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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Making kin, not babies? Towards childist kinship in the “Anthropocene”	24
When a Children’s Literary Jury Imagines Other Children as Potential Readers: A Case of Collaborative Research	12
Acknowledgement of reviewers	12
“Tiny luggages”: Immersive migrant childhoods and multi-sensory methods as disruptive and facilitative opportunities	12
The ideological underpinnings and political usefulness of residential care for children and young people	9
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	9
Decolonizing children’s agency: Perspectives of children in an Urdu-speaking Bihari camp in Bangladesh	9
The voices of refugee children in Norway: Coping with language barriers, outsiderness, bullying and longing	9
Applying co-production principles in research: Reflections from young people and academics	8
“The suffering we collectively inhabit”: Relational understandings of citizenship by the Colombian post-accord generation	8
Articulating encounters between children and plastics	8
Unsettling the global, moving beyond liberalism: Intimacies as a reading practice in childhood studies	8
Breaking nation: Brazilian transnational children’s construction of belonging in bilingual classrooms	8
Deepening collaborative research with children and young people: A co-edited and co-written special issue	7
Irregularities in transnational adoptions and child appropriations: Challenges for reparation practices	7
The state of journals on children and childhood studies: Insights and challenges from a citation analysis	7
How are children coping with COVID-19 health crisis? Analysing their representations of lockdown through drawings	6
Children, border(land)s and mixed economies of welfare	6
‘A trip organised for children is not a serious matter’? Summer treatment camps for the Belgian-German borderlands (1919-1939)	6
Sources of vulnerability and ethical challenges in qualitative research with pediatric cancer patients	6
Lingering with food: Attending to waste temporalities in early childhood	6
Children as social actors negotiating their privacy in the digital commercial context	6
Reflecting on participation’s promises: Insights from collaborative research about unaccompanied child migrants, care, and the UK’s hostile immigration regime	5
Childhood memories of belonging among young Romanian migrants in Italy: A qualitative life-course approach	5
Framing reciprocal obligations within intergenerational relations in Ghana through the lens of the mutuality of duty and dependence	5

Play tales: Co-creating stories of childhoodnature play in an urban forest school	5
Creation of child-patient’s autonomy in a child-parent-doctor relationship: Medical doctors’ perspectives	5
Reinventing children’s rights	5
Making waves: A cross-study analysis of young people’s participation arenas in Scotland’s schools	4
Adults’ ad hoc practices in interviews with children - Ethical considerations in the context of adultness and generational ordering	4
The aftermath of transnational illegal adoptions: Redressing human rights violations in the intercountry adoption system with instruments of transitional justice	4
Kids United	4
When design designs children: The importance of ontological design for childhood studies	4
Child-led research, children’s rights and childhood studies – A reply to Thomas	4
Acknowledgement of reviewers	4
Acknowledgment and Welcome	4
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
Kinship and belonging: Pacific children’s perspectives on the diaspora	4
Reading silences/silent readings: Disrupting the hegemony of voice in research with disabled children	4
Beyond ‘rescue’ or ‘responsibilisation’ within girls’ empowerment programmes: Notes on recovering agency from the Global South	4
Making sense of an irregular adoption. Subjective trajectories of four French adoptees born in Romania in the 1980s and 1990s	4
Children as experiencers: Increasing engagement, participation and inclusion for young children in the museum	4