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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Children, border(land)s and mixed economies of welfare	45
‘A trip organised for children is not a serious matter’? Summer treatment camps for the Belgian-German borderlands (1919-1939)	25
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	24
“Tiny luggages”: Immersive migrant childhoods and multi-sensory methods as disruptive and facilitative opportunities	18
Queer temporalities of desire in Aftersun : Childhood memory and sonic expression	16
Making sense of an irregular adoption. Subjective trajectories of four French adoptees born in Romania in the 1980s and 1990s	16
Reading silences/silent readings: Disrupting the hegemony of voice in research with disabled children	14
What takes ‘us’ so long? The philosophical poverty of childhood studies and education	14
Beyond ‘rescue’ or ‘responsibilisation’ within girls’ empowerment programmes: Notes on recovering agency from the Global South	14
Past-present-future childhoods: Technology, time, and childhoods in narratives of pandemic parenting	12
Adults’ ad hoc practices in interviews with children - Ethical considerations in the context of adultness and generational ordering	12
Refusals for liberating childhood from the trap of schooling?	12
Being and becoming in children’s digital spaces: A portal into their social media use	11
Troubling the trope of the authoritarian father: Perspectives from the Arab World	11
Identity formations in archived childhood memories of nature in Sweden	10
Kindergarten children’s views on friendship in a super-diverse context	10
Exploring the taken-for-granted relationship between children’s culture and the cultural heritage of terrorism	9
‘This is our treehouse’: Investigating play through a practice architectures lens	9
Righting adults’ wrongs: ‘Generationing’ on the battlefield. A decolonial approach	9
‘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	8
Play with a purpose: Intensive parenting, educational desires and shifting notions of childhood and learning in twenty-first century Singapore	8
Do children have a right to do nothing? Exploring the place of passive leisure in Australian school age care	8
Waiting for care: A reflection on (m)otherhood and siblinghood in crip time(s)	7
Creating ownership: Strengths and tensions in co-production with children, young people, and adults across contexts	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
Investing in activism: Learning from children’s actions to stop child marriage	6
What might a decolonial perspective on child protection look like? Lessons from Kenya	6
Adultism and parenting: Challenges for the effective implementation of children’s rights in the Brazilian context	6
The power should be balanced: Central dimensions of healthy intergenerational partnerships	5
Articulating encounters between children and plastics	5
Acknowledgment and Welcome	5
Transcending national borders through educational practices: the Children’s Castle in Luxembourg	5
Child focused research: Disconnected and disembodied voices	4
From extractivist practices and the child-as-data to an ethics of reciprocity and mutuality in empirical childhood research	4
Research ethics in childhood research	4
The adult in the room: The push and pull of parental involvement in research with children	4
Philosophy and childhood studies	4
Raising children: Discussing and practicing modern/colonial family education in Colombia	4
Social geographies of categorizations in two preschools: A comparative study of the U.S. and South Korean children	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
Transnational professionalism in child welfare in Germany	4
Underrepresentation of most childhoods in the study of development. Latin American researchers’ insights on limitations, advances, and challenges	4
Decolonizing children’s agency: Perspectives of children in an Urdu-speaking Bihari camp in Bangladesh	3
Centering childhood(s) in the Anthropocene: (Re)production of human genres through nature(s) in early childhood education and care	3
Sources of vulnerability and ethical challenges in qualitative research with pediatric cancer patients	3
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
Unsettling the global, moving beyond liberalism: Intimacies as a reading practice in childhood studies	3
Complex spaces of involvement during and after paternal deployment: Danish children’s emotions and relationships with their fathers	3
Attending to children’s voices within environmental education	3
Climate strike or not? Intersectionality of age and culture encountered by young climate activists in Taiwan	3
Experiences of children’s formal and lived participation in family law proceedings	3
Can’t trace time: The temporal politics of childhood	3
Acknowledgement of reviewers	3
Building blocks, free play, and freedom in a 1930s Swedish kindergarten: Versions of kindergarten childhoods in written and visual records	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
Different trajectories from a common crisis. Survival migrations and resilience of venezuelan adolescents to Peru	3
On youth participation and adult manipulation: Exploring the lowest rung of Hart’s ladder in a youth organization	2
Children’s place experiences in high-rise mass housing in Ankara	2
Adolescents’ narratives about parents’ separation processes and participation in mandatory family mediation: Exercising agency through managing privacy boundaries	2
“[A] story about a child is scarier than one about an adult roughly 80% of the time”: Creepypasta, Children’s media, and the child in media discourse	2
Youth-led social action at school: ‘It made me think that there could be a way to make things better in the future’	2
Corrigendum to “‘They throw us in the drain and beat us’: Children’s struggles for water as care and resistance politics”	2
Why commoning matters in childhood studies	2
In/secure childhoods: Children and conflict in Kashmir	2
Propositions for anticolonial belonging in Canadian early childhood environmental education	2
The least adult role or a playful researcher? Considering an adult’s role when researching with children	1
Changing perspectives on corporal punishment in schools: Insights from Ugandan young people	1
Tangled sideways research: Reimagining temporality in research with children	1
Olfactoscapes in Malawi: Exploring the smells children like and are exposed to in semi-urban classrooms	1
“I feel a little bit of both”: Exploring the relational experiences of Norwegian tween girls through age as enactment and age-shifting	1

Kinship and belonging: Pacific children’s perspectives on the diaspora	1
Acknowledgement of reviewers	1
Youthwashing: The co-optation of young people—and how child rights enable it	1
“Instead I started solving my problems myself”: Exploring children’s actions of participation in social work	1
Are participation rights a lingua franca? The complexities of translating and comparing the term ‘participation’ in educational contexts	1
When a Children’s Literary Jury Imagines Other Children as Potential Readers: A Case of Collaborative Research	1
A comparison of child protection systems in the Greater Region: Implementing the UN convention on the rights of the child through narrow and broad understandings	1
Branded childhood: Infants as digital capital on Instagram	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
Deepening collaborative research with children and young people: A co-edited and co-written special issue	1
Advancing feminist relationality in childhood studies	1
Renegotiating the Swedish child welfare system through claims to represent children	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
Kids United	1
Unlocking voices? Child-centred creative research methods in a school ethnography	1
Children’s drawings of school in home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Children as experiencers: Increasing engagement, participation and inclusion for young children in the museum	1
“Too immature for politics?” Political agency in the eyes of Russian adolescent protesters, 2011–20	1
Children as social actors negotiating their privacy in the digital commercial context	1
On the banality of attrition in the lives of chronically marginalized children	1
Participation for protection: New perspectives on the value of young people’s involvement in research addressing sexual violence	1
To help each other and to be together: How children think about care within the family across three cultures	1