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

Article	Citations
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Young people's perspectives on assisted dying and its potential inclusion of minors	28
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
‘Each child must be assigned a key person’: Context and interpretation of a statutory requirement in English Early Childhood Education and Care settings	27
Towards a model for analysing adolescents' reflexivity: Reflectiveness, criticality and boundedness	24
Records of personal assistance applications reveal young carers: Viewed from the rights of the child	23
Racism suitable for children? Intersections between child innocence and white innocence	21
Weaving Smartphones Into Mother–Infant Interaction: Digital Disruptions or Participatory Possibilities?	21
Paths of disclosure – The process of sharing experiences of child sexual abuse	20
Free school meals for all poor children in Europe: An important and affordable target?	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
Schools as Sites of Activism: Students' Political Socialisation and Activism at School	16
The sleeping voices: Evaluating parenting ‘self‐help’ books, narratives of rule, routine and ritual	15
‘Why blame the girls’?: Contextual factors enabling juvenile prostitution in a Ghanaian metropolis	15
Children and young people's perspectives on and experiences of COVID‐19 in global contexts	13
Becoming good ancestors: A decolonial, childist approach to global intergenerational sustainability	12
A Critical Review of the 2025 RSHE Guidance and Alternative Approach Framed in Safe Uncertainty	12
Maternal perceptions of infant's body weight and childhood obesity in South Africa: A qualitative study in Soweto	11
Barriers to the Accessibility of Childcare Services for Children With Disabilities Aged 0 to 5 Years: Perspectives of Parents and Childcare Staff	11
Still on the same page: A gender comparison of the top 100 picture books from the UK and China published 2011–2020	11
‘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	11
The impact of COVID ‐19 lockdown on children's and adolescents' mental health in Greece	11
Children's perspectives on vegetable consumption and gardening: Outcomes from a qualitative study in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	11

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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
The transformative potential of LGBTQ+ Children's picture books By JenniferMiller. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2022, ISBN 9781496840004. 270 pp., US$25 (pb)	10
What can I do for my community? Contributing to the promotion of civic engagement through participatory methodologies: The case of young people from border regions of mainland Portugal	10
The Importance of Relationship in Independent Advocacy for Care‐Experienced Young People	10
“I always think about tomorrow what I'll eat” an exploration of the experiences of adolescents in poor urban contexts in Accra, Ghana	10
Positive and Negative Experiences of Caring Among Adolescent Young Carers	10
Throw Your Voice: Suspended Animations in Kazakhstani ChildhoodsBy MeghanneBarker, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2024. 234 pp. US$ 32.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐50‐177648‐9	10
“Others' children are expendable.” Comparing childcare sector with health and long‐term sectors in Taiwan	10
The ambiguities of coercion: Mapping adolescents' experiences of coercion in institutional everyday life	10
Supporting living together: Group work on animal rights for children	9
The non‐protesting children in the 2018 Parkland school shooting protests and their freedom not to express views in child participation spaces	9
What About Their Future? An Analysis of Child Protection Systems' Focus on the Future of Newborn Children in Care Order Decisions	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
Being disliked and bullied: A case revealing interplay between peer status and bullying	9
Reimaging activism to save the planet: Using transdisciplinary and participatory methodologies to support collective youth action	9
Seeing disability in children's made for television programmes: An Australian case study	9
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Ending racial disproportionality in child welfare: A systematic review	8
Social class as a challenge in educating for diversity—The case of a Finnish preschool	8
Re‐thinking youth work as initial mental health support for young people	8
‘You Have to Understand That They Don't Understand’: Girls' Perceptions of Adult Support for Navigating Influencer Culture	8
Questioning children's activism: What is new or old in theory and practice?	8
Feminist reflections on childhood: A history and call to action By Penny A.Weiss. Temple University Press, 2021. ISBN 9781439918685, 293 pp.	7
Amplifying Marginalised Voices: A Rapid Evidence Review of Participatory Methods Engaging Justice‐Involved Youth	7
Planning Without Children? Representation and Participation in Czech Strategic Urban and National Policies	7
The Impact of Family Bonding Activity Type and Time on Young Children's Social–Emotional Development	7
Poverty for lunch: A case study of agency and food scarcity in mealtimes in disadvantaged ECE	7
Children's Voices Across Time: Peer Networks, Parental Ambivalence, and Hidden Practices Online	7
Co‐Designing a Children's Transition Charter for the Transition to School: Opening Participatory Spaces to Hear Children's Voices	7
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The multiple roles of media use within the family system during lockdown: A thematic analysis of parental reports from the UK	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
Child identity‐based activism in Brazil: Wearing Afro‐style hair to contest discrimination, racism and oppression	6
Healthy masculinity construction: The influence of race, faith and athletics	6
Exploring young people's experiences of race, gender and socioeconomic status in relation to everyday challenges: A focus group study	6
A rapid review of children and young people's views of poverty and welfare in the context of Universal Credit	6
The assessment of cliques in bound child and adolescent groups: A systematic scoping review	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
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Gendering innocence: An empirical inquiry into the lived experience of gender incongruence in childhood	6
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Children as co‐researchers in pandemic times: Power and participation in the use of digital dialogues with children during the COVID‐19 lockdown	6
Bullying in Spanish high schools: Intersection of gender and immigrant background	6
Rethinking concepts of special educational needs and disability in the primary classroom	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

Machinic assemblages—The role of school policies in producing children's sense of agency	6
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Measures to Ensure That Social Workers Render Holistic Family Reunification Services: A South African Perspective	5
Between advocacy and commodification on Instagram: A case study of sharenting a child with disabilities	5
Youth environmental citizenship formation: Struggled political subjectivities and everyday experiences of young people in Turkey	5
The ban on corporal punishment in a senior high school in Ghana: The perspicacity of teachers at Northern School of Business	5
Doing Being Orten: Managing Commonplace Super‐Diversity in Swedish School‐Age Educare	5
Cultural heterogeneity, family dysfunction and inadequate school support: Ethnic disparities in bullying victimization within China's multiethnic regions	5
The Voice of a Reference Group in Research With Children	5
A democratic learning process: When young children under 12 years of age in child welfare services express their wishes for participation	5
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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
‘How Does Living in Institution Impact Young Lives?’—Insights From Young People in Ci'aiyuan	5
Considering the moral implications of psychiatric diagnosis for children	5
Children's Homes: Building or Threatening the Resilience and Rights of Black Orphans and Vulnerable Children	5
Children's dimensions of poverty: Qualitative studies in urban China	5
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
No Hiding Places—A Review of Representations of Children's Right to Play in Schoolyards Across Wider Irish Educational Policies and Guidelines	5
‘They are always in the top of our mind’: Designated Teachers' views on supporting care experienced children in England	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
Governance, Migration and Educational Rights: A Policy Analysis of Migrant Children's Educational Access in Sichuan, China	5
Youth provisioning in low‐income families: Reconsidering theories of poor attachment	5
Attune, animate and amplify: Creating youth voice assemblages in pARTicipatory sexuality education research	5
Children's lives in an era of school closures: Exploring the implications of COVID‐19 for child labour in Ghana	5
Young children's perceptions and experiences of school readiness during the transition from preschool to primary school in China	5
Law's drawing line: Legal discourse of consent in child sexual abuse cases in Japan	4
‘I Didn't Have A Say’: Young People's Experiences of Parental Communication and Decision‐Making During Divorce in Türkiye and England	4
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“My belly tickles! And my vulva too!”: Children's conversations about pleasure in Catalonia (Spain)	4
Parental Understandings of ‘Stranger Danger’: Balancing Fear of Victimisation by Strangers Against Enabling Autonomy and Independence in Children	4
The Becoming of Children and Caregiving Fathers—A Video Ethnography of Individual Parent Conversations at Swedish Child Health Centres	4
Students' Perspectives on Inclusive Education in Finland	4
Cripping the Campus: Youth With Disabilities, Agency, and Activism in Saudi Arabia Universities	4
Child sexual abuse in Ghana: A multi‐methods exploratory study	4
Editorial Introduction: Rethinking Childhoods and South‐South Migration	4
Ethics committees and shaping of children's participation in qualitative educational research in Chile	4
Envisioning action‐oriented and justice‐driven climate change education: Insights from youth climate justice activists	4
An Aid or an Obstacle? Parent and Teacher Perspectives on the Impact of Technology on Children's Wellbeing and School Life	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
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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
A Policy‐Driven Scoping Review of the Regulatory and Operational Framework Addressing Obesity in Children in Need in Greece	4
Girls engaging in activism to end child marriage in Sierra Leone: Negotiating power, interacting with others and redefining their own lives	4
‘Am I supposed to be in a prison or a mental hospital?’ The nature and purpose of secure children's homes	4
Exploring possibilities for child participation in guideline development: The need for a fundamental reconsideration and reconfiguration of the system	4
Assessing Child Maltreatment and Its Relationships With Personality, Resilience and Attachment in Adulthood	4
Preschool children's dispositions of collaboration: A Chinese study	4
Young adult migrants' social experiences in Sweden: ‘Melting pot’ and ‘salad bowl’ perspectives on social integration	4
‘Like a Kid's Book’: Pilot Testing of a Visual Informed Consent Form With Children in Canada, Ghana and Laos	4
The Impact of Parental Divorce on Children Through the Mothers' Lens: A Phenomenological Study	4
Climate Anxiety in Early Childhood: Mental Health, Displacement and Affective Injustice in International and European Climate Governance	4
A tale of two Youth Expert Groups (YEGs): Learnings from youth activism in research in India and Brazil	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
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‘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
A comprehensive policy review of evidence‐based practices in autism policy across the United Kingdom's four nations	4
Children's Agency in Finding Happiness in the ‘Happiest Country in the World’: A Collaborative Drawing and Storytelling Case Study	4