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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Children, border(land)s and mixed economies of welfare	32
‘A trip organised for children is not a serious matter’? Summer treatment camps for the Belgian-German borderlands (1919-1939)	21
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	15
“Tiny luggages”: Immersive migrant childhoods and multi-sensory methods as disruptive and facilitative opportunities	13
Reading silences/silent readings: Disrupting the hegemony of voice in research with disabled children	12
Queer temporalities of desire in Aftersun : Childhood memory and sonic expression	12
Making waves: A cross-study analysis of young people’s participation arenas in Scotland’s schools	12
Making sense of an irregular adoption. Subjective trajectories of four French adoptees born in Romania in the 1980s and 1990s	12
Beyond ‘rescue’ or ‘responsibilisation’ within girls’ empowerment programmes: Notes on recovering agency from the Global South	10
What takes ‘us’ so long? The philosophical poverty of childhood studies and education	10
Adults’ ad hoc practices in interviews with children - Ethical considerations in the context of adultness and generational ordering	10
Refusals for liberating childhood from the trap of schooling?	9
Seen and not heard: Students’ uses and experiences of silence in school relationships at a secondary school	9
Troubling the trope of the authoritarian father: Perspectives from the Arab World	9
Past-present-future childhoods: Technology, time, and childhoods in narratives of pandemic parenting	9
Identity formations in archived childhood memories of nature in Sweden	8
Righting adults’ wrongs: ‘Generationing’ on the battlefield. A decolonial approach	8
‘This is our treehouse’: Investigating play through a practice architectures lens	8
Do children have a right to do nothing? Exploring the place of passive leisure in Australian school age care	7
Exploring the taken-for-granted relationship between children’s culture and the cultural heritage of terrorism	7
Play with a purpose: Intensive parenting, educational desires and shifting notions of childhood and learning in twenty-first century Singapore	7
Redressing forced removals of Yenish children in Switzerland in the 20th century: An analysis through transitional justice lens	7
Teaching ‘global childhoods’ in Childhood Studies	7
Creating ownership: Strengths and tensions in co-production with children, young people, and adults across contexts	6
‘They throw us in the drain and beat us’: Children’s struggles for water as care and resistance politics	6

Histories of childhood and man: Implications for childhood studies	6
Kindergarten children’s views on friendship in a super-diverse context	6
Waiting for care: A reflection on (m)otherhood and siblinghood in crip time(s)	6
Advancing global and transnational approaches to the study of out-of-home childcare	5
Investing in activism: Learning from children’s actions to stop child marriage	5
Transcending national borders through educational practices: the Children’s Castle in Luxembourg	5
Not so girl-led: Collective concerted cultivation in Girl Scouts of the United States of America	5
Articulating encounters between children and plastics	5
What might a decolonial perspective on child protection look like? Lessons from Kenya	5
Child focused research: Disconnected and disembodied voices	4
Children’s voices for change: Co-researching with children and young people as family violence experts by experience	4
The power should be balanced: Central dimensions of healthy intergenerational partnerships	4
The adult in the room: The push and pull of parental involvement in research with children	4
From extractivist practices and the child-as-data to an ethics of reciprocity and mutuality in empirical childhood research	4
Acknowledgment and Welcome	4
Raising children: Discussing and practicing modern/colonial family education in Colombia	4
Philosophy and childhood studies	4
Can’t trace time: The temporal politics of childhood	3
Is it OK? The use of the English neuter pronoun it to refer to children	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
Unsettling the global, moving beyond liberalism: Intimacies as a reading practice in childhood studies	3
Acknowledgement of reviewers	3
Research ethics in childhood research	3
Social geographies of categorizations in two preschools: A comparative study of the U.S. and South Korean children	3
Different trajectories from a common crisis. Survival migrations and resilience of venezuelan adolescents to Peru	3
Experiences of children’s formal and lived participation in family law proceedings	3
Decolonizing children’s agency: Perspectives of children in an Urdu-speaking Bihari camp in Bangladesh	3
Attending to children’s voices within environmental education	3
Transnational professionalism in child welfare in Germany	3
Climate strike or not? Intersectionality of age and culture encountered by young climate activists in Taiwan	3
In Memoriam Berry Mayall	3
Sources of vulnerability and ethical challenges in qualitative research with pediatric cancer patients	3
Complex spaces of involvement during and after paternal deployment: Danish children’s emotions and relationships with their fathers	3
Building blocks, free play, and freedom in a 1930s Swedish kindergarten: Versions of kindergarten childhoods in written and visual records	2
Why commoning matters in childhood studies	2
Children’s place experiences in high-rise mass housing in Ankara	2
Participation for protection: New perspectives on the value of young people’s involvement in research addressing sexual violence	2
Faceless, voiceless child – Ethics of visual anonymity in research with 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
On youth participation and adult manipulation: Exploring the lowest rung of Hart’s ladder in a youth organization	2
Adolescents’ narratives about parents’ separation processes and participation in mandatory family mediation: Exercising agency through managing privacy boundaries	2
Are participation rights a lingua franca? The complexities of translating and comparing the term ‘participation’ in educational contexts	2
Propositions for anticolonial belonging in Canadian early childhood environmental education	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
In/secure childhoods: Children and conflict in Kashmir	2
Tracing the rationale for solidarity in teenagers’ post-apocalypse stories	2
Advancing feminist relationality in childhood studies	2
Implications of irregular transnational adoptions within international standards: A review of intercountry adoption systems and Guatemalan birthmother perspectives	1
On the banality of attrition in the lives of chronically marginalized children	1

Irregularities in transnational adoptions and child appropriations: Challenges for reparation practices	1
Kids United	1
“Too immature for politics?” Political agency in the eyes of Russian adolescent protesters, 2011–20	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
Branded childhood: Infants as digital capital on Instagram	1
“I feel a little bit of both”: Exploring the relational experiences of Norwegian tween girls through age as enactment and age-shifting	1
Acknowledgement of reviewers	1
The least adult role or a playful researcher? Considering an adult’s role when researching with children	1
“Instead I started solving my problems myself”: Exploring children’s actions of participation in social work	1
Children as experiencers: Increasing engagement, participation and inclusion for young children in the museum	1
Jocular language practices in young boys’ performances of romantic relationships within their local peer culture	1
Olfactoscapes in Malawi: Exploring the smells children like and are exposed to in semi-urban classrooms	1
Children’s drawings of school in home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Kinship and belonging: Pacific children’s perspectives on the diaspora	1
When a Children’s Literary Jury Imagines Other Children as Potential Readers: A Case of Collaborative Research	1
Deepening collaborative research with children and young people: A co-edited and co-written special issue	1
Children as social actors negotiating their privacy in the digital commercial context	1
A comparison of child protection systems in the Greater Region: Implementing the UN convention on the rights of the child through narrow and broad understandings	1
Tangled sideways research: Reimagining temporality in research with children	1