OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Children and Media is 1. 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
How educational are “educational” apps for young children? App store content analysis using the Four Pillars of Learning framework	65
“Snaps”, “screenshots”, and self-blame: A qualitative study of image-based sexual abuse victimization among adolescent Danish girls	31
Developing evaluation tools for assessing the educational potential of apps for preschool children in the UK	21
This picture does not portray reality: developing and testing a disclaimer for digitally enhanced pictures on social media appropriate for Austrian tweens and teens	16
A randomized controlled trial of an educational app to improve preschoolers’ emergent literacy skills	15
Kidfluencer exposure, materialism, and U.S. tweens’ purchase of sponsored products	15
Online and offline victimisation: a cluster analysis of adolescent victims of bullying and cyber-bullying in Chile	13
Teenagers’ reflections on media literacy initiatives at school and everyday media literacy discourses	13
Under the influence of (alcohol)influencers? A qualitative study examining Belgian adolescents’ evaluations of alcohol-related Instagram images from influencers	12
Making the best of app use: The impact of parent-child co-use of interactive media on children’s learning in the U.S	12
Picture perfect during a pandemic? Body image concerns and depressive symptoms in U.S. adolescent girls during the COVID-19 lockdown	12
Is my kid that naive? Parents’ perceptions of their children’s attitudes towards advertising on smartphones in Chile	11
News videos consumption in an age of new media: a comparison between adolescents and adults	11
Moral clarity decreases as viewer age increases: a content analysis of the moral values and reinforcement cues depicted in popular U.S. children’s television	10
Do parental control tools fulfil family expectations for child protection? A rapid evidence review of the contexts and outcomes of use	9
The home literacy and media environment of Saudi toddlers	9
Sleep deprived but socially connected: balancing the risks and benefits of adolescent screen time during COVID-19	9
Type of screen time and academic achievement in children from Australia and New Zealand: interactions with socioeconomic status	9
Does digital media use increase risk of social-emotional delay for Chinese preschoolers?	8
Romanian adolescents, fake news, and the third-person effect: a cross-sectional study	8
Social media use and political cynicism among German youth: the role of information-orientation, exposure to extremist content, and online media literacy	8
Media use for children with disabilities in the United States during COVID-19	8
Fortnite: a context for child development in the U.S. during COVID-19 (and beyond)	7
“Consent Is Sexy”: exploring the portrayal of prosocial sexuality messages in youth-oriented series	7
Intelligent digital beings as children’s imaginary social companions	7

My pandemic pedagogy playbook: a glimpse into higher education in the Dutch Zoom-room	6
Inaccessible media during the COVID-19 crisis intersects with the language deprivation crisis for young deaf children in the U.S.	6
“Bringing you into the Zoom”: the power of authentic engagement in a time of crisis in the U.S.	6
The impact of touchscreen interactivity on U.S. toddlers’ selective attention and learning from digital media	6
Narratives of online education in India: issues of equity, inclusion, and diversity	5
Digital citizenship under lockdown: promoting the healthy use of technology for adolescents growing-up in Perú during COVID-19	5
Parents’ understandings of social media algorithms in children’s lives in England: Misunderstandings, parked understandings, transactional understandings and proactive understandings amidst dataficati	5
Malaysian Parents’ Perception of How Screen Time Affects their Children’s Language	5
Predictors of children’s and young people’s digital engagement in informational, communication, and entertainment activities: findings from ten European countries	5
Assessing the state of media literacy policy in U.S. K-12 schools	5
Trans young people and the media: transnormativity, agency, and social change	5
Current state of play: Children’s learning in the context of digital games	5
Educational ICT use outside school in the European Union: disparities by social origin, immigrant background, and gender	5
Filters and fillers: Belgian adolescents’ filter use on social media and the acceptance of cosmetic surgery	5
“My mom just wants to know where I am”: Estonian pre-teens’ perspectives on intimate surveillance by parents	5
Early vocabulary size in Argentinean toddlers: associations with home literacy and screen media exposure	5
Masters of media: A longitudinal study of parental media efficacy, media monitoring, and child problematic media use across early childhood in the United States	5
A bifactor model of U.S. parents’ attitudes regarding mediation for the digital age	4
Grandsharenting: How grandparents in Belgium negotiate the sharing of personal information related to their grandchildren and engage in privacy management strategies on facebook	4
Love and sexual scripts: A content analysis of 19 Netflix teen series	4
The privilege of childcare: an intersectional analysis of the COVID-19 U.S. childcare crisis and its implications for CAM research	4
Problematic media use in early childhood: The role of parent-child relationships and parental wellbeing in families in New Zealand and the United States	4
Reassessing the risks: an updated content analysis of violence on U.S. children’s primetime television	4
Sesame Street: Beyond 50	4
What do parents really know about their child’s online behaviour? Discrepancies between parents and their children in Israel	3
Like post-cataract surgery: what came into focus about children and media research during the pandemic	3
Parental mediation and problematic media use among U.S. children with disabilities and their non-disabled siblings during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
The youth social media literacy inventory: Development and validation using item response theory in the US	3
Relational dimensions in poor children’s decisions to obtain a mobile phone – the case of Singapore	3
Analysis of the constructions of children and the internet in Kenya and Ghana	3
Toddlers and the Telly: A latent profile analysis of children’s television time and content and behavioral outcomes one year later in the U.S.	3
Our ‘stay home’ music video: the collision of academic research and family life during COVID-19 lockdown in Melbourne, Australia	3
The road to addiction (might be) paved with good intentions: Motives for social media use and psychological distress among early adolescents	3
No longer invisible, but still mistreated: Trans minors and the Spanish digital press (2006-2020)	2
Programming girlhood: digital labor and the twenty-first century girl coder in the United States	2
Problematic online gaming, subjective health complaints, and depression among adolescent gamers from the United States: the role of console-gaming aggression	2
Helping parents understand the content of video games: updating the ESRB rating system	2
Representations of LGBQ+ families in young children’s media	2
Finding the self through others: exploring fandom, identification, and self-concept clarity among U.S. adolescents	2
Transforming children’s perception of autism through the “superpower” of media representation in the U.S.	2
Psychological, cultural and socio-structural factors associated with digital immersion in Chilean adolescents	2
Coping styles among Chinese adolescents: The development and validation of a smartphone coping style scale	2
U.S. co-viewing during COVID	2
The crises of 2020: the effects of intersectionality and virality on marginalized youth in the U.S.	2
Digital rights in digital exclusion settings: the experiences of institutionalised youth in Portuguese detention centres	2
Parental cyberbullying through a global lens: children’s digital rights and social media policies	2
Princesses and paupers: a content analysis of socioeconomic status in animated Disney films	2
Roadblocks and resistance: Digital mediation as a process of calibration among U.S. parents of adolescents	2
The next time is now! How children and media professionals must respond to Russia’s war in Ukraine	2
COVID-19 and children’s screen time in Ceará, Brazil: a repeated cross-sectional survey	2

Parental mediation and children’s digital well-being in family life in Norway	2
Conceptualizing U.S. educational television as preparation for future learning	1
Blurring the boundaries between home and school: how videoconference-based schooling places American education’s cultural values at risk during COVID-19	1
Respecting children`s rights in research ethics and research methods	1
Playfully building resilience: Dutch children’s risk-managing tactics in digital risky play	1
Haptics and hotspots: creating usable and educational apps for children in the Netherlands	1
Thai teens’ privacy-related practices on Facebook	1
Online digital platform use by adolescents in Kenya	1
How do Canadian parents evaluate numeracy content in math apps for young children?	1
Parenting for a digital future: how hopes and fears about technology shape children’s lives	1
Voices and images of hope: the rebirth of educational television in Ecuador in times of COVID-19	1
Overcoming pandemic social distancing challenges in research in Portugal and England	1
Chinese children’s perspectives of long-distance familyhood via WeChat	1
Representations of migration in U.K. and U.S. children’s picture books in the Trump and Brexit era	1
There is a difference between being aware and being afraid: journalistic media literacy during the era of COVID-19	1
The role of digital media in family life during the U.K. lockdown 2020	1
“I wonder, what if, let’s try”: Sesame Street ’s playful learning curriculum impacts children’s problem solving	1
Beyond home and school: community-based media and youth voice on pandemic life in the United States	1
On sex, drugs, and alcohol: a mixed-method analysis of youth posts on social media in the United States	1
Behind the policy frontline in the Netherlands during the Corona crisis	1
Free, appropriate, public, and educational? Screen-schooling U.S. children with disabilities during the 2020 pandemic	1
The collective challenges of color, COVID-19, and their convergence	1
Connected to devices, disconnected from children: struggles of urban, dual-earning parents in India during COVID-19	1
U.S. tweens’ reactions to unboxing videos: Effects of sponsorship disclosure and advertising training	1
Digitally connected but personally disconnected? Crisis, digital media and the Australian family	1
Applying a family stress model to understand U.S. families’ patterns of stress, media use, and child behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Educational television in school and Flemish preadolescents’ gender attitudes and beliefs: An experimental study	1
Where do the children play…in a pandemic? Personal observations of U.S. children’s social learning of preventative health through embodied experiences while sheltering-in-place	1