OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Childhood-A Global Journal of Child Research is 4. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
“Tiny luggages”: Immersive migrant childhoods and multi-sensory methods as disruptive and facilitative opportunities	29
Children, border(land)s and mixed economies of welfare	20
‘A trip organised for children is not a serious matter’? Summer treatment camps for the Belgian-German borderlands (1919-1939)	14
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
What takes ‘us’ so long? The philosophical poverty of childhood studies and education	12
Making sense of an irregular adoption. Subjective trajectories of four French adoptees born in Romania in the 1980s and 1990s	12
Making waves: A cross-study analysis of young people’s participation arenas in Scotland’s schools	11
Reading silences/silent readings: Disrupting the hegemony of voice in research with disabled children	11
Adults’ ad hoc practices in interviews with children - Ethical considerations in the context of adultness and generational ordering	10
Queer temporalities of desire in Aftersun : Childhood memory and sonic expression	10
Beyond ‘rescue’ or ‘responsibilisation’ within girls’ empowerment programmes: Notes on recovering agency from the Global South	10
Past-present-future childhoods: Technology, time, and childhoods in narratives of pandemic parenting	9
Engaging girls with disabilities through cellphilming: Reflections on participatory visual research as a means of countering violence in the Global South	9
Troubling the trope of the authoritarian father: Perspectives from the Arab World	9
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
‘This is our treehouse’: Investigating play through a practice architectures lens	8
Identity formations in archived childhood memories of nature in Sweden	8
Redressing forced removals of Yenish children in Switzerland in the 20th century: An analysis through transitional justice lens	8
Teaching ‘global childhoods’ in Childhood Studies	8
Do children have a right to do nothing? Exploring the place of passive leisure in Australian school age care	7
Play with a purpose: Intensive parenting, educational desires and shifting notions of childhood and learning in twenty-first century Singapore	7
Righting adults’ wrongs: ‘Generationing’ on the battlefield. A decolonial approach	7
Kindergarten children’s views on friendship in a super-diverse context	7
Histories of childhood and man: Implications for childhood studies	6

What might a decolonial perspective on child protection look like? Lessons from Kenya	6
Waiting for care: A reflection on (m)otherhood and siblinghood in crip time(s)	6
Exploring the taken-for-granted relationship between children’s culture and the cultural heritage of terrorism	6
Not so girl-led: Collective concerted cultivation in Girl Scouts of the United States of America	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
Creating ownership: Strengths and tensions in co-production with children, young people, and adults across contexts	5
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
Philosophy and childhood studies	4
Raising children: Discussing and practicing modern/colonial family education in Colombia	4
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
Research ethics in childhood research	4
The adult in the room: The push and pull of parental involvement in research with children	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
Child focused research: Disconnected and disembodied voices	4