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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
“Tiny luggages”: Immersive migrant childhoods and multi-sensory methods as disruptive and facilitative opportunities	25
Children, border(land)s and mixed economies of welfare	15
‘A trip organised for children is not a serious matter’? Summer treatment camps for the Belgian-German borderlands (1919-1939)	13
Queer temporalities of desire in Aftersun : Childhood memory and sonic expression	12
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	12
What takes ‘us’ so long? The philosophical poverty of childhood studies and education	10
Making sense of an irregular adoption. Subjective trajectories of four French adoptees born in Romania in the 1980s and 1990s	10
Beyond ‘rescue’ or ‘responsibilisation’ within girls’ empowerment programmes: Notes on recovering agency from the Global South	9
Troubling the trope of the authoritarian father: Perspectives from the Arab World	9
Making waves: A cross-study analysis of young people’s participation arenas in Scotland’s schools	9
Reading silences/silent readings: Disrupting the hegemony of voice in research with disabled children	9
Adults’ ad hoc practices in interviews with children - Ethical considerations in the context of adultness and generational ordering	9
Seen and not heard: Students’ uses and experiences of silence in school relationships at a secondary school	9
Engaging girls with disabilities through cellphilming: Reflections on participatory visual research as a means of countering violence in the Global South	8
Refusals for liberating childhood from the trap of schooling?	8
Past-present-future childhoods: Technology, time, and childhoods in narratives of pandemic parenting	8
Do children have a right to do nothing? Exploring the place of passive leisure in Australian school age care	7
Exploring the taken-for-granted relationship between children’s culture and the cultural heritage of terrorism	7
Decolonising concepts of participation and protection in sensitive research with young people: local perspectives and decolonial strategies of Palestinian research advisors	7
Identity formations in archived childhood memories of nature in Sweden	7
Teaching ‘global childhoods’ in Childhood Studies	7
Histories of childhood and man: Implications for childhood studies	6
Play with a purpose: Intensive parenting, educational desires and shifting notions of childhood and learning in twenty-first century Singapore	6
Kindergarten children’s views on friendship in a super-diverse context	6
What might a decolonial perspective on child protection look like? Lessons from Kenya	6

Redressing forced removals of Yenish children in Switzerland in the 20th century: An analysis through transitional justice lens	6
Righting adults’ wrongs: ‘Generationing’ on the battlefield. A decolonial approach	6
‘This is our treehouse’: Investigating play through a practice architectures lens	6
Not so girl-led: Collective concerted cultivation in Girl Scouts of the United States of America	5
Waiting for care: A reflection on (m)otherhood and siblinghood in crip time(s)	5
Investing in activism: Learning from children’s actions to stop child marriage	5
Creating ownership: Strengths and tensions in co-production with children, young people, and adults across contexts	5
Advancing global and transnational approaches to the study of out-of-home childcare	4
Acknowledgment and Welcome	4
Child focused research: Disconnected and disembodied voices	4
Child appropriations and irregular adoptions: Activism for the “right to identity,” justice, and reparation in Argentina and Chile	4
The power should be balanced: Central dimensions of healthy intergenerational partnerships	4
Articulating encounters between children and plastics	4
The queer child cracks: Queer feminist encounters with materiality and innocence in childhood studies	4
From extractivist practices and the child-as-data to an ethics of reciprocity and mutuality in empirical childhood research	4
Closing New Loopholes: Protecting Children in Uganda’s International Adoption Practices	4
Transcending national borders through educational practices: the Children’s Castle in Luxembourg	4
The adult in the room: The push and pull of parental involvement in research with children	4
Children’s voices for change: Co-researching with children and young people as family violence experts by experience	4
Philosophy and childhood studies	4
Different trajectories from a common crisis. Survival migrations and resilience of venezuelan adolescents to Peru	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
Climate strike or not? Intersectionality of age and culture encountered by young climate activists in Taiwan	3
Transnational professionalism in child welfare in Germany	3
Experiences of children’s formal and lived participation in family law proceedings	3
Raising children: Discussing and practicing modern/colonial family education in Colombia	3
Research ethics in childhood research	3
Learning through magic? Diffractive analysis of Children’s experiences across post-structuralist, post-Freudian, and post-materialist perspectives	3
In Memoriam Berry Mayall	3
Social geographies of categorizations in two preschools: A comparative study of the U.S. and South Korean children	3
Is it OK? The use of the English neuter pronoun it to refer to children	3
Children’s place experiences in high-rise mass housing in Ankara	2
Decolonizing children’s agency: Perspectives of children in an Urdu-speaking Bihari camp in Bangladesh	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
Complex spaces of involvement during and after paternal deployment: Danish children’s emotions and relationships with their fathers	2
Propositions for anticolonial belonging in Canadian early childhood environmental education	2
Faceless, voiceless child – Ethics of visual anonymity in research with children and young people	2
Why commoning matters in childhood studies	2
Acknowledgement of reviewers	2
Unsettling the global, moving beyond liberalism: Intimacies as a reading practice in childhood studies	2
Sources of vulnerability and ethical challenges in qualitative research with pediatric cancer patients	2
Agency operating within structures: A qualitative exploration of agency amongst children living in Palestine	2
Participation for protection: New perspectives on the value of young people’s involvement in research addressing sexual violence	2
Tracing the rationale for solidarity in teenagers’ post-apocalypse stories	2
On youth participation and adult manipulation: Exploring the lowest rung of Hart’s ladder in a youth organization	2
Attending to children’s voices within environmental education	2
The ideological underpinnings and political usefulness of residential care for children and young people	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
In/secure childhoods: Children and conflict in Kashmir	2
Adolescents’ narratives about parents’ separation processes and participation in mandatory family mediation: Exercising agency through managing privacy boundaries	2

Advancing feminist relationality in childhood studies	2
Kids United	1
“Too immature for politics?” Political agency in the eyes of Russian adolescent protesters, 2011–20	1
When a Children’s Literary Jury Imagines Other Children as Potential Readers: A Case of Collaborative Research	1
Children’s drawings of school in home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic	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
On the banality of attrition in the lives of chronically marginalized children	1
Branded childhood: Infants as digital capital on Instagram	1
Childhood memories of belonging among young Romanian migrants in Italy: A qualitative life-course approach	1
Olfactoscapes in Malawi: Exploring the smells children like and are exposed to in semi-urban classrooms	1
Children as social actors negotiating their privacy in the digital commercial context	1
Deepening collaborative research with children and young people: A co-edited and co-written special issue	1
Implications of irregular transnational adoptions within international standards: A review of intercountry adoption systems and Guatemalan birthmother perspectives	1
Acknowledgement of reviewers	1
Children as experiencers: Increasing engagement, participation and inclusion for young children in the museum	1
Irregularities in transnational adoptions and child appropriations: Challenges for reparation practices	1
Children as researchers: Wild things and the dialogic imagination	1