OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Childrens Spirituality 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Silenced by performativity: The child’s right to a spiritual voice in an age of neoliberal educational imperatives	14
The cultivation of university students’ spiritual wellbeing in holistic education: longitudinal mixed-methods study	14
Relational spirituality in K-12 education: a multi-case study	13
Primary validation of Children Spiritual Intelligence Scale in a sample of Latvian elementary school pupils	7
Developing a definition of spiritual health for Canadian young people: a qualitative study	6
Evoking the spiritual through phenomenology: using the written anecdotes of adults to access children’s expressions of spirituality	5
Investigating the impact of covid-19 socialisation restrictions on children’s spiritual well-being: case studies from Poland and the UK	5
Children’s spirituality and theologising with children: the role of ‘context’	5
Introducing the Junior Spiritual Health Scale (JSHS): assessing the impact of religious affect on spiritual health among 8- to 11-year-old students	5
The potential of ‘wonder’ to engage children’s spirituality: it’s so much more than pondering	5
To be ‘formed’ and ‘informed’: early years’ educators’ perspectives of spirituality and its affordance in faith-based early learning centres	5
Teacher voice for reflections on practice: using the voice-centred relational method to determine early childhood teachers’ understanding of spirituality	4
Differences in children’s concepts of god. A replication study based on creative tasks with different materials	3
Effectiveness of spirituality-based problem solving on moral responsibility, and spiritual education of students	3
Intentional spiritual care for sick children: A beacon for decreasing stress and nurturing spirituality	3
Curriculum paradigms and perspectives of life and spiritual education: Contrast and diversity	3
Revisiting some half-forgotten ideas on children’s spirituality	3
The views of social work practitioners with regards to religion and spirituality at the interface of social work practice with children and adolescents	3
Spiritual literacy: non-religious reconceptualisation for education in a secular environment	2
A study of spirituality in children’s books based on the works of Douglas Wood	2
Spirituality and subjectivity in Waldorf (Steiner) education: a postmodern Bildung perspective	2
Children’s spirituality: personal reflections on International Journal of Children’s Spirituality (IJCS)	2
Religious education in Asia: spiritual diversity in globalized times	2