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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
What difference does it make? Exploring the transformative potential of everyday climate crisis activism by children and youth	39
Children and Covid 19 in the UK	39
Children and young people’s climate crisis activism – a perspective on long-term effects	31
The role of schools and teachers in nurturing and responding to climate crisis activism	25
Blurring the ‘-ism’ in youth climate crisis activism: everyday agency and practices of marginalized youth in the Brazilian urban periphery	25
Lost futures? Educated youth precarity and protests in the Oromia region, Ethiopia	25
The impacts of COVID-19 on children in Australia: deepening poverty and inequality	22
To trust or not to trust? Young people’s trust in climate change science and implications for climate change engagement	21
(Cyber)Bullying in schools – when bullying stretches across cON/FFlating spaces	20
Covid-19 in New Zealand and the Pacific: implications for children and families	19
Children living in pandemic times: a geographical, transnational and situated view	18
On, to, with, for, by: ethics and children in research	18
Children during the COVID-19 pandemic: children and young people’s vulnerability and wellbeing in Indonesia	18
‘Generation Z’ and ‘second generation’: an agenda for learning from cross-cultural negotiations of the climate crisis in the lives of second generation immigrants	16
Navigating the neighbourhood: gender, place and agency in children’s mobility	15
‘You can be outside a lot': independent mobility and agency among children in a suburban community in Sweden	15
‘No one listens to us … ’ COVID-19 and its socio-spatial impact on children and young people in Germany	13
Young people’s everyday climate crisis activism: new terrains for research, analysis and action	13
‘I go to school to survive’: Facing physical, moral and economic uncertainties in rural Lesotho	12
Great games and keeping it cool: new political, social and cultural geographies of young people’s environmental activism	12
Childhood prism research: an approach for enabling unique childhood studies contributions within the wider scholarly field	12
More-than-safety: co-creating resourcefulness and conviviality in suburban LGBTQ2S youth out-of-school spaces	10
Responding to COVID-19 in South Africa – social solidarity and social assistance	10
Using methods across generations: researcher reflections from a research project involving young people and their parents	10
So you’re literally taking the piss?! Critically analysing and accounting for ethics (and risk) in interdisciplinary research on children and plastics	10

‘Small steps and small wins’ in young people’s everyday climate crisis activism	9
Children and young people’s decision-making in social research about sensitive issues	9
Education in a changing climate: reconceptualising school and classroom climate through the fiery atmos-fears of Australia’s Black summer	9
Childhood publics in search of an audience: reflections on the children’s environmental movement	8
‘We have to make the tourists happy’; orphanage tourism in Siem Reap, Cambodia through the children’s own voices	8
‘That’s given me a bit more hope’ – adolescent girls’ experiences of Forest School	8
Making sense of ‘slippages’: re-evaluating ethics for digital research with children and young people	8
Intergenerational place-based digital storytelling: a more-than-visual research method	8
Migrant childhoods and schooling in India: contesting the inclusion-exclusion binary	8
Fishy childhoods in space and time: intergenerational continuities and changes	8
Developing an integrated approach to the evaluation of outdoor play settings: rethinking the position of play value	7
Banal and everyday nationalisms in children’s mundane and institutional lives	7
Decontextualized schooling and (child) development: Adivasi communities’ negotiations of early childhood care and education and schooling provisions in India	7
Memory, place and agency: transnational mirroring of otherness among young Albanian ‘returnees’	7
Designing public playgrounds for inclusion: a scoping review of grey literature guidelines for Universal Design	7
(In)visible encounters with indigeneity: a way towards decolonizing pedagogies in early childhood education	7
Relationships with opposite-gender peers: the ‘fine line’ between an acceptable and unacceptable ‘liking’ amongst children in a Chinese rural primary school	7
Children's spaces in coastal cities: challenges to conventional urban understandings and prospects for child-friendly blue urbanism	7
Losing or securing futures? Looking beyond ‘proper’ education to decision-making processes about young people’s education in Africa – an introduction	7
Multi-dimensional lens to article 12 of the UNCRC: a model to enhance children’s participation	6
Children’s perceptions of their neighbourhoods during COVID-19 lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand	6
‘The slow pandemic’: youth’s climate activism and the stakes for youth movements under Covid-19	6
Balancing school and work with new opportunities: changes in children’s gendered time use in Ethiopia (2006–2013)	6
Identity, belonging and place attachment amongst Pacific Island children: a photographic analysis	6
Cracks in the well-plastered façade of the Nordic model: reflections on inequalities in housing and mobility in (post-)coronavirus pandemic Sweden	6
Pandemic and protest: young people at the forefront of US Pandemonium	6
‘This place does not feel safe’: safe and unsafe spaces in Swedish school-age educare	6
Feminist ethicality in child-animal research: worlding through complex stories	6
Childhood and belonging over time: narratives of identity across generations on Tasmania’s east coast	6
The wave cannot catch me: children, place and local knowledge in the Faroe Islands	5
Children’s independent mobility licence and its association with the built and social environment: a study across neighbourhood typologies in Kolkata	5
Recognising and exploring children’s geographies in school geography	5
Everyday childhood nature experiences in an era of urbanisation: an analysis of Dutch children’s drawings of their favourite place to play outdoors	5
Young people’s understandings and attitudes towards marine debris: a systematic scoping review	5
Child-dog faeces assemblages and children’s engagements in activist art	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
Contesting the secular school: everyday nationalism and negotiations of Muslim childhoods	5
Indian parents’ perception of children's independent mobility in urban neighbourhoods: a case study of Delhi	5
Children's physical activity and active travel: a cross-sectional study of activity spaces, sociodemographic and neighborhood associations	5
Bracelets around their wrists, bracelets around their worlds: materialities and mobilities in (researching) young children's lives	5
Outbreak over outbreak: children living the pandemic in the aftermath of Chile’s social unrest	5
The flows of things – exploring babies’ everyday space-making	5
Children displaced across borders: charting new directions for research from interdisciplinary perspectives	5
Unearned advantages? Redefining privilege in light of childhood	5
Not a nurse but more than a mother: the everyday geographies of mothering children with complex heath care needs	4
Childhood(s) through time: an intergenerational lens on flexible narratives of childhood in Irish coastal communities	4
‘In the middle of things’: on educated un(der)employed young people’s pragmatism and idealism in rural Indonesia	4
Environmental learning across generations: spontaneous encounters and interactions between young children, mothers and teachers	4
‘High tide by boat, low tide we walk’: the everyday digital lives of girls in remote villages of Vanua Levu, Fiji	4
Creating an ethos for learning: classroom seating and pedagogical use of space at a Chinese suburban middle school	4

Unpacking the ethics of access and safety of participants and researchers of child sexual abuse in Ghana	4
How children negotiate and make sense of social class boundaries	4
Navigating children’s screen-time at home: narratives of childing and parenting within the familial generational structure	4
Geographies of outdoor play in Dhaka: an explorative study on children’s location preference, usage pattern, and accessibility range of play spaces	4
Places to belong? Narrating childhood(s) and the coast as a home across three generations in a community of islands	4
In it together! Cultivating space for intergenerational dialogue, empathy and hope in a climate of uncertainty	4
Vulnerabilities, support systems and child domestic work in South-West Nigeria	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
Landscapes as represented in textbooks and in students’ imagination: stability, generational gap, image retention and recognisability	4
Inclusion, social capital and space within an English secondary free school	4