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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Falling between the cracks – the experiences of young parents on Universal Credit	45
Everyday resistance: young people's agency and the politics of peacebuilding amid armed conflict and systemic oppression	35
Sages of the street: violence management and neighborhood conflict among crime- and violence-exposed young males in southwest Houston	26
‘Morphing between the margins’: how youth make a living across multiple spaces in South Africa and beyond	25
Opportunities and limits: exploring young people’s views of staff care in residential alcohol and other drug services	22
Subculture in the news: a longitudinal, semantic network analysis of punk media representation	22
At the ‘risky’ end of things: labelling, self-concept and the role of supportive relationships in young lives	19
Growing up, ill: the challenges of youth for young people living with chronic illness	19
Reframing digital inequality: investigating symbolic boundaries in media use among Norwegian adolescents	17
Trapped in the predicament of lacking recognition: Chinese youths’ experiences of hikikomori	17
Vintage cameras: young people's nostalgic practices on social media and the pursuit of identity in contemporary China	16
Understanding the public participation of young people in border regions of mainland Portugal: youth as local development agent	16
‘Nothing happens here, but that’s ok’: reflexivity, immobility and staying among young people in marginalised rural locations	16
Addressing youths’ digital agency with internet technologies: discourses and practices that produce inequalities	15
Continuing existence: viability and indigenous youth action in Himachal Pradesh, India	15
Tramadol consumption as edgework: intersections of pleasures and risks in the accounts of Nigerian youths	14
The impact of pandemic-related loss of work on young adults’ plans	14
Infrastructures of support: Australian young people’s perspectives on caring during the pandemic and future disability and care policy reform	14
#Relationshipgoals: fantasies of the good life in young people’s digitally-networked peer cultures	13
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
Indian students and democratic engagement: parallel cohort insights into political institutions, development, and sustainability (2016 and 2022)	13
‘After god, we give strength to each other’: young people’s experiences of coping in the context of unaccompanied forced migration	12
Girl Culture, Unspectacular Resistance and Social Media – A Study of How Adolescent Girls Undo Emphasized Femininity through Shitposting	12
Feeling close, disclosing feelings – family practices and practices of intimacy in youth–parent relations across three generations in Norway	12
‘It’s like a hug’: examining the role of music-making for the well-being of youth during the COVID-19 pandemic	12

Youth, precariousness and vital change through activism	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
“A game show at the end of the world” The currency of youth in UN climate summitry	12
Intersectional action in youth activism in the UK: an exploration of data across different social media platforms	12
Young people’s agency in Zimbabwe’s precarious informal sector	12
Demographic predictors of experiences of homelessness among lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, gender-diverse and queer-identifying (LGBTIQ) young people in Australia	11
Supportive geographic communities protect the mental health of LGBTQ+ youth: evidence from linked Australian data	11
There are no gays in the village: youth perspectives of LGBTQIA+ people in Java, Indonesia	11
Small live music spaces as ‘liminal scenes': exploring self-adjustment and structures of feeling of Chinese youth in an accelerated society	11
Embodying debt: youth, consumer credit and its impacts for wellbeing	11
Youth and insecurity from an intersectional perspective: the case of Catalonia	11
Framing Covid-19 through memes: a way for young people to shape the narrative in Austria	11
Taking back control: a study on young people’s agency to overcome a violent neighbourhood context	10
The journey towards staying: a qualitative study on return-home youths’ empowerment in China	10
Pathways to possibilities: the drivers for career exploration success amongst RRR and low SES students	10
Simply the best? Bridging perfectionism in psychology and girlhood studies	10
A multi-stakeholder analysis of the risks to early school leaving: comparing young peoples’ and educators’ perspectives on five categories of risk	10
Evaluating youth empowerment in neighbourhood settings: applying the capabilities 3C model to evidence and extend the social justice outcomes of youth work in Scotland	10
Influences on gambling during youth: comparisons between at-risk/problem, non-problem and non-gambling adolescents in Australia	10
From live-streaming to memes: an exploratory study of the Chinese abstract culture as a structure of feeling among Chinese youth	10
Beyond Angry White Men : a progressive sociological imagination as an alternative to aggrieved entitlement	9
Relational epistemic safety: what young people facing harm in their communities want and need from professionals tasked with helping them	9
Rules of disengagement: a qualitative study of young people’s relationship breakups	9
Multiple jobholding and non-standard employment among young workers: a comparative analysis of EU-28 member states	9
The determinants of net wealth accumulation among young European households: evidence from multilevel modeling (2010–2021)	9
‘Stability is a foggy concept’: work stability from the perspective of young people with mobility experiences	9
From responsibilization to responsibility: justifications of everyday ecological practices of Moscow youth and worth of proactivity	9
Correction	9
Collective and material embeddedness: a critique of subcultural studies and a new perspective	9
Student protests against Israeli action in Gaza: a cross-European analysis of newspaper representations	9
Conceptualising transitions from higher education to employment: navigating liminal spaces	9
Figurations of youth in regional Australia: conceptualising the ‘young person’ as spatially figured	8
How places and spaces support the resilience of Swazi emerging adults	8
Lost in transition? Young graduates’ employment after internships in public and private organisations	8
The memorable nature experiences of youth: a phenomenological approach to visualized and written experiences	8
Transcalar advocacy collaborations among youth-led civil society organisations in Africa	7
Moving past stigma? A qualitative longitudinal analysis of educational transitions of disabled young people in England	7
Vulnerability, surveillance, and youth development: growing up experiences of ethnic minority girls in Bradford, UK	7
About them, without them? figures of youth in Australian policy 2014–2021	7
Is part-time work a demotivating factor for applying to high-status UK universities?	7
Dynamics of belonging amid geographical immobility: a longitudinal analysis of youth trajectories in rural Australia	7
Young carers in Ghana: caring activities, ways into care and the impacts of caregiving	7
Engaging in politics through youth transitions	7
‘We never get a space to just have a good time together’: indigenous LGBTIQSB+ young people carving out alternative viable lives	7
NEET youth in central and eastern European countries: a panel model approach	6
Assemblages of well-being and belonging in young adults’ life-historical narrations: experiences from education and the labour market	6
Mentoring young people involved in the justice system: unpacking the ‘black box’ of rapport and relationship-building	6
Political socialisation narratives of young activists. Contexts, settings, and actors.	6
Arab youth at work: factors shaping job satisfaction	6

Sexual division of labor, unemployment, and drug use in Buenos Aires underprivileged youths	6
‘Basically, my only dream is to be a part of society’ – young adults’ negotiations for citizenship in the institutional system	6
Rural Chinese youth on Kuaishou : performing gender, labor, and rurality	6
Identifying the loneliest intersectional groups among young people in England: results from Active Lives Surveys (2022–2023)	6
Challenges and coping with COVID-19: perspectives of emerging adults and their mothers	5
Subculture, masculinity and place in young rural men’s resistance to counter-migration	5
Bonding ties that get ahead?: family social capital and early occupational attainment	5
Educational homogamy, values, activities, and inequality: an intergenerational perspective	5
Note	5
The social reproductive labour of university students with hostile Jobs	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
Conceptual meanings of permanency: Photovoice with care-experienced youth	5
The material and symbolic in young women’s negotiation of precarious employment: the case of the Israeli service and care sectors	5
Introduction to special issue: youth, rural places and marginalisation	5
‘Reworldings’: exploring perspectives on the future from Danish and Australian youth during COVID-19	5
Historical reflection as a source of inspiration for youth resistance in illiberal regimes – a qualitative study of the FreeSZFE movement in Hungary	5
Getting a foot in the door: local labour markets and the school-to-work transition	5
The obligations and opportunities of ‘friendship as method’ in youth mentoring research: investigating the intersections with youth work epistemologies	5
Conditionally supporting freedom of speech: how cognitive sophistication and social identity affect adolescents’ support for freedom of speech and its restrictions	5
Introduction to the special issue: reflections on young people’s responses to negative everyday representations of themselves	5
Situated belonging as everyday practice in a semi-public Youth Living Room for undocumented young city dwellers	5
Young people’s online political participation in an apolitical digital sphere: identifying political topics and expression patterns on a youth discussion forum	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
Feminists, popular feminists, and transfeminists: young Argentine activists define their own identities	5
Young people, algorithms and news: exploring the relationship between algorithmic literacy and news literacy	5