Journal of Youth Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Youth Studies 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
At the ‘risky’ end of things: labelling, self-concept and the role of supportive relationships in young lives92
Falling between the cracks – the experiences of young parents on Universal Credit92
Trapped in the predicament of lacking recognition: Chinese youths’ experiences of hikikomori57
Growing up, ill: the challenges of youth for young people living with chronic illness50
Everyday resistance: young people's agency and the politics of peacebuilding amid armed conflict and systemic oppression35
Problematising engagement with technologies in transitions of young people identified as ‘Not in Education, Employment or Training’ (NEET) in Scotland34
Understanding the public participation of young people in border regions of mainland Portugal: youth as local development agent33
Opportunities and limits: exploring young people’s views of staff care in residential alcohol and other drug services26
‘Nothing happens here, but that’s ok’: reflexivity, immobility and staying among young people in marginalised rural locations23
Addressing youths’ digital agency with internet technologies: discourses and practices that produce inequalities19
Sages of the street: violence management and neighborhood conflict among crime- and violence-exposed young males in southwest Houston19
Continuing existence: viability and indigenous youth action in Himachal Pradesh, India18
Subculture in the news: a longitudinal, semantic network analysis of punk media representation16
Mobilised yet unaffiliated: Italian youth and the uneven return to political participation16
Vintage cameras: young people's nostalgic practices on social media and the pursuit of identity in contemporary China15
‘Morphing between the margins’: how youth make a living across multiple spaces in South Africa and beyond15
Young people’s agency in Zimbabwe’s precarious informal sector14
#Relationshipgoals: fantasies of the good life in young people’s digitally-networked peer cultures14
The impact of pandemic-related loss of work on young adults’ plans14
Hyper(in)visibility of Blackness in spaces of whiteness: representations of race, gender and mental distress in the imageries of youth mental health services13
Rewiring remote urban futures? Youth well-being in northern industry towns13
Tramadol consumption as edgework: intersections of pleasures and risks in the accounts of Nigerian youths13
Normalising sex and resisting shame: young Aboriginal women’s views on sex and relationships in an urban setting in Australia12
Feeling close, disclosing feelings – family practices and practices of intimacy in youth–parent relations across three generations in Norway12
Infrastructures of support: Australian young people’s perspectives on caring during the pandemic and future disability and care policy reform12
Girl Culture, Unspectacular Resistance and Social Media – A Study of How Adolescent Girls Undo Emphasized Femininity through Shitposting12
Inequalities in the making: the role of young people’s relational resources through the COVID-19 lockdown12
Does cohort size matter? Assessing the effect of youth cohort size and peer influence on young people’s electoral participation12
‘I hate having my mental health’ – Making sense of mental health through coproduction and visual methods with young people with complex needs12
“A game show at the end of the world” The currency of youth in UN climate summitry11
‘After god, we give strength to each other’: young people’s experiences of coping in the context of unaccompanied forced migration11
Framing Covid-19 through memes: a way for young people to shape the narrative in Austria11
‘It’s like a hug’: examining the role of music-making for the well-being of youth during the COVID-19 pandemic11
Supportive geographic communities protect the mental health of LGBTQ+ youth: evidence from linked Australian data11
Intersectional action in youth activism in the UK: an exploration of data across different social media platforms11
Using body mapping to explore gender with adolescents in Uttar Pradesh11
There are no gays in the village: youth perspectives of LGBTQIA+ people in Java, Indonesia11
Embodying debt: youth, consumer credit and its impacts for wellbeing10
Taking back control: a study on young people’s agency to overcome a violent neighbourhood context10
Influences on gambling during youth: comparisons between at-risk/problem, non-problem and non-gambling adolescents in Australia10
Are images of seized knives an effective crime deterrent? A comparative thematic analysis of young people’s views within the Scottish context10
Demographic predictors of experiences of homelessness among lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, gender-diverse and queer-identifying (LGBTIQ) young people in Australia10
Small live music spaces as ‘liminal scenes': exploring self-adjustment and structures of feeling of Chinese youth in an accelerated society10
The journey towards staying: a qualitative study on return-home youths’ empowerment in China10
Simply the best? Bridging perfectionism in psychology and girlhood studies10
Youth and insecurity from an intersectional perspective: the case of Catalonia10
‘Choosing the lesser of evils’: cultural narrative and career decision-making in post-Soviet Russia10
‘Pro-moral order’ activism: a study of diversity within youth communities of struggle in St Petersburg9
Multiple jobholding and non-standard employment among young workers: a comparative analysis of EU-28 member states9
Conceptualising transitions from higher education to employment: navigating liminal spaces9
Pinball transitions: exploring the school-to-work transitions of ‘the missing middle’9
A multi-stakeholder analysis of the risks to early school leaving: comparing young peoples’ and educators’ perspectives on five categories of risk9
Teenagers as curators: digitally mediated curation of the self on Instagram9
‘Not really leaving home’ in Southern Europe: intermediate living situations in Catalan youth housing trajectories9
‘Stability is a foggy concept’: work stability from the perspective of young people with mobility experiences9
Evaluating youth empowerment in neighbourhood settings: applying the capabilities 3C model to evidence and extend the social justice outcomes of youth work in Scotland9
Correction9
Collective and material embeddedness: a critique of subcultural studies and a new perspective9
Beyond Angry White Men : a progressive sociological imagination as an alternative to aggrieved entitlement9
From live-streaming to memes: an exploratory study of the Chinese abstract culture as a structure of feeling among Chinese youth9
From responsibilization to responsibility: justifications of everyday ecological practices of Moscow youth and worth of proactivity8
Lost in transition? Young graduates’ employment after internships in public and private organisations8
Relational epistemic safety: what young people facing harm in their communities want and need from professionals tasked with helping them8
Youth reflections on ethics in research and practice: a case study of youth born of genocidal rape in Rwanda8
The memorable nature experiences of youth: a phenomenological approach to visualized and written experiences7
About them, without them? figures of youth in Australian policy 2014–20217
‘The ability to change stuff up': volunteering as a young person within established organisations7
Engaging in politics through youth transitions7
Young carers in Ghana: caring activities, ways into care and the impacts of caregiving7
Rules of disengagement: a qualitative study of young people’s relationship breakups7
#GenZ on TikTok: the collective online self-Portrait of the social media generation7
Figurations of youth in regional Australia: conceptualising the ‘young person’ as spatially figured7
Is part-time work a demotivating factor for applying to high-status UK universities?6
Dynamics of belonging amid geographical immobility: a longitudinal analysis of youth trajectories in rural Australia6
NEET youth in central and eastern European countries: a panel model approach6
Going against the grain? A longitudinal study of the material-discursive practices of staying among young adults in rural Finland6
Assemblages of well-being and belonging in young adults’ life-historical narrations: experiences from education and the labour market6
‘Basically, my only dream is to be a part of society’ – young adults’ negotiations for citizenship in the institutional system6
‘We never get a space to just have a good time together’: indigenous LGBTIQSB+ young people carving out alternative viable lives6
Correction6
Historical reflection as a source of inspiration for youth resistance in illiberal regimes – a qualitative study of the FreeSZFE movement in Hungary6
The role of youth-led activist organisations for contemporary climate activism: the case of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition6
Political socialisation narratives of young activists. Contexts, settings, and actors.6
Media representations of young people during pandemic times in Turkey6
Mentoring young people involved in the justice system: unpacking the ‘black box’ of rapport and relationship-building6
The social reproductive labour of university students with hostile Jobs6
The obligations and opportunities of ‘friendship as method’ in youth mentoring research: investigating the intersections with youth work epistemologies5
Gender and agency in the political learning of contentious activism. Reviewing activist models of young people in the new political cycle in the Basque Country5
Sexual division of labor, unemployment, and drug use in Buenos Aires underprivileged youths5
Getting a foot in the door: local labour markets and the school-to-work transition5
Feminists, popular feminists, and transfeminists: young Argentine activists define their own identities5
Rural Chinese youth on Kuaishou : performing gender, labor, and rurality5
‘Reworldings’: exploring perspectives on the future from Danish and Australian youth during COVID-195
Young refugees’ feelings of belonging? Encounters with rural Denmark and northern Norway5
Note5
The material and symbolic in young women’s negotiation of precarious employment: the case of the Israeli service and care sectors5
Young people’s online political participation in an apolitical digital sphere: identifying political topics and expression patterns on a youth discussion forum5
Identifying the loneliest intersectional groups among young people in England: results from Active Lives Surveys (2022–2023)5
Young people, algorithms and news: exploring the relationship between algorithmic literacy and news literacy5
Educational homogamy, values, activities, and inequality: an intergenerational perspective5
The characteristics of street codes and competing performances of masculinity on an inner-city housing estate5
‘We’re not just behind the scenes, we’re visible and upfront.’ Amplifying young carers’ voice using a community development approach in a UK city4
Situated belonging as everyday practice in a semi-public Youth Living Room for undocumented young city dwellers4
‘This is our home’: young residents’ representations of Melbourne’s public housing towers during ‘hard lockdown’4
Going home: youth and aspirations in postconflict Marawi, Philippines4
Challenges and coping with COVID-19: perspectives of emerging adults and their mothers4
Bonding ties that get ahead?: family social capital and early occupational attainment4
The 2021 cross-national and comparative classification of in-country awareness and policy responses to ‘young carers’4
‘Every time I feel down, my family loves to see me do the right things': affect regulation and social justice possibilities in the lives of young visually impaired South Africans4
Making do: young people and mobilities at home4
Viable youth futures4
Navigating critical phases in adversity in youth: identification and reorientation4
Conditionally supporting freedom of speech: how cognitive sophistication and social identity affect adolescents’ support for freedom of speech and its restrictions4
Plans, hopes, dreams and evolving agency: case histories of young people navigating transitions.4
Subculture, masculinity and place in young rural men’s resistance to counter-migration4
‘Empowering youth as change agents for climate change in South Africa’: challenges, caveats and course corrections4
What helps adult care leavers return to education? exploring the relevance of learner identity and the life course perspective4
Conceptual meanings of permanency: Photovoice with care-experienced youth4
Introduction to the special issue: reflections on young people’s responses to negative everyday representations of themselves4
Introduction to special issue: youth, rural places and marginalisation4
Cruel optimism of waiting: precarity experiences of young adults in Turkey4
Stratified patterns of adolescent employment and their relation to educational attainment4
Young people’s citizenship activities at and beyond school – exploring a new theoretical framework with empirical data from a rural community in Germany4
‘Adulthood sucks’: Twitter discussions on being an adult3
Echoes of identity: youth subcultures in the Czech Republic3
Transcultural practices and inter-generational dynamics among migrant youth3
An older age colored by youth: the continuing significance of youth-generated cultural boundaries for Sixties affiliates3
Religious homophily and friendship: socialisation between Muslim minority and Anglo majority youth in Australia3
Street efficacy, daily activities and youth perceptions of neighborhood safety3
Anchors of belonging and the logics of othering of young Finns3
‘You can still have dreams for your child’: Filipino young people’s lived experiences of parenthood3
Youth unemployment as a policy problem for the OECD, European Union, and the Republic of Ireland in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis3
Growing up and belonging in regimes of geographical mobility. Young cosmopolitans in Berlin3
Making sense of politics: how affective dispositions and everyday experiences connect young people with the political3
Post-industrial worker-citizenship3
‘It was too much technology … I chucked my laptop across the room': young women, networked affect and the positivity imperative3
‘Everywhere you get models of what you should be like’: ideals of masculinity and therapeutic culture constraining young men’s mental health and gendered subjectivities3
The role of public employment services in young people's job search: a comparative study of Italy, Poland, and Romania3
NEETs in China: unpacking associated factors from a gender and cumulative perspective3
The role of social capital in precarious youth employment transitions. Evidence from Spain3
Navigating transnational familyhood: how Chinese parachuters in the US (re)construct relationships with their parents3
Identities, power and policing of young men in Mathare and Kaptembwo3
Lockdown practices: a portrait of young people in the family during the first lockdown in Portugal3
Gendered youth transitions in local jihad in Indonesia: negotiating agency in arranged marriage3
Spatialities of being a young NEET in an era of turbulence: a critical account of regional resilience across the Mediterranean EU South3
Safety strategies, status positioning and gendered double standards: adolescents’ narratives of sexualised risk in alcohol intoxication contexts3
Examining the perceived harms of digital dating abuse:a university sample3
Comparing the actions of gender-diverse and binary gender youths for an inclusive and green future3
Qualitative approach to the normalization of gambling amongst adolescents and young adults in Extremadura (Spain)3
‘People need support and society needs change’: vulnerability and collective agency in queer youth organization3
Is the concept of subculture ‘unworkable’ as an analytical tool in youth sociology? A Swiss quantitative perspective on the subculture/post-subculture debate3
Childbearing motivation at the onset of emerging adulthood3
Young people’s life and career choices in times of uncertainty3
Comparing children’s and teens’ news engagement practices and affective news experiences3
What makes Turkish youth NEET?3
Political participation of refugee and host community youths: epistemic resistance through artistic and participatory spaces3
Is there an Indian way of raving? Reading the cultural negotiations of Indian youth in the trans-local EDM scene3
‘It makes me feel at home’: establishing a sense of belonging after leaving the childhood home3
Lebanese, Indian and Anglo LGBTQ + young Australians’ experiences at school and university: an analysis from the middle2
Future school well-being: a qualitative study on the imagined futures of Finnish youth2
The voice of young adults making sense of their caring childhoods: demonstrating resilience through adversity2
‘I don’t feel like a young dad. I feel like an unprepared dad’: young parenthood, welfare support and accelerated transitions to adulthood in the UK and Sweden2
Bleak prospects: youth transitions in twenty-first century Britain2
How place mediates perceptions of the future for working-class youth in London, Rochdale and Morecambe2
Bridging gaps, building futures: evaluating a multinational’s employment programme vs. work-first for youth with diverse education levels2
Risks and opportunities of digitally mediated interactions: young people’s meanings and experiences2
Political disaffection or institutional adultcentrism? Youth perceptions of adult hegemony in institutional politics and policies2
Mortgaged futures: fractured livelihoods and youth debts during COVID-192
Dreaming the life: international students and the temporal complexity of employability2
When visibility becomes political: visibility and stigmatisation of young people2
Lived experiences of Greek emerging adults during the COVID-19 lockdowns: a two-timeframe qualitative perspective2
Putting on an act: learning service behaviour in young women’s vocational education and training for hospitality work2
The COVID-19 pandemic and youth in recent, historical perspective: more pressure, more precarity2
Socius improvisus : young musicians, DIY careers and uncertainty in Indonesia2
COVID-19 and youth unemployment in MENA countries: a matching approach2
Negotiating authenticity: experiences of student influencers on social media2
Building viabilities: youth social action in the Indian Himalayas2
Black bodies, Black queens, and the Black sisterhood on social media: perspectives from young African women in Australia2
Influence and expertise: distancing and distinction in online youth feminist knowledge cultures2
‘Bread for all, and Roses, too’: satisfaction with job stability and pay among young Italian workers2
‘Sitting there and listening was one of the most important lessons I had to learn’: critical capacity building in youth participatory action research2
‘When I came to university, that’s when the real shift came’: alcohol and belonging in English higher education2
In what way a ‘Guarantee for youth’? NEETs entrapped by labour market policies in the European Union2
A life course perspective on the NEET phenomenon: long-term exclusion across cohorts, gender, and social origin among young adults in Norway2
Return mobilities and Italian youth transitions: new meanings around adulthood2
Risk, discomfort and disruption: experiences of (im)mobilities in public spaces among Swedish youth racialised as non-white2
Theorising and contextualising inferiority feelings of female university students from Chinese rural areas2
The myth of Australia’s migrant youth gang: examining the perceived association between ethnicity and gangs2
The rise of the South Korean alt-right: the ‘silent counter-revolution’ of young men2
Sharing and liking as youth nano-level participation. Finnish students’ civic and political engagement in social media2
Futuri Rupti: a hauntological perspective on understanding the motivations and justifications of crime among young migrants2
‘Citizenship from below’: integration as assemblage for immigrant young people volunteers in Canada2
Imagining a future family: students with care experience2
Examining the relationship between civic engagement and mental health in young adults: a systematic review of the literature2
Young people’s engagement in online research: challenges and lessons from conducting focus groups with young people online2
Political economy and young people’s transitions from education-to-work in the UK during and following the 2020 and 2021 lockdowns2
‘It’s not a future issue, it’s a now issue’: young climate activists’ changing habitus in the face of climate change2
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