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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Interface childhood: emoji mapping as a method of gaining the perspective of Belfast children on their local urban environment	36
The war within: emotional experiences of children in Norwegian child protection services	27
PARqueologia Migrante: Latinas engaging in Virtual Youth Participatory Action Research	22
Correction	20
Attuning to processes of affective sociomaterialisation: exploring subjectivity and identity in outdoor early childhood provision in Scotland, UK	18
Fare-free public transport supporting children’s independence and ease of using public transport	16
Pooh-poohing school toilet policies: (more than) leaky bodies as resistance for school children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)	15
The Forgotten Child : poetry as a vehicle for exploration in children’s geographies	15
‘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	14
Growing up in the ‘Ghetto’: children's ambiguous attachment in racialised communities in Denmark	14
Protecting children's rights from climate change: analysing the CRC's general comment through global south perspectives	14
Imagining an ecological right to the city in Toronto through drama-based research	13
Understanding child-friendly commuting: policy discourses and community realities in Nanjing, China	13
To do or not to do: practical and ethical concerns in online research with children and young people during crises	13
Lived Democracy in Education: Young Citizens’ Democratic Lives in Kindergarten, School and Higher Education Lived Democracy in Education: Young Citizens’ Democratic Lives in Kindergarte	12
Editorial statement on violence against children and a call for a ceasefire in Gaza	12
‘It hurts when they don’t listen to you’: young people’s perceptions, emotions, and experiences engaging in youth-led climate activism	12
Kid power, inequalities and intergenerational relations Kid power, inequalities and intergenerational relations , by Clara Rübner Jørgensen and Michael Wyness, UK, Londo	12
Refugee and asylum-seeker children’s experiences: results of a meta ethnography	11
Tiny human geographies: babies and toddlers as non-representational and barely human life?	11
Stories of shimmer and pollution: understanding child-environment aesthetic encounters in urban wilds	10
The child in death and the death of a child: notions of childhood on children’s gravestones	10
‘My home is not homey anymore’: spatial tactics and the reconstitution of home among young adult children of remarried families	10
Futuring practices in and against the unequal distribution of futures	10
Democratic citizenship education in a Canadian youth city council: the case of the Commission Jeunesse Gatineau (CJG)	10

Growing up in place: two middle-class London girlhoods in the 1920s and late 1940s/1950s	9
‘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	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
Children’s perceptions of safety in their school path: the case of the Basque Country	8
Category construction and knowledge production in childhood studies: rethinking ‘left-behind children’ through the case of ‘liushou children’ in China	8
Hidden aspiration, contradictory agency, and children’s agency in forming situated, intersectional and intergenerational solidarities	8
The Schoolyard I’d Like : an ideas competition for Australian school children ages 12 to 17	8
‘This place does not feel safe’: safe and unsafe spaces in Swedish school-age educare	8
Mobility and fixity: factors of rural hometown attachment among migrant youths in the pearl river delta region of China	8
Knowledge and perception of Spanish school children of climate change	8
Patterns, evolution and determinants of child trafficking in Henan Province, China	8
Our culturally maladaptive transport discourses are continuing to fail our children	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	8
Children’s rights to the city: growth and decline in Aotearoa-New Zealand	7
Storying the inclusive playground experiences of families of disabled and non-disabled children	7
Haunted borders: Visualising the spectral child refugee’s Mediterranean crossings in contemporary graphic narratives	7
Towards kinship literacies: attending to place relations in a play-based library program	7
‘There’s not a lot of places for them to go’: rural and remote family perspectives on children’s independent mobility	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
The indeterminacy of atmospheres with/in youth geographies: desire, destruction, and detachment	6
Young people and the biocultural politics of voice in the anthropocene	6
Renewed questions of ethics in research with and for children and young people	6
Moving from a metropolis to a smaller city? The continuous mobility and adulthood transition of well-educated rural migrants in interior China	6
Diagnosing communities’ childcare friendliness: case studies of two South Korean cities	6
Mining-nostalgias: youth speculative fictions about place and the future	6
Crossed by the border: children’s lived experiences with flooding in an urbanized transborder watershed	6
The influence of the physical environment on social behavior, school climate, and bullying in schools	5
The (unaccompanied) minor as mobility: the tactics of young African migrants in Italy to contest spatio-temporal control	5
Syrian young people in Jordan and the question of return	5
Malnutrition as more-than-food: understanding failings in the broader infrastructures of nurture	5
The desire to hold one's vessel in place; an ethnography of children anchoring up in a world of digitalized dependencies	5
Children’s tourism memory: an iconological analysis of drawings	5
Identifying clientelism in orphanages: a conceptual model	5
Child-Friendly Cities and Communities: opportunities and challenges	5
Roaming the city: children's independent mobility across urban neighborhoods in Taiwan	5
‘The school of our dreams’: engaging with children’s experiences and hopes at a remote school in India	5
Socialising in parks: a systematic scoping review to understand how children use parks for social engagement	5
Toddlers’ engagements with preschool playgrounds: ethnographic insights from Sweden	5
Mosaicking childhoodnature relations: situated encounters with country in times of climate change	4
Children’s emotional geographies at a boarding school in rural China	4
Voices in a pandemic: using deep mapping to explore children’s sense of place during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK	4
The metaphorical cage: political presence and lived citizenship of a young refugee girl	4
Geographies of adolescent heterosexual dating and intimacy in a rural community in South Africa	4
Everyday nationalism in Swedish preschools: something old, something new and something borrowed	4
Feeling into space: autistic youth, cosplay, and the crafting of affective atmospheres in urban contexts	4
Feeling (the) rules: emotional landscapes of rural youth educational mobilities	4
Digital geographies of home: parenting practices in the space between gaming and gambling	4
Youth arts pedagogy for climate justice: radical relationality and interspecies poiesis in a yet-to-be-known world	4
Diffracting young people’s perceptions and agency on adaptation to climate change in Bangladesh: through socioecological, posthuman, and postcolonial positioning	4
(Un-)Protocoling post-qualitative childhood research: a novice researcher	4

‘It’s a great place to find where you belong’: creating, curating and valuing place and space in open youth work	4
Children's territorialities in a Brazilian right-to-housing movement	4
More-than-human and more-than-digital collecting among young children in Norway	4
Latina students’ experiences in public schools	4
Reconfiguring school learning spaces: students’ and teachers’ voices on well-being	4
The major and the minor	4
Modelling geographic access and school catchment areas across public primary schools to support subnational planning in Kenya	4
"Out and about": relationships between children's independent mobility and mental health in a national longitudinal study	4
Children’s global imaginaries: the sociogenesis of political and moral views of world space in childhood	4
The social significance of children’s work in cashew supply chain activities in Ghana	4
Notes on the making of an aspirational space-time in the U.S. public university	4
Expanding the scope of ethical research with and for children and young people – six viewpoints on crisis, cross-cultural working and reciprocity	4