OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Childrens Geographies is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Interface childhood: emoji mapping as a method of gaining the perspective of Belfast children on their local urban environment	31
The war within: emotional experiences of children in Norwegian child protection services	26
PARqueologia Migrante: Latinas engaging in Virtual Youth Participatory Action Research	20
Correction	18
Attuning to processes of affective sociomaterialisation: exploring subjectivity and identity in outdoor early childhood provision in Scotland, UK	15
To do or not to do: practical and ethical concerns in online research with children and young people during crises	14
Responsibility at a distance: parents’ accounts of their children’s unaccompanied travelling	14
The Forgotten Child : poetry as a vehicle for exploration in children’s geographies	14
Fare-free public transport supporting children’s independence and ease of using public transport	14
‘It hurts when they don’t listen to you’: young people’s perceptions, emotions, and experiences engaging in youth-led climate activism	13
‘I never do the workbooks’: comparing the affordances of schools and homes as learning environments during COVID-19 for adolescent girls in Aglomerado da Serra, Brazil	13
Pooh-poohing school toilet policies: (more than) leaky bodies as resistance for school children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)	13
Growing up in the ‘Ghetto’: children's ambiguous attachment in racialised communities in Denmark	12
Protecting children's rights from climate change: analysing the CRC's general comment through global south perspectives	12
Kid power, inequalities and intergenerational relations Kid power, inequalities and intergenerational relations , by Clara Rübner Jørgensen and Michael Wyness, UK, Londo	11
Imagining an ecological right to the city in Toronto through drama-based research	11
Lived Democracy in Education: Young Citizens’ Democratic Lives in Kindergarten, School and Higher Education Lived Democracy in Education: Young Citizens’ Democratic Lives in Kindergarte	11
Refugee and asylum-seeker children’s experiences: results of a meta ethnography	10
Editorial statement on violence against children and a call for a ceasefire in Gaza	10
‘There is a lot of traffic at the school gate in the morning which makes me nervous’: exploring children’s current and desired school commutes	10
Tiny human geographies: babies and toddlers as non-representational and barely human life?	10
Our culturally maladaptive transport discourses are continuing to fail our children	9
Stories of shimmer and pollution: understanding child-environment aesthetic encounters in urban wilds	9
‘If I tell them that I live near the neighborhood, they’re like, oh are you poor?’ Differences in young people’s reactions to territorial stigma in the Helsinki metropolitan area, Finland	9
Democratic citizenship education in a Canadian youth city council: the case of the Commission Jeunesse Gatineau (CJG)	9

Growing up in place: two middle-class London girlhoods in the 1920s and late 1940s/1950s	9
The child in death and the death of a child: notions of childhood on children’s gravestones	9
Category construction and knowledge production in childhood studies: rethinking ‘left-behind children’ through the case of ‘liushou children’ in China	8
The Schoolyard I’d Like : an ideas competition for Australian school children ages 12 to 17	8
Children’s perceptions of safety in their school path: the case of the Basque Country	8
Mobility and fixity: factors of rural hometown attachment among migrant youths in the pearl river delta region of China	8
Hidden aspiration, contradictory agency, and children’s agency in forming situated, intersectional and intergenerational solidarities	8
‘This place does not feel safe’: safe and unsafe spaces in Swedish school-age educare	8
Patterns, evolution and determinants of child trafficking in Henan Province, China	8
Knowledge and perception of Spanish school children of climate change	8
Not an agenda for idiosyncratic creative collaborations: sharing stories about trees, childhoods, council estates, roots, blackbirds, textures, up/unrootedness, families, anxieties, darkness, tears, p	7
Towards kinship literacies: attending to place relations in a play-based library program	7
Mining-nostalgias: youth speculative fictions about place and the future	7
‘They’ll be the ones that’s looking after it’ – unravelling institutional factors that shape children’s participation in urban planning for informal settlements	7
‘There’s not a lot of places for them to go’: rural and remote family perspectives on children’s independent mobility	7
Diagnosing communities’ childcare friendliness: case studies of two South Korean cities	7
Storying the inclusive playground experiences of families of disabled and non-disabled children	7
The indeterminacy of atmospheres with/in youth geographies: desire, destruction, and detachment	7
Children’s rights to the city: growth and decline in Aotearoa-New Zealand	7
Malnutrition as more-than-food: understanding failings in the broader infrastructures of nurture	6
Navigating dis/ableist school playgrounds and toilets with geographic maturity: stories of young people with dwarfism from their secondary education	6
The influence of the physical environment on social behavior, school climate, and bullying in schools	6
Young people and the biocultural politics of voice in the anthropocene	6
Crossed by the border: children’s lived experiences with flooding in an urbanized transborder watershed	6
Toddlers’ engagements with preschool playgrounds: ethnographic insights from Sweden	6
Does children’s independent mobility matter? Insights into escorting practices in a developing country	6
Identifying clientelism in orphanages: a conceptual model	5
‘The school of our dreams’: engaging with children’s experiences and hopes at a remote school in India	5
Syrian young people in Jordan and the question of return	5
Children’s emotional geographies at a boarding school in rural China	5
The desire to hold one's vessel in place; an ethnography of children anchoring up in a world of digitalized dependencies	5
The (unaccompanied) minor as mobility: the tactics of young African migrants in Italy to contest spatio-temporal control	5
Voices in a pandemic: using deep mapping to explore children’s sense of place during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK	5
(Un-)Protocoling post-qualitative childhood research: a novice researcher	5
Child-Friendly Cities and Communities: opportunities and challenges	5
Children’s tourism memory: an iconological analysis of drawings	5
Socialising in parks: a systematic scoping review to understand how children use parks for social engagement	5
Mosaicking childhoodnature relations: situated encounters with country in times of climate change	5
Imagining just futures of education with children and young people: the case of Not A Trend	4
Diffracting young people’s perceptions and agency on adaptation to climate change in Bangladesh: through socioecological, posthuman, and postcolonial positioning	4
Digital geographies of home: parenting practices in the space between gaming and gambling	4
The major and the minor	4
Expanding the scope of ethical research with and for children and young people – six viewpoints on crisis, cross-cultural working and reciprocity	4
More-than-human and more-than-digital collecting among young children in Norway	4
The social significance of children’s work in cashew supply chain activities in Ghana	4
Latina students’ experiences in public schools	4
Children’s global imaginaries: the sociogenesis of political and moral views of world space in childhood	4
The metaphorical cage: political presence and lived citizenship of a young refugee girl	4
Reconfiguring school learning spaces: students’ and teachers’ voices on well-being	4
Modelling geographic access and school catchment areas across public primary schools to support subnational planning in Kenya	4

Feeling into space: autistic youth, cosplay, and the crafting of affective atmospheres in urban contexts	4
‘It’s a great place to find where you belong’: creating, curating and valuing place and space in open youth work	4
Everyday nationalism in Swedish preschools: something old, something new and something borrowed	4
Children's territorialities in a Brazilian right-to-housing movement	4
"Out and about": relationships between children's independent mobility and mental health in a national longitudinal study	4
Youth arts pedagogy for climate justice: radical relationality and interspecies poiesis in a yet-to-be-known world	4
Young Muslims’ religious identities in relation to places beyond the UK: a qualitative map-making technique in Newcastle upon Tyne	4
Feeling (the) rules: emotional landscapes of rural youth educational mobilities	4
The street, children and parents: the views of children from Santiago de Chile	4
Spatial and material resources in peer recruitment sequences: the co-operative and stepwise work behind young children’s mutual engagement in the preschool	3
Multi-layered mobilities: unaccompanied minors’ trajectories, decision-making and mobility after arrival in Italy	3
Analysis of accessibility to public schools with GIS: a case study of Salihli city (Turkey)	3
The relationship between parental perception of child friendliness in neighborhoods and children's physical activity	3
Changing childhoods in coastal communities	3
Mapping ZombieBoy: spaces of care, joy and in-betweenness in encounters with minor theories of therapeutic playwork	3
‘I feel like I get something else to think about’: How do Australian young people see their relationship with TikTok?	3
The ‘messy’ online classroom during COVID-19: students opening up a liminal space between being controlled and exercising agency	3
Weaving the pluriverse: childhood encounters with the underground worlds of Birrarung Marr	3
Geography of children’s worry during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights into variations, influences, and implications	3
The death and life of urban public spaces: an atmospheric analysis of spatial reclamation by young people	3
Exploring recent immigrant children’s perceptions of interactions with parents before and after immigration to Canada	3
Conjuring up the future – neglecting the present. Being a child in today’s sustainable and smart city	3
Notes on the making of an aspirational space-time in the U.S. public university	3
Everyday reality of children in rural Catalonia (Spain): experiences and emotions	3
Designing and making a separate leisure space: exploring the geographies of children with disabilities	3
Geographies of adolescent heterosexual dating and intimacy in a rural community in South Africa	3
‘It’s a good start to the day’: Urban Australian children’s understandings of active mobility and place	3
Green versus grey break: children’s place experience of recess-time in primary schools’ natural and built area	2
Spaces for children's play and travel close to home: the importance of threshold spaces	2
Zones of comfort and imaginability: using Participatory Video Interviewing to explore ecologies of resilience in Guatemala City	2
Pedagogy, place, and food education in Australian schools: lessons from Tropical North Queensland	2
Occupying the invited spaces of European decision-making: deepening conceptions of children's democratic participation by learning from Roma-led participatory projects with children	2
Multi-species encounters in the city: a more-than-human perspective on children’s arts-based exploration of urban natural spaces	2
Decolonizing children’s geographies: challenging knowledge production about childhoods in Baltimore, MD	2
Interspecies care, knowledge and ownership: children’s equestrian cultures in Sweden and Finland	2
Central American young people migration coloniality and epistemologies of the south	2
The well-being of children in a full lockdown and partial lockdown situation: a comparative perspective	2
Environmental education in Aotearoa New Zealand: reconfiguring possum–child mortal relations	2
Youth voices on climate: linking engagement and actions across physical and virtual spaces	2
The meaning of land and place for children born of war in northern Uganda	2
Moving towards inclusion and connection: practitioners’ conceptualisations of walking pedagogy	2
Time-rich, fast and in place – rural rhythms of families in the Swedish North	2
Human/animal atmospheres: attuning to ontologies with young people in the natural history museum and the zoo	2
Children, education and geography rethinking intersections	2
Identities in onward migration: young people of Colombian descent in London	2
‘Tiny humans’ outdoors: understanding the factors that mediate opportunities for babies and toddlers	2
Climate policy, youth voice and intergenerational justice: learning from Nottingham Youth Climate Assembly	2
Hong Kong kindergartens in urban space: policy aspirations, historical trajectories, and contemporary disparities	2
An exploration into the levels of automobile usage and independent mobility for children in Belgium	2
Displaced children’s experience of places and play: a scoping review	2
Children’s technologies of the self within neoliberal governmentality at the educational transition to Gymnasium in Zurich	2
Paper leaks and protests in the aspirant city	2
Temporal tensions in young adults’ efforts towards influencing institutional climate action	2
Exploring the tactical mobilities and everyday activity of immigrant adolescents in a Canadian suburban city	2
‘You can’t change people’: unsettling the narrative of trans/formation in therapeutic farming	2
Producing ruptures in the academy; a feminist ‘minor’ approach to pedagogy, teacher education and research	2
Special issue: modernity, schooling, and childhood in India: trajectories of exclusion	2
Reflecting on youth geographies: an interview with Necio Turra Neto	2