OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Childrens Geographies 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Living in a crowd: young people’s counter-narratives of care in a Thai orphanage	54
Research with children from a transdisciplinary perspective: coproduction of knowledge by walking	30
Childhood(s) through time: an intergenerational lens on flexible narratives of childhood in Irish coastal communities	29
Belittled Citizens: The cultural politics of childhood on Bangkok's margins	21
The war within: emotional experiences of children in Norwegian child protection services	18
Attuning to processes of affective sociomaterialisation: exploring subjectivity and identity in outdoor early childhood provision in Scotland, UK	17
Correction	16
PARqueologia Migrante: Latinas engaging in Virtual Youth Participatory Action Research	14
Education in a changing climate: reconceptualising school and classroom climate through the fiery atmos-fears of Australia’s Black summer	13
Responsibility at a distance: parents’ accounts of their children’s unaccompanied travelling	13
Imagining an ecological right to the city in Toronto through drama-based research	12
Higher education students’ aspirations for their post-university lives: evidence from six European nations	11
‘The slow pandemic’: youth’s climate activism and the stakes for youth movements under Covid-19	11
To do or not to do: practical and ethical concerns in online research with children and young people during crises	11
Stories of shimmer and pollution: understanding child-environment aesthetic encounters in urban wilds	11
Growing up in the ‘Ghetto’: children's ambiguous attachment in racialised communities in Denmark	11
Children’s cartographies of the world: mapping Brazilian modes, methods and moments	10
Tiny human geographies: babies and toddlers as non-representational and barely human life?	10
Editorial statement on violence against children and a call for a ceasefire in Gaza	10
Young people’s everyday climate crisis activism: new terrains for research, analysis and action	10
School data walls: sociomaterial assemblages to aid children’s literacy outcomes	9
Refugee and asylum-seeker children’s experiences: results of a meta ethnography	9
Kid power, inequalities and intergenerational relations Kid power, inequalities and intergenerational relations , by Clara Rübner Jørgensen and Michael Wyness, UK, Londo	9
Children’s perceptions of safety in their school path: the case of the Basque Country	8
‘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	8

‘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	8
Lived Democracy in Education: Young Citizens’ Democratic Lives in Kindergarten, School and Higher Education Lived Democracy in Education: Young Citizens’ Democratic Lives in Kindergarte	8
On foot or by car: what determines children’s active school travel?	8
Category construction and knowledge production in childhood studies: rethinking ‘left-behind children’ through the case of ‘liushou children’ in China	7
Our culturally maladaptive transport discourses are continuing to fail our children	7
Patterns, evolution and determinants of child trafficking in Henan Province, China	7
Identity and life quality: shaping one’s place on a small island in a fishing community	7
‘This place does not feel safe’: safe and unsafe spaces in Swedish school-age educare	7
Not-Quite-Friendship: exploring social relations between child domestic workers and the children of employing families	7
Growing up in place: two middle-class London girlhoods in the 1920s and late 1940s/1950s	7
The Managed Body: Developing Girls and Menstrual Health in the Global South	6
Knowledge and perception of Spanish school children of climate change	6
Becoming a student representative in Brazil: a phenomenological study of students with intellectual disabilities	6
Multi-dimensional lens to article 12 of the UNCRC: a model to enhance children’s participation	6
Towards kinship literacies: attending to place relations in a play-based library program	6
Children's spaces in coastal cities: challenges to conventional urban understandings and prospects for child-friendly blue urbanism	6
The Schoolyard I’d Like : an ideas competition for Australian school children ages 12 to 17	6
Mapping the moral geographies of education: character, citizenship and values Sarah Mills	6
A make-believe confinement for Brazilian young children in the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Navigating dis/ableist school playgrounds and toilets with geographic maturity: stories of young people with dwarfism from their secondary education	5
Perception, concern, competency: children's understanding of physical and non-physical aspects of urban environment in Iran	5
‘They’ll be the ones that’s looking after it’ – unravelling institutional factors that shape children’s participation in urban planning for informal settlements	5
Crossed by the border: children’s lived experiences with flooding in an urbanized transborder watershed	5
Child-Friendly Cities and Communities: opportunities and challenges	5
Toddlers’ engagements with preschool playgrounds: ethnographic insights from Sweden	5
‘There’s not a lot of places for them to go’: rural and remote family perspectives on children’s independent mobility	5
Diagnosing communities’ childcare friendliness: case studies of two South Korean cities	5
Embodied spatial learning in the mobile preschool: the socio-spatial organization of meals as interactional achievement	5
The influence of the physical environment on social behavior, school climate, and bullying in schools	5
Designing inclusive playgrounds in Switzerland: why is it so complex?	5
Malnutrition as more-than-food: understanding failings in the broader infrastructures of nurture	5
Does children’s independent mobility matter? Insights into escorting practices in a developing country	4
Choreographing collaboratories: studios of situated improvisations	4
Children’s tourism memory: an iconological analysis of drawings	4
Using Persona Dolls in research with children to combat the insider/outsider researcher status dilemma	4
Identity, belonging and place attachment amongst Pacific Island children: a photographic analysis	4
Outdoor activities and contact with nature in the Portuguese context: a comparative study between children’s and their parents’ experiences	4
Anchors and thresholds in the formation of a transnational sense of belonging of migrant children in Poland	4
The (unaccompanied) minor as mobility: the tactics of young African migrants in Italy to contest spatio-temporal control	4
Identifying clientelism in orphanages: a conceptual model	4
Voices in a pandemic: using deep mapping to explore children’s sense of place during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK	4
Diffracting young people’s perceptions and agency on adaptation to climate change in Bangladesh: through socioecological, posthuman, and postcolonial positioning	4
Learning to be (multi)national: Greek diasporic childhood re-memories of nationalism and nation-building in Australia	4
‘We discovered places we never used before’. Home and parenting geographies during the 2020 lockdowns in Italy and Greece	4
Moral childhoods: the role of morality in friendship-making among children from refugee backgrounds in rural, multicultural settler Australia	4
‘The school of our dreams’: engaging with children’s experiences and hopes at a remote school in India	4
(Un-)Protocoling post-qualitative childhood research: a novice researcher	4
Environment as mediator – a discourse analysis of policy advice on physical environment in early childhood education	4