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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Children and Covid 19 in the UK	47
What difference does it make? Exploring the transformative potential of everyday climate crisis activism by children and youth	45
The impacts of COVID-19 on children in Australia: deepening poverty and inequality	26
On, to, with, for, by: ethics and children in research	23
Children living in pandemic times: a geographical, transnational and situated view	22
Covid-19 in New Zealand and the Pacific: implications for children and families	20
Young people’s everyday climate crisis activism: new terrains for research, analysis and action	20
Children during the COVID-19 pandemic: children and young people’s vulnerability and wellbeing in Indonesia	20
‘No one listens to us … ’ COVID-19 and its socio-spatial impact on children and young people in Germany	14
Responding to COVID-19 in South Africa – social solidarity and social assistance	14
Designing public playgrounds for inclusion: a scoping review of grey literature guidelines for Universal Design	13
Great games and keeping it cool: new political, social and cultural geographies of young people’s environmental activism	13
‘Small steps and small wins’ in young people’s everyday climate crisis activism	12
So you’re literally taking the piss?! Critically analysing and accounting for ethics (and risk) in interdisciplinary research on children and plastics	11
Education in a changing climate: reconceptualising school and classroom climate through the fiery atmos-fears of Australia’s Black summer	11
‘We have to make the tourists happy’; orphanage tourism in Siem Reap, Cambodia through the children’s own voices	11
Using methods across generations: researcher reflections from a research project involving young people and their parents	10
Children and young people’s decision-making in social research about sensitive issues	10
Children’s perceptions of their neighbourhoods during COVID-19 lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand	9
Migrant childhoods and schooling in India: contesting the inclusion-exclusion binary	9
Everyday childhood nature experiences in an era of urbanisation: an analysis of Dutch children’s drawings of their favourite place to play outdoors	9
Intergenerational place-based digital storytelling: a more-than-visual research method	8
Recognising and exploring children’s geographies in school geography	8
Identity, belonging and place attachment amongst Pacific Island children: a photographic analysis	8
Decontextualized schooling and (child) development: Adivasi communities’ negotiations of early childhood care and education and schooling provisions in India	8

Developing an integrated approach to the evaluation of outdoor play settings: rethinking the position of play value	8
Cracks in the well-plastered façade of the Nordic model: reflections on inequalities in housing and mobility in (post-)coronavirus pandemic Sweden	8
Application of the COM-B model to the correlates of children’s outdoor playing and the potential role of digital interventions: a systematic literature review	8
(In)visible encounters with indigeneity: a way towards decolonizing pedagogies in early childhood education	8
Relationships with opposite-gender peers: the ‘fine line’ between an acceptable and unacceptable ‘liking’ amongst children in a Chinese rural primary school	8
Childhood publics in search of an audience: reflections on the children’s environmental movement	8
Making sense of ‘slippages’: re-evaluating ethics for digital research with children and young people	8
Fishy childhoods in space and time: intergenerational continuities and changes	8
Banal and everyday nationalisms in children’s mundane and institutional lives	7
‘The slow pandemic’: youth’s climate activism and the stakes for youth movements under Covid-19	7
Children's physical activity and active travel: a cross-sectional study of activity spaces, sociodemographic and neighborhood associations	7
The wave cannot catch me: children, place and local knowledge in the Faroe Islands	7
Feminist ethicality in child-animal research: worlding through complex stories	7
Pandemic and protest: young people at the forefront of US Pandemonium	7
Unearned advantages? Redefining privilege in light of childhood	7
Multi-dimensional lens to article 12 of the UNCRC: a model to enhance children’s participation	7
‘This place does not feel safe’: safe and unsafe spaces in Swedish school-age educare	7
In it together! Cultivating space for intergenerational dialogue, empathy and hope in a climate of uncertainty	7
Losing or securing futures? Looking beyond ‘proper’ education to decision-making processes about young people’s education in Africa – an introduction	7
Research with children from a transdisciplinary perspective: coproduction of knowledge by walking	6
Walking collaboratories: experimentations with climate and waste pedagogies	6
The flows of things – exploring babies’ everyday space-making	6
Navigating children’s screen-time at home: narratives of childing and parenting within the familial generational structure	6
Children's spaces in coastal cities: challenges to conventional urban understandings and prospects for child-friendly blue urbanism	6
Childhood and belonging over time: narratives of identity across generations on Tasmania’s east coast	6
Children’s independent mobility licence and its association with the built and social environment: a study across neighbourhood typologies in Kolkata	6
Young people’s understandings and attitudes towards marine debris: a systematic scoping review	6
Outbreak over outbreak: children living the pandemic in the aftermath of Chile’s social unrest	5
‘It's beautiful, living without fear that the world will end soon’ – digital storytelling, climate futures, and young people in the UK and Ireland	5
The relationship between young children’s transitions and power: ‘Why are all the doors locked? I don’t feel free … I am not in charge of me anymore'	5
Introduction: Modernity, Schooling and Childhood in India: Trajectories of Exclusion	5
Child-dog faeces assemblages and children’s engagements in activist art	5
Where are preschoolers active in childcare centers? A hot-spot analysis using GIS, GPS and accelerometry data	5
Contesting the secular school: everyday nationalism and negotiations of Muslim childhoods	5
Breaking the child labour cycle through education: issues and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children of in-country seasonal migrant workers in the brick kilns of Nepal	5
The challenges and affordances of online participatory workshops in the context of young people’s everyday climate crisis activism: insights from facilitators	5
Places to belong? Narrating childhood(s) and the coast as a home across three generations in a community of islands	5
How children negotiate and make sense of social class boundaries	5
Designing inclusive playgrounds in Switzerland: why is it so complex?	4
Being a migrant learner in a South African primary school: recognition and racialisation	4
On foot or by car: what determines children’s active school travel?	4
Tiny human geographies: babies and toddlers as non-representational and barely human life?	4
Childhood(s) through time: an intergenerational lens on flexible narratives of childhood in Irish coastal communities	4
Young people and older people negotiating urban spaces in Sweden: enacting age, public spacing and belonging through intergenerational encounters	4
Geographies of outdoor play in Dhaka: an explorative study on children’s location preference, usage pattern, and accessibility range of play spaces	4
Special issue: modernity, schooling, and childhood in India: trajectories of exclusion	4
Creating an ethos for learning: classroom seating and pedagogical use of space at a Chinese suburban middle school	4
‘The school of our dreams’: engaging with children’s experiences and hopes at a remote school in India	4
Work socialisation gone wrong? Exploring the antecedent of child trafficking in two Ghanaian fishing communities	4
A make-believe confinement for Brazilian young children in the COVID-19 pandemic	4

‘High tide by boat, low tide we walk’: the everyday digital lives of girls in remote villages of Vanua Levu, Fiji	4
Stories of shimmer and pollution: understanding child-environment aesthetic encounters in urban wilds	4
Choreographing collaboratories: studios of situated improvisations	4
Vulnerabilities, support systems and child domestic work in South-West Nigeria	4
Environmental learning across generations: spontaneous encounters and interactions between young children, mothers and teachers	4