OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Children & Society 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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Education and the social mobility conundrum: An examination of the ‘psychosocial and academic trust alienation theory’ in the context of disadvantaged students in the UK secondary education	28
Free school meals for all poor children in Europe: An important and affordable target?	27
Paths of disclosure – The process of sharing experiences of child sexual abuse	27
‘Each child must be assigned a key person’: Context and interpretation of a statutory requirement in English Early Childhood Education and Care settings	23
Records of personal assistance applications reveal young carers: Viewed from the rights of the child	22
Young people's perspectives on assisted dying and its potential inclusion of minors	21
Weaving Smartphones Into Mother–Infant Interaction: Digital Disruptions or Participatory Possibilities?	19
Towards a model for analysing adolescents' reflexivity: Reflectiveness, criticality and boundedness	19
Racism suitable for children? Intersections between child innocence and white innocence	19
The legal, policy, institutional and programmatic context for protecting children against online sexual exploitation in Tunisia	18
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Baby steps to a child‐to‐child network: A path to empower children for exercising their participation rights	17
The impact of COVID ‐19 lockdown on children's and adolescents' mental health in Greece	17
The sleeping voices: Evaluating parenting ‘self‐help’ books, narratives of rule, routine and ritual	14
Schools as Sites of Activism: Students' Political Socialisation and Activism at School	13
A Critical Review of the 2025 RSHE Guidance and Alternative Approach Framed in Safe Uncertainty	13
‘I Want to Learn and Speak Hoche, Rather I Am Becoming Han’: Amplifying Minoritized Indigenous Children's Voices Through a Multilingual Curriculum in an Indigenous School	13
Maternal perceptions of infant's body weight and childhood obesity in South Africa: A qualitative study in Soweto	12
Becoming good ancestors: A decolonial, childist approach to global intergenerational sustainability	12
Children's perspectives on vegetable consumption and gardening: Outcomes from a qualitative study in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	12
Still on the same page: A gender comparison of the top 100 picture books from the UK and China published 2011–2020	11
Children and young people's perspectives on and experiences of COVID‐19 in global contexts	11
“Others' children are expendable.” Comparing childcare sector with health and long‐term sectors in Taiwan	11
Barriers to the Accessibility of Childcare Services for Children With Disabilities Aged 0 to 5 Years: Perspectives of Parents and Childcare Staff	11

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‘Why blame the girls’?: Contextual factors enabling juvenile prostitution in a Ghanaian metropolis	11
What can I do for my community? Contributing to the promotion of civic engagement through participatory methodologies: The case of young people from border regions of mainland Portugal	10
The ambiguities of coercion: Mapping adolescents' experiences of coercion in institutional everyday life	10
The Importance of Relationship in Independent Advocacy for Care‐Experienced Young People	10
Responding to child and adolescent‐to‐parent violence and abuse from a distance: Remote delivery of interventions during Covid‐19	10
Positive and Negative Experiences of Caring Among Adolescent Young Carers	10
The transformative potential of LGBTQ+ Children's picture books By JenniferMiller. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2022, ISBN 9781496840004. 270 pp., US$25 (pb)	10
Criminal responsibility of older children: The failings of doli incapax in Australia	10
Throw Your Voice: Suspended Animations in Kazakhstani ChildhoodsBy MeghanneBarker, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2024. 234 pp. US$ 32.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐50‐177648‐9	10
“I always think about tomorrow what I'll eat” an exploration of the experiences of adolescents in poor urban contexts in Accra, Ghana	10
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Seeing disability in children's made for television programmes: An Australian case study	9
Social class as a challenge in educating for diversity—The case of a Finnish preschool	9
Re‐thinking youth work as initial mental health support for young people	9
Being disliked and bullied: A case revealing interplay between peer status and bullying	9
Ending racial disproportionality in child welfare: A systematic review	9
Questioning children's activism: What is new or old in theory and practice?	9
What About Their Future? An Analysis of Child Protection Systems' Focus on the Future of Newborn Children in Care Order Decisions	9
The non‐protesting children in the 2018 Parkland school shooting protests and their freedom not to express views in child participation spaces	9
Coming of age in a pandemic era: The interdependence of life spheres through the lens of social integration of care leavers in Quebec during the COVID‐19 pandemic	9
Reimaging activism to save the planet: Using transdisciplinary and participatory methodologies to support collective youth action	9
Supporting living together: Group work on animal rights for children	9
Planning Without Children? Representation and Participation in Czech Strategic Urban and National Policies	8
Children and Violence: Agency, Experience and Representation in and Beyond Armed Conflict. By Christelle MolimaBameka, Jastine C.Barrett, MohamedKamara, KarlHanson, and Mark A.Drumbl (eds.), Abingdon,	8
Co‐Designing a Children's Transition Charter for the Transition to School: Opening Participatory Spaces to Hear Children's Voices	8
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Feminist reflections on childhood: A history and call to action By Penny A.Weiss. Temple University Press, 2021. ISBN 9781439918685, 293 pp.	8
Artificial intelligence for children: UNICEF's policy guidance and beyond	7
The multiple roles of media use within the family system during lockdown: A thematic analysis of parental reports from the UK	7
A rapid review of children and young people's views of poverty and welfare in the context of Universal Credit	7
The assessment of cliques in bound child and adolescent groups: A systematic scoping review	7
Exploring young people's experiences of race, gender and socioeconomic status in relation to everyday challenges: A focus group study	7
Poverty for lunch: A case study of agency and food scarcity in mealtimes in disadvantaged ECE	7
Children as co‐researchers in pandemic times: Power and participation in the use of digital dialogues with children during the COVID‐19 lockdown	7
Rethinking concepts of special educational needs and disability in the primary classroom	7
The Impact of Family Bonding Activity Type and Time on Young Children's Social–Emotional Development	7
Disputing discipline: Child protection, punishment and piety in Zanzibar schools. By FranziskaFay, Rutgers University Press, 2021. US$ 38.95, US$ 150 (cloth). ISBN 9781978821736 (paperback); 978197882	6
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Bullying in Spanish high schools: Intersection of gender and immigrant background	6
Children and young people's access to food, education, play and leisure in times of crisis: An international, integrative review of policy responses, impacts and adaptations during the COVID	6
Governance, Migration and Educational Rights: A Policy Analysis of Migrant Children's Educational Access in Sichuan, China	6
Youth environmental citizenship formation: Struggled political subjectivities and everyday experiences of young people in Turkey	6
Amplifying Marginalised Voices: A Rapid Evidence Review of Participatory Methods Engaging Justice‐Involved Youth	6
Children's Digital Rights to Accessible and Reliable Public Sector Communication	6
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Machinic assemblages—The role of school policies in producing children's sense of agency	6
‘They are always in the top of our mind’: Designated Teachers' views on supporting care experienced children in England	6
‘How Does Living in Institution Impact Young Lives?’—Insights From Young People in Ci'aiyuan	6
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An Inclusive Approach to Gardening in Children's Settings: An Observational Study	6
Child identity‐based activism in Brazil: Wearing Afro‐style hair to contest discrimination, racism and oppression	6
Considering the moral implications of psychiatric diagnosis for children	6
Healthy masculinity construction: The influence of race, faith and athletics	6
Gendering innocence: An empirical inquiry into the lived experience of gender incongruence in childhood	6
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Children's lives in an era of school closures: Exploring the implications of COVID‐19 for child labour in Ghana	5
Doing Being Orten: Managing Commonplace Super‐Diversity in Swedish School‐Age Educare	5
Children's Homes: Building or Threatening the Resilience and Rights of Black Orphans and Vulnerable Children	5
Measures to Ensure That Social Workers Render Holistic Family Reunification Services: A South African Perspective	5
A democratic learning process: When young children under 12 years of age in child welfare services express their wishes for participation	5
No Hiding Places—A Review of Representations of Children's Right to Play in Schoolyards Across Wider Irish Educational Policies and Guidelines	5
Students' Perspectives on Inclusive Education in Finland	5
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The Voice of a Reference Group in Research With Children	5
Children's dimensions of poverty: Qualitative studies in urban China	5
Youth provisioning in low‐income families: Reconsidering theories of poor attachment	5
Between advocacy and commodification on Instagram: A case study of sharenting a child with disabilities	5
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Attune, animate and amplify: Creating youth voice assemblages in pARTicipatory sexuality education research	5
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Youth participation processes in longitudinal out of home care research	5
A new materialist (re)configuring of sexuality, age and the discourse of ‘childhood innocence’	5
Cultural heterogeneity, family dysfunction and inadequate school support: Ethnic disparities in bullying victimization within China's multiethnic regions	5
“People as normal as possible”. Analysis of the construction of subjects in materials for the prevention of gender violence among teenagers in Spain	5
The ban on corporal punishment in a senior high school in Ghana: The perspicacity of teachers at Northern School of Business	5
Free time, gender and the pandemic: An exploration of children's daily routines in the times of COVID‐19 in Chile	5
Young children's perceptions and experiences of school readiness during the transition from preschool to primary school in China	5
Homeless youth‐led activism and direct action: Lessons from a participatory research project in Tio'tia:ke/Montréal	4
Law's drawing line: Legal discourse of consent in child sexual abuse cases in Japan	4
‘She Tells Me I Am a Strong Person’: Romanian and Polish Young Migrants' Talk About Significant Adults in the School Settings in Sweden	4
Transracial adoption practice in South Africa: The Western Cape as a case study	4
Editorial Introduction: Rethinking Childhoods and South‐South Migration	4
Cripping the Campus: Youth With Disabilities, Agency, and Activism in Saudi Arabia Universities	4
Girls engaging in activism to end child marriage in Sierra Leone: Negotiating power, interacting with others and redefining their own lives	4
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Tracing emotional experiences and the well‐being during the pandemic through drawings by Spanish children	4
Evaluation of route choice for walking commutes to school and street space optimization in old urban areas of China based on a child‐friendly orientation: The case of the Wuyi Park area in Zhengzhou	4
Children as ‘becomings’—Mapping parental adultcentrism in Hungary	4
Children's Agency in Finding Happiness in the ‘Happiest Country in the World’: A Collaborative Drawing and Storytelling Case Study	4
The Becoming of Children and Caregiving Fathers—A Video Ethnography of Individual Parent Conversations at Swedish Child Health Centres	4
Play across childhood: International perspectives on diverse contexts of play By PeteKing, ShellyNewstead (Ed.): Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. pp. 244. £109.99. Hardcover ISBN: 978‐3‐030‐72 460	4
Remembrance and ritual in English schools	4
Climate Anxiety in Early Childhood: Mental Health, Displacement and Affective Injustice in International and European Climate Governance	4
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Child sexual abuse in Ghana: A multi‐methods exploratory study	4
Exploring possibilities for child participation in guideline development: The need for a fundamental reconsideration and reconfiguration of the system	4
‘Am I supposed to be in a prison or a mental hospital?’ The nature and purpose of secure children's homes	4
Preschool children's dispositions of collaboration: A Chinese study	4
“My belly tickles! And my vulva too!”: Children's conversations about pleasure in Catalonia (Spain)	4
The Impact of Parental Divorce on Children Through the Mothers' Lens: A Phenomenological Study	4
Ethics committees and shaping of children's participation in qualitative educational research in Chile	4
‘Like a Kid's Book’: Pilot Testing of a Visual Informed Consent Form With Children in Canada, Ghana and Laos	4
Assessing Child Maltreatment and Its Relationships With Personality, Resilience and Attachment in Adulthood	4
Mapping review of interventions to reduce the use of restrictive practices in children and young people's institutional settings: The CONTRAST study	4
A comprehensive policy review of evidence‐based practices in autism policy across the United Kingdom's four nations	4
An Aid or an Obstacle? Parent and Teacher Perspectives on the Impact of Technology on Children's Wellbeing and School Life	4
Parental Understandings of ‘Stranger Danger’: Balancing Fear of Victimisation by Strangers Against Enabling Autonomy and Independence in Children	4
A tale of two Youth Expert Groups (YEGs): Learnings from youth activism in research in India and Brazil	4
A Policy‐Driven Scoping Review of the Regulatory and Operational Framework Addressing Obesity in Children in Need in Greece	4
‘I don't know what is autism, what is normal teenage behaviour, and what is naughtiness’: Conceptualising child and adolescent to parent violence in the context of neurodevelopmental difference	4
Envisioning action‐oriented and justice‐driven climate change education: Insights from youth climate justice activists	4
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Young adult migrants' social experiences in Sweden: ‘Melting pot’ and ‘salad bowl’ perspectives on social integration	4