Journal of Children and Media

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Representation of refugee characters and experiences in children’s animated television: Missed opportunities and hopes19
Predictors of children’s and young people’s digital engagement in informational, communication, and entertainment activities: findings from ten European countries17
Systematic review: Characteristics and outcomes of in-school digital media literacy interventions, 2010-202117
What do parents really know about their child’s online behaviour? Discrepancies between parents and their children in Israel16
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.15
Is this a return to normal? Longitudinal trajectories of child screen and problematic media use across the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States13
The next time is now! How children and media professionals must respond to Russia’s war in Ukraine13
“In your face!” Do family communication patterns influence U.S. tween’s imitation of disrespectful talk and behavior found in their favorite television shows?12
Characters’ realism, not familiarity, improved Chinese children’s learning from video11
Parental digital mediation: Restriction and enablement during the COVID-19 lockdown among low SES parents in Lima, Peru11
The road to addiction (might be) paved with good intentions: Motives for social media use and psychological distress among early adolescents11
Revealing the interplay between digital media use and affective well-being across developmental stages: Results of an experience sampling study with Austrian adolescents10
“My mom just wants to know where I am”: Estonian pre-teens’ perspectives on intimate surveillance by parents9
Integrating values into the social learning process: The occupational world in children’s television shows in Israel9
A bifactor model of U.S. parents’ attitudes regarding mediation for the digital age9
Evolution or revolution? Reflecting on what JOCAM at 18 reveals about our field8
Digital ethics of care and digital citizenship in UK primary schools: Children as interviewers8
Under the influence of (alcohol)influencers? A qualitative study examining Belgian adolescents’ evaluations of alcohol-related Instagram images from influencers8
Socioeconomic disparities in Swiss children’s use of digital technology: A typological approach based on parental reports8
Exploring adolescents’ vulnerability and resilience to online risks in Trinidad and Tobago8
Thai teens’ privacy-related practices on Facebook8
When screens are everywhere you look: Contemporary media ecologies in the United States7
Deconstructing gender and media: A mixed methods study with U.S. early adolescents7
U.S. adolescents’ daily social media use and well-being: Exploring the role of addiction-like social media use6
The paradox of play: How Dutch children develop digital literacy via offline engagement with digital media6
Assessing the state of media literacy policy in U.S. K-12 schools6
Remote observation of hands-on problem solving among preschool children: Methodological challenges and solutions5
Understanding the Media in Young Children’s Lives: An Introduction to the Key Debates (1st ed.) Understanding the Media in Young Children’s Lives: A5
Respecting children`s rights in research ethics and research methods5
The youth social media literacy inventory: Development and validation using item response theory in the US5
The interplay between sensationalism and scientific information framing: Examining the representation of screen time research online and on social media in the United States4
Parental mediation and problematic media use among U.S. children with disabilities and their non-disabled siblings during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Contesting the framing of digital risk: An analysis of Australian children’s experiences4
Parent problematic media use, child reactivity, and income: Context for parents’ use of media emotion regulation strategies in the United States4
Research brief: A quantitative content analysis to explore work value portrayals among characters in Belgian adolescents’ favorite TV series4
This picture does not portray reality: developing and testing a disclaimer for digitally enhanced pictures on social media appropriate for Austrian tweens and teens4
Do parental control tools fulfil family expectations for child protection? A rapid evidence review of the contexts and outcomes of use4
Research brief: early adolescents’ perceptions of the motivations and consequences of sharing passwords with friends in Belgium4
COVID-19 and children’s screen time in Ceará, Brazil: a repeated cross-sectional survey3
Socio-technical practices of young children and parents in the home: a case study from Japan3
Children’s perceptions of scary news in Belgium: Examining parental mediation and consolation strategies from their perspective3
Moral clarity decreases as viewer age increases: a content analysis of the moral values and reinforcement cues depicted in popular U.S. children’s television3
Roadblocks and resistance: Digital mediation as a process of calibration among U.S. parents of adolescents3
Bridging the cultures of research and practice: The global evolution of Sesame Street ’s playful problem-solving curriculum2
How do Canadian parents evaluate numeracy content in math apps for young children?2
Parasocial romantic relationships: falling in love with media figures2
Teenagers’ reflections on media literacy initiatives at school and everyday media literacy discourses2
Development, validity, and reliability of the parent-adolescent communication about adolescents’ social media use scale (PACAS)2
Honesty, morality, and parasocial relationships in U.S. children’s media2
Parental mediation and the relational practices of negotiation and resistance: Insights from a qualitative panel study from Germany2
A research brief investigating educational television and U.S. children’s interest in science and world culture2
Analysis of the constructions of children and the internet in Kenya and Ghana2
Do I have the right to share? Sharenting and psychological ownership of children’s information in the U.S.2
Gender and parent–adolescent differences in perceived media parenting: Evidence from a Chinese validation study2
“Consent Is Sexy”: exploring the portrayal of prosocial sexuality messages in youth-oriented series2
Programming girlhood: digital labor and the twenty-first century girl coder in the United States2
Problematic online gaming, subjective health complaints, and depression among adolescent gamers from the United States: the role of console-gaming aggression2
Unveiling a blind spot: The importance and challenges of exploring the digital lives of minor parents2
The home literacy and media environment of Saudi toddlers2
Histories of children’s television around the world2
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