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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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	56
‘Orphan’ as a category of analysis: Historicizing ‘child rescue’ in colonial India, 1860s–1920s	27
‘A trip organised for children is not a serious matter’? Summer treatment camps for the Belgian-German borderlands (1919-1939)	22
“Tiny luggages”: Immersive migrant childhoods and multi-sensory methods as disruptive and facilitative opportunities	22
Children, border(land)s and mixed economies of welfare	19
What takes ‘us’ so long? The philosophical poverty of childhood studies and education	16
Chinese migrant children’s constructions of transnational childhood in Norway	16
Beyond ‘rescue’ or ‘responsibilisation’ within girls’ empowerment programmes: Notes on recovering agency from the Global South	14
Reading silences/silent readings: Disrupting the hegemony of voice in research with disabled children	13
Adults’ ad hoc practices in interviews with children - Ethical considerations in the context of adultness and generational ordering	13
Refusals for liberating childhood from the trap of schooling?	12
Being and becoming in children’s digital spaces: A portal into their social media use	12
Queer temporalities of desire in Aftersun : Childhood memory and sonic expression	12
Past-present-future childhoods: Technology, time, and childhoods in narratives of pandemic parenting	11
‘This is our treehouse’: Investigating play through a practice architectures lens	10
Troubling the trope of the authoritarian father: Perspectives from the Arab World	10
Do children have a right to do nothing? Exploring the place of passive leisure in Australian school age care	9
Righting adults’ wrongs: ‘Generationing’ on the battlefield. A decolonial approach	9
Play with a purpose: Intensive parenting, educational desires and shifting notions of childhood and learning in twenty-first century Singapore	9
Identity formations in archived childhood memories of nature in Sweden	9
Exploring the taken-for-granted relationship between children’s culture and the cultural heritage of terrorism	8
‘They throw us in the drain and beat us’: Children’s struggles for water as care and resistance politics	8
What might a decolonial perspective on child protection look like? Lessons from Kenya	7
Histories of childhood and man: Implications for childhood studies	7
Waiting for care: A reflection on (m)otherhood and siblinghood in crip time(s)	7

Teaching ‘global childhoods’ in Childhood Studies	7
Transformative conversations for a critical childhood studies	6
Acknowledgment and Welcome	6
Not so girl-led: Collective concerted cultivation in Girl Scouts of the United States of America	6
Adultism and parenting: Challenges for the effective implementation of children’s rights in the Brazilian context	6
Living together and apart: Reimagining care in a segregated neighbourhood of Santiago, Chile	6
Investing in activism: Learning from children’s actions to stop child marriage	6
Creating ownership: Strengths and tensions in co-production with children, young people, and adults across contexts	6
Articulating encounters between children and plastics	6
The adult in the room: The push and pull of parental involvement in research with children	5
The power should be balanced: Central dimensions of healthy intergenerational partnerships	5
Child focused research: Disconnected and disembodied voices	5
Transcending national borders through educational practices: the Children’s Castle in Luxembourg	5
Advancing global and transnational approaches to the study of out-of-home childcare	5
Raising children: Discussing and practicing modern/colonial family education in Colombia	4
Underrepresentation of most childhoods in the study of development. Latin American researchers’ insights on limitations, advances, and challenges	4
Making finance fun: Playful affordances and gamified interface designs in children’s FinTech apps	4
Adults’ articulations about children and their coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic - Antonovsky-inspired thematic analysis of Swedish junior and daily newspapers	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
Children’s voices for change: Co-researching with children and young people as family violence experts by experience	4
Is it OK? The use of the English neuter pronoun it to refer to children	4
Experiences of children’s formal and lived participation in family law proceedings	4
Parenting styles and receptiveness (or otherwise) to children’s emotions in the higher social classes	4
Transnational professionalism in child welfare in Germany	4
Research ethics in childhood research	4
Learning through magic? Diffractive analysis of Children’s experiences across post-structuralist, post-Freudian, and post-materialist perspectives	4