OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Youth Studies is 5. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Assembling wellbeing: bodies, affects and the ‘conditions of possibility’ for wellbeing	34
News coverage of the School Strike for Climate movement in Australia: the politics of representing young strikers’ emotions	28
‘And school won’t teach me that!’ Urban youth activism programs as transformative sites for critical adolescent learning	27
Young environmental activists and Do-It-Ourselves (DIO) politics: collective engagement, generational agency, efficacy, belonging and hope	25
In-between child’s play and teenage pop culture: tweens, TikTok & privacy	23
The role of youth-led activist organisations for contemporary climate activism: the case of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition	22
Quality of life of NEET youth in comparative perspective: subjective well-being during the transition to adulthood	22
Reflexive habitus and the new obligation of choice: understanding young people’s light drinking and alcohol abstinence	21
#GenZ on TikTok: the collective online self-Portrait of the social media generation	21
Young people not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) in Sub-Saharan Africa: Sustainable Development Target 8.6 missed and reset	20
Digital dating abuse perpetration and impact: The importance of gender	19
Immobility, precarity and the Covid-19 pandemic: the impact of lockdown on international students in Portugal	17
Trailblazing the gender revolution? Young people's understandings of gender diversity through generation and social change	17
The 2021 cross-national and comparative classification of in-country awareness and policy responses to ‘young carers’	17
Understanding culture: the voices of urban Aboriginal young people	17
‘Young People and Environmental Activism: The Transformation of Democratic Politics’	17
Cross-national Analysis of Legislation, Policy and Service Frameworks for Adolescent Young Carers in Europe	17
Researching race in Australian youth studies	16
Incapacitated sexual assault among youths: beyond the perpetrator tactics framework	14
Pathways to environmental activism in four countries: social media, environmental concern, and political efficacy	14
Reframing immobility: young women aspiring to ‘good enough’ local futures	13
On the margins of citizenship: youth participation and youth exclusion in times of neoliberal urbanism	12
‘It infuriates me': examining young adults’ reactions to and recommendations to fight misinformation about COVID-19	12
The emotional bystander – sexting and image-based sexual abuse among young adults	12
Doing adulthood—doing alcohol: what happens when the ‘sober generation’ grows up?	12

The young protester: the impact of belongingness needs on political engagement	12
Young political consumers between the individual and the collective: evidence from the UK and Greece	11
Beyond (mis)-recognition: Muslim youth and religiosity in Australia	11
Everyday social media use of young Australian adults	11
What makes youth become NEET? Evidence from Russia	10
‘Because I am me': school bullying and the presentation of self in everyday school life	10
Young cosmopolitans and environmental politics: how postmaterialist values inform and shape youth engagement in environmental politics	10
Young people in the middle: pathways, prospects, policies and a new agenda for youth research	10
Muslim youth environmentalists in Indonesia	10
Youth environmental activism in the age of social media: the case of Chile (2009-2019)	9
(Water) bottles and (street) barricades: the politicisation of lifestyle-centred action in youth climate strike participation	9
Authentically engaging youth with foster care experience: definitions and recommended strategies from youth and staff	9
‘This is our home’: young residents’ representations of Melbourne’s public housing towers during ‘hard lockdown’	8
Cannabis, youth and social identity: the evolving meaning of cannabis use in adolescence	8
(Sub)national and supranational identity among majority and minority youth in superdiverse urban schools	8
Work, employment and the material conditions of young people in developed economies: a Marxist political economy of youth perspective	8
Friendship barriers and supports: thoughts of young people with intellectual disabilities	8
Duty, discipline and mental health problems: young people’s pursuit of educational achievement and body ideals	8
Factors associated with the perpetration of interpersonal violence and abuse in young people’s intimate relationships	8
The COVID-19 pandemic and youth in recent, historical perspective: more pressure, more precarity	8
Identity formation and change in children and youth born of wartime sexual violence in northern Uganda	8
Educational mismatch in recent university graduates. The role of labour mobility	8
University students’ experiences and perceptions of interventions for self-harm	8
The diversity of transitions during early adulthood in the Finnish labour market	8
Mattering; changing the narrative in secondary schools for youth who truant	7
Global South to Global North youth migration: a decolonial exploration of Black African youth experiences of migrating to and being in Australia	7
Towards climate justice? Young climate activists in Finland on fairness and moderation	7
COVID-19 and young people’s ‘Future Presents’: lockdown stories from the Anthropocene	7
Active citizens under Eighteen: minors in political protests	7
Urban youth and the environmental commons: rejuvenating civic engagement through civic science	7
Interrogating race, unsettling whiteness: concepts of transitions, enterprise and mobilities in Australian youth studies	7
Transnational peer relationships as social capital: mobile migrant youth between Ghana and Germany	7
Anthropocene challenges for youth research: understanding agency and change through complex, adaptive systems	7
Narratives of Rwandan youth on post-genocide reconciliation: contesting discourses and identities in the making	7
Close family bonds and community distrust. The complex emotional experience of a young generation from southern Italy	7
‘I wanted to take on a lot of responsibility’. Reconstructing biographies of young people engaged in formal participation	7
Transition to where and to what? Exploring the experiences of transitions to adulthood for young disabled people	7
Hip Hop, identity, & Black girlhood: how Black girls (re)construct racial and gender identity through Hip Hop	6
Latin American young NEETs: Brazil as a case study for systemic risks of youth social exclusion	6
Religious homophily and friendship: socialisation between Muslim minority and Anglo majority youth in Australia	6
Participatory photography supporting the social inclusion of migrant youth	6
‘Insighters’: the complexity of qualitative methods in youth music research	6
(Dis)ordered social sequences of mobile young adults: spatial, social and return mobilities	6
Housing after care: understanding security and stability in the transition out of care through the lenses of liminality, recognition and precarity	6
Gender differences in STEM expectations across countries: how perceived labor market structures shape adolescents’ preferences	5
The “NEET” category from the perspective of inequalities: toward a typology of school-to-work transitions among youth from lower class neighborhoods in the Brussels region (Belgium)	5
Embodied circular migration: lived experiences of education and work of Nepalese children and youth	5
Belonging in multiple places: Pasifika young peoples’ experiences of living in Logan	5
Informal sports for youth recovery: grassroots strategies in conflict and disaster geographies	5
Young and/but successful: business graduates performing themselves as valuable labouring subjects	5

Dissecting the achievement generation: how different groups of early adolescents experience and navigate contemporary achievement demands	5
Problematising engagement with technologies in transitions of young people identified as ‘Not in Education, Employment or Training’ (NEET) in Scotland	5
Teenagers as curators: digitally mediated curation of the self on Instagram	5
Resources and pace of leaving home among young adults in Poland	5
Gender, violence and cultures of silence: young women and paramilitary violence	5
Maturing out of ‘binge drinking’: young adult women’s performance of age and gender in times of transition	5
‘Codeine crazy:’ a content analysis of prescription drug references in popular music	5
Growing up and belonging in regimes of geographical mobility. Young cosmopolitans in Berlin	5
Places of possibility: youth research as creative liberatory praxis	5
Storyscapes of place: First Nation youths’ photographic depictions of home	5
Navigating between two the worlds of school and ‘being on the land’: Arctic Indigenous young people, structural violence, cultural continuity and selfhood	5
‘I wouldn't want my family to cop anything’: examining the family of origin and its place in LGBTQIA+ young people’s social media practices	5
Forming the capacity to aspire: young refugees’ narratives of family migration and wellbeing	5
The low skills trap: the failure of education and social policies in preventing low-literate young people from being long-term NEET	5
The role of thwarted belongingness on the relationship between microaggressions and mental health for LGBTQ+ emerging adults	5