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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Children, border(land)s and mixed economies of welfare	30
‘A trip organised for children is not a serious matter’? Summer treatment camps for the Belgian-German borderlands (1919-1939)	20
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
Making sense of an irregular adoption. Subjective trajectories of four French adoptees born in Romania in the 1980s and 1990s	12
“Tiny luggages”: Immersive migrant childhoods and multi-sensory methods as disruptive and facilitative opportunities	12
Making waves: A cross-study analysis of young people’s participation arenas in Scotland’s schools	12
Reading silences/silent readings: Disrupting the hegemony of voice in research with disabled children	11
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
Beyond ‘rescue’ or ‘responsibilisation’ within girls’ empowerment programmes: Notes on recovering agency from the Global South	10
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
Refusals for liberating childhood from the trap of schooling?	9
Past-present-future childhoods: Technology, time, and childhoods in narratives of pandemic parenting	9
Troubling the trope of the authoritarian father: Perspectives from the Arab World	9
Teaching ‘global childhoods’ in Childhood Studies	8
Exploring the taken-for-granted relationship between children’s culture and the cultural heritage of terrorism	7
Kindergarten children’s views on friendship in a super-diverse context	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
Do children have a right to do nothing? Exploring the place of passive leisure in Australian school age care	7
Histories of childhood and man: Implications for childhood studies	6
‘This is our treehouse’: Investigating play through a practice architectures lens	6
What might a decolonial perspective on child protection look like? Lessons from Kenya	6
Righting adults’ wrongs: ‘Generationing’ on the battlefield. A decolonial approach	6

Play with a purpose: Intensive parenting, educational desires and shifting notions of childhood and learning in twenty-first century Singapore	6
Not so girl-led: Collective concerted cultivation in Girl Scouts of the United States of America	5
Creating ownership: Strengths and tensions in co-production with children, young people, and adults across contexts	5
Investing in activism: Learning from children’s actions to stop child marriage	5
Waiting for care: A reflection on (m)otherhood and siblinghood in crip time(s)	5
Child focused research: Disconnected and disembodied voices	4
Articulating encounters between children and plastics	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
Children’s voices for change: Co-researching with children and young people as family violence experts by experience	4
Transcending national borders through educational practices: the Children’s Castle in Luxembourg	4
Acknowledgment and Welcome	4
Raising children: Discussing and practicing modern/colonial family education in Colombia	4
Research ethics in childhood research	4
Advancing global and transnational approaches to the study of out-of-home childcare	4
The adult in the room: The push and pull of parental involvement in research with children	4
Philosophy and childhood studies	4
Transnational professionalism in child welfare in Germany	4
Climate strike or not? Intersectionality of age and culture encountered by young climate activists in Taiwan	3
In Memoriam Berry Mayall	3
Decolonizing children’s agency: Perspectives of children in an Urdu-speaking Bihari camp in Bangladesh	3
Complex spaces of involvement during and after paternal deployment: Danish children’s emotions and relationships with their fathers	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
Experiences of children’s formal and lived participation in family law proceedings	3
Sources of vulnerability and ethical challenges in qualitative research with pediatric cancer patients	3
Acknowledgement of reviewers	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
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
Can’t trace time: The temporal politics of childhood	3
Adolescents’ narratives about parents’ separation processes and participation in mandatory family mediation: Exercising agency through managing privacy boundaries	2
Propositions for anticolonial belonging in Canadian early childhood environmental education	2
Children’s place experiences in high-rise mass housing in Ankara	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
On youth participation and adult manipulation: Exploring the lowest rung of Hart’s ladder in a youth organization	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
In/secure childhoods: Children and conflict in Kashmir	2
Faceless, voiceless child – Ethics of visual anonymity in research with children and young people	2
On the banality of attrition in the lives of chronically marginalized children	2
Attending to children’s voices within 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
Building blocks, free play, and freedom in a 1930s Swedish kindergarten: Versions of kindergarten childhoods in written and visual records	2
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
“I feel a little bit of both”: Exploring the relational experiences of Norwegian tween girls through age as enactment and age-shifting	1

Children’s drawings of school in home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Olfactoscapes in Malawi: Exploring the smells children like and are exposed to in semi-urban classrooms	1
Advancing feminist relationality in childhood studies	1
The least adult role or a playful researcher? Considering an adult’s role when researching with children	1
Children as experiencers: Increasing engagement, participation and inclusion for young children in the museum	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
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
Acknowledgement of reviewers	1
When a Children’s Literary Jury Imagines Other Children as Potential Readers: A Case of Collaborative Research	1
Childhood memories of belonging among young Romanian migrants in Italy: A qualitative life-course approach	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
Jocular language practices in young boys’ performances of romantic relationships within their local peer culture	1
Implications of irregular transnational adoptions within international standards: A review of intercountry adoption systems and Guatemalan birthmother perspectives	1
Kinship and belonging: Pacific children’s perspectives on the diaspora	1
Deepening collaborative research with children and young people: A co-edited and co-written special issue	1