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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Assembling wellbeing: bodies, affects and the ‘conditions of possibility’ for wellbeing	43
Young environmental activists and Do-It-Ourselves (DIO) politics: collective engagement, generational agency, efficacy, belonging and hope	38
#GenZ on TikTok: the collective online self-Portrait of the social media generation	35
News coverage of the School Strike for Climate movement in Australia: the politics of representing young strikers’ emotions	35
In-between child’s play and teenage pop culture: tweens, TikTok & privacy	30
The role of youth-led activist organisations for contemporary climate activism: the case of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition	28
‘Young People and Environmental Activism: The Transformation of Democratic Politics’	27
Young people not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) in Sub-Saharan Africa: Sustainable Development Target 8.6 missed and reset	27
Quality of life of NEET youth in comparative perspective: subjective well-being during the transition to adulthood	25
Understanding culture: the voices of urban Aboriginal young people	22
Cross-national Analysis of Legislation, Policy and Service Frameworks for Adolescent Young Carers in Europe	20
Digital dating abuse perpetration and impact: The importance of gender	20
Immobility, precarity and the Covid-19 pandemic: the impact of lockdown on international students in Portugal	19
Incapacitated sexual assault among youths: beyond the perpetrator tactics framework	19
The 2021 cross-national and comparative classification of in-country awareness and policy responses to ‘young carers’	19
Pathways to environmental activism in four countries: social media, environmental concern, and political efficacy	18
‘It infuriates me': examining young adults’ reactions to and recommendations to fight misinformation about COVID-19	18
Trailblazing the gender revolution? Young people's understandings of gender diversity through generation and social change	18
Researching race in Australian youth studies	18
Reframing immobility: young women aspiring to ‘good enough’ local futures	17
On the margins of citizenship: youth participation and youth exclusion in times of neoliberal urbanism	17
Everyday social media use of young Australian adults	15
Doing adulthood—doing alcohol: what happens when the ‘sober generation’ grows up?	15
COVID-19 and young people’s ‘Future Presents’: lockdown stories from the Anthropocene	15
Educational mismatch in recent university graduates. The role of labour mobility	15

The COVID-19 pandemic and youth in recent, historical perspective: more pressure, more precarity	14
(Water) bottles and (street) barricades: the politicisation of lifestyle-centred action in youth climate strike participation	14
Young political consumers between the individual and the collective: evidence from the UK and Greece	14
Young cosmopolitans and environmental politics: how postmaterialist values inform and shape youth engagement in environmental politics	13
What makes youth become NEET? Evidence from Russia	12
Interrogating race, unsettling whiteness: concepts of transitions, enterprise and mobilities in Australian youth studies	12
‘Because I am me': school bullying and the presentation of self in everyday school life	12
Global South to Global North youth migration: a decolonial exploration of Black African youth experiences of migrating to and being in Australia	11
Duty, discipline and mental health problems: young people’s pursuit of educational achievement and body ideals	11
University students’ experiences and perceptions of interventions for self-harm	11
‘This is our home’: young residents’ representations of Melbourne’s public housing towers during ‘hard lockdown’	10
Anthropocene challenges for youth research: understanding agency and change through complex, adaptive systems	10
Examining the relationship between civic engagement and mental health in young adults: a systematic review of the literature	10
Youth environmental activism in the age of social media: the case of Chile (2009-2019)	10
Cannabis, youth and social identity: the evolving meaning of cannabis use in adolescence	10
Towards climate justice? Young climate activists in Finland on fairness and moderation	9
Urban youth and the environmental commons: rejuvenating civic engagement through civic science	9
Transnational peer relationships as social capital: mobile migrant youth between Ghana and Germany	9
Close family bonds and community distrust. The complex emotional experience of a young generation from southern Italy	9
Work, employment and the material conditions of young people in developed economies: a Marxist political economy of youth perspective	9
Mobilized, negotiated and balanced: Chinese school vloggers’ platform engagements and layered identity construction on Bilibili	8
Growing up and belonging in regimes of geographical mobility. Young cosmopolitans in Berlin	8
Factors associated with the perpetration of interpersonal violence and abuse in young people’s intimate relationships	8
Narratives of Rwandan youth on post-genocide reconciliation: contesting discourses and identities in the making	8
The low skills trap: the failure of education and social policies in preventing low-literate young people from being long-term NEET	8
Latin American young NEETs: Brazil as a case study for systemic risks of youth social exclusion	7
Embodying debt: youth, consumer credit and its impacts for wellbeing	7
Housing after care: understanding security and stability in the transition out of care through the lenses of liminality, recognition and precarity	7
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)	7
Dissecting the achievement generation: how different groups of early adolescents experience and navigate contemporary achievement demands	7
Teenagers as curators: digitally mediated curation of the self on Instagram	7
Resources and pace of leaving home among young adults in Poland	7
Hip Hop, identity, & Black girlhood: how Black girls (re)construct racial and gender identity through Hip Hop	6
Religious homophily and friendship: socialisation between Muslim minority and Anglo majority youth in Australia	6
(Dis)ordered social sequences of mobile young adults: spatial, social and return mobilities	6
Mental health problems in youth and later receipt of social assistance: do parental resources matter?	6
In what way a ‘Guarantee for youth’? NEETs entrapped by labour market policies in the European Union	6
Gender, violence and cultures of silence: young women and paramilitary violence	6
Everyday interactions and political participation of Malaysian youth	6
The role of thwarted belongingness on the relationship between microaggressions and mental health for LGBTQ+ emerging adults	6
Conceptualising transitions from higher education to employment: navigating liminal spaces	6
Black bodies, Black queens, and the Black sisterhood on social media: perspectives from young African women in Australia	6
‘I hate having my mental health’ – Making sense of mental health through coproduction and visual methods with young people with complex needs	6
Maturing out of ‘binge drinking’: young adult women’s performance of age and gender in times of transition	6
Problematising engagement with technologies in transitions of young people identified as ‘Not in Education, Employment or Training’ (NEET) in Scotland	6
‘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	6
A sense of unease: elite high school students negotiating historical privilege	5
Playing without goals: gendered practices in recreational youth football	5
Rewiring remote urban futures? Youth well-being in northern industry towns	5
Pragmatic, pious and pissed off: young Muslim girls managing conflicting sexual norms and social control	5

‘I ain’t stupid, I just don’t like school’: a ‘needs’ based argument for children’s educational provision in custody	5
The characteristics of street codes and competing performances of masculinity on an inner-city housing estate	5
Belonging in multiple places: Pasifika young peoples’ experiences of living in Logan	5
‘When I came to university, that’s when the real shift came’: alcohol and belonging in English higher education	5
Young and/but successful: business graduates performing themselves as valuable labouring subjects	5
Pinball transitions: exploring the school-to-work transitions of ‘the missing middle’	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
Spatialities of being a young NEET in an era of turbulence: a critical account of regional resilience across the Mediterranean EU South	5
Forming the capacity to aspire: young refugees’ narratives of family migration and wellbeing	5