OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Childhood-A Global Journal of Child Research is 4. 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
‘Orphan’ as a category of analysis: Historicizing ‘child rescue’ in colonial India, 1860s–1920s	14
Queer temporalities of desire in Aftersun : Childhood memory and sonic expression	14
Adults’ ad hoc practices in interviews with children - Ethical considerations in the context of adultness and generational ordering	12
Being and becoming in children’s digital spaces: A portal into their social media use	11
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
Refusals for liberating childhood from the trap of schooling?	10
Identity formations in archived childhood memories of nature in Sweden	10
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
Do children have a right to do nothing? Exploring the place of passive leisure in Australian school age care	7
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
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
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

Acknowledgment and Welcome	5
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
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
‘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