OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Children and Media 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Introducing the Social Media Literacy (SMILE) model with the case of the positivity bias on social media	63
How educational are “educational” apps for young children? App store content analysis using the Four Pillars of Learning framework	53
In-home video chat for young children and their incarcerated parents	30
“Snaps”, “screenshots”, and self-blame: A qualitative study of image-based sexual abuse victimization among adolescent Danish girls	29
“Where are you?” An observational exploration of parental technoference in public places in the US and Israel	23
Front liners fighting fake news: global perspectives on mobilising young people as media literacy advocates	21
Who’s modeling STEM for kids? A character analysis of children’s STEM-focused television in the US	20
Developing evaluation tools for assessing the educational potential of apps for preschool children in the UK	18
Kidfluencer exposure, materialism, and U.S. tweens’ purchase of sponsored products	14
A randomized controlled trial of an educational app to improve preschoolers’ emergent literacy skills	13
Online and offline victimisation: a cluster analysis of adolescent victims of bullying and cyber-bullying in Chile	13
Review of feedback in edutainment games for preschoolers in the USA	12
Picture perfect during a pandemic? Body image concerns and depressive symptoms in U.S. adolescent girls during the COVID-19 lockdown	12
Teenagers’ reflections on media literacy initiatives at school and everyday media literacy discourses	11
Is my kid that naive? Parents’ perceptions of their children’s attitudes towards advertising on smartphones in Chile	11
Under the influence of (alcohol)influencers? A qualitative study examining Belgian adolescents’ evaluations of alcohol-related Instagram images from influencers	10
This picture does not portray reality: developing and testing a disclaimer for digitally enhanced pictures on social media appropriate for Austrian tweens and teens	10
Making the best of app use: The impact of parent-child co-use of interactive media on children’s learning in the U.S	10
The mediating role of sympathy in the relationship between media violence and Dutch adolescents’ social behaviors	9
Type of screen time and academic achievement in children from Australia and New Zealand: interactions with socioeconomic status	9
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	9
Does digital media use increase risk of social-emotional delay for Chinese preschoolers?	8
News videos consumption in an age of new media: a comparison between adolescents and adults	8
Media use for children with disabilities in the United States during COVID-19	8
Social media use and political cynicism among German youth: the role of information-orientation, exposure to extremist content, and online media literacy	7

Romanian adolescents, fake news, and the third-person effect: a cross-sectional study	7
Sleep deprived but socially connected: balancing the risks and benefits of adolescent screen time during COVID-19	7
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	6
Do parental control tools fulfil family expectations for child protection? A rapid evidence review of the contexts and outcomes of use	6
Intelligent digital beings as children’s imaginary social companions	6
My pandemic pedagogy playbook: a glimpse into higher education in the Dutch Zoom-room	6
The home literacy and media environment of Saudi toddlers	6
“Bringing you into the Zoom”: the power of authentic engagement in a time of crisis in the U.S.	6
Assessing the state of media literacy policy in U.S. K-12 schools	5
Filters and fillers: Belgian adolescents’ filter use on social media and the acceptance of cosmetic surgery	5
Predictors of children’s and young people’s digital engagement in informational, communication, and entertainment activities: findings from ten European countries	5
Inaccessible media during the COVID-19 crisis intersects with the language deprivation crisis for young deaf children in the U.S.	5
The impact of touchscreen interactivity on U.S. toddlers’ selective attention and learning from digital media	5
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
Malaysian Parents’ Perception of How Screen Time Affects their Children’s Language	5
Reassessing the risks: an updated content analysis of violence on U.S. children’s primetime television	4
The privilege of childcare: an intersectional analysis of the COVID-19 U.S. childcare crisis and its implications for CAM research	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
Educational ICT use outside school in the European Union: disparities by social origin, immigrant background, and gender	4
“My mom just wants to know where I am”: Estonian pre-teens’ perspectives on intimate surveillance by parents	4
Early vocabulary size in Argentinean toddlers: associations with home literacy and screen media exposure	4