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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID‐19	61
Presence at a distance: Video chat supports intergenerational sensitivity and positive infant affect during COVID‐19	39
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Engaging with happy‐sounding music promotes helping behavior in 18‐month‐olds	22
Specificity of phonological representations in U.S. English‐speaking late talkers and typical talkers	20
Does social modeling increase infants’ willingness to accept unfamiliar foods?	20
Infants' reliance on rhythm to distinguish languages: A critical review	19
2‐Year‐olds’ free play during the COVID‐19 pandemic	19
Cognitive control in infancy: Attentional predictors using a tablet‐based measure	16
Caregivers as experimenters: Reducing unfamiliarity helps shy children learn words	16
Language environment and early language production in Slovenian infants: An exploratory study using daylong recordings	15
Infants use contextual memory to attend and learn in naturalistic scenes	15
Exploring cascading effects of sensory processing on language skills and social‐communicative difficulties through play in young children at elevated likelihood for autism	15
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Parent attention‐orienting behavior is associated with neural entropy in infancy	14
Neural mechanisms of language development in infancy	13
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Visual statistical learning in infancy: Discrimination of fine‐grained regularities depends on early test trials	12
Infant externalizing behavior and parent depressive symptoms: Prospective predictors of parental pandemic related distress	12
Linguistic and developmental influences on superordinate facial configuration categorization in infancy	12
Correlates of infant pointing frequency in the first year	12
Plasticity in older infants' perception of phonetic contrasts: The role of selective attention in context	11
Prenatal influences on postnatal neuroplasticity: Integrating DOHaD and sensitive/critical period frameworks to understand biological embedding in early development	11
Newborns' perception of approach and withdrawal from biological movement: A closeness story	11
Exploring Developmental Connections: Sleep Patterns, Self‐Locomotion, and Vocabulary Growth in Early Childhood	11

Attention control in preterm and term 5‐month‐old infants: Cross‐task stability increases with gestational age	11
Average fixation duration in infancy: Stability and predictive utility	10
How do maternal emotional regulation difficulties modulate the mother–infant behavioral synchrony?	10
Testing predictions of a neural process model of visual attention in infancy across competitive and non‐competitive contexts	10
Assessing the language of 2 year‐olds: From theory to practice	10
Preverbal infants’ sensitivity to grammatical dependencies	10
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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	9
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Development and validation of the Early Executive Functions Questionnaire: A carer‐administered measure of Executive Functions suitable for 9‐ to 30‐month‐olds	8
Emotional Movement Kinematics Guide Twelve‐Month‐Olds’ Visual, but Not Manual, Exploration	8
Do Facial Masks Impact Infants' Joint Attention? A Within‐Participant Laboratory Study	8
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
The Dynamics of Looking and Smiling Differ for Young Infants at Elevated Likelihood for ASD	7
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Biobehavioral Correlates of Infants' Social Bidding During the Still‐Face Paradigm	7
The Developmental Origins of Joint Attention: Infants' Early Joint Attention Bids	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
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Positive coparenting previous to the COVID‐19 pandemic can buffer regulatory problems in infants facing the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
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
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Not too shy to point! Exploring the relationship between shyness and pointing in the second year	6
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Infant motor development predicts the dynamics of movement during sleep	6
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Locomotion development and infants' object interaction in a day‐care environment	6
Revisiting the Object‐Processing Paradigm in the Study of Gaze Cues: What Two Decades of Research Have Taught Us About Infant Social Learning	5
Violation of non‐adjacent rule dependencies elicits greater attention to a talker's mouth in 15‐month‐old infants	5
Analyzing the effect of sibling number on input and output in the first 18 months	5
Associations between acoustic features of maternal speech and infants’ emotion regulation following a social stressor	5
Parental Sensitivity and Infant Social Withdrawal During Mother–Infant and Father–Infant Interactions	5
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Shaping linguistic input in parent‐infant interactions: The influence of the Infant's temperament	5
Co‐regulation, relationship quality, and infant distress vocalizations observed during mother‐infant interactions: Influences of maternal depression and different contexts	5
High‐quality early care and education for low‐income families: Toddlers’ cognitive and emotional functioning during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Parentese Elicits Infant Speech‐Like Vocalizations in Typically Developing and Autistic Infants	5
When dogs meow: An electrophysiological study of lexical–semantic processing in toddlers	5
Habla conmigo, daddy! Fathers’ language input in North American bilingual Latinx families	5
A Bayesian meta‐analysis of infants’ ability to perceive audio–visual congruence for speech	5
Changes in selective attention to articulating mouth across infancy: Sex differences and associations with language outcomes	5
14‐month‐old infants detect a semantic mismatch when occluded objects are mislabeled	4
Mothers' use of touch across infants' development and its implications for word learning: Evidence from Korean dyadic interactions	4
The mediating role of parental embodied mentalizing in the longitudinal association between prenatal spousal support and toddler emotion recognition	4
Object play in Tajikistan: Infants engage with objects despite bounds on play	4
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The effectiveness of maternal regulatory attempts in the development of infant emotion regulation	4
Infants preferentially learn from surprising teachers	4

Patterns of attention‐sensitive communication contribute to 7–20‐month‐olds' emerging pragmatic skills	4
Lability of prenatal stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic links to negative affect in infancy	4
15‐Month‐Olds’ Understanding of Imitation in Social and Instrumental Contexts	4
The road to conventional tool use: Developmental changes in children's material engagement with artifacts in nursery school	4
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Fine‐tuning language discrimination: Bilingual and monolingual infants’ detection of language switching	4
Infant preference for specific phonetic cue relations in the contrast between voiced and voiceless stops	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