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 2020-11-01 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
Kidfluencer exposure, materialism, and U.S. tweens’ purchase of sponsored products	15
A randomized controlled trial of an educational app to improve preschoolers’ emergent literacy skills	15
Teenagers’ reflections on media literacy initiatives at school and everyday media literacy discourses	13
Online and offline victimisation: a cluster analysis of adolescent victims of bullying and cyber-bullying in Chile	13
Picture perfect during a pandemic? Body image concerns and depressive symptoms in U.S. adolescent girls during the COVID-19 lockdown	12
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
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
Type of screen time and academic achievement in children from Australia and New Zealand: interactions with socioeconomic status	9
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
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
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
“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
Fortnite: a context for child development in the U.S. during COVID-19 (and beyond)	7

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
My pandemic pedagogy playbook: a glimpse into higher education in the Dutch Zoom-room	6
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
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
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
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