OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Childhood-A Global Journal of Child Research is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
“Tiny luggages”: Immersive migrant childhoods and multi-sensory methods as disruptive and facilitative opportunities	29
‘A trip organised for children is not a serious matter’? Summer treatment camps for the Belgian-German borderlands (1919-1939)	26
Children, border(land)s and mixed economies of welfare	18
Participating together in CP-ACHIEVE: Experiences, opportunities and reflections from a collaborative research team of people with lived experience of cerebral palsy and health care professionals	16
Chinese migrant children’s constructions of transnational childhood in Norway	16
Queer temporalities of desire in Aftersun : Childhood memory and sonic expression	14
‘Orphan’ as a category of analysis: Historicizing ‘child rescue’ in colonial India, 1860s–1920s	14
Adults’ ad hoc practices in interviews with children - Ethical considerations in the context of adultness and generational ordering	12
Reading silences/silent readings: Disrupting the hegemony of voice in research with disabled children	11
Past-present-future childhoods: Technology, time, and childhoods in narratives of pandemic parenting	11
Being and becoming in children’s digital spaces: A portal into their social media use	11
Identity formations in archived childhood memories of nature in Sweden	10
Refusals for liberating childhood from the trap of schooling?	10
Play with a purpose: Intensive parenting, educational desires and shifting notions of childhood and learning in twenty-first century Singapore	9
Exploring the taken-for-granted relationship between children’s culture and the cultural heritage of terrorism	8
‘They throw us in the drain and beat us’: Children’s struggles for water as care and resistance politics	8
Teaching ‘global childhoods’ in Childhood Studies	7
Creating ownership: Strengths and tensions in co-production with children, young people, and adults across contexts	7
Waiting for care: A reflection on (m)otherhood and siblinghood in crip time(s)	7
Do children have a right to do nothing? Exploring the place of passive leisure in Australian school age care	7
Not so girl-led: Collective concerted cultivation in Girl Scouts of the United States of America	6
Transformative conversations for a critical childhood studies	6
Histories of childhood and man: Implications for childhood studies	6
Adultism and parenting: Challenges for the effective implementation of children’s rights in the Brazilian context	6
What might a decolonial perspective on child protection look like? Lessons from Kenya	6

Transcending national borders through educational practices: the Children’s Castle in Luxembourg	5
Living together and apart: Reimagining care in a segregated neighbourhood of Santiago, Chile	5
The power should be balanced: Central dimensions of healthy intergenerational partnerships	5
Acknowledgment and Welcome	5
‘Performative innocence’: Obscuring structural vulnerabilities in child rights governance	4
Child focused research: Disconnected and disembodied voices	4
Social geographies of categorizations in two preschools: A comparative study of the U.S. and South Korean children	4
Transnational professionalism in child welfare in Germany	4
Advancing global and transnational approaches to the study of out-of-home childcare	4
Children’s voices for change: Co-researching with children and young people as family violence experts by experience	4
Parenting styles and receptiveness (or otherwise) to children’s emotions in the higher social classes	4
Underrepresentation of most childhoods in the study of development. Latin American researchers’ insights on limitations, advances, and challenges	4
The adult in the room: The push and pull of parental involvement in research with children	4
From extractivist practices and the child-as-data to an ethics of reciprocity and mutuality in empirical childhood research	4
Making finance fun: Playful affordances and gamified interface designs in children’s FinTech apps	4
Is it OK? The use of the English neuter pronoun it to refer to children	3
Learning through magic? Diffractive analysis of Children’s experiences across post-structuralist, post-Freudian, and post-materialist perspectives	3
Sources of vulnerability and ethical challenges in qualitative research with pediatric cancer patients	3
Acknowledgement of reviewers	3
Centering childhood(s) in the Anthropocene: (Re)production of human genres through nature(s) in early childhood education and care	3
Co-producing knowledge through critical encounters: Extending the critical turn in participatory research with children	3
Can’t trace time: The temporal politics of childhood	3
Different trajectories from a common crisis. Survival migrations and resilience of venezuelan adolescents to Peru	3
Youth-led social action at school: ‘It made me think that there could be a way to make things better in the future’	3
Building blocks, free play, and freedom in a 1930s Swedish kindergarten: Versions of kindergarten childhoods in written and visual records	3
Attending to children’s voices within environmental education	3
Research ethics in childhood research	3
Adults’ articulations about children and their coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic - Antonovsky-inspired thematic analysis of Swedish junior and daily newspapers	3
Experiences of children’s formal and lived participation in family law proceedings	3
Engaging young people in secondary analysis of data from street youth: Learnings from the Youth Engagement in Analysis Programme	3
Complex spaces of involvement during and after paternal deployment: Danish children’s emotions and relationships with their fathers	3
Unsettling the global, moving beyond liberalism: Intimacies as a reading practice in childhood studies	3
Changing perspectives on corporal punishment in schools: Insights from Ugandan young people	2
Propositions for anticolonial belonging in Canadian early childhood environmental education	2
On youth participation and adult manipulation: Exploring the lowest rung of Hart’s ladder in a youth organization	2
Beyond compliance: Reframing research ethics with children in vulnerable positions through recognition and moral duty	2
Corrigendum to “‘They throw us in the drain and beat us’: Children’s struggles for water as care and resistance politics”	2
A new reading of Piaget in childhood sociology	2
In/secure childhoods: Children and conflict in Kashmir	2
Are participation rights a lingua franca? The complexities of translating and comparing the term ‘participation’ in educational contexts	2
Children’s place experiences in high-rise mass housing in Ankara	2
Why commoning matters in childhood studies	2
A feel for books: A Bourdieusian approach on embodied reading promotion practices for babies	1
To help each other and to be together: How children think about care within the family across three cultures	1
The power of prime: The role of a fad in children’s social positioning within school-age educare	1
On the banality of attrition in the lives of chronically marginalized children	1
Children as social actors negotiating their privacy in the digital commercial context	1
The least adult role or a playful researcher? Considering an adult’s role when researching with children	1
Kids United	1
Children’s drawings of school in home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic	1

Adolescents’ narratives about parents’ separation processes and participation in mandatory family mediation: Exercising agency through managing privacy boundaries	1
Participation for protection: New perspectives on the value of young people’s involvement in research addressing sexual violence	1
When a Children’s Literary Jury Imagines Other Children as Potential Readers: A Case of Collaborative Research	1
Paternalism is sublime – Which is why it is so hard to combat	1
“Instead I started solving my problems myself”: Exploring children’s actions of participation in social work	1
Deepening collaborative research with children and young people: A co-edited and co-written special issue	1
‘Playing to survive’; street-connected children and the right to play in Bangladesh and Nepal	1
Branded childhood: Infants as digital capital on Instagram	1
Faceless, voiceless child – Ethics of visual anonymity in research with children and young people	1
Tracing the rationale for solidarity in teenagers’ post-apocalypse stories	1
Youthwashing: The co-optation of young people—and how child rights enable it	1
Advancing feminist relationality in childhood studies	1
Renegotiating the Swedish child welfare system through claims to represent children	1
Acknowledgement of reviewers	1
Kinship and belonging: Pacific children’s perspectives on the diaspora	1
When social provision became a bordering practice: The association ‘Assistance to Redeemed Italy’ and children’s welfare in Italy’s northeastern borderlands, 1919-1939	1