OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Youth Studies is 4. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Continuing existence: viability and indigenous youth action in Himachal Pradesh, India	40
About them, without them? figures of youth in Australian policy 2014–2021	38
‘Morphing between the margins’: how youth make a living across multiple spaces in South Africa and beyond	35
COVID-19 and youth unemployment in MENA countries: a matching approach	30
Mobilised yet unaffiliated: Italian youth and the uneven return to political participation	28
A life course perspective on the NEET phenomenon: long-term exclusion across cohorts, gender, and social origin among young adults in Norway	27
Hope and uncertainty at the periphery in global times: youth employment in kinmen, Taiwan	27
At the ‘risky’ end of things: labelling, self-concept and the role of supportive relationships in young lives	22
Social networks and personal support from the perspective of young people with intellectual disabilities	19
Negative chain referral sampling: doing justice to subcultural diversity	19
Following the changes in young people’s drinking practices before and during the pandemic with a qualitative longitudinal interview material	19
Lockdown practices: a portrait of young people in the family during the first lockdown in Portugal	18
Each person in their place: the ‘praxe’ as a ritual of integration, stratification and differentiation	18
Mental health problems in youth and later receipt of social assistance: do parental resources matter?	18
Addressing youths’ digital agency with internet technologies: discourses and practices that produce inequalities	17
Subculture in the news: a longitudinal, semantic network analysis of punk media representation	17
From responsibilization to responsibility: justifications of everyday ecological practices of Moscow youth and worth of proactivity	15
Problematising engagement with technologies in transitions of young people identified as ‘Not in Education, Employment or Training’ (NEET) in Scotland	15
Negotiating authenticity: experiences of student influencers on social media	14
Young carers in Ghana: caring activities, ways into care and the impacts of caregiving	14
School-to-work transitions in rural North Sweden: staying on in a reviving local labor market	14
‘Nothing happens here, but that’s ok’: reflexivity, immobility and staying among young people in marginalised rural locations	14
The gendered district effect: psychosocial reasons why girls wish to leave their rural communities	13
Anchors of belonging and the logics of othering of young Finns	12
Engaging in politics through youth transitions	12

The role of thwarted belongingness on the relationship between microaggressions and mental health for LGBTQ+ emerging adults	11
Young people (de)politicizing youth cultures: agency, well-being, and claims for change	11
Sharing and liking as youth nano-level participation. Finnish students’ civic and political engagement in social media	11
Risk, discomfort and disruption: experiences of (im)mobilities in public spaces among Swedish youth racialised as non-white	10
Understanding the public participation of young people in border regions of mainland Portugal: youth as local development agent	10
Bringing disability studies and youth studies together to enhance understandings of youth transitions	10
Vintage cameras: young people's nostalgic practices on social media and the pursuit of identity in contemporary China	10
‘Stop the monster, build the marvel’: movement vulnerability, youth organizing and abolitionist praxis in late liberal San Francisco	9
‘You can still have dreams for your child’: Filipino young people’s lived experiences of parenthood	9
‘Be yourself, but don’t be weird’: conformity, performance, and contradictions in early adolescent students’ advice for belonging at school	9
The COVID-19 pandemic and youth in recent, historical perspective: more pressure, more precarity	9
The psychosocial outcomes of young carers in Australia: a scoping review	8
Sages of the street: violence management and neighborhood conflict among crime- and violence-exposed young males in southwest Houston	8
Lost in transition? Young graduates’ employment after internships in public and private organisations	8
Falling between the cracks – the experiences of young parents on Universal Credit	8
‘I ain’t stupid, I just don’t like school’: a ‘needs’ based argument for children’s educational provision in custody	8
Identities, power and policing of young men in Mathare and Kaptembwo	8
‘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 Sweden	7
#GenZ on TikTok: the collective online self-Portrait of the social media generation	7
Growing up and belonging in regimes of geographical mobility. Young cosmopolitans in Berlin	7
Dissecting the achievement generation: how different groups of early adolescents experience and navigate contemporary achievement demands	7
Youth unemployment as a policy problem for the OECD, European Union, and the Republic of Ireland in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis	7
Opportunities and limits: exploring young people’s views of staff care in residential alcohol and other drug services	7
Socius improvisus : young musicians, DIY careers and uncertainty in Indonesia	6
Youth environmental activism in the age of social media: the case of Chile (2009-2019)	6
The memorable nature experiences of youth: a phenomenological approach to visualized and written experiences	6
Rewiring remote urban futures? Youth well-being in northern industry towns	6
The low skills trap: the failure of education and social policies in preventing low-literate young people from being long-term NEET	6
Comparing children’s and teens’ news engagement practices and affective news experiences	6
Figurations of youth in regional Australia: conceptualising the ‘young person’ as spatially figured	6
Youth reflections on ethics in research and practice: a case study of youth born of genocidal rape in Rwanda	6
What makes Turkish youth NEET?	6
Work, employment and the material conditions of young people in developed economies: a Marxist political economy of youth perspective	6
Young people not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) in Sub-Saharan Africa: Sustainable Development Target 8.6 missed and reset	6
Gendered youth transitions in local jihad in Indonesia: negotiating agency in arranged marriage	6
Forming the capacity to aspire: young refugees’ narratives of family migration and wellbeing	5
Exploration of students’ career drivers and goals by grade level and gender in Atlantic Canada	5
Breaking with mainstream politics while engaging with polarized: determinants of young Europeans’ support for democracy	5
How to make arts-based interventions appropriate for young refugees?: towards a decolonial framework	5
An older age colored by youth: the continuing significance of youth-generated cultural boundaries for Sixties affiliates	5
Future school well-being: a qualitative study on the imagined futures of Finnish youth	5
#Relationshipgoals: fantasies of the good life in young people’s digitally-networked peer cultures	5
Safety strategies, status positioning and gendered double standards: adolescents’ narratives of sexualised risk in alcohol intoxication contexts	5
Beyond empowerment and inspiration: towards a critical program for multicultural youth leadership	5
The Y Generation Myth: young Israelis’ perceptions of gender and family life	5
Security and identity: threats and anxieties for the internationally mobile student	5
Considering the past, present and future: making the case for a hauntological approach to youth	5
Youth and COVID-19 immunization: navigating the nexus of individualism and mistrust	5
NEET youth in central and eastern European countries: a panel model approach	4
Does cohort size matter? Assessing the effect of youth cohort size and peer influence on young people’s electoral participation	4

Girl Culture, Unspectacular Resistance and Social Media – A Study of How Adolescent Girls Undo Emphasized Femininity through Shitposting	4
Young female traders’ quest for viability in Zimbabwe's politicised urban spaces	4
Infrastructures of support: Australian young people’s perspectives on caring during the pandemic and future disability and care policy reform	4
Towards a culturally situated understanding of bullying: viewing young people’s talk about peer relationships through the lens of consent	4
Street efficacy, daily activities and youth perceptions of neighborhood safety	4
Dreaming the life: international students and the temporal complexity of employability	4
‘The ability to change stuff up': volunteering as a young person within established organisations	4
Young people’s life and career choices in times of uncertainty	4
Which companies hire NEET? Organisational characteristics of hiring NEET in a Norwegian full-population registry study	4
COVID-19 and young people’s ‘Future Presents’: lockdown stories from the Anthropocene	4
Young and/but successful: business graduates performing themselves as valuable labouring subjects	4
The impact of pandemic-related loss of work on young adults’ plans	4
The left behind: oil, youth and symbolic violence in the Niger delta	4
Political orientation in youth beyond the left-right divide: testing a three-factor model of political orientation and its relatedness to personal values	4
Political disaffection or institutional adultcentrism? Youth perceptions of adult hegemony in institutional politics and policies	4
Tramadol consumption as edgework: intersections of pleasures and risks in the accounts of Nigerian youths	4
Examining civic engagement opportunities for system-involved youth: a comparative analysis	4
Many households but never a home: stories of resistance from Black youth navigating placement instability in Ontario’s child welfare system	4
‘Figuring it out’. Continuity or discontinuity of work in young rural-urban migrants’ education to work transition in Kathmandu, Nepal	4
Young people’s engagement in online research: challenges and lessons from conducting focus groups with young people online	4