OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Young is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Being NEET in Youthspaces of the EU South: A Post-recession Regional Perspective	26
Obituary	24
From Zero to Hero. Belonging and Re-enrolment in Education Among Young People Outside School	21
Adolescence Mental Health Disorders and Precarious School-to- Work Trajectories: The Role of Family Background and Gender	13
‘Like the Oceans We Rise’: News Frames on Youth for Climate	12
Distinguishing Types of Sexual Assault Among Young People: A Latent Class Analysis Approach	10
The Expressed Worries of Ukrainian Adolescents: A Quantitative Analysis of Chat Conversations During Active War	10
Queering Gender Boundaries and Redoing Heteroamorous Desire: Youth Scenes As a Social Field for (Re-)Negotiating Gender Arrangements and Sexuality	9
Southern School-to-Work Transition and the Determinants of Becoming Young NEET in China	9
‘Moving the Apocalypse a Little Further Away’: Young Italian Activists Between Future Crises and Everyday Utopias	8
Place and Youth Political Action: How Place Shapes Political Action in Rural Sweden	7
What My Music Says About Me: Re-evaluating the ‘Badge’ Function of Music in the Context of Streaming	7
When the Flirting Guest’s Age Is Crucial: Young People in the Hospitality Industry Reflect on Sexual Harassment	7
Breaking the Silence of Abuse in Children’s Sports: Experiences and Effects of Emotional Abuse Towards Young Athletes in Sweden	6
First Encounters: Young People’s Perceptions of Criminal Justice	6
Head-first into Upper Secondary Education: Finnish Young People Making Classed and Gendered Educational Choices	6
Vietnamese LGBTQ Youth’s Transition to Adulthood: Expressions of Agency	6
Affective Dynamics and Young Women’s Sexual Subjectivity: The Case Study of the Israeli Practice of “Attacking”	5
Researching Young Masculinities During the Rise of ‘Misogyny Influencers’: Exploring Affective and Embodied Discomfort and Dilemmas of Feminist and Queer Researchers	5
Book review: D. Buckingham, Youth on Screen. Representing Young People in Film and Television	4
Construction of a Generation by Russian Youth in the Context of Radical Social Transformations	4
‘We Have Our Own Stories to Write, and We Will Write Them’: Defining Resilience with Aboriginal Young People	4
‘It’s Hard Work Making Friends’: Transnational Mobility and Friendships Among Young European Migrants in Sweden	4
The Political Dimensions in Discourses of Youth Organizations Operating in Poland: Scope and Dynamics of Changes in the Context of the Russo-Ukrainian War	4
Young Adults with Intellectual Disability Not Participating in Employment, Education or Daily Activity: Social Relationships and Experiences of Belonging	4

Two Theoretical Models of Subcultural Anger—Synthesizing Subcultural Theory with the Sociology of Emotions and Exploring Anger in Hip Hop	4
‘When You Go Out Walking, Girls Have to Look Around … Like Be Really Aware’: A Qualitative Exploration of Young Women’s Understandings of Sexism	3
Victims of Circumstance or Uncooperative Immigrants?: Intersectional Constructions of Accountability in Finnish Online Discussions on ‘Street Gangs’	3
European Youth Dialogue as a Governmental Technology: Construction of the Youth Voice	3
Participation Rights in Youth Sport: Voices of Young Swedish Equestrians	3
Book review: D. E. Agbiboa, They Eat our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria	3
Legacy and Rupture: The Political Learning of Young Left-wing Basque Nationalists in the Post-ETA Period	3
Narrowing ‘Bathtub Volunteerism’ in Singapore and Beyond Through High-quality Adolescent and Young Adult Volunteer Experiences	2
Young Citizens Facing the Future: Understanding Adolescents’ Civic Engagement in Relation to Their Macrosocial Worries, and Civic Knowledge	2
Seen and Heard: The Long-Term Impact of Arts Projects on Young People Living in Poverty	2
Stepping Stone or Trap? Contextualising Precarity as a Sector and Age Phenomenon in the Greek Labour Market	2
A Matter of Miscommunication: Young People’s Understandings of Rape, Sex and What Lies In-between	2
Gendered Peer Friendships and Romantic Relationships Among Youth with Cross-cultural Upbringings: Exploring Social Control	2
Family Social Capital and NEET Experiences in the Transition from School to Work: A Longitudinal Study from Germany	2
Working Their Way to Young Adulthood: Labour Market Outcomes of Working in Adolescence	2
Ethical Pitfalls in Research with Young People: How Can They Be Identified and Addressed?	2
Book Review: V. Cuzzocrea, B. G. Bello, & Y. Kazepov (eds.) (2020). Italian Youth in International Context: Belonging, Constraints and Opportunities	1
Supporting Young Adults’ Life Choices: A Longitudinal Perspective on the Role of Welfare Effort Across Crises	1
Cultural Continuities and Skateboarding in Transition: In the Case of China’s Skateboarding Culture and Industry	1
Navigating Margins: Trust, Autonomy, Individualism and Institutional Dynamics in Youth Social Exclusion	1
‘Like in Every Other Facet of Life, I am Privileged to be a Man’: Political Subjectivities of Young Men Working in the Australian Health Care and Social Assistance Sector	1
On the Ethics of Getting the Word Out: Rural Girls Reflect on Ownership in Participatory Visual Research in Rural South Africa	1
Political Trust in Early Adolescence and Its Association with Intended Political Participation: A Cross-sectional Study Situated in Flanders	1
The Role of Religion in Young Muslims’ and Christians’ Self-presentation on Social Media	1
Understanding the Impact of Sexual Youth Intimate Partner Violence: Unmasking the Social Consequences for Young Victims	1
Parent–Adolescent Political Disagreement and Adolescent Political Development amid Duterte’s Presidency: A Positioning Analysis	1
Rights-based Youth Sport: An Overlooked Area of Importance for Youth Studies	1
‘Am I Too Straight for the Gay People, Am I Too Gay for the Straight People?’: A Qualitative Analysis of How Young Bisexual Women Navigate Self-presentation on Dating Apps	1
The Gendered Dynamics of Sexting as Boundary Work	1
Negotiating Multiple Spatialities: Geographies of Youth Educational Subjectivity	1
The Halal Way of Clubbing: A Study of Second-Generation Muslim Youth’s Resistance and the Subculture It Has Generated	1
The Pandemic and the Challenges for Young People of Living Well in the Anthropocene	1
‘Let Us Hold Hands’: Lived Practices of Intimacy Among Gay Youth in Urban India	1
The Impact of Within-family Housing Assistance on the Certainty of Young People’s (Housing) Aspirations in the Czech Republic	1
On the Pathway to an Unforeseeable Future: An Actantial Analysis of Career Designs of Young People	1
Professional Position Positioned: The Interwoven Experience of Being a Young Adult and New at Work Analysed from a Relational Perspective of Age	1
‘If You Wanna Go Fast You Go Alone, If You Wanna Go Far You Go Together’: Emerging Political Subjectivities in the Intimate Lives of Young Men with Migratory Experience	1
Desirable Leadership: A Qualitative Study of the Perspectives of Young Adults in the Swedish Retail Sector	1
First-Generation College Students’ Motives to Start University Education: An Investment in Self- Development, One’s Economic Prospects or to Become a Role Model?	1
Prefiguration, Resilience and Transitions to Adulthood: Russian Youth in Times of Uncertainty	1
Book review: Frances Howard, Global Perspectives on Youth Arts Programs: How and Why the Arts Can Make a Difference	1
‘Democracy and Active Citizenship Are Not Just About the Elections’: Youth Civic and Political Participation During and Beyond Singapore’s Nine-day Pandemic Election (GE2020)	1