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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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	56
‘Orphan’ as a category of analysis: Historicizing ‘child rescue’ in colonial India, 1860s–1920s	27
‘A trip organised for children is not a serious matter’? Summer treatment camps for the Belgian-German borderlands (1919-1939)	22
“Tiny luggages”: Immersive migrant childhoods and multi-sensory methods as disruptive and facilitative opportunities	22
Children, border(land)s and mixed economies of welfare	19
What takes ‘us’ so long? The philosophical poverty of childhood studies and education	16
Chinese migrant children’s constructions of transnational childhood in Norway	16
Beyond ‘rescue’ or ‘responsibilisation’ within girls’ empowerment programmes: Notes on recovering agency from the Global South	14
Adults’ ad hoc practices in interviews with children - Ethical considerations in the context of adultness and generational ordering	13
Reading silences/silent readings: Disrupting the hegemony of voice in research with disabled children	13
Queer temporalities of desire in Aftersun : Childhood memory and sonic expression	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	12
Past-present-future childhoods: Technology, time, and childhoods in narratives of pandemic parenting	11
Troubling the trope of the authoritarian father: Perspectives from the Arab World	10
‘This is our treehouse’: Investigating play through a practice architectures lens	10
Identity formations in archived childhood memories of nature in Sweden	9
Do children have a right to do nothing? Exploring the place of passive leisure in Australian school age care	9
Righting adults’ wrongs: ‘Generationing’ on the battlefield. A decolonial approach	9
Play with a purpose: Intensive parenting, educational desires and shifting notions of childhood and learning in twenty-first century Singapore	9
‘They throw us in the drain and beat us’: Children’s struggles for water as care and resistance politics	8
Exploring the taken-for-granted relationship between children’s culture and the cultural heritage of terrorism	8
Teaching ‘global childhoods’ in Childhood Studies	7
What might a decolonial perspective on child protection look like? Lessons from Kenya	7
Histories of childhood and man: Implications for childhood studies	7

Waiting for care: A reflection on (m)otherhood and siblinghood in crip time(s)	7
Living together and apart: Reimagining care in a segregated neighbourhood of Santiago, Chile	6
Investing in activism: Learning from children’s actions to stop child marriage	6
Creating ownership: Strengths and tensions in co-production with children, young people, and adults across contexts	6
Articulating encounters between children and plastics	6
Transformative conversations for a critical childhood studies	6
Acknowledgment and Welcome	6
Not so girl-led: Collective concerted cultivation in Girl Scouts of the United States of America	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
Child focused research: Disconnected and disembodied voices	5
Transcending national borders through educational practices: the Children’s Castle in Luxembourg	5
Advancing global and transnational approaches to the study of out-of-home childcare	5
The adult in the room: The push and pull of parental involvement in research with children	5
Parenting styles and receptiveness (or otherwise) to children’s emotions in the higher social classes	4
Transnational professionalism in child welfare in Germany	4
Research ethics in childhood research	4
Learning through magic? Diffractive analysis of Children’s experiences across post-structuralist, post-Freudian, and post-materialist perspectives	4
Raising children: Discussing and practicing modern/colonial family education in Colombia	4
Underrepresentation of most childhoods in the study of development. Latin American researchers’ insights on limitations, advances, and challenges	4
Making finance fun: Playful affordances and gamified interface designs in children’s FinTech apps	4
Adults’ articulations about children and their coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic - Antonovsky-inspired thematic analysis of Swedish junior and daily newspapers	4
Social geographies of categorizations in two preschools: A comparative study of the U.S. and South Korean children	4
From extractivist practices and the child-as-data to an ethics of reciprocity and mutuality in empirical childhood research	4
Children’s voices for change: Co-researching with children and young people as family violence experts by experience	4
Is it OK? The use of the English neuter pronoun it to refer to children	4
Experiences of children’s formal and lived participation in family law proceedings	4
Different trajectories from a common crisis. Survival migrations and resilience of venezuelan adolescents to Peru	3
Unsettling the global, moving beyond liberalism: Intimacies as a reading practice in childhood studies	3
Attending to children’s voices within environmental education	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
Sources of vulnerability and ethical challenges in qualitative research with pediatric cancer patients	3
Acknowledgement of reviewers	3
Can’t trace time: The temporal politics of childhood	3
Decolonizing children’s agency: Perspectives of children in an Urdu-speaking Bihari camp in Bangladesh	3
Complex spaces of involvement during and after paternal deployment: Danish children’s emotions and relationships with their fathers	3
Building blocks, free play, and freedom in a 1930s Swedish kindergarten: Versions of kindergarten childhoods in written and visual records	3
Propositions for anticolonial belonging in Canadian early childhood environmental education	2
The power of prime: The role of a fad in children’s social positioning within school-age educare	2
Adolescents’ narratives about parents’ separation processes and participation in mandatory family mediation: Exercising agency through managing privacy boundaries	2
Children’s place experiences in high-rise mass housing in Ankara	2
Beyond compliance: Reframing research ethics with children in vulnerable positions through recognition and moral duty	2
Are participation rights a lingua franca? The complexities of translating and comparing the term ‘participation’ in educational contexts	2
Corrigendum to “‘They throw us in the drain and beat us’: Children’s struggles for water as care and resistance politics”	2
In/secure childhoods: Children and conflict in Kashmir	2
Why commoning matters in childhood studies	2
On youth participation and adult manipulation: Exploring the lowest rung of Hart’s ladder in a youth organization	2
Participation for protection: New perspectives on the value of young people’s involvement in research addressing sexual violence	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

When a Children’s Literary Jury Imagines Other Children as Potential Readers: A Case of Collaborative Research	1
Youthwashing: The co-optation of young people—and how child rights enable it	1
Olfactoscapes in Malawi: Exploring the smells children like and are exposed to in semi-urban classrooms	1
Children’s drawings of school in home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Acknowledgement of reviewers	1
Branded childhood: Infants as digital capital on Instagram	1
Renegotiating the Swedish child welfare system through claims to represent children	1
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
Tracing the rationale for solidarity in teenagers’ post-apocalypse stories	1
Deepening collaborative research with children and young people: A co-edited and co-written special issue	1
“I feel a little bit of both”: Exploring the relational experiences of Norwegian tween girls through age as enactment and age-shifting	1
Unlocking voices? Child-centred creative research methods in a school ethnography	1
On the banality of attrition in the lives of chronically marginalized children	1
Kinship and belonging: Pacific children’s perspectives on the diaspora	1
Faceless, voiceless child – Ethics of visual anonymity in research with children and young people	1
To help each other and to be together: How children think about care within the family across three cultures	1
“Instead I started solving my problems myself”: Exploring children’s actions of participation in social work	1
Activity-tracking assemblages in Finnish early childhood education and care	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
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
Advancing feminist relationality in childhood studies	1
Kids United	1
A feel for books: A Bourdieusian approach on embodied reading promotion practices for babies	1