OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Childhood-A Global Journal of Child Research is 3. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Child-led research, children’s rights and childhood studies: A defence	15
Southern theories and decolonial childhood studies	13
Children, childhoods, and everyday militarisms	13
Young people’s perspectives on the symptoms asked for in the Health Behavior in School-Aged Children survey	12
Becoming-with research participants: Possibilities in qualitative research with children	12
‘Playing makes it fun’ in out-of-school activities: Children’s organised leisure	11
Friends through school and family: Refugee girls’ talk about friendship formation	8
Agency operating within structures: A qualitative exploration of agency amongst children living in Palestine	8
Child appropriations and irregular adoptions: Activism for the “right to identity,” justice, and reparation in Argentina and Chile	8
A relational challenge to post-corona childhood studies	8
Irregularities in transnational adoptions and child appropriations: Challenges for reparation practices	8
Becoming‘brilliant’: Generationing education and development in rural Sierra Leone	7
Touch in children’s everyday peer relations in preschools	7
Decolonising concepts of participation and protection in sensitive research with young people: local perspectives and decolonial strategies of Palestinian research advisors	7
Precarity and the question of children’s relationalities	6
Theorising gendered childhoods and girls’ schooling: Poverty, patriarchy and girls’ education in urban India	6
Narrating homes in process: Everyday politics of migrant childhoods	5
Children as researchers: Wild things and the dialogic imagination	5
Framing reciprocal obligations within intergenerational relations in Ghana through the lens of the mutuality of duty and dependence	5
Advancing feminist relationality in childhood studies	5
‘Because I love him’: Children’s relationships to their parents in the context of intimate partner violence	5
Employability and school uniform policies: Projecting the employer’s gaze	5
Making kin, not babies? Towards childist kinship in the “Anthropocene”	5
Leisure time of working children in Addis Ababa	4
“We serve too!”: Everyday militarism of children of US service members	4

Silencing touch and touching silence? Understanding the complex links between touch and silence in residential child care settings	4
The politics and pedagogy of war remembrance	4
Investing in activism: Learning from children’s actions to stop child marriage	4
Irregular adoptions and infrastructures of memory in Spain: remnant practices from the Franco Regime	4
A preliminary call for a critical public childhood studies	4
Children and adolescents’ voices and the implications for ethical research	3
‘This is our treehouse’: Investigating play through a practice architectures lens	3
Implications of irregular transnational adoptions within international standards: A review of intercountry adoption systems and Guatemalan birthmother perspectives	3
The aftermath of transnational illegal adoptions: Redressing human rights violations in the intercountry adoption system with instruments of transitional justice	3
Children at transition from primary school reflecting on what schools are for – narratives of connectedness, (mis)recognition and becoming	3
Mapping children’s play and violence in Kashmir	3
‘I prefer not to know’: Spain’s management of transnational adoption demand and signs of corruption	3
Thinking with feeling: Children’s emotional orientations to public life	3
Children as experiencers: Increasing engagement, participation and inclusion for young children in the museum	3
Closing New Loopholes: Protecting Children in Uganda’s International Adoption Practices	3
How are children coping with COVID-19 health crisis? Analysing their representations of lockdown through drawings	3
The wages of constructivism	3
Play with a purpose: Intensive parenting, educational desires and shifting notions of childhood and learning in twenty-first century Singapore	3
Same-gender intimate friends in Chinese girls’ romantic adventures in a boarding school context	3
Child focused research: Disconnected and disembodied voices	3
The state of journals on children and childhood studies: Insights and challenges from a citation analysis	3