OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Children & Society is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the mental health and well‐being of children and young people	94
A systematic review of children’s participation in child protection decision‐making: Tokenistic presence or not?	36
Childhood Ethics: An ontological advancement for childhood studies	30
The declining place of music education in schools in England	30
Co‐creating youth justice practice with young people: Tackling power dynamics and enabling transformative action	24
Fostering global dialogue: Conceptualisations of children's rights to participation and protection	22
Youth participation: Adultism, human rights and professional youth work	18
Research with young children: Exploring the methodological advantages and challenges of using hand puppets and draw and tell	15
Using a ‘Family Language Policy’ lens to explore the dynamic and relational nature of child agency	14
Childhood Studies and child psychology: Disciplines in dialogue?	14
The impact ofCOVID‐19 lockdown on children's and adolescents' mental health in Greece	12
Constructs of childhood, generation and heroism in editorials on young people's climate change activism: Their mobilisation and effects	11
Participation as a right to the city: Iranian children’s perspectives about their inclusion in urban decision‐making	10
Does the gender of a practitioner matter in early childhood education and care? Perspectives from Scottish and Chinese young children	10
Child language brokering as a family care practice: Reframing the ‘parentified child’ debate	10
School bullying and health‐related quality of life in Chinese school‐aged children and adolescents	9
Gamification and family leisure to alleviate the psychological impact of confinement due to COVID‐19	9
Intensified inequities: Young people's experiences of Covid‐19 and school closures in Uganda	9
Creating a culture of participation: Early childhood education and care educators in the face of change	9
Beyond ‘developmentalism’: A relational and embodied approach to young children's development	8
Hiding and seeking: Children's lived experiences during COVID‐19	8
Art in my world: Exploring the visual art experiences in the everyday lives of young children and their impact on cultural capital	8
Crafting futures with hope: Young climate activists’ imaginaries in an age of crisis and uncertainty	8
Children as co‐researchers in pandemic times: Power and participation in the use of digital dialogues with children during the COVID‐19 lockdown	8
The punitive transition in youth justice: Reconstructing the child as offender	8

Childhood innocence and experience: Memory, discourse and practice	8
Introducing a trauma‐informed capability approach in youth services	8
Why are you allowed to go to school on your own? Exploring children's voices on independent mobility	7
Disruptions, adjustments and hopes: The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on child well‐being in five Majority World Countries	7
Material as actor in the enactment of social norms: Engaging with a sociomaterial perspective in childhood studies to avoid the ‘traps of closure’	7
The representation of future generations in newspaper coverage of climate change: A study of the UK press	7
Innovations in care for children separated from parents: Transitioning from residential to family models of service	7
Experiences of trafficked and sexually exploited boys transitioning from shelter programmes into the community: Findings from a longitudinal study	7
‘..It takes a lot of brain space’: Understanding young carers’ lives in England and the implications for policy and practice to reduce inappropriate and excessive care work	6
The state and my happiness: Youth mental health, citizenship education and discursive contestations in contemporary Indonesia	6
Does gender influence children's and young people's caring? A qualitative, systematic review and meta‐ethnography	6
'It's the way they look at you': Why discrimination towards young parents is a policy and practice issue	6
Appraisals and de/legitimation of classroom well‐being: A study based on Chilean students' voices	6
‘We can play tag with a stick’. Children's knowledge, experiences, feelings and creative thinking during the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
The ethnic identity of transracially placed foster children with an ethnic minority background: A systematic literature review	6
Children at risk of being recruited for armed conflict, 1990–2020	6
Creating places, relationships and education for refugee children in camps: Lessons learnt from the ‘The School of Peace’ educational model	6
Turning 18 in specialised residential therapeutic care: Independence or a cliff edge?	5
How parenting pre‐teens compares to other child stages: Identifying opportunities to enhance adolescent mental health and wellbeing	5
The role of foster carers in England and Portugal: Is it solely a parenting role?	5
‘I actually know that things will get better’: The many pathways to resilience of LGBTQIA+ youth in out‐of‐home care	5
The Haitian orphanage crisis: Exporting neoliberal family ideals in the debate on vulnerable childhoods in Haiti	5
‘We are the same as everyone else just with a different and unique backstory’: Identity, belonging and ‘othering’ within education for young people who are ‘looked after’	5
Mapping the body, voicing the margins: Using body maps to understand children’s embodied experiences of violence in Kingston, Jamaica	5
‘We need to understand what’s going on because it’s our life’: Using sandboxing to understand children and young people’s everyday conversations about care	5
How many men work in the English early years sector? Why is the low figure so ‘stubbornly resistant to change’?	5
Supporting languages: The socio‐educational integration of migrant and refugee children and young people	5
Agency in everyday life: An ethnography of the moral experiences of children and youth	5
Depathologising diversity: Trans children and families' experiences of pathologisation in the UK	5
The association between joint physical custody and children’s mental health. Do children’s experiences of parental loyalty conflicts moderate the relationship?	5
Kindergarten Education Scheme in Hong Kong: Policy measures, rhizomatic connections and early childhood teacher education	5
Child as method and/as childism: Conceptual–political intersections and tensions	5
Children's experiences of food poverty in Portugal: Findings from a mixed‐method case study approach	4
Behaviour management or institutionalised repression? Children’s experiences of physical restraint in custody	4
‘Self’ (ziji), ‘others’ (taren) and ‘collective’ (jiti): Friendships at school embedded with China's Confucian–collectivist sociocultural values	4
Towards more active parenting: Trends in parental mediation of children’s internet use in European countries	4
Parental mediation in the age of mobile technology	4
Children in dual‐residence arrangements: Exploring discourses of fairness and children's best interest in Norway	4
Addressing inequality: Educators responding to the contexts of young children’s lives?	4
Healthy masculinity construction: The influence of race, faith and athletics	4
Children's experiences of a good environment and its future—Developing theoretical framework for children's wellbeing	4
Mixed methods Participatory Action Research to inform service design based on the Capabilities Approach, in the North of England	4
Post‐socialist geopolitical uncertainties: Researching memories of childhood with ‘child as method’	4
‘The Pandemic Affected My Life in a Negative Way’: The Experiences of Estonian Children in Child Protective Services During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic	4
Children's lives in an era of school closures: Exploring the implications of COVID‐19 for child labour in Ghana	4
Doing ethnographic method with babies – Participation and perspective approached from the floor	4
Towards inclusive urban environments for infants and toddlers: Assessing four urban neighbourhoods in Istanbul with mothers	4
Children's perspectives on their economic activity—Diversity, motivations and parental awareness	4
Children’s consent to child welfare services: Some explorative remarks	4
Breaking the silence on special needs children in foster care: The diversity of children in foster care, carers and processes	4

Towards a child‐centred public health: Lessons from rheumatic fever prevention in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Unpacking the discourses of stunting in Indonesian early childhood education and parenting	4
School bullying and the ongoing social dynamics: A thematic analysis of young peoples' perspectives on a specific bullying case	4
Constructions of ‘the ageless’ asylum seekers: An analysis of how age is understood among professionals working within the norwegian immigration authorities	3
Food and nutrition education in Australian primary schools: Parents' perspectives on why, when and how	3
Free time, gender and the pandemic: An exploration of children's daily routines in the times of COVID‐19 in Chile	3
The relationship between maternal sensitivity and play during early childhood with the development of cognitive skills and socio‐emotional competencies: Longitudinal evidence from Peru	3
Society's readiness: How relational approaches to well‐being could support young children's educational achievement in high‐poverty contexts	3
Race, rage and emotional suspects: Ideologies of social mobility confront the racial contours of mass incarceration	3
‘Keeping the informal safe’: Strategies for developing peer support initiatives for young people who have experienced sexual violence	3
The lived realities of left‐behind children in Mainland China: Life and values education in the home and at school	3
Young children’s agency with digital technologies	3
Thinking and doing with childism in children's literature studies	3
Alcohol and tobacco use in Portuguese adolescents: The relationship with social factors, future expectations, physical and psychological symptoms	3
Collaborations between young people living with bodily impairments and their multiprofessional teams: The relational dynamics of participation and power	3
Conducting large‐scale mixed‐method research on harm and abuse prevention with children under 12: Learning from a UK feasibility study	3
Local translations of a universal concept: ‘Child Perspective’ in Swedish social assistance	3
Children's lives and rights under lockdown: A Northern Irish perspective by autistic young people	3
Children, language and access to schools in the global South: The case of migrants in Ghana	3
Bear in a Window: Australian children's perspectives on lockdown and experiences of the COVID‐19 pandemic	3
The performativity of surveys: Teenagers’ meaning‐making of the 'Health Behavior in School‐aged Children Survey' in Sweden	3
The gift of language: An anthropological approach to child language brokering in Barcelona	3
Embedded in relations—Interactions as a source of agency and life opportunities for care‐experienced young adults	3
“Others' children are expendable.” Comparing childcare sector with health and long‐term sectors in Taiwan	3
Listening to children: Evaluation of a positive parenting programme through art‐based research	3
Transracial adoption practice in South Africa: The Western Cape as a case study	3
Vulnerable children aiding visually challenged beggars in Nigeria: Need for social work intervention	3
Adult narratives of childhood language brokering: Learning what it means to be bilingual	3
‘What is left…?’: The implications of losing Maintained Nursery Schools for vulnerable children and families in England	3
Bringing young children’s voices into programme development, randomized controlled trials and other unlikely places	3
Children's social representations of utopian societies	3
Listening to the opinista? Relational understandings of voice and silence in a multiperspective narrative study of child psychotherapy	3
A children’s election—Dilemmas of children’s political participation	3
Valuing the whole community: Children, schools and language	3
Re‐imaging everyday routines and educational aspirations under COVID‐19 lockdown: Narratives of urban middle‐class children in Punjab, India	3
I agreed to go because........examining the Agency of Children within a phenomenon conceptualised as trafficking in Ghana	3
Proposing a model for promoting Children's Health in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings	2
The Tree(s) of Hope and Ambition: An arts‐based social science informed, participatory research method to explore children's future hopes, ambitions and support in relation to COVID‐19	2
Adultification, neglect and sexual abuse at home: Selected narratives of orphaned girls in KwaMashu, South Africa	2
Growing sideways: Re‐articulating ontologies of childhood within/through relationships and sexuality education (RSE)	2
The association between family routines and parents' different working hour schedules	2
Positive family relationships in a digital age: Hearing the voice of young people	2
The use of digital media: To support and enhance vulnerable children’s perspectives, voices and choices	2
‘Can you hear me?’ An exploratory study investigating the representation and impact of children’s views in multi‐agency meetings	2
Locking down adolescents: Victims, irresponsible subjects, or just social actors	2
Children's participation in international fora: The experiences and perspectives of children and adults	2
Emotions and involvement of foster carers preparing to welcome children arriving from war zones	2
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The inability of Turkey and Istanbul in institutionalisation of children's participation in urban planning: A policy analysis study	2
Play and learn: Children's agency through the COVID‐19 pandemic in Mozambique	2
Care experienced young people: Agency and empowerment	2
Youth environmental citizenship formation: Struggled political subjectivities and everyday experiences of young people in Turkey	2
Health experience outcomes of a health promotion project for middle school pupils in Sweden	2
Enabling and disabling emotional diversity: Negotiating autism spectrum disorder in therapeutic encounters	2
The unequal impact of Covid‐19 on the lives and rights of the children of modern slavery survivors, children in exploitation and children at risk of entering exploitation	2
Child well‐being in early childhood education and care during COVID‐19: Child sensitivity in small, fixed groups	2
‘Them’ in an abnormal world: Media construction and responsibility attribution of left‐behind children in rural China	2
‘Am I that bad?’: Middle‐class moralism and weight stigma towards parents of children with higher weight	2
Images in words and pictures: Issues arising from a shared experience of talking and drawing	2
Questioning children's activism: What is new or old in theory and practice?	2
Snack time in kindergarten as a cultural practice—Implications for processes of subjectivation	2
Criminal responsibility of older children: The failings of doli incapax in Australia	2
Responding to child and adolescent‐to‐parent violence and abuse from a distance: Remote delivery of interventions during Covid‐19	2
Doing foster family with young refugees: Negotiations of belonging and being at home	2
Where are we in the recognition of young adult carers in France?	2
Baby steps to a child‐to‐child network: A path to empower children for exercising their participation rights	2
Does greater household wealth make young children perform better? The case of Vietnam	2
Children's Covid‐19 writing and drawings and the existential imperative to educate for uncertainty	2
‘I wish that COVID would disappear, and we'd all be together’: Maintaining Children's friendships during the Covid‐19 pandemic	2
Childhood and rural to urban migration in China: A tale of three villages	2
The ‘walking with friends to school’ project and its contribution to independent mobility, self‐esteem and happiness	2
Association of parenting behaviours and online risk‐taking in adolescents with ADHD	2
‘Vulnerable and abandoned’—The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on education, health and social care provision for children with SEND: Children and parents' perspectives	2
Visiting borders in education: A creative approach with children in primary education	2
Latent classes and longitudinal patterns of material hardship as predictors of child well‐being	2