OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Childhood-A Global Journal of Child Research 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
“Tiny luggages”: Immersive migrant childhoods and multi-sensory methods as disruptive and facilitative opportunities	25
Children, border(land)s and mixed economies of welfare	17
Participating together in CP-ACHIEVE: Experiences, opportunities and reflections from a collaborative research team of people with lived experience of cerebral palsy and health care professionals	13
‘A trip organised for children is not a serious matter’? Summer treatment camps for the Belgian-German borderlands (1919-1939)	13
Making sense of an irregular adoption. Subjective trajectories of four French adoptees born in Romania in the 1980s and 1990s	12
What takes ‘us’ so long? The philosophical poverty of childhood studies and education	12
Adults’ ad hoc practices in interviews with children - Ethical considerations in the context of adultness and generational ordering	10
Making waves: A cross-study analysis of young people’s participation arenas in Scotland’s schools	10
Reading silences/silent readings: Disrupting the hegemony of voice in research with disabled children	10
Troubling the trope of the authoritarian father: Perspectives from the Arab World	9
Engaging girls with disabilities through cellphilming: Reflections on participatory visual research as a means of countering violence in the Global South	9
Beyond ‘rescue’ or ‘responsibilisation’ within girls’ empowerment programmes: Notes on recovering agency from the Global South	9
Seen and not heard: Students’ uses and experiences of silence in school relationships at a secondary school	9
Queer temporalities of desire in Aftersun : Childhood memory and sonic expression	9
Decolonising concepts of participation and protection in sensitive research with young people: local perspectives and decolonial strategies of Palestinian research advisors	8
Refusals for liberating childhood from the trap of schooling?	8
Teaching ‘global childhoods’ in Childhood Studies	8
Past-present-future childhoods: Technology, time, and childhoods in narratives of pandemic parenting	8
Kindergarten children’s views on friendship in a super-diverse context	7
Righting adults’ wrongs: ‘Generationing’ on the battlefield. A decolonial approach	7
Exploring the taken-for-granted relationship between children’s culture and the cultural heritage of terrorism	7
Redressing forced removals of Yenish children in Switzerland in the 20th century: An analysis through transitional justice lens	7
Identity formations in archived childhood memories of nature in Sweden	7
Histories of childhood and man: Implications for childhood studies	6
Play with a purpose: Intensive parenting, educational desires and shifting notions of childhood and learning in twenty-first century Singapore	6

What might a decolonial perspective on child protection look like? Lessons from Kenya	6
‘This is our treehouse’: Investigating play through a practice architectures lens	6
Waiting for care: A reflection on (m)otherhood and siblinghood in crip time(s)	6
Do children have a right to do nothing? Exploring the place of passive leisure in Australian school age care	6
Creating ownership: Strengths and tensions in co-production with children, young people, and adults across contexts	5
Transcending national borders through educational practices: the Children’s Castle in Luxembourg	5
Investing in activism: Learning from children’s actions to stop child marriage	5
Articulating encounters between children and plastics	5
Not so girl-led: Collective concerted cultivation in Girl Scouts of the United States of America	5
Acknowledgment and Welcome	4
The queer child cracks: Queer feminist encounters with materiality and innocence in childhood studies	4
Children’s voices for change: Co-researching with children and young people as family violence experts by experience	4
Raising children: Discussing and practicing modern/colonial family education in Colombia	4
Child focused research: Disconnected and disembodied voices	4
Advancing global and transnational approaches to the study of out-of-home childcare	4
Philosophy and childhood studies	4
Climate strike or not? Intersectionality of age and culture encountered by young climate activists in Taiwan	4
The adult in the room: The push and pull of parental involvement in research with children	4
Child appropriations and irregular adoptions: Activism for the “right to identity,” justice, and reparation in Argentina and Chile	4
The power should be balanced: Central dimensions of healthy intergenerational partnerships	4
From extractivist practices and the child-as-data to an ethics of reciprocity and mutuality in empirical childhood research	4
Closing New Loopholes: Protecting Children in Uganda’s International Adoption Practices	4
Transnational professionalism in child welfare in Germany	3
Adults’ articulations about children and their coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic - Antonovsky-inspired thematic analysis of Swedish junior and daily newspapers	3
Learning through magic? Diffractive analysis of Children’s experiences across post-structuralist, post-Freudian, and post-materialist perspectives	3
Social geographies of categorizations in two preschools: A comparative study of the U.S. and South Korean children	3
In Memoriam Berry Mayall	3
Different trajectories from a common crisis. Survival migrations and resilience of venezuelan adolescents to Peru	3
Research ethics in childhood research	3
Is it OK? The use of the English neuter pronoun it to refer to children	3
Experiences of children’s formal and lived participation in family law proceedings	3
Acknowledgement of reviewers	2
Unsettling the global, moving beyond liberalism: Intimacies as a reading practice in childhood studies	2
Sources of vulnerability and ethical challenges in qualitative research with pediatric cancer patients	2
Agency operating within structures: A qualitative exploration of agency amongst children living in Palestine	2
Propositions for anticolonial belonging in Canadian early childhood environmental education	2
Faceless, voiceless child – Ethics of visual anonymity in research with children and young people	2
“[A] story about a child is scarier than one about an adult roughly 80% of the time”: Creepypasta, Children’s media, and the child in media discourse	2
Children’s place experiences in high-rise mass housing in Ankara	2
Complex spaces of involvement during and after paternal deployment: Danish children’s emotions and relationships with their fathers	2
The ideological underpinnings and political usefulness of residential care for children and young people	2
Youth-led social action at school: ‘It made me think that there could be a way to make things better in the future’	2
Why commoning matters in childhood studies	2
Participation for protection: New perspectives on the value of young people’s involvement in research addressing sexual violence	2
Tracing the rationale for solidarity in teenagers’ post-apocalypse stories	2
Attending to children’s voices within environmental education	2
Decolonizing children’s agency: Perspectives of children in an Urdu-speaking Bihari camp in Bangladesh	2
On youth participation and adult manipulation: Exploring the lowest rung of Hart’s ladder in a youth organization	2
Building blocks, free play, and freedom in a 1930s Swedish kindergarten: Versions of kindergarten childhoods in written and visual records	2
In/secure childhoods: Children and conflict in Kashmir	2

Adolescents’ narratives about parents’ separation processes and participation in mandatory family mediation: Exercising agency through managing privacy boundaries	2
Advancing feminist relationality in childhood studies	2
Kinship and belonging: Pacific children’s perspectives on the diaspora	1
When social provision became a bordering practice: The association ‘Assistance to Redeemed Italy’ and children’s welfare in Italy’s northeastern borderlands, 1919-1939	1
Implications of irregular transnational adoptions within international standards: A review of intercountry adoption systems and Guatemalan birthmother perspectives	1
Olfactoscapes in Malawi: Exploring the smells children like and are exposed to in semi-urban classrooms	1
The least adult role or a playful researcher? Considering an adult’s role when researching with children	1
Acknowledgement of reviewers	1
Deepening collaborative research with children and young people: A co-edited and co-written special issue	1
“Too immature for politics?” Political agency in the eyes of Russian adolescent protesters, 2011–20	1
Children as researchers: Wild things and the dialogic imagination	1
Children as social actors negotiating their privacy in the digital commercial context	1
Childhood memories of belonging among young Romanian migrants in Italy: A qualitative life-course approach	1
On the banality of attrition in the lives of chronically marginalized children	1
When a Children’s Literary Jury Imagines Other Children as Potential Readers: A Case of Collaborative Research	1
Children as experiencers: Increasing engagement, participation and inclusion for young children in the museum	1
Children’s drawings of school in home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Branded childhood: Infants as digital capital on Instagram	1
Irregularities in transnational adoptions and child appropriations: Challenges for reparation practices	1
Kids United	1