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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
“Tiny luggages”: Immersive migrant childhoods and multi-sensory methods as disruptive and facilitative opportunities	25
Children, border(land)s and mixed economies of welfare	17
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
‘A trip organised for children is not a serious matter’? Summer treatment camps for the Belgian-German borderlands (1919-1939)	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	10
Reading silences/silent readings: Disrupting the hegemony of voice in research with disabled children	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	9
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
Troubling the trope of the authoritarian father: Perspectives from the Arab World	9
Engaging girls with disabilities through cellphilming: Reflections on participatory visual research as a means of countering violence in the Global South	9
Teaching ‘global childhoods’ in Childhood Studies	8
Past-present-future childhoods: Technology, time, and childhoods in narratives of pandemic parenting	8
Decolonising concepts of participation and protection in sensitive research with young people: local perspectives and decolonial strategies of Palestinian research advisors	8
Refusals for liberating childhood from the trap of schooling?	8
Identity formations in archived childhood memories of nature in Sweden	7
Kindergarten children’s views on friendship in a super-diverse context	7
Righting adults’ wrongs: ‘Generationing’ on the battlefield. A decolonial approach	7
Exploring the taken-for-granted relationship between children’s culture and the cultural heritage of terrorism	7
Redressing forced removals of Yenish children in Switzerland in the 20th century: An analysis through transitional justice lens	7
What might a decolonial perspective on child protection look like? Lessons from Kenya	6
‘This is our treehouse’: Investigating play through a practice architectures lens	6

Waiting for care: A reflection on (m)otherhood and siblinghood in crip time(s)	6
Do children have a right to do nothing? Exploring the place of passive leisure in Australian school age care	6
Histories of childhood and man: Implications for childhood studies	6
Play with a purpose: Intensive parenting, educational desires and shifting notions of childhood and learning in twenty-first century Singapore	6
Investing in activism: Learning from children’s actions to stop child marriage	5
Articulating encounters between children and plastics	5
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
Transcending national borders through educational practices: the Children’s Castle in Luxembourg	5
Child focused research: Disconnected and disembodied voices	4
Advancing global and transnational approaches to the study of out-of-home childcare	4
Philosophy and childhood studies	4
Climate strike or not? Intersectionality of age and culture encountered by young climate activists in Taiwan	4
The adult in the room: The push and pull of parental involvement in research with children	4
Child appropriations and irregular adoptions: Activism for the “right to identity,” justice, and reparation in Argentina and Chile	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
Closing New Loopholes: Protecting Children in Uganda’s International Adoption Practices	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
Raising children: Discussing and practicing modern/colonial family education in Colombia	4