OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Australasian Journal of Early Childhood is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial AJEC Vol 1 2025	23
“If we can’t advocate for ourselves, nobody else will”: Teacher agency during early childhood reform	17
In whose best interests? Regulating childcare environments in Australia	13
Using a multidisciplinary, multi-method and collaborative research design to investigate the health communication power of the early childhood sector	13
Leadership competencies in early childhood education: Design and validation of a survey tool	11
Associations of gross motor skills with self-regulation and executive function in preschool-aged children	10
Playgroup Families’ Experiences of Play-Based Remote Learning	8
Cultural diversity in the Australian early childhood education workforce: What do we know, what don’t we know and why is it important?	8
‘We love sharing your land’: Children’s understandings of Acknowledgement to Country practices and Aboriginal knowledges in early learning centres	8
Educator perspectives on embedding Acknowledgement to Country practices in early learning centres in Australia	8
Patterns of participation in early childhood education before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia	7
From Birth to Three: Exploring Educators’ Understandings of Agency	6
‘When we sat together, it just worked’: Supporting individual and collaborative reflective practice in a team of early childhood educators	6
Early childhood leadership: Risk and protective factors during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Australian family day care educators’ experiences of supporting children’s mental health, and their own mental health and wellbeing	4
Moort dandjoo kaadadjiny: Growing up Aboriginal kids strong in their culture and identity	4
Charting developmental trajectories from 12 to 36 months and associated early risk and protective factors	4
Constant crossings: Teachers’ definitions of child wellbeing in early education, a reflective thematic analysis	4
Initiatives supporting student retention in early childhood teacher education qualifications	3
Using community-based participatory research to support the development of a co-located intergenerational program	3
Promoting care for the wellbeing of early childhood professionals in Australia	3
Who is studying what in Early Childhood Education and Care? Composite narratives of Australian educators engaging in further study	3
Enhancing nutrition information utilisation, confidence, and role legitimacy and adequacy among early childhood education professionals through evidence-based online training	3
Corrigendum to “Complexifying quality in early childhood contexts through a theory of quality ecologies”	3
Supporting infants and toddlers in low socio-economic early childhood settings in Australia	3

‘Why can’t I grow shorter, only taller?’—the body experience of growing up for Chinese children aged 5–6	3
Complexifying quality in early childhood contexts through a theory of quality ecologies	3
A case study of clinical supervision to support early childhood leaders in times of natural disasters: “It’s not a designer handbag”	3
Taking a detailed look at early childhood educators’ worktime	2
An exploration into early childhood physical literacy programs: A systematic literature review	2
Leadership in Australia’s early childhood workforce policy: Silences and ambiguities as missed opportunities	2
Revisiting the home learning environment: Introducing the home learning ecosystem	2
Perspectives of play and play-based learning: What do adults think play is?	2
The state of play-based learning in Queensland schools	2
The Effectiveness of a Formative Play-Based Mathematics Assessment in Supporting the Early Childhood Intentional Pedagogue	2
Ethnography and Bush Kinder Research: A Review of the Literature	2
Complexity and change: Contemporary research in early childhood	2
Preparing preservice early childhood educators to use music in Australian settings: An audit of programmes	2
Understanding relationships between epistemic cognition and executive functioning: Implications for measurement and practice in early childhood	2