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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Children, border(land)s and mixed economies of welfare	37
‘A trip organised for children is not a serious matter’? Summer treatment camps for the Belgian-German borderlands (1919-1939)	23
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	21
Making waves: A cross-study analysis of young people’s participation arenas in Scotland’s schools	16
“Tiny luggages”: Immersive migrant childhoods and multi-sensory methods as disruptive and facilitative opportunities	16
Beyond ‘rescue’ or ‘responsibilisation’ within girls’ empowerment programmes: Notes on recovering agency from the Global South	14
Queer temporalities of desire in Aftersun : Childhood memory and sonic expression	14
What takes ‘us’ so long? The philosophical poverty of childhood studies and education	14
Making sense of an irregular adoption. Subjective trajectories of four French adoptees born in Romania in the 1980s and 1990s	14
Adults’ ad hoc practices in interviews with children - Ethical considerations in the context of adultness and generational ordering	11
Past-present-future childhoods: Technology, time, and childhoods in narratives of pandemic parenting	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	10
Seen and not heard: Students’ uses and experiences of silence in school relationships at a secondary school	10
Identity formations in archived childhood memories of nature in Sweden	9
Play with a purpose: Intensive parenting, educational desires and shifting notions of childhood and learning in twenty-first century Singapore	9
Refusals for liberating childhood from the trap of schooling?	9
Redressing forced removals of Yenish children in Switzerland in the 20th century: An analysis through transitional justice lens	9
Kindergarten children’s views on friendship in a super-diverse context	8
‘This is our treehouse’: Investigating play through a practice architectures lens	8
Exploring the taken-for-granted relationship between children’s culture and the cultural heritage of terrorism	7
Creating ownership: Strengths and tensions in co-production with children, young people, and adults across contexts	7
‘They throw us in the drain and beat us’: Children’s struggles for water as care and resistance politics	7
Righting adults’ wrongs: ‘Generationing’ on the battlefield. A decolonial approach	7
Teaching ‘global childhoods’ in Childhood Studies	7

Do children have a right to do nothing? Exploring the place of passive leisure in Australian school age care	7
Investing in activism: Learning from children’s actions to stop child marriage	6
Waiting for care: A reflection on (m)otherhood and siblinghood in crip time(s)	6
Not so girl-led: Collective concerted cultivation in Girl Scouts of the United States of America	6
What might a decolonial perspective on child protection look like? Lessons from Kenya	6
Histories of childhood and man: Implications for childhood studies	6
Acknowledgment and Welcome	5
Advancing global and transnational approaches to the study of out-of-home childcare	5
Transformative conversations for a critical childhood studies	5
The adult in the room: The push and pull of parental involvement in research with children	5
Child focused research: Disconnected and disembodied voices	5
Transcending national borders through educational practices: the Children’s Castle in Luxembourg	5
Articulating encounters between children and plastics	5
The power should be balanced: Central dimensions of healthy intergenerational partnerships	5
Transnational professionalism in child welfare in Germany	4
Climate strike or not? Intersectionality of age and culture encountered by young climate activists in Taiwan	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
Is it OK? The use of the English neuter pronoun it to refer to children	4
Philosophy and childhood studies	4
Underrepresentation of most childhoods in the study of development. Latin American researchers’ insights on limitations, advances, and challenges	4
Social geographies of categorizations in two preschools: A comparative study of the U.S. and South Korean children	4
From extractivist practices and the child-as-data to an ethics of reciprocity and mutuality in empirical childhood research	4
Adults’ articulations about children and their coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic - Antonovsky-inspired thematic analysis of Swedish junior and daily newspapers	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
Centering childhood(s) in the Anthropocene: (Re)production of human genres through nature(s) in early childhood education and care	3
Research ethics in childhood research	3
Can’t trace time: The temporal politics of childhood	3
Different trajectories from a common crisis. Survival migrations and resilience of venezuelan adolescents to Peru	3
Complex spaces of involvement during and after paternal deployment: Danish children’s emotions and relationships with their fathers	3
Attending to children’s voices within environmental education	3
In Memoriam Berry Mayall	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
Sources of vulnerability and ethical challenges in qualitative research with pediatric cancer patients	3
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
Why commoning matters in childhood studies	2
Changing perspectives on corporal punishment in schools: Insights from Ugandan young people	2
Adolescents’ narratives about parents’ separation processes and participation in mandatory family mediation: Exercising agency through managing privacy boundaries	2
Children’s place experiences in high-rise mass housing in Ankara	2
Building blocks, free play, and freedom in a 1930s Swedish kindergarten: Versions of kindergarten childhoods in written and visual records	2
Corrigendum to “‘They throw us in the drain and beat us’: Children’s struggles for water as care and resistance politics”	2
Tracing the rationale for solidarity in teenagers’ post-apocalypse stories	2
In/secure childhoods: Children and conflict in Kashmir	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
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

To help each other and to be together: How children think about care within the family across three cultures	2
The least adult role or a playful researcher? Considering an adult’s role when researching with children	1
Deepening collaborative research with children and young people: A co-edited and co-written special issue	1
Are participation rights a lingua franca? The complexities of translating and comparing the term ‘participation’ in educational contexts	1
Advancing feminist relationality in childhood studies	1
Activity-tracking assemblages in Finnish early childhood education and care	1
Youthwashing: The co-optation of young people—and how child rights enable it	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
Children’s drawings of school in home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic	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
When a Children’s Literary Jury Imagines Other Children as Potential Readers: A Case of Collaborative Research	1
Children as social actors negotiating their privacy in the digital commercial context	1
On the banality of attrition in the lives of chronically marginalized children	1
Children as experiencers: Increasing engagement, participation and inclusion for young children in the museum	1
Participation for protection: New perspectives on the value of young people’s involvement in research addressing sexual violence	1
Jocular language practices in young boys’ performances of romantic relationships within their local peer culture	1
Kinship and belonging: Pacific children’s perspectives on the diaspora	1
Tangled sideways research: Reimagining temporality in research with children	1
“Too immature for politics?” Political agency in the eyes of Russian adolescent protesters, 2011–20	1
“Instead I started solving my problems myself”: Exploring children’s actions of participation in social work	1
Acknowledgement of reviewers	1
Renegotiating the Swedish child welfare system through claims to represent children	1
‘She does not make me do it, but I want to help her’: Relational family interdependence of street-connected youth in Recife, Brazil	1
Kids United	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
Irregularities in transnational adoptions and child appropriations: Challenges for reparation practices	1
“I feel a little bit of both”: Exploring the relational experiences of Norwegian tween girls through age as enactment and age-shifting	1
Branded childhood: Infants as digital capital on Instagram	1