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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
“Tiny luggages”: Immersive migrant childhoods and multi-sensory methods as disruptive and facilitative opportunities	56
‘A trip organised for children is not a serious matter’? Summer treatment camps for the Belgian-German borderlands (1919-1939)	27
‘Orphan’ as a category of analysis: Historicizing ‘child rescue’ in colonial India, 1860s–1920s	23
Children, border(land)s and mixed economies of welfare	23
Chinese migrant children’s constructions of transnational childhood in Norway	20
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
What takes ‘us’ so long? The philosophical poverty of childhood studies and education	15
Queer temporalities of desire in Aftersun : Childhood memory and sonic expression	15
Adults’ ad hoc practices in interviews with children - Ethical considerations in the context of adultness and generational ordering	14
Reading silences/silent readings: Disrupting the hegemony of voice in research with disabled children	12
Beyond ‘rescue’ or ‘responsibilisation’ within girls’ empowerment programmes: Notes on recovering agency from the Global South	12
Being and becoming in children’s digital spaces: A portal into their social media use	11
Refusals for liberating childhood from the trap of schooling?	10
Troubling the trope of the authoritarian father: Perspectives from the Arab World	10
Teaching ‘global childhoods’ in Childhood Studies	9
Identity formations in archived childhood memories of nature in Sweden	9
Past-present-future childhoods: Technology, time, and childhoods in narratives of pandemic parenting	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	8
Do children have a right to do nothing? Exploring the place of passive leisure in Australian school age care	7
‘They throw us in the drain and beat us’: Children’s struggles for water as care and resistance politics	7
Exploring the taken-for-granted relationship between children’s culture and the cultural heritage of terrorism	7
Histories of childhood and man: Implications for childhood studies	7
Not so girl-led: Collective concerted cultivation in Girl Scouts of the United States of America	6
Waiting for care: A reflection on (m)otherhood and siblinghood in crip time(s)	6

Investing in activism: Learning from children’s actions to stop child marriage	6
What might a decolonial perspective on child protection look like? Lessons from Kenya	6
Adultism and parenting: Challenges for the effective implementation of children’s rights in the Brazilian context	6
Creating ownership: Strengths and tensions in co-production with children, young people, and adults across contexts	6
Living together and apart: Reimagining care in a segregated neighbourhood of Santiago, Chile	5
Transcending national borders through educational practices: the Children’s Castle in Luxembourg	5
The adult in the room: The push and pull of parental involvement in research with children	5
The power should be balanced: Central dimensions of healthy intergenerational partnerships	5
Transformative conversations for a critical childhood studies	5
Acknowledgment and Welcome	5
Advancing global and transnational approaches to the study of out-of-home childcare	4
Transnational professionalism in child welfare in Germany	4
Research ethics in childhood research	4
Underrepresentation of most childhoods in the study of development. Latin American researchers’ insights on limitations, advances, and challenges	4
‘Performative innocence’: Obscuring structural vulnerabilities in child rights governance	4
Making finance fun: Playful affordances and gamified interface designs in children’s FinTech apps	4
Social geographies of categorizations in two preschools: A comparative study of the U.S. and South Korean children	4
Raising children: Discussing and practicing modern/colonial family education in Colombia	4
Child focused research: Disconnected and disembodied voices	4
From extractivist practices and the child-as-data to an ethics of reciprocity and mutuality in empirical childhood research	4
Parenting styles and receptiveness (or otherwise) to children’s emotions in the higher social classes	4
Is it OK? The use of the English neuter pronoun it to refer to children	4
Children’s voices for change: Co-researching with children and young people as family violence experts by experience	4