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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Subculture in the news: a longitudinal, semantic network analysis of punk media representation	85
At the ‘risky’ end of things: labelling, self-concept and the role of supportive relationships in young lives	84
Falling between the cracks – the experiences of young parents on Universal Credit	54
Trapped in the predicament of lacking recognition: Chinese youths’ experiences of hikikomori	46
Sages of the street: violence management and neighborhood conflict among crime- and violence-exposed young males in southwest Houston	46
Continuing existence: viability and indigenous youth action in Himachal Pradesh, India	34
Growing up, ill: the challenges of youth for young people living with chronic illness	32
Work, employment and the material conditions of young people in developed economies: a Marxist political economy of youth perspective	32
Understanding the public participation of young people in border regions of mainland Portugal: youth as local development agent	27
Everyday resistance: young people's agency and the politics of peacebuilding amid armed conflict and systemic oppression	24
Mobilised yet unaffiliated: Italian youth and the uneven return to political participation	22
Vintage cameras: young people's nostalgic practices on social media and the pursuit of identity in contemporary China	22
Addressing youths’ digital agency with internet technologies: discourses and practices that produce inequalities	18
‘Nothing happens here, but that’s ok’: reflexivity, immobility and staying among young people in marginalised rural locations	18
‘Morphing between the margins’: how youth make a living across multiple spaces in South Africa and beyond	17
Opportunities and limits: exploring young people’s views of staff care in residential alcohol and other drug services	17
Problematising engagement with technologies in transitions of young people identified as ‘Not in Education, Employment or Training’ (NEET) in Scotland	16
Young people’s agency in Zimbabwe’s precarious informal sector	16
Infrastructures of support: Australian young people’s perspectives on caring during the pandemic and future disability and care policy reform	15
Tramadol consumption as edgework: intersections of pleasures and risks in the accounts of Nigerian youths	14
Girl Culture, Unspectacular Resistance and Social Media – A Study of How Adolescent Girls Undo Emphasized Femininity through Shitposting	14
The impact of pandemic-related loss of work on young adults’ plans	14
#Relationshipgoals: fantasies of the good life in young people’s digitally-networked peer cultures	14
Hyper(in)visibility of Blackness in spaces of whiteness: representations of race, gender and mental distress in the imageries of youth mental health services	13
Does cohort size matter? Assessing the effect of youth cohort size and peer influence on young people’s electoral participation	13

Rewiring remote urban futures? Youth well-being in northern industry towns	12
Feeling close, disclosing feelings – family practices and practices of intimacy in youth–parent relations across three generations in Norway	12
Normalising sex and resisting shame: young Aboriginal women’s views on sex and relationships in an urban setting in Australia	12
Inequalities in the making: the role of young people’s relational resources through the COVID-19 lockdown	12
Influences on gambling during youth: comparisons between at-risk/problem, non-problem and non-gambling adolescents in Australia	11
Intersectional action in youth activism in the UK: an exploration of data across different social media platforms	11
‘After god, we give strength to each other’: young people’s experiences of coping in the context of unaccompanied forced migration	11
‘I hate having my mental health’ – Making sense of mental health through coproduction and visual methods with young people with complex needs	11
“A game show at the end of the world” The currency of youth in UN climate summitry	11
‘It’s like a hug’: examining the role of music-making for the well-being of youth during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Framing Covid-19 through memes: a way for young people to shape the narrative in Austria	10
Supportive geographic communities protect the mental health of LGBTQ+ youth: evidence from linked Australian data	10
Youth and insecurity from an intersectional perspective: the case of Catalonia	10
Embodying debt: youth, consumer credit and its impacts for wellbeing	10
Using body mapping to explore gender with adolescents in Uttar Pradesh	10
There are no gays in the village: youth perspectives of LGBTQIA+ people in Java, Indonesia	9
A multi-stakeholder analysis of the risks to early school leaving: comparing young peoples’ and educators’ perspectives on five categories of risk	9
‘Choosing the lesser of evils’: cultural narrative and career decision-making in post-Soviet Russia	9
From live-streaming to memes: an exploratory study of the Chinese abstract culture as a structure of feeling among Chinese youth	9
Are images of seized knives an effective crime deterrent? A comparative thematic analysis of young people’s views within the Scottish context	9
Teenagers as curators: digitally mediated curation of the self on Instagram	9
‘I have to start from where I’m capable:’ how low-income postsecondary students overcome financial and academic obstacles	9
‘Blind alley’ to ‘steppingstone’? Insecure transitions and policy responses in the downturns of the 1930s and post 2008 in the UK	9
Simply the best? Bridging perfectionism in psychology and girlhood studies	9
Demographic predictors of experiences of homelessness among lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, gender-diverse and queer-identifying (LGBTIQ) young people in Australia	9
‘Pro-moral order’ activism: a study of diversity within youth communities of struggle in St Petersburg	9
Taking back control: a study on young people’s agency to overcome a violent neighbourhood context	9
The journey towards staying: a qualitative study on return-home youths’ empowerment in China	9
Correction	8
Pinball transitions: exploring the school-to-work transitions of ‘the missing middle’	8
Conceptualising transitions from higher education to employment: navigating liminal spaces	8
Evaluating youth empowerment in neighbourhood settings: applying the capabilities 3C model to evidence and extend the social justice outcomes of youth work in Scotland	8
Multiple jobholding and non-standard employment among young workers: a comparative analysis of EU-28 member states	8
‘Stability is a foggy concept’: work stability from the perspective of young people with mobility experiences	8
Collective and material embeddedness: a critique of subcultural studies and a new perspective	8
BeyondAngry White Men: a progressive sociological imagination as an alternative to aggrieved entitlement	8
Relational epistemic safety: what young people facing harm in their communities want and need from professionals tasked with helping them	8
‘Not really leaving home’ in Southern Europe: intermediate living situations in Catalan youth housing trajectories	8
Engaging in politics through youth transitions	7
Figurations of youth in regional Australia: conceptualising the ‘young person’ as spatially figured	7
Lost in transition? Young graduates’ employment after internships in public and private organisations	7
The memorable nature experiences of youth: a phenomenological approach to visualized and written experiences	7
‘The ability to change stuff up': volunteering as a young person within established organisations	7
From responsibilization to responsibility: justifications of everyday ecological practices of Moscow youth and worth of proactivity	7
About them, without them? figures of youth in Australian policy 2014–2021	7
#GenZ on TikTok: the collective online self-Portrait of the social media generation	7
NEET youth in central and eastern European countries: a panel model approach	7
Youth reflections on ethics in research and practice: a case study of youth born of genocidal rape in Rwanda	7
Young carers in Ghana: caring activities, ways into care and the impacts of caregiving	7
‘We never get a space to just have a good time together’: indigenous LGBTIQSB+ young people carving out alternative viable lives	6

Media representations of young people during pandemic times in Turkey	6
Assemblages of well-being and belonging in young adults’ life-historical narrations: experiences from education and the labour market	6
Political socialisation narratives of young activists. Contexts, settings, and actors.	6
Is part-time work a demotivating factor for applying to high-status UK universities?	6
‘Basically, my only dream is to be a part of society’ – young adults’ negotiations for citizenship in the institutional system	6
Correction	6
Dynamics of belonging amid geographical immobility: a longitudinal analysis of youth trajectories in rural Australia	6
The role of youth-led activist organisations for contemporary climate activism: the case of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition	6
Mentoring young people involved in the justice system: unpacking the ‘black box’ of rapport and relationship-building	6
Educational homogamy, values, activities, and inequality: an intergenerational perspective	5
Conditionally supporting freedom of speech: how cognitive sophistication and social identity affect adolescents’ support for freedom of speech and its restrictions	5
Getting a foot in the door: local labour markets and the school-to-work transition	5
Young refugees’ feelings of belonging? Encounters with rural Denmark and northern Norway	5
Going against the grain? A longitudinal study of the material-discursive practices of staying among young adults in rural Finland	5
The obligations and opportunities of ‘friendship as method’ in youth mentoring research: investigating the intersections with youth work epistemologies	5
The social reproductive labour of university students with hostile Jobs	5
‘Reworldings’: exploring perspectives on the future from Danish and Australian youth during COVID-19	5
Rural Chinese youth on Kuaishou : performing gender, labor, and rurality	5
Historical reflection as a source of inspiration for youth resistance in illiberal regimes – a qualitative study of the FreeSZFE movement in Hungary	5
Gender and agency in the political learning of contentious activism. Reviewing activist models of young people in the new political cycle in the Basque Country	5
The characteristics of street codes and competing performances of masculinity on an inner-city housing estate	5
Feminists, popular feminists, and transfeminists: young Argentine activists define their own identities	5
Sexual division of labor, unemployment, and drug use in Buenos Aires underprivileged youths	5