OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Children & Society is 3. 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
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Mothering, education and culture: Russian, Palestinian and Jewish middle‐class mothers in Israeli Society By DeborahGoldenLaurenErdreichSvetaRobermanLondon: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. ISBN 978‐1‐137‐53	23
Towards a model for analysing adolescents' reflexivity: Reflectiveness, criticality and boundedness	22
Education and the social mobility conundrum: An examination of the ‘psychosocial and academic trust alienation theory’ in the context of disadvantaged students in the UK secondary education	19
Crafting futures with hope: Young climate activists’ imaginaries in an age of crisis and uncertainty	19
Records of personal assistance applications reveal young carers: Viewed from the rights of the child	17
Racism suitable for children? Intersections between child innocence and white innocence	16
Young people's perspectives on assisted dying and its potential inclusion of minors	15
‘Each child must be assigned a key person’: Context and interpretation of a statutory requirement in English Early Childhood Education and Care settings	15
Paths of disclosure – The process of sharing experiences of child sexual abuse	15
Free school meals for all poor children in Europe: An important and affordable target?	14
Weaving Smartphones Into Mother–Infant Interaction: Digital Disruptions or Participatory Possibilities?	14
The legal, policy, institutional and programmatic context for protecting children against online sexual exploitation in Tunisia	14
Professional love and diversity in foster care	13
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Children and young people's perspectives on and experiences of COVID‐19 in global contexts	12
Baby steps to a child‐to‐child network: A path to empower children for exercising their participation rights	12
Becoming good ancestors: A decolonial, childist approach to global intergenerational sustainability	12
The sleeping voices: Evaluating parenting ‘self‐help’ books, narratives of rule, routine and ritual	11
Maternal perceptions of infant's body weight and childhood obesity in South Africa: A qualitative study in Soweto	11
Children's perspectives on vegetable consumption and gardening: Outcomes from a qualitative study in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	11
‘Why blame the girls’?: Contextual factors enabling juvenile prostitution in a Ghanaian metropolis	11
‘The Pandemic Affected My Life in a Negative Way’: The Experiences of Estonian Children in Child Protective Services During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic	10
The impact ofCOVID‐19 lockdown on children's and adolescents' mental health in Greece	10
‘I Want to Learn and Speak Hoche, Rather I Am Becoming Han’: Amplifying Minoritized Indigenous Children's Voices Through a Multilingual Curriculum in an Indigenous School	10

Towards more active parenting: Trends in parental mediation of children’s internet use in European countries	10
Still on the same page: A gender comparison of the top 100 picture books from the UK and China published 2011–2020	10
Criminal responsibility of older children: The failings of doli incapax in Australia	9
Responding to child and adolescent‐to‐parent violence and abuse from a distance: Remote delivery of interventions during Covid‐19	9
“Others' children are expendable.” Comparing childcare sector with health and long‐term sectors in Taiwan	9
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What can I do for my community? Contributing to the promotion of civic engagement through participatory methodologies: The case of young people from border regions of mainland Portugal	9
“I always think about tomorrow what I'll eat” an exploration of the experiences of adolescents in poor urban contexts in Accra, Ghana	9
The ambiguities of coercion: Mapping adolescents' experiences of coercion in institutional everyday life	9
Being disliked and bullied: A case revealing interplay between peer status and bullying	8
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Disruptions, adjustments and hopes: The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on child well‐being in five Majority World Countries	8
Supporting living together: Group work on animal rights for children	8
The transformative potential of LGBTQ+ Children's picture books By JenniferMiller. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2022, ISBN 9781496840004. 270 pp., US$25 (pb)	8
Social class as a challenge in educating for diversity—The case of a Finnish preschool	8
Questioning children's activism: What is new or old in theory and practice?	8
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Toxic stress in children and youth: Exploring the role of community‐based programming to support health and well‐being in the United States	7
Ending racial disproportionality in child welfare: A systematic review	7
The non‐protesting children in the 2018 Parkland school shooting protests and their freedom not to express views in child participation spaces	7
Reimaging activism to save the planet: Using transdisciplinary and participatory methodologies to support collective youth action	7
Re‐thinking youth work as initial mental health support for young people	7
Seeing disability in children's made for television programmes: An Australian case study	7
The gift of language: An anthropological approach to child language brokering in Barcelona	7
Artificial intelligence for children: UNICEF's policy guidance and beyond	6
Towards inclusive urban environments for infants and toddlers: Assessing four urban neighbourhoods in Istanbul with mothers	6
‘..It takes a lot of brain space’: Understanding young carers’ lives in England and the implications for policy and practice to reduce inappropriate and excessive care work	6
Bullying in Spanish high schools: Intersection of gender and immigrant background	6
The multiple roles of media use within the family system during lockdown: A thematic analysis of parental reports from the UK	6
Feminist reflections on childhood: A history and call to action By Penny A.Weiss. Temple University Press, 2021. ISBN 9781439918685, 293 pp.	6
Rethinking concepts of special educational needs and disability in the primary classroom	6
The assessment of cliques in bound child and adolescent groups: A systematic scoping review	6
The Impact of Family Bonding Activity Type and Time on Young Children's Social–Emotional Development	6
Agency in everyday life: An ethnography of the moral experiences of children and youth	6
Children as co‐researchers in pandemic times: Power and participation in the use of digital dialogues with children during the COVID‐19 lockdown	6
Coming of age in a pandemic era: The interdependence of life spheres through the lens of social integration of care leavers in Quebec during the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
Co‐Designing a Children's Transition Charter for the Transition to School: Opening Participatory Spaces to Hear Children's Voices	6
Poverty for lunch: A case study of agency and food scarcity in mealtimes in disadvantaged ECE	6
Children and Violence: Agency, Experience and Representation in and Beyond Armed Conflict. By Christelle MolimaBameka, Jastine C.Barrett, MohamedKamara, KarlHanson, and Mark A.Drumbl (eds.), Abingdon,	6
The lived realities of left‐behind children in Mainland China: Life and values education in the home and at school	6
A rapid review of children and young people's views of poverty and welfare in the context of Universal Credit	6
‘How Does Living in Institution Impact Young Lives?’—Insights From Young People in Ci'aiyuan	5
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‘They are always in the top of our mind’: Designated Teachers' views on supporting care experienced children in England	5
Exploring young people's experiences of race, gender and socioeconomic status in relation to everyday challenges: A focus group study	5
Gendering innocence: An empirical inquiry into the lived experience of gender incongruence in childhood	5
Considering the moral implications of psychiatric diagnosis for children	5
Machinic assemblages—The role of school policies in producing children's sense of agency	5
Healthy masculinity construction: The influence of race, faith and athletics	5
The girl in the text By AnnSmith (ed), New York: Berghahn Books, 2019, 9781789203233; 250 pp; (hb)	5

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An Inclusive Approach to Gardening in Children's Settings: An Observational Study	5
“People as normal as possible”. Analysis of the construction of subjects in materials for the prevention of gender violence among teenagers in Spain	5
Child identity‐based activism in Brazil: Wearing Afro‐style hair to contest discrimination, racism and oppression	5
Children and young people's access to food, education, play and leisure in times of crisis: An international, integrative review of policy responses, impacts and adaptations during the COVID	5
Between advocacy and commodification on Instagram: A case study of sharenting a child with disabilities	5
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Children's Digital Rights to Accessible and Reliable Public Sector Communication	5
Disputing discipline: Child protection, punishment and piety in Zanzibar schools. By FranziskaFay, Rutgers University Press, 2021. US$ 38.95, US$ 150 (cloth). ISBN 9781978821736 (paperback); 978197882	5
Youth environmental citizenship formation: Struggled political subjectivities and everyday experiences of young people in Turkey	5
Youth participation: Adultism, human rights and professional youth work	5
The ban on corporal punishment in a senior high school in Ghana: The perspicacity of teachers at Northern School of Business	5
Child sexual abuse in Ghana: A multi‐methods exploratory study	4
A tale of two Youth Expert Groups (YEGs): Learnings from youth activism in research in India and Brazil	4
Tracing emotional experiences and the well‐being during the pandemic through drawings by Spanish children	4
Cultural heterogeneity, family dysfunction and inadequate school support: Ethnic disparities in bullying victimization within China's multiethnic regions	4
Free time, gender and the pandemic: An exploration of children's daily routines in the times of COVID‐19 in Chile	4
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Youth participation processes in longitudinal out of home care research	4
Youth provisioning in low‐income families: Reconsidering theories of poor attachment	4
‘Am I supposed to be in a prison or a mental hospital?’ The nature and purpose of secure children's homes	4
Breaking the silence on special needs children in foster care: The diversity of children in foster care, carers and processes	4
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A democratic learning process: When young children under 12 years of age in child welfare services express their wishes for participation	4
Children's Homes: Building or Threatening the Resilience and Rights of Black Orphans and Vulnerable Children	4
Research handbook on child soldiersByMark A.DrumblJastine C.Barrett (Eds.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2019. ISBN 9781789903324, 542 pp., £45 (pb)	4
A new materialist (re)configuring of sexuality, age and the discourse of ‘childhood innocence’	4
Doing Being Orten: Managing Commonplace Super‐Diversity in Swedish School‐Age Educare	4
Girls engaging in activism to end child marriage in Sierra Leone: Negotiating power, interacting with others and redefining their own lives	4
Assessing Child Maltreatment and Its Relationships With Personality, Resilience and Attachment in Adulthood	4
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No Hiding Places—A Review of Representations of Children's Right to Play in Schoolyards Across Wider Irish Educational Policies and Guidelines	4
Young children's perceptions and experiences of school readiness during the transition from preschool to primary school in China	4
Children's lives in an era of school closures: Exploring the implications of COVID‐19 for child labour in Ghana	4
Educating tomorrow: Learning for the post‐pandemic world By ChrisBrownRuthLuzmoreBingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Ltd, 2021. ISBN 978‐1‐80043‐663‐3; 200 pages; £16.99 (pb)	4
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Children's dimensions of poverty: Qualitative studies in urban China	4
Attune, animate and amplify: Creating youth voice assemblages in pARTicipatory sexuality education research	4
‘Am I that bad?’: Middle‐class moralism and weight stigma towards parents of children with higher weight	3
Emotions and involvement of foster carers preparing to welcome children arriving from war zones	3
‘What if someone had told me that as a kid?’: Professionals' perspectives on their personal experiences of family‐related childhood adversity and their supportive practice	3
Play across childhood: International perspectives on diverse contexts of play By PeteKing, ShellyNewstead (Ed.): Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. pp. 244. £109.99. Hardcover ISBN: 978‐3‐030‐72 460	3
Children as ‘becomings’—Mapping parental adultcentrism in Hungary	3
Mixed methods Participatory Action Research to inform service design based on the Capabilities Approach, in the North of England	3
“My belly tickles! And my vulva too!”: Children's conversations about pleasure in Catalonia (Spain)	3
Evaluation of route choice for walking commutes to school and street space optimization in old urban areas of China based on a child‐friendly orientation: The case of the Wuyi Park area in Zhengzhou	3
Teens and Brexit in Northern Ireland: Merging rights with responsibilities	3
A Policy‐Driven Scoping Review of the Regulatory and Operational Framework Addressing Obesity in Children in Need in Greece	3
Remembrance and ritual in English schools	3
Young adult migrants' social experiences in Sweden: ‘Melting pot’ and ‘salad bowl’ perspectives on social integration	3
Autism and education—The role of Europeanisation in South‐Eastern Europe: Policy mapping in Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia	3
China's left‐behind children: Caretaking, parenting, and struggles By XiaojinChen, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press . 2024. pp. 218 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781978837157	3
Ethics committees and shaping of children's participation in qualitative educational research in Chile	3
How parenting pre‐teens compares to other child stages: Identifying opportunities to enhance adolescent mental health and wellbeing	3
Preschool children's dispositions of collaboration: A Chinese study	3
Mapping review of interventions to reduce the use of restrictive practices in children and young people's institutional settings: The CONTRAST study	3
‘She Tells Me I Am a Strong Person’: Romanian and Polish Young Migrants' Talk About Significant Adults in the School Settings in Sweden	3
Transracial adoption practice in South Africa: The Western Cape as a case study	3
Editorial Introduction: Rethinking Childhoods and South‐South Migration	3
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Envisioning action‐oriented and justice‐driven climate change education: Insights from youth climate justice activists	3
Homeless youth‐led activism and direct action: Lessons from a participatory research project in Tio'tia:ke/Montréal	3
Finding methods for the inclusion of all children: Advancing participatory research with children with disabilities	3
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Law's drawing line: Legal discourse of consent in child sexual abuse cases in Japan	3
Embodying children’s rights in Italy and Spain: Unmasking some elements of the cultural politics of childhood	3
‘I don't know what is autism, what is normal teenage behaviour, and what is naughtiness’: Conceptualising child and adolescent to parent violence in the context of neurodevelopmental difference	3
A comprehensive policy review of evidence‐based practices in autism policy across the United Kingdom's four nations	3
Students' Perspectives on Inclusive Education in Finland	3
Exploring possibilities for child participation in guideline development: The need for a fundamental reconsideration and reconfiguration of the system	3
Predictors of out‐group empathy among majority and minority children in a conflict‐affected society	3
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