Journal of Children and Media

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Children and Media is 2. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Predictors of children’s and young people’s digital engagement in informational, communication, and entertainment activities: findings from ten European countries54
Representation of refugee characters and experiences in children’s animated television: Missed opportunities and hopes36
Correction35
Youth in the crossfire: Polarization and fast-changing media environments30
Audio description as a tool for supporting emotion processing in autistic children: Results of an eye-tracking study on randomised Polish participants aged 5–1227
Going gray for gains: Exploring the role of monochrome displays in enhancing children’s well-being in India27
Investigating the role of social media and news media in pro-environmental behaviors over time: An application of the general learning model among Belgian adolescents20
Systematic review: Characteristics and outcomes of in-school digital media literacy interventions, 2010-202119
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.18
The road to addiction (might be) paved with good intentions: Motives for social media use and psychological distress among early adolescents17
Parental digital mediation: Restriction and enablement during the COVID-19 lockdown among low SES parents in Lima, Peru17
“In your face!”: Do family communication patterns influence U.S. tween’s imitation of disrespectful talk and behavior found in their favorite television shows?17
Is this a return to normal? Longitudinal trajectories of child screen and problematic media use across the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States16
Characters’ realism, not familiarity, improved Chinese children’s learning from video15
Designing influential social media campaigns with adolescents in the Netherlands: Learning from their roles as social media consumers, creators, and strategists14
A bifactor model of U.S. parents’ attitudes regarding mediation for the digital age14
Integrating values into the social learning process: The occupational world in children’s television shows in Israel13
Revealing the interplay between digital media use and affective well-being across developmental stages: Results of an experience sampling study with Austrian adolescents13
Evolution or revolution? Reflecting on what JOCAM at 18 reveals about our field13
Platformed vulnerability and resilience: Identity negotiation of left-behind children on Xiaohongshu in China13
Tuning in together: Exploring joint media engagement in the United States through children’s podcasts12
Effect of co-engagement with a conversational agent on children’s video story comprehension and learning transfer: The role of children’s utterances12
Digital ethics of care and digital citizenship in UK primary schools: Children as interviewers11
Who gets to be ‘screen free’? Exploring a disconnection divide in U.S. public and private K-12 schools during the COVID-19 pandemic11
Under the influence of (alcohol)influencers? A qualitative study examining Belgian adolescents’ evaluations of alcohol-related Instagram images from influencers9
Let’s get critical! The effects of facilitated peer discussions on Dutch adolescents’ perceptions of risk behavior in entertainment media and real life9
Deconstructing gender and media: A mixed methods study with U.S. early adolescents9
Quantifying intimacy: How datafied parenting practices reconfigure intimacy-making in urban China8
U.S. adolescents’ daily social media use and well-being: Exploring the role of addiction-like social media use8
Austrian adolescents’ sources of political information and trust in them: The reconfiguration of information authority on social media7
Assessing the state of media literacy policy in U.S. K-12 schools7
When screens are everywhere you look: Contemporary media ecologies in the United States7
Socioeconomic disparities in Swiss children’s use of digital technology: A typological approach based on parental reports7
Digital disconnection as a socially embedded practice: A 360° examination of children’s everyday negotiations across family, school, and peer contexts in Flanders, Belgium6
Respecting children`s rights in research ethics and research methods6
Remote observation of hands-on problem solving among preschool children: Methodological challenges and solutions6
Understanding the Media in Young Children’s Lives: An Introduction to the Key Debates (1st ed.) Understanding the Media in Young Children’s Lives: A6
Empowering narratives: Understanding consent, personal boundaries, and body autonomy in US children’s picture books6
Parent problematic media use, child reactivity, and income: Context for parents’ use of media emotion regulation strategies in the United States6
The paradox of play: How Dutch children develop digital literacy via offline engagement with digital media6
Social chatbots and minors: Challenges and opportunities to explore in future research6
Book Review of Smartphone Nation: Why We’re All Addicted to Screens and What You Can Do About It6
The youth social media literacy inventory: Development and validation using item response theory in the US6
Contesting the framing of digital risk: An analysis of Australian children’s experiences6
The interplay between sensationalism and scientific information framing: Examining the representation of screen time research online and on social media in the United States5
Parental mediation and problematic media use among U.S. children with disabilities and their non-disabled siblings during the COVID-19 pandemic5
Research brief: A quantitative content analysis to explore work value portrayals among characters in Belgian adolescents’ favorite TV series5
Children’s perceptions of scary news in Belgium: Examining parental mediation and consolation strategies from their perspective5
Do parental control tools fulfil family expectations for child protection? A rapid evidence review of the contexts and outcomes of use5
Parents talking algorithms: Navigating datafication and family life in digital societies,5
Roadblocks and resistance: Digital mediation as a process of calibration among U.S. parents of adolescents4
A research brief investigating educational television and U.S. children’s interest in science and world culture4
Parental mediation and the relational practices of negotiation and resistance: Insights from a qualitative panel study from Germany4
The parent trap: The roles of parent status and pervasive ambiguity about gender in public opinion on transgender rights in the United States4
The youth digital policy repository: A tool for tracking digital media legislation aimed at minors4
The politics of showing and not showing: Politicized media representations of war-affected children in the East and the West4
Assessing Belgian adolescents’ negative digital experiences in everyday life: The mundane digital harms scale4
The state of parental mediation research: A review of Media parenting: Theory and research on parent, child, and media interactions4
How do Canadian parents evaluate numeracy content in math apps for young children?4
Analysis of the constructions of children and the internet in Kenya and Ghana4
Bridging the cultures of research and practice: The global evolution of Sesame Street ’s playful problem-solving curriculum4
Datafied Childhoods: data practices and imaginaries in children’s lives3
Digital dilemmas of families with young children – An exploratory study on a day in the life of Australian children’s data3
Are cartoons pointless? Patterns of gesture and speech use in young children’s television programs in the U.S.3
Unveiling a blind spot: The importance and challenges of exploring the digital lives of minor parents3
Histories of children’s television around the world3
Rules at home, rules online: Parental mediation and adolescents’ orientation toward social media community guidelines in the United States3
Gender and parent–adolescent differences in perceived media parenting: Evidence from a Chinese validation study3
Teens and digital media: How do we move toward productive public discourse?3
Water woes: The effects of children’s science media on conservation knowledge, self-efficacy, and environmental worry in the United States of America3
Joint media engagement on touchscreens improves young children’s Chinese character learning in China3
Do I have the right to share? Sharenting and psychological ownership of children’s information in the U.S.3
Journal of Children and Media comes of age: An introduction to the special section3
Monkey see, monkey do: Daily variation in maternal addictive smartphone use longitudinally predicts daily variation in child addictive smartphone use in Hong Kong, China3
Mediated grandparenting: How smartphones are embedded in Chinese grandparents’ coparenting practices3
Representations of LGBQ+ families in young children’s media3
Grandparents and children’s media use in the USA: Screen time, mediation practices, and relationship outcomes3
Parent and clinician perspectives on the ethics of extended reality technologies for neurodivergent children in the U.S.3
Review of Digital Girlhoods (2025)3
U.S. Black parents’ hopes for representation in their children’s entertainment media: Intragroup variety and predictors of preferences3
Development, validity, and reliability of the parent-adolescent communication about adolescents’ social media use scale (PACAS)3
Longitudinal relations between exposure to YouTube influencer videos and Dutch teenagers’ materialism and advertised product desire2
Measuring digital well-being in everyday life among Slovenian adolescents: The Perceived Digital Well-Being in Adolescence Scale2
Wait Until 8th ?: Mothers’ decision-making and management of children’s smartphones in the United States2
“I would say almost every single case has some sort of an internet connection”: Law enforcement and service provider insights on technology’s role in the commercial sexual exploitation of children and2
Educators as news mediators: Educational initiatives for war-related content in Israel2
Preschoolers’ knowledge acquisition from German educational media: The impact of a training program fostering media sign literacy2
U.S. tweens’ reactions to unboxing videos: Effects of sponsorship disclosure and advertising training2
Social media monitoring efficacy among parents of adolescents in the United States: A brief report2
“I wonder, what if, let’s try”: Sesame Street ’s playful learning curriculum impacts children’s problem solving2
Gender differences in Internet self-efficacy: Psychometric validation and cultural adaptation of the scale for Iranian adolescents2
Generative AI and children’s digital futures: New research challenges2
Examining profiles of U.S. children’s screen time and associations with academic skills2
Factors influencing young people’s news consumption in Switzerland during normative transitions: A mixed methods study2
Association between parent technology rules and loneliness among adolescents in the United States2
Maternal factors and one-year-olds’ screen time: A cross-sectional study using birth cohort data from the Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS)2
Longitudinal associations between parental screen time monitoring, screen time exposure, diet, and body mass index in young U.S. children2
“No screens before two”: How first-time Australian parents negotiate enduring digital media guidelines2
The social media (moral) panic this time: Why CAM scholars may need a more complex approach2
Managing children’s exposure to digital media violence at home: A mixed-methods study of parental mediation in Vietnam2
A call to action for teens, sex, and media research: Recommendations for structural support, collaboration, and funding2
There is no right age! The search for age-appropriate ways to support children’s digital lives and rights2
What can heroes and villains teach young audiences? A research brief investigating the values emphasized in family-rated Walt Disney films2
Digital parenting as internet governance: The case of China’s ‘Mum Jury’2
Does digital media use increase risk of social-emotional delay for Chinese preschoolers?2
It’s the will, not the skill: How malleability narratives affect Belgian adolescents’ academic development2
How film stories can inspire character strengths: A qualitative study among Dutch children2
Digital media and technology use by families with infants, toddlers, and young children: A scoping review and call for forward momentum2
Digital inequities and well-being in middle childhood during COVID-19: Testing the third-level divide across 18 societies2
Coparenting of child media use and associations with child media limits and frequency of media use in the United States2
Writing and producing for children and young audiences: Cases from Danish film and television2
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