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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Southern theories and decolonial childhood studies	20
Child-led research, children’s rights and childhood studies: A defence	19
Becoming ‘brilliant’: Generationing education and development in rural Sierra Leone	10
Agency operating within structures: A qualitative exploration of agency amongst children living in Palestine	9
Irregularities in transnational adoptions and child appropriations: Challenges for reparation practices	9
Children and adolescents’ voices and the implications for ethical research	8
Child appropriations and irregular adoptions: Activism for the “right to identity,” justice, and reparation in Argentina and Chile	8
Precarity and the question of children’s relationalities	8
Making kin, not babies? Towards childist kinship in the “Anthropocene”	8
Decolonising concepts of participation and protection in sensitive research with young people: local perspectives and decolonial strategies of Palestinian research advisors	8
Theorising gendered childhoods and girls’ schooling: Poverty, patriarchy and girls’ education in urban India	7
Advancing feminist relationality in childhood studies	6
Children as researchers: Wild things and the dialogic imagination	6
Play with a purpose: Intensive parenting, educational desires and shifting notions of childhood and learning in twenty-first century Singapore	6
Framing reciprocal obligations within intergenerational relations in Ghana through the lens of the mutuality of duty and dependence	6
Branded childhood: Infants as digital capital on Instagram	6
Righting adults’ wrongs: ‘Generationing’ on the battlefield. A decolonial approach	5
Children as experiencers: Increasing engagement, participation and inclusion for young children in the museum	5
The aftermath of transnational illegal adoptions: Redressing human rights violations in the intercountry adoption system with instruments of transitional justice	5
Employability and school uniform policies: Projecting the employer’s gaze	5
Child focused research: Disconnected and disembodied voices	5
‘Because I love him’: Children’s relationships to their parents in the context of intimate partner violence	5
Youth’s everyday environmental citizenship: An analytical framework for studying interpretive agency	5
‘This is our treehouse’: Investigating play through a practice architectures lens	5
The queer child cracks: Queer feminist encounters with materiality and innocence in childhood studies	5

How are children coping with COVID-19 health crisis? Analysing their representations of lockdown through drawings	5
Investing in activism: Learning from children’s actions to stop child marriage	4
Irregular adoptions and infrastructures of memory in Spain: remnant practices from the Franco Regime	4
The child as a medium. Breakdown and possible resurgence of children’s agency in the era of pandemic	4
Leisure time of working children in Addis Ababa	4
Silencing touch and touching silence? Understanding the complex links between touch and silence in residential child care settings	4
A preliminary call for a critical public childhood studies	4
Climate strike or not? Intersectionality of age and culture encountered by young climate activists in Taiwan	4
Faceless, voiceless child – Ethics of visual anonymity in research with children and young people	4
Breaking nation: Brazilian transnational children’s construction of belonging in bilingual classrooms	3
Intercountry adoption swimming against the tide: Restitution in Samoa	3
Implications of irregular transnational adoptions within international standards: A review of intercountry adoption systems and Guatemalan birthmother perspectives	3
The adult in the room: The push and pull of parental involvement in research with children	3
Child-led research, children’s rights and childhood studies – A reply to Thomas	3
Children at transition from primary school reflecting on what schools are for – narratives of connectedness, (mis)recognition and becoming	3
‘I prefer not to know’: Spain’s management of transnational adoption demand and signs of corruption	3
Same-gender intimate friends in Chinese girls’ romantic adventures in a boarding school context	3
Advancing global and transnational approaches to the study of out-of-home childcare	3
Beyond ‘rescue’ or ‘responsibilisation’ within girls’ empowerment programmes: Notes on recovering agency from the Global South	3
The state of journals on children and childhood studies: Insights and challenges from a citation analysis	3
Seen and not heard: Students’ uses and experiences of silence in school relationships at a secondary school	3
Making waves: A cross-study analysis of young people’s participation arenas in Scotland’s schools	3
Closing New Loopholes: Protecting Children in Uganda’s International Adoption Practices	3
Research ethics in childhood research	2
Identity formations in archived childhood memories of nature in Sweden	2
Towards a ‘third space’ community practice school-aged-care: A learning community and ‘the new neighbourhood’	2
The State and the world’s children	2
What takes ‘us’ so long? The philosophical poverty of childhood studies and education	2
Creation of child-patient’s autonomy in a child-parent-doctor relationship: Medical doctors’ perspectives	2
Unsettling the global, moving beyond liberalism: Intimacies as a reading practice in childhood studies	2
The invention of the “weird” Southern child: Mapping coloniality in the political problematization of disadvantaged children’s lives in the global South	2
Activity-tracking assemblages in Finnish early childhood education and care	2
Teaching ‘global childhoods’ in Childhood Studies	2
Cañari children, cows and milk production: Toward ch’ixi temporalities in the Andes	2
Do children have a right to do nothing? Exploring the place of passive leisure in Australian school age care	2
Adults’ ad hoc practices in interviews with children - Ethical considerations in the context of adultness and generational ordering	2
Children’s bodies and material culture: A study of children’s physical activities based on games	2
Articulating encounters between children and plastics	2
Exceptional childhood and COVID-19: Engaging children in a time of civil emergency	2
What might a decolonial perspective on child protection look like? Lessons from Kenya	2
Indigenous epistemologies of childhood in contexts of inequality: Three case studies from the “Global South”	2
Olfactoscapes in Malawi: Exploring the smells children like and are exposed to in semi-urban classrooms	2
Doing childhood, doing gender, but not doing sports: Unorganized girls’ reflections on leisure time from a relational perspective	2
Engaging girls with disabilities through cellphilming: Reflections on participatory visual research as a means of countering violence in the Global South	2
Reinventing children’s rights	2
Childhood memories of belonging among young Romanian migrants in Italy: A qualitative life-course approach	2
Decolonizing children’s agency: Perspectives of children in an Urdu-speaking Bihari camp in Bangladesh	2
Jocular language practices in young boys’ performances of romantic relationships within their local peer culture	2
Redressing forced removals of Yenish children in Switzerland in the 20th century: An analysis through transitional justice lens	1
When the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child meets Confucianism: Chinese parents' understanding of children’s right to play	1

On racialized linear time and temporal ‘othering’	1
On youth participation and adult manipulation: Exploring the lowest rung of Hart’s ladder in a youth organization	1
Kinship and belonging: Pacific children’s perspectives on the diaspora	1
The ideological underpinnings and political usefulness of residential care for children and young people	1
Tangled sideways research: Reimagining temporality in research with children	1
Intersubjectivity in the nursery: A case-study from Denmark	1
“Warming the house”: Children and animals “doing family”	1
“We surely are researchers now!” Participatory methods as an empowering process with disabled children in research	1
Refusals for liberating childhood from the trap of schooling?	1
Kids United	1
Re-imagining and repositioning the lived experience of children seen as outsiders in Kenya	1
Enacting sabotage in siblings’ conflicts: Desired objects and deceptive bodies	1
South Korea’s legacy of orphan adoption and the violation of adoptees’ rights to know their origins	1
Philosophy and childhood studies	1
Making sense of an irregular adoption. Subjective trajectories of four French adoptees born in Romania in the 1980s and 1990s	1
“The suffering we collectively inhabit”: Relational understandings of citizenship by the Colombian post-accord generation	1