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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

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	26
‘Each child must be assigned a key person’: Context and interpretation of a statutory requirement in English Early Childhood Education and Care settings	25
Towards a model for analysing adolescents' reflexivity: Reflectiveness, criticality and boundedness	23
Racism suitable for children? Intersections between child innocence and white innocence	20
Weaving Smartphones Into Mother–Infant Interaction: Digital Disruptions or Participatory Possibilities?	20
Young people's perspectives on assisted dying and its potential inclusion of minors	18
Paths of disclosure – The process of sharing experiences of child sexual abuse	18
Free school meals for all poor children in Europe: An important and affordable target?	17
What is the Impact of the Benefit Cap and two‐child Limit on the Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People in the UK ? A Rapid Review of Qual	17
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The legal, policy, institutional and programmatic context for protecting children against online sexual exploitation in Tunisia	15
Baby steps to a child‐to‐child network: A path to empower children for exercising their participation rights	13
The sleeping voices: Evaluating parenting ‘self‐help’ books, narratives of rule, routine and ritual	13
Children's perspectives on vegetable consumption and gardening: Outcomes from a qualitative study in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	12
‘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	12
Still on the same page: A gender comparison of the top 100 picture books from the UK and China published 2011–2020	12
Maternal perceptions of infant's body weight and childhood obesity in South Africa: A qualitative study in Soweto	12
Children and young people's perspectives on and experiences of COVID‐19 in global contexts	12
‘Why blame the girls’?: Contextual factors enabling juvenile prostitution in a Ghanaian metropolis	12
Schools as Sites of Activism: Students' Political Socialisation and Activism at School	11
A Critical Review of the 2025 RSHE Guidance and Alternative Approach Framed in Safe Uncertainty	11
Becoming good ancestors: A decolonial, childist approach to global intergenerational sustainability	11
Barriers to the Accessibility of Childcare Services for Children With Disabilities Aged 0 to 5 Years: Perspectives of Parents and Childcare Staff	11
The Importance of Relationship in Independent Advocacy for Care‐Experienced Young People	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
Positive and Negative Experiences of Caring Among Adolescent Young Carers	10
“Others' children are expendable.” Comparing childcare sector with health and long‐term sectors in Taiwan	10
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
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“I always think about tomorrow what I'll eat” an exploration of the experiences of adolescents in poor urban contexts in Accra, Ghana	10
Responding to child and adolescent‐to‐parent violence and abuse from a distance: Remote delivery of interventions during Covid‐19	10
Criminal responsibility of older children: The failings of doli incapax in Australia	10
Trauma, Testimony and Lower Secondary Holocaust Education in Rywka Lipszyc's and Otto Wolf's Diaries	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)	9
Supporting living together: Group work on animal rights for children	9
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Seeing disability in children's made for television programmes: An Australian case study	9
The ambiguities of coercion: Mapping adolescents' experiences of coercion in institutional everyday life	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
Ending racial disproportionality in child welfare: A systematic review	8
Children's Voices Across Time: Peer Networks, Parental Ambivalence, and Hidden Practices Online	8
Social class as a challenge in educating for diversity—The case of a Finnish preschool	8
‘You Have to Understand That They Don't Understand’: Girls' Perceptions of Adult Support for Navigating Influencer Culture	8
Re‐thinking youth work as initial mental health support for young people	7
‘Longing So Much!’ Children's Meanings of Nature Contact During COVID‐19 Restrictions in Brazil	7
Reimaging activism to save the planet: Using transdisciplinary and participatory methodologies to support collective youth action	7
Poverty for lunch: A case study of agency and food scarcity in mealtimes in disadvantaged ECE	7
What About Their Future? An Analysis of Child Protection Systems' Focus on the Future of Newborn Children in Care Order Decisions	7
Questioning children's activism: What is new or old in theory and practice?	7
The Impact of Family Bonding Activity Type and Time on Young Children's Social–Emotional Development	7
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Being disliked and bullied: A case revealing interplay between peer status and bullying	7
Feminist reflections on childhood: A history and call to action By Penny A.Weiss. Temple University Press, 2021. ISBN 9781439918685, 293 pp.	7
Co‐Designing a Children's Transition Charter for the Transition to School: Opening Participatory Spaces to Hear Children's Voices	7
Exploring young people's experiences of race, gender and socioeconomic status in relation to everyday challenges: A focus group study	7
The multiple roles of media use within the family system during lockdown: A thematic analysis of parental reports from the UK	6
Bullying in Spanish high schools: Intersection of gender and immigrant background	6
Planning Without Children? Representation and Participation in Czech Strategic Urban and National Policies	6
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Amplifying Marginalised Voices: A Rapid Evidence Review of Participatory Methods Engaging Justice‐Involved Youth	6
The assessment of cliques in bound child and adolescent groups: A systematic scoping review	6
Children as co‐researchers in pandemic times: Power and participation in the use of digital dialogues with children during the COVID‐19 lockdown	6
Children's Digital Rights to Accessible and Reliable Public Sector Communication	6
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
Rethinking concepts of special educational needs and disability in the primary classroom	6
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,	6
Artificial intelligence for children: UNICEF's policy guidance and beyond	6
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An Inclusive Approach to Gardening in Children's Settings: An Observational Study	6
A rapid review of children and young people's views of poverty and welfare in the context of Universal Credit	6
No Hiding Places—A Review of Representations of Children's Right to Play in Schoolyards Across Wider Irish Educational Policies and Guidelines	5
The (In)visibility of the SDGs in Students' Learning in England: Evidence From Focus Groups With 15‐Year‐Olds	5

Governance, Migration and Educational Rights: A Policy Analysis of Migrant Children's Educational Access in Sichuan, China	5
Children's Homes: Building or Threatening the Resilience and Rights of Black Orphans and Vulnerable Children	5
Healthy masculinity construction: The influence of race, faith and athletics	5
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Attune, animate and amplify: Creating youth voice assemblages in pARTicipatory sexuality education research	5
Child identity‐based activism in Brazil: Wearing Afro‐style hair to contest discrimination, racism and oppression	5
The Voice of a Reference Group in Research With Children	5
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Youth participation processes in longitudinal out of home care research	5
Considering the moral implications of psychiatric diagnosis for children	5
‘They are always in the top of our mind’: Designated Teachers' views on supporting care experienced children in England	5
Doing Being Orten: Managing Commonplace Super‐Diversity in Swedish School‐Age Educare	5
‘How Does Living in Institution Impact Young Lives?’—Insights From Young People in Ci'aiyuan	5
A new materialist (re)configuring of sexuality, age and the discourse of ‘childhood innocence’	5
Machinic assemblages—The role of school policies in producing children's sense of agency	5
Listening to Young People on Childhood Death: A Youth‐Focused Participatory Approach to Children's Palliative and End‐of‐Life Research and Policymaking	5
Young children's perceptions and experiences of school readiness during the transition from preschool to primary school in China	5
Measures to Ensure That Social Workers Render Holistic Family Reunification Services: A South African Perspective	5
Cultural heterogeneity, family dysfunction and inadequate school support: Ethnic disparities in bullying victimization within China's multiethnic regions	5
Between advocacy and commodification on Instagram: A case study of sharenting a child with disabilities	5
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	5
Youth provisioning in low‐income families: Reconsidering theories of poor attachment	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
A democratic learning process: When young children under 12 years of age in child welfare services express their wishes for participation	5
Navigating the Activist Techno‐Social Landscape: Washington, DC High School Students' Engagement with Social Media Content	5
Gendering innocence: An empirical inquiry into the lived experience of gender incongruence in childhood	5
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Youth environmental citizenship formation: Struggled political subjectivities and everyday experiences of young people in Turkey	5
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
Children as ‘becomings’—Mapping parental adultcentrism in Hungary	4
Climate Anxiety in Early Childhood: Mental Health, Displacement and Affective Injustice in International and European Climate Governance	4
Editorial Introduction: Rethinking Childhoods and South‐South Migration	4
Preschool children's dispositions of collaboration: A Chinese study	4
‘I Didn't Have A Say’: Young People's Experiences of Parental Communication and Decision‐Making During Divorce in Türkiye and England	4
Girls engaging in activism to end child marriage in Sierra Leone: Negotiating power, interacting with others and redefining their own lives	4
A tale of two Youth Expert Groups (YEGs): Learnings from youth activism in research in India and Brazil	4
Child sexual abuse in Ghana: A multi‐methods exploratory study	4
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‘Am I supposed to be in a prison or a mental hospital?’ The nature and purpose of secure children's homes	4
A comprehensive policy review of evidence‐based practices in autism policy across the United Kingdom's four nations	4
Law's drawing line: Legal discourse of consent in child sexual abuse cases in Japan	4
Remembrance and ritual in English schools	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
‘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
Cripping the Campus: Youth With Disabilities, Agency, and Activism in Saudi Arabia Universities	4
Parental Understandings of ‘Stranger Danger’: Balancing Fear of Victimisation by Strangers Against Enabling Autonomy and Independence in Children	4
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Exploring possibilities for child participation in guideline development: The need for a fundamental reconsideration and reconfiguration of the system	4
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Homeless youth‐led activism and direct action: Lessons from a participatory research project in Tio'tia:ke/Montréal	4
The Becoming of Children and Caregiving Fathers—A Video Ethnography of Individual Parent Conversations at Swedish Child Health Centres	4
It Is Because of Our Society, but Inside the Child: Ambiguity in Dutch Youth Health Care Professionals' Understanding of Normalisation	4
“My belly tickles! And my vulva too!”: Children's conversations about pleasure in Catalonia (Spain)	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
Tracing emotional experiences and the well‐being during the pandemic through drawings by Spanish children	4
A Policy‐Driven Scoping Review of the Regulatory and Operational Framework Addressing Obesity in Children in Need in Greece	4
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Students' Perspectives on Inclusive Education in Finland	4
Assessing Child Maltreatment and Its Relationships With Personality, Resilience and Attachment in Adulthood	4