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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
“If we can’t advocate for ourselves, nobody else will”: Teacher agency during early childhood reform	22
The risk of being researched: Re-envisioning educator research participation for high-quality early childhood education	16
Early childhood education for sustainability: Outcomes for social and emotional learning	15
Early Childhood Education and Care: A sustainable system?	14
Leadership and retention in early childhood education	13
The followership paradox: The undervalued power of effective followers in early childhood education	12
Australian family day care educators’ experiences of supporting children’s mental health, and their own mental health and wellbeing	11
Irreconcilable knowledges?: A way forward	8
Supporting the health, education and wellbeing of children and families: A priority-setting study with the service system in Logan, Queensland	8
Unpacking the theory of practice architectures for research in early childhood education	8
Understanding relationships between epistemic cognition and executive functioning: Implications for measurement and practice in early childhood	7
Factors predicting kindergarten teachers’ integration of science into their teaching in indigenous areas	6
Smoke: Enablers and barriers for sustainable engagement with local Aboriginal communities	6
Engaging visual diaries in early childhood nature play as pedagogical arousal	6
Editorial AJEC Vol 1 2025	6
Conversational leadership in toddler-educator talk and its potential to promote learning	5
Charting developmental trajectories from 12 to 36 months and associated early risk and protective factors	4
Promoting safety and belonging for children, families, and early childhood professionals during times of uncertainty	4
Associations of gross motor skills with self-regulation and executive function in preschool-aged children	4
“If you haven’t got trust, they’re not going to come to you with anything:” Qualities of positional leader and early childhood teacher relationships that support agency	3
Developing and Validating a Tool to Assess Young Children’s Early Literacy Engagement	3
Children’s memories of starting school: Building and sharing transitions capital	3
Supporting infants and toddlers in low socio-economic early childhood settings in Australia	3
Who is studying what in Early Childhood Education and Care? Composite narratives of Australian educators engaging in further study	3
Leadership competencies in early childhood education: Design and validation of a survey tool	3

Australasian Journal of Early Childhood 2022 symposium special issue	3
Feasibility and initial psychometric properties of the observe, reflect, improve children’s learning tool (ORICL) for early childhood services: A tool for building capacity in infant and toddler educa	3
Moort dandjoo kaadadjiny: Growing up Aboriginal kids strong in their culture and identity	3
Beyond workforce shortages: A call for holistic care and recognition in early childhood policy	2
Falling by the “wasteside”: Defining and moving towards educator well-being from the perspective of early childhood educators in Ontario, Canada	2
Using a multidisciplinary, multi-method and collaborative research design to investigate the health communication power of the early childhood sector	2
‘We’re not useless, we know stuff!’ Gathering children’s voices to inform policy	2
A case study of clinical supervision to support early childhood leaders in times of natural disasters: “It’s not a designer handbag”	2
Beyond stereotypes: Comparing Chinese and Australian parents’ perceptions of transition to school	2
Context matters: Examining the linguistic aspects of educator-toddler talk	2
In whose best interests? Regulating childcare environments in Australia	2
A dynamic systems methodological approach to understanding the collaborative nature of joint attention in early childhood settings	2
Toward a conceptualization of the internet of toys	2
Early childhood education and care, artificial intelligence and the postdigital	2
Initiatives supporting student retention in early childhood teacher education qualifications	2
Cultural diversity in the Australian early childhood education workforce: What do we know, what don’t we know and why is it important?	2