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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Children, border(land)s and mixed economies of welfare	37
‘A trip organised for children is not a serious matter’? Summer treatment camps for the Belgian-German borderlands (1919-1939)	23
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	21
Making waves: A cross-study analysis of young people’s participation arenas in Scotland’s schools	16
“Tiny luggages”: Immersive migrant childhoods and multi-sensory methods as disruptive and facilitative opportunities	16
Beyond ‘rescue’ or ‘responsibilisation’ within girls’ empowerment programmes: Notes on recovering agency from the Global South	14
Queer temporalities of desire in Aftersun : Childhood memory and sonic expression	14
What takes ‘us’ so long? The philosophical poverty of childhood studies and education	14
Making sense of an irregular adoption. Subjective trajectories of four French adoptees born in Romania in the 1980s and 1990s	14
Adults’ ad hoc practices in interviews with children - Ethical considerations in the context of adultness and generational ordering	11
Seen and not heard: Students’ uses and experiences of silence in school relationships at a secondary school	10
Past-present-future childhoods: Technology, time, and childhoods in narratives of pandemic parenting	10
Reading silences/silent readings: Disrupting the hegemony of voice in research with disabled children	10
Troubling the trope of the authoritarian father: Perspectives from the Arab World	10
Redressing forced removals of Yenish children in Switzerland in the 20th century: An analysis through transitional justice lens	9
Identity formations in archived childhood memories of nature in Sweden	9
Play with a purpose: Intensive parenting, educational desires and shifting notions of childhood and learning in twenty-first century Singapore	9
Refusals for liberating childhood from the trap of schooling?	9
‘This is our treehouse’: Investigating play through a practice architectures lens	8
Kindergarten children’s views on friendship in a super-diverse context	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
Creating ownership: Strengths and tensions in co-production with children, young people, and adults across contexts	7
‘They throw us in the drain and beat us’: Children’s struggles for water as care and resistance politics	7
Righting adults’ wrongs: ‘Generationing’ on the battlefield. A decolonial approach	7

Teaching ‘global childhoods’ in Childhood Studies	7
Investing in activism: Learning from children’s actions to stop child marriage	6
Waiting for care: A reflection on (m)otherhood and siblinghood in crip time(s)	6
Not so girl-led: Collective concerted cultivation in Girl Scouts of the United States of America	6
What might a decolonial perspective on child protection look like? Lessons from Kenya	6
Histories of childhood and man: Implications for childhood studies	6
Acknowledgment and Welcome	5
Advancing global and transnational approaches to the study of out-of-home childcare	5
Transformative conversations for a critical childhood studies	5
The adult in the room: The push and pull of parental involvement in research with children	5
Child focused research: Disconnected and disembodied voices	5
Transcending national borders through educational practices: the Children’s Castle in Luxembourg	5
Articulating encounters between children and plastics	5
The power should be balanced: Central dimensions of healthy intergenerational partnerships	5
From extractivist practices and the child-as-data to an ethics of reciprocity and mutuality in empirical childhood research	4
Transnational professionalism in child welfare in Germany	4
Climate strike or not? Intersectionality of age and culture encountered by young climate activists in Taiwan	4
Children’s voices for change: Co-researching with children and young people as family violence experts by experience	4
Raising children: Discussing and practicing modern/colonial family education in Colombia	4
Is it OK? The use of the English neuter pronoun it to refer to children	4
Philosophy and childhood studies	4
Underrepresentation of most childhoods in the study of development. Latin American researchers’ insights on limitations, advances, and challenges	4
Social geographies of categorizations in two preschools: A comparative study of the U.S. and South Korean children	4