancy: Discrimination of fine‐grained regularities depends on early test trials	3
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	3
Prenatal influences on postnatal neuroplasticity: Integrating DOHaD and sensitive/critical period frameworks to understand biological embedding in early development	3
Infant externalizing behavior and parent depressive symptoms: Prospective predictors of parental pandemic related distress	3
Associations between observed and reported infant negative affectivity, fear and self‐regulation, and early communicative development—Evidence from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study	3
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Touch and look: The role of affective touch in promoting infants' attention towards complex visual scenes	3
Neural mechanisms of language development in infancy	3