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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Making kin, not babies? Towards childist kinship in the “Anthropocene”	24
“Tiny luggages”: Immersive migrant childhoods and multi-sensory methods as disruptive and facilitative opportunities	12
When a Children’s Literary Jury Imagines Other Children as Potential Readers: A Case of Collaborative Research	12
Acknowledgement of reviewers	12
The ideological underpinnings and political usefulness of residential care for children and young people	9
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	9
Decolonizing children’s agency: Perspectives of children in an Urdu-speaking Bihari camp in Bangladesh	9
The voices of refugee children in Norway: Coping with language barriers, outsiderness, bullying and longing	9
Applying co-production principles in research: Reflections from young people and academics	8
“The suffering we collectively inhabit”: Relational understandings of citizenship by the Colombian post-accord generation	8
Articulating encounters between children and plastics	8
Unsettling the global, moving beyond liberalism: Intimacies as a reading practice in childhood studies	8
Breaking nation: Brazilian transnational children’s construction of belonging in bilingual classrooms	8
Deepening collaborative research with children and young people: A co-edited and co-written special issue	7
Irregularities in transnational adoptions and child appropriations: Challenges for reparation practices	7
The state of journals on children and childhood studies: Insights and challenges from a citation analysis	7
Children as social actors negotiating their privacy in the digital commercial context	6
How are children coping with COVID-19 health crisis? Analysing their representations of lockdown through drawings	6
Children, border(land)s and mixed economies of welfare	6
‘A trip organised for children is not a serious matter’? Summer treatment camps for the Belgian-German borderlands (1919-1939)	6
Sources of vulnerability and ethical challenges in qualitative research with pediatric cancer patients	6
Lingering with food: Attending to waste temporalities in early childhood	6
Creation of child-patient’s autonomy in a child-parent-doctor relationship: Medical doctors’ perspectives	5
Reinventing children’s rights	5
Reflecting on participation’s promises: Insights from collaborative research about unaccompanied child migrants, care, and the UK’s hostile immigration regime	5

Childhood memories of belonging among young Romanian migrants in Italy: A qualitative life-course approach	5
Framing reciprocal obligations within intergenerational relations in Ghana through the lens of the mutuality of duty and dependence	5
Play tales: Co-creating stories of childhoodnature play in an urban forest school	5
Beyond ‘rescue’ or ‘responsibilisation’ within girls’ empowerment programmes: Notes on recovering agency from the Global South	4
Making sense of an irregular adoption. Subjective trajectories of four French adoptees born in Romania in the 1980s and 1990s	4
Children as experiencers: Increasing engagement, participation and inclusion for young children in the museum	4
Making waves: A cross-study analysis of young people’s participation arenas in Scotland’s schools	4
Adults’ ad hoc practices in interviews with children - Ethical considerations in the context of adultness and generational ordering	4
The aftermath of transnational illegal adoptions: Redressing human rights violations in the intercountry adoption system with instruments of transitional justice	4
Kids United	4
When design designs children: The importance of ontological design for childhood studies	4
Child-led research, children’s rights and childhood studies – A reply to Thomas	4
Acknowledgement of reviewers	4
Acknowledgment and Welcome	4
Child appropriations and irregular adoptions: Activism for the “right to identity,” justice, and reparation in Argentina and Chile	4
Advancing global and transnational approaches to the study of out-of-home childcare	4
Kinship and belonging: Pacific children’s perspectives on the diaspora	4
Reading silences/silent readings: Disrupting the hegemony of voice in research with disabled children	4
What takes ‘us’ so long? The philosophical poverty of childhood studies and education	3
Transcending national borders through educational practices: the Children’s Castle in Luxembourg	3
Attending to children’s voices within environmental education	3
Listening to young people’s voices: Attempts at developing context- and participant-sensitive approaches	3
The adult in the room: The push and pull of parental involvement in research with children	3
Closing New Loopholes: Protecting Children in Uganda’s International Adoption Practices	3
Constructing the child as refugee: Visual representations of refugee children in digital news media	3
Deepening our understanding: Collaboration through online peer-to-peer participatory action research with children	3
Child focused research: Disconnected and disembodied voices	3
Complex spaces of involvement during and after paternal deployment: Danish children’s emotions and relationships with their fathers	3
Vanishing points and moving targets: Child welfare recipients in the Polish-Ukrainian borderlands at the dawn of communist Poland (1944-1949)	3
Troubling the trope of the authoritarian father: Perspectives from the Arab World	2
From extractivist practices and the child-as-data to an ethics of reciprocity and mutuality in empirical childhood research	2
‘Had I been a girl it would have been a big problem’: An intersectional approach to the social exclusion of refugee adolescents with disabilities in Jordan	2
Decolonising concepts of participation and protection in sensitive research with young people: local perspectives and decolonial strategies of Palestinian research advisors	2
Branded childhood: Infants as digital capital on Instagram	2
Implications of irregular transnational adoptions within international standards: A review of intercountry adoption systems and Guatemalan birthmother perspectives	2
Children as researchers: Wild things and the dialogic imagination	2
Refusals for liberating childhood from the trap of schooling?	2
Children’s place experiences in high-rise mass housing in Ankara	2
When social provision became a bordering practice: The association ‘Assistance to Redeemed Italy’ and children’s welfare in Italy’s northeastern borderlands, 1919-1939	2
Past-present-future childhoods: Technology, time, and childhoods in narratives of pandemic parenting	2
The fluidity of success over time: Understanding the experience of success through the voices of young people	2
The queer child cracks: Queer feminist encounters with materiality and innocence in childhood studies	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
Precarity and the question of children’s relationalities	2
Children’s voices for change: Co-researching with children and young people as family violence experts by experience	2
“We surely are researchers now!” Participatory methods as an empowering process with disabled children in research	2
The power should be balanced: Central dimensions of healthy intergenerational partnerships	2
Engaging girls with disabilities through cellphilming: Reflections on participatory visual research as a means of countering violence in the Global South	1
The role of non-human actors and the body in peer support groups for children of parents with mental illness	1
Grandchildhood: Care and relationality in narratives of three generations in Sweden	1

On racialized linear time and temporal ‘othering’	1
Philosophy and childhood studies	1
Collaborative agency and relationality in a high school/college poetry partnership	1
On youth participation and adult manipulation: Exploring the lowest rung of Hart’s ladder in a youth organization	1
Agency operating within structures: A qualitative exploration of agency amongst children living in Palestine	1
Kids count: children’s contributions in Latino mixed-status family labor dynamics	1
Seen and not heard: Students’ uses and experiences of silence in school relationships at a secondary school	1
South Korea’s legacy of orphan adoption and the violation of adoptees’ rights to know their origins	1
Celebrating Childhood’s 30th anniversary	1
Redressing forced removals of Yenish children in Switzerland in the 20th century: An analysis through transitional justice lens	1
“[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	1
“Too immature for politics?” Political agency in the eyes of Russian adolescent protesters, 2011–20	1
Same-gender intimate friends in Chinese girls’ romantic adventures in a boarding school context	1
Doing childhood, doing gender, but not doing sports: Unorganized girls’ reflections on leisure time from a relational perspective	1
Irregular adoptions in the Ethiopian-Spanish context: Strategies to redress the adoption triad	1
Towards a ‘third space’ community practice school-aged-care: A learning community and ‘the new neighbourhood’	1
Raising children: Discussing and practicing modern/colonial family education in Colombia	1