Journal of Youth Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Youth Studies 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mobilised yet unaffiliated: Italian youth and the uneven return to political participation64
Sages of the street: violence management and neighborhood conflict among crime- and violence-exposed young males in southwest Houston63
Opportunities and limits: exploring young people’s views of staff care in residential alcohol and other drug services42
Subculture in the news: a longitudinal, semantic network analysis of punk media representation42
Addressing youths’ digital agency with internet technologies: discourses and practices that produce inequalities41
At the ‘risky’ end of things: labelling, self-concept and the role of supportive relationships in young lives39
Falling between the cracks – the experiences of young parents on Universal Credit36
Trapped in the predicament of lacking recognition: Chinese youths’ experiences of hikikomori33
Continuing existence: viability and indigenous youth action in Himachal Pradesh, India26
‘Morphing between the margins’: how youth make a living across multiple spaces in South Africa and beyond25
Problematising engagement with technologies in transitions of young people identified as ‘Not in Education, Employment or Training’ (NEET) in Scotland24
Vintage cameras: young people's nostalgic practices on social media and the pursuit of identity in contemporary China24
‘Nothing happens here, but that’s ok’: reflexivity, immobility and staying among young people in marginalised rural locations23
Understanding the public participation of young people in border regions of mainland Portugal: youth as local development agent23
Work, employment and the material conditions of young people in developed economies: a Marxist political economy of youth perspective23
The impact of pandemic-related loss of work on young adults’ plans21
Hyper(in)visibility of Blackness in spaces of whiteness: representations of race, gender and mental distress in the imageries of youth mental health services21
Does cohort size matter? Assessing the effect of youth cohort size and peer influence on young people’s electoral participation20
Tramadol consumption as edgework: intersections of pleasures and risks in the accounts of Nigerian youths19
Trailblazing the gender revolution? Young people's understandings of gender diversity through generation and social change19
Girl Culture, Unspectacular Resistance and Social Media – A Study of How Adolescent Girls Undo Emphasized Femininity through Shitposting18
Infrastructures of support: Australian young people’s perspectives on caring during the pandemic and future disability and care policy reform17
Young people’s agency in Zimbabwe’s precarious informal sector17
Rewiring remote urban futures? Youth well-being in northern industry towns16
Pragmatic, pious and pissed off: young Muslim girls managing conflicting sexual norms and social control15
#Relationshipgoals: fantasies of the good life in young people’s digitally-networked peer cultures15
‘After god, we give strength to each other’: young people’s experiences of coping in the context of unaccompanied forced migration15
“A game show at the end of the world” The currency of youth in UN climate summitry15
News coverage of the School Strike for Climate movement in Australia: the politics of representing young strikers’ emotions13
Inequalities in the making: the role of young people’s relational resources through the COVID-19 lockdown12
‘It’s like a hug’: examining the role of music-making for the well-being of youth during the COVID-19 pandemic12
‘I hate having my mental health’ – Making sense of mental health through coproduction and visual methods with young people with complex needs12
Feeling close, disclosing feelings – family practices and practices of intimacy in youth–parent relations across three generations in Norway11
Simply the best? Bridging perfectionism in psychology and girlhood studies11
Normalising sex and resisting shame: young Aboriginal women’s views on sex and relationships in an urban setting in Australia11
There are no gays in the village: youth perspectives of LGBTQIA+ people in Java, Indonesia11
Youth and insecurity from an intersectional perspective: the case of Catalonia10
Are images of seized knives an effective crime deterrent? A comparative thematic analysis of young people’s views within the Scottish context9
Duty, discipline and mental health problems: young people’s pursuit of educational achievement and body ideals9
‘Choosing the lesser of evils’: cultural narrative and career decision-making in post-Soviet Russia9
Framing Covid-19 through memes: a way for young people to shape the narrative in Austria9
Using body mapping to explore gender with adolescents in Uttar Pradesh9
‘Blind alley’ to ‘steppingstone’? Insecure transitions and policy responses in the downturns of the 1930s and post 2008 in the UK9
Influences on gambling during youth: comparisons between at-risk/problem, non-problem and non-gambling adolescents in Australia9
Embodying debt: youth, consumer credit and its impacts for wellbeing9
Demographic predictors of experiences of homelessness among lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, gender-diverse and queer-identifying (LGBTIQ) young people in Australia9
‘Pro-moral order’ activism: a study of diversity within youth communities of struggle in St Petersburg8
‘I have to start from where I’m capable:’ how low-income postsecondary students overcome financial and academic obstacles8
Conceptualising transitions from higher education to employment: navigating liminal spaces8
A multi-stakeholder analysis of the risks to early school leaving: comparing young peoples’ and educators’ perspectives on five categories of risk8
Taking back control: a study on young people’s agency to overcome a violent neighbourhood context8
BeyondAngry White Men: a progressive sociological imagination as an alternative to aggrieved entitlement8
Teenagers as curators: digitally mediated curation of the self on Instagram8
In-between child’s play and teenage pop culture: tweens, TikTok & privacy8
Evaluating youth empowerment in neighbourhood settings: applying the capabilities 3C model to evidence and extend the social justice outcomes of youth work in Scotland8
Pinball transitions: exploring the school-to-work transitions of ‘the missing middle’7
Social networks and personal support from the perspective of young people with intellectual disabilities7
Relational epistemic safety: what young people facing harm in their communities want and need from professionals tasked with helping them7
Collective and material embeddedness: a critique of subcultural studies and a new perspective7
Youth reflections on ethics in research and practice: a case study of youth born of genocidal rape in Rwanda7
Correction7
Multiple jobholding and non-standard employment among young workers: a comparative analysis of EU-28 member states7
Each person in their place: the ‘praxe’ as a ritual of integration, stratification and differentiation7
‘Stability is a foggy concept’: work stability from the perspective of young people with mobility experiences7
‘Not really leaving home’ in Southern Europe: intermediate living situations in Catalan youth housing trajectories7
About them, without them? figures of youth in Australian policy 2014–20216
Engaging in politics through youth transitions6
NEET youth in central and eastern European countries: a panel model approach6
‘The ability to change stuff up': volunteering as a young person within established organisations6
‘Basically, my only dream is to be a part of society’ – young adults’ negotiations for citizenship in the institutional system6
The memorable nature experiences of youth: a phenomenological approach to visualized and written experiences6
Figurations of youth in regional Australia: conceptualising the ‘young person’ as spatially figured6
Lost in transition? Young graduates’ employment after internships in public and private organisations6
Political socialisation narratives of young activists. Contexts, settings, and actors.6
‘We never get a space to just have a good time together’: indigenous LGBTIQSB+ young people carving out alternative viable lives6
From responsibilization to responsibility: justifications of everyday ecological practices of Moscow youth and worth of proactivity6
Young carers in Ghana: caring activities, ways into care and the impacts of caregiving6
#GenZ on TikTok: the collective online self-Portrait of the social media generation6
Media representations of young people during pandemic times in Turkey6
Is part-time work a demotivating factor for applying to high-status UK universities?6
Sexual division of labor, unemployment, and drug use in Buenos Aires underprivileged youths5
Symbolic mobility capital to fight the social stigma of staying: how young adults re-imagine narratives of ‘leaving’ during higher education5
Rural Chinese youth on Kuaishou : performing gender, labor, and rurality5
Mentoring young people involved in the justice system: unpacking the ‘black box’ of rapport and relationship-building5
The social reproductive labour of university students with hostile Jobs5
Historical reflection as a source of inspiration for youth resistance in illiberal regimes – a qualitative study of the FreeSZFE movement in Hungary5
Feminists, popular feminists, and transfeminists: young Argentine activists define their own identities5
The role of youth-led activist organisations for contemporary climate activism: the case of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition5
Correction5
Assemblages of well-being and belonging in young adults’ life-historical narrations: experiences from education and the labour market5
Going against the grain? A longitudinal study of the material-discursive practices of staying among young adults in rural Finland5
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
Dynamics of belonging amid geographical immobility: a longitudinal analysis of youth trajectories in rural Australia5
The characteristics of street codes and competing performances of masculinity on an inner-city housing estate4
Young refugees’ feelings of belonging? Encounters with rural Denmark and northern Norway4
Going home: youth and aspirations in postconflict Marawi, Philippines4
Conditionally supporting freedom of speech: how cognitive sophistication and social identity affect adolescents’ support for freedom of speech and its restrictions4
Resources and pace of leaving home among young adults in Poland4
‘Reworldings’: exploring perspectives on the future from Danish and Australian youth during COVID-194
Getting a foot in the door: local labour markets and the school-to-work transition4
Plans, hopes, dreams and evolving agency: case histories of young people navigating transitions.4
The material and symbolic in young women’s negotiation of precarious employment: the case of the Israeli service and care sectors4
Educational homogamy, values, activities, and inequality: an intergenerational perspective4
Narratives of Rwandan youth on post-genocide reconciliation: contesting discourses and identities in the making4
Latin American young NEETs: Brazil as a case study for systemic risks of youth social exclusion4
Situated belonging as everyday practice in a semi-public Youth Living Room for undocumented young city dwellers3
Stratified patterns of adolescent employment and their relation to educational attainment3
‘You can still have dreams for your child’: Filipino young people’s lived experiences of parenthood3
Gendered youth transitions in local jihad in Indonesia: negotiating agency in arranged marriage3
‘It infuriates me': examining young adults’ reactions to and recommendations to fight misinformation about COVID-193
Lockdown practices: a portrait of young people in the family during the first lockdown in Portugal3
Young people’s citizenship activities at and beyond school – exploring a new theoretical framework with empirical data from a rural community in Germany3
Navigating critical phases in adversity in youth: identification and reorientation3
Viable youth futures3
Challenges and coping with COVID-19: perspectives of emerging adults and their mothers3
‘This is our home’: young residents’ representations of Melbourne’s public housing towers during ‘hard lockdown’3
‘We’re not just behind the scenes, we’re visible and upfront.’ Amplifying young carers’ voice using a community development approach in a UK city3
Making do: young people and mobilities at home3
Anchors of belonging and the logics of othering of young Finns3
‘Empowering youth as change agents for climate change in South Africa’: challenges, caveats and course corrections3
Conceptual meanings of permanency: Photovoice with care-experienced youth3
Immobility, precarity and the Covid-19 pandemic: the impact of lockdown on international students in Portugal3
Subculture, masculinity and place in young rural men’s resistance to counter-migration3
Sabrina as a sanction: teenaged witches and the perceived inauthenticity of youth3
Cruel optimism of waiting: precarity experiences of young adults in Turkey3
Identities, power and policing of young men in Mathare and Kaptembwo3
Youth unemployment as a policy problem for the OECD, European Union, and the Republic of Ireland in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis3
What helps adult care leavers return to education? exploring the relevance of learner identity and the life course perspective3
The 2021 cross-national and comparative classification of in-country awareness and policy responses to ‘young carers’3
Introduction to the special issue: reflections on young people’s responses to negative everyday representations of themselves3
Introduction to special issue: youth, rural places and marginalisation3
Supporting integration through social connectedness: a development framework3
Religious homophily and friendship: socialisation between Muslim minority and Anglo majority youth in Australia2
‘Frexting’: exploring homosociality among girls who share intimate images2
Bridging gaps, building futures: evaluating a multinational’s employment programme vs. work-first for youth with diverse education levels2
The voice of young adults making sense of their caring childhoods: demonstrating resilience through adversity2
‘Sitting there and listening was one of the most important lessons I had to learn’: critical capacity building in youth participatory action research2
‘People need support and society needs change’: vulnerability and collective agency in queer youth organization2
Youth resilience and training programmes in Australia and the US: Beyond neoliberal social therapeutics2
The role of public employment services in young people's job search: a comparative study of Italy, Poland, and Romania2
Anthropocene challenges for youth research: understanding agency and change through complex, adaptive systems2
Childbearing motivation at the onset of emerging adulthood2
Young people’s life and career choices in times of uncertainty2
Growing up and belonging in regimes of geographical mobility. Young cosmopolitans in Berlin2
An active investment in cultural capital: structured extracurricular activities and educational success in China2
Street efficacy, daily activities and youth perceptions of neighborhood safety2
Political economy and young people’s transitions from education-to-work in the UK during and following the 2020 and 2021 lockdowns2
Lebanese, Indian and Anglo LGBTQ + young Australians’ experiences at school and university: an analysis from the middle2
Putting on an act: learning service behaviour in young women’s vocational education and training for hospitality work2
‘It makes me feel at home’: establishing a sense of belonging after leaving the childhood home2
Transcultural practices and inter-generational dynamics among migrant youth2
Spatialities of being a young NEET in an era of turbulence: a critical account of regional resilience across the Mediterranean EU South2
Return mobilities and Italian youth transitions: new meanings around adulthood2
Political participation of refugee and host community youths: epistemic resistance through artistic and participatory spaces2
Beyond empowerment and inspiration: towards a critical program for multicultural youth leadership2
An older age colored by youth: the continuing significance of youth-generated cultural boundaries for Sixties affiliates2
Mental health problems in youth and later receipt of social assistance: do parental resources matter?2
Making sense of politics: how affective dispositions and everyday experiences connect young people with the political2
‘It was too much technology … I chucked my laptop across the room': young women, networked affect and the positivity imperative2
Building viabilities: youth social action in the Indian Himalayas2
The myth of Australia’s migrant youth gang: examining the perceived association between ethnicity and gangs2
Post-industrial worker-citizenship2
Examining the perceived harms of digital dating abuse:a university sample2
Is the concept of subculture ‘unworkable’ as an analytical tool in youth sociology? A Swiss quantitative perspective on the subculture/post-subculture debate2
‘Everywhere you get models of what you should be like’: ideals of masculinity and therapeutic culture constraining young men’s mental health and gendered subjectivities2
Safety strategies, status positioning and gendered double standards: adolescents’ narratives of sexualised risk in alcohol intoxication contexts2
Qualitative approach to the normalization of gambling amongst adolescents and young adults in Extremadura (Spain)2
Is there an Indian way of raving? Reading the cultural negotiations of Indian youth in the trans-local EDM scene2
‘Figuring it out’. Continuity or discontinuity of work in young rural-urban migrants’ education to work transition in Kathmandu, Nepal2
Comparing children’s and teens’ news engagement practices and affective news experiences2
What makes Turkish youth NEET?2
Sharing and liking as youth nano-level participation. Finnish students’ civic and political engagement in social media1
Future school well-being: a qualitative study on the imagined futures of Finnish youth1
Close family bonds and community distrust. The complex emotional experience of a young generation from southern Italy1
Housing independence pathways in Europe: the influence of parents’ socio-economic background in times of economic stress1
Lived experiences of Greek emerging adults during the COVID-19 lockdowns: a two-timeframe qualitative perspective1
Young people not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) in Sub-Saharan Africa: Sustainable Development Target 8.6 missed and reset1
Understanding how place is addressed in research on young people’s political action: cases from Sweden1
‘Not learning’ in a learning space: spatializing embodied experiences of rural Chinese youth1
Socius improvisus : young musicians, DIY careers and uncertainty in Indonesia1
Housing advantage, hidden curriculum, habitus: students’ past and future housing pathways revisited1
Negotiating authenticity: experiences of student influencers on social media1
Dreaming the life: international students and the temporal complexity of employability1
‘Citizenship from below’: integration as assemblage for immigrant young people volunteers in Canada1
Mortgaged futures: fractured livelihoods and youth debts during COVID-191
Reframing immobility: young women aspiring to ‘good enough’ local futures1
Urban youth and the environmental commons: rejuvenating civic engagement through civic science1
Young people’s engagement in online research: challenges and lessons from conducting focus groups with young people online1
Young adults as paid care workers: gendered and classed transitions, trajectories, and experiences1
The relational work of constructing the future: drawing together youth and parent perspectives1
Gender, violence and cultures of silence: young women and paramilitary violence1
From dreams to possibilities: the role of gender and family income in aspirations among youth in the city of Yazd1
Political disaffection or institutional adultcentrism? Youth perceptions of adult hegemony in institutional politics and policies1
The COVID-19 pandemic and youth in recent, historical perspective: more pressure, more precarity1
Young political consumers between the individual and the collective: evidence from the UK and Greece1
Parental social disadvantage as a determinant of welfare reliance among young adults before and after the Great Recession1
Hope and uncertainty at the periphery in global times: youth employment in kinmen, Taiwan1
Everyday interactions and political participation of Malaysian youth1
COVID-19 and youth unemployment in MENA countries: a matching approach1
‘When I came to university, that’s when the real shift came’: alcohol and belonging in English higher education1
Temporal emotion work, gender and aspirations of left-behind youth in Indonesian migrant-sending villages1
Risks and opportunities of digitally mediated interactions: young people’s meanings and experiences1
Examining the relationship between civic engagement and mental health in young adults: a systematic review of the literature1
How to make arts-based interventions appropriate for young refugees?: towards a decolonial framework1
When visibility becomes political: visibility and stigmatisation of young people1
‘Bread for all, and Roses, too’: satisfaction with job stability and pay among young Italian workers1
Precarious employment as a central axis of emerging adulthood among young working-class Palestinian women in Israel1
Assembling places, technologies and young people – becoming rural youth with vehicles and digital technologies in Finland1
Risk, discomfort and disruption: experiences of (im)mobilities in public spaces among Swedish youth racialised as non-white1
A political economy of youth policy in Mexico1
Bleak prospects: youth transitions in twenty-first century Britain1
Ambivalent recognition: young unaccompanied refugees’ encounters with Norwegian society1
‘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 Sweden1
Movers, returners and stayers: the role of place in shaping the (im)mobility aspirations of young people in coastal towns1
A life course perspective on the NEET phenomenon: long-term exclusion across cohorts, gender, and social origin among young adults in Norway1
The future of work for young people – early occupational pathways and the risk of automation in Australia1
Influence and expertise: distancing and distinction in online youth feminist knowledge cultures1
Black bodies, Black queens, and the Black sisterhood on social media: perspectives from young African women in Australia1
In what way a ‘Guarantee for youth’? NEETs entrapped by labour market policies in the European Union1
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