OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Young is 0. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Being NEET in Youthspaces of the EU South: A Post-recession Regional Perspective	25
Young People’s Rights and Mental Health During a Pandemic: An Analysis of the Impact of Emergency Legislation in Scotland	23
Adolescence Mental Health Disorders and Precarious School-to- Work Trajectories: The Role of Family Background and Gender	19
From Zero to Hero. Belonging and Re-enrolment in Education Among Young People Outside School	12
Distinguishing Types of Sexual Assault Among Young People: A Latent Class Analysis Approach	11
The Jack-Roller and the Life History Method: Notes on the Chicago School’s Clifford Shaw and Howard Becker’s Humanistic Narrative of Young Male and Female Delinquents in Different Ages	10
The Expressed Worries of Ukrainian Adolescents: A Quantitative Analysis of Chat Conversations During Active War	9
‘Like the Oceans We Rise’: News Frames on Youth for Climate	9
‘Moving the Apocalypse a Little Further Away’: Young Italian Activists Between Future Crises and Everyday Utopias	8
Queering Gender Boundaries and Redoing Heteroamorous Desire: Youth Scenes As a Social Field for (Re-)Negotiating Gender Arrangements and Sexuality	8
When the Flirting Guest’s Age Is Crucial: Young People in the Hospitality Industry Reflect on Sexual Harassment	6
Southern School-to-Work Transition and the Determinants of Becoming Young NEET in China	6
Vietnamese LGBTQ Youth’s Transition to Adulthood: Expressions of Agency	5
What My Music Says About Me: Re-evaluating the ‘Badge’ Function of Music in the Context of Streaming	5
First Encounters: Young People’s Perceptions of Criminal Justice	5
Breaking the Silence of Abuse in Children’s Sports: Experiences and Effects of Emotional Abuse Towards Young Athletes in Sweden	5
Head-first into Upper Secondary Education: Finnish Young People Making Classed and Gendered Educational Choices	5
Place and Youth Political Action: How Place Shapes Political Action in Rural Sweden	5
Researching Young Masculinities During the Rise of ‘Misogyny Influencers’: Exploring Affective and Embodied Discomfort and Dilemmas of Feminist and Queer Researchers	4
Book review: D. Buckingham, Youth on Screen. Representing Young People in Film and Television	4
Two Theoretical Models of Subcultural Anger—Synthesizing Subcultural Theory with the Sociology of Emotions and Exploring Anger in Hip Hop	4
‘We Have Our Own Stories to Write, and We Will Write Them’: Defining Resilience with Aboriginal Young People	4
Construction of a Generation by Russian Youth in the Context of Radical Social Transformations	4
Young Adults with Intellectual Disability Not Participating in Employment, Education or Daily Activity: Social Relationships and Experiences of Belonging	4
Affective Dynamics and Young Women’s Sexual Subjectivity: The Case Study of the Israeli Practice of “Attacking”	4

‘It’s Hard Work Making Friends’: Transnational Mobility and Friendships Among Young European Migrants in Sweden	4
Participation Rights in Youth Sport: Voices of Young Swedish Equestrians	3
Legacy and Rupture: The Political Learning of Young Left-wing Basque Nationalists in the Post-ETA Period	3
European Youth Dialogue as a Governmental Technology: Construction of the Youth Voice	3
The Political Dimensions in Discourses of Youth Organizations Operating in Poland: Scope and Dynamics of Changes in the Context of the Russo-Ukrainian War	3
Book review: D. E. Agbiboa, They Eat our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria	3
Working Their Way to Young Adulthood: Labour Market Outcomes of Working in Adolescence	2
Seen and Heard: The Long-Term Impact of Arts Projects on Young People Living in Poverty	2
Narrowing ‘Bathtub Volunteerism’ in Singapore and Beyond Through High-quality Adolescent and Young Adult Volunteer Experiences	2
A Matter of Miscommunication: Young People’s Understandings of Rape, Sex and What Lies In-between	2
Gendered Peer Friendships and Romantic Relationships Among Youth with Cross-cultural Upbringings: Exploring Social Control	2
Victims of Circumstance or Uncooperative Immigrants?: Intersectional Constructions of Accountability in Finnish Online Discussions on ‘Street Gangs’	2
Young Citizens Facing the Future: Understanding Adolescents’ Civic Engagement in Relation to Their Macrosocial Worries, and Civic Knowledge	2
Stepping Stone or Trap? Contextualising Precarity as a Sector and Age Phenomenon in the Greek Labour Market	2
The Gendered Dynamics of Sexting as Boundary Work	1
The Halal Way of Clubbing: A Study of Second-Generation Muslim Youth’s Resistance and the Subculture It Has Generated	1
Political Trust in Early Adolescence and Its Association with Intended Political Participation: A Cross-sectional Study Situated in Flanders	1
‘Like in Every Other Facet of Life, I am Privileged to be a Man’: Political Subjectivities of Young Men Working in the Australian Health Care and Social Assistance Sector	1
‘Let Us Hold Hands’: Lived Practices of Intimacy Among Gay Youth in Urban India	1
Professional Position Positioned: The Interwoven Experience of Being a Young Adult and New at Work Analysed from a Relational Perspective of Age	1
Book Review: V. Cuzzocrea, B. G. Bello, & Y. Kazepov (eds.) (2020). Italian Youth in International Context: Belonging, Constraints and Opportunities	1
Negotiating Multiple Spatialities: Geographies of Youth Educational Subjectivity	1
The Pandemic and the Challenges for Young People of Living Well in the Anthropocene	1
First-Generation College Students’ Motives to Start University Education: An Investment in Self- Development, One’s Economic Prospects or to Become a Role Model?	1
On the Ethics of Getting the Word Out: Rural Girls Reflect on Ownership in Participatory Visual Research in Rural South Africa	1
Book review: Frances Howard, Global Perspectives on Youth Arts Programs: How and Why the Arts Can Make a Difference	1
Cultural Continuities and Skateboarding in Transition: In the Case of China’s Skateboarding Culture and Industry	1
‘Am I Too Straight for the Gay People, Am I Too Gay for the Straight People?’: A Qualitative Analysis of How Young Bisexual Women Navigate Self-presentation on Dating Apps	1
The Role of Religion in Young Muslims’ and Christians’ Self-presentation on Social Media	1
Desirable Leadership: A Qualitative Study of the Perspectives of Young Adults in the Swedish Retail Sector	1
Prefiguration, Resilience and Transitions to Adulthood: Russian Youth in Times of Uncertainty	1
Ethical Pitfalls in Research with Young People: How Can They Be Identified and Addressed?	1
‘If You Wanna Go Fast You Go Alone, If You Wanna Go Far You Go Together’: Emerging Political Subjectivities in the Intimate Lives of Young Men with Migratory Experience	1
On the Pathway to an Unforeseeable Future: An Actantial Analysis of Career Designs of Young People	1
Rights-based Youth Sport: An Overlooked Area of Importance for Youth Studies	1
Supporting Young Adults’ Life Choices: A Longitudinal Perspective on the Role of Welfare Effort Across Crises	1
Navigating Margins: Trust, Autonomy, Individualism and Institutional Dynamics in Youth Social Exclusion	1
How Much Collectivism Is There in Young Adults’ Collectivism? Vaccination Against COVID-19 in Serbia	0
Book review: M. Peltola and A. Phoenix, Nuancing Young Masculinities: Helsinki Boys’ Intersectional Relationship in New Times	0
Europe’s Future, Europe’s Resource? European Youth (Work) Policy Perspectives on Young People	0
From Globalism to Glocalism: Consumption Patterns of Rich Kids and Its Effects on Other Young People	0
The Good Disobedient Citizen? Students’ Perspectives on Good Citizenship in the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2016	0
Towards a Genealogy of Young People in Conflict with the Law in the Chilean Social Sciences, 1980–2010	0
Downturn Down Under: Mapping the Decline of Happiness Among Emerging Adults in Australia	0
Precarious Youthspaces of Work and Diverse Economies in the EU South: A Conceptualization Attempt	0
‘A Couple of These Videos Is All You Really Needed to Get Pumped to Skate’: Subcultural Media, Nostalgia and Re-Viewing 1990s Skate Media on YouTube	0
Tracing the Social Frames of Youth Suicide. A Theoretical Meta-analysis	0
The Role of Teens’ and Parental Intrinsic and Materialistic Goals in Teens’ Activities in Four Domains of Activism	0
Understanding Young People’s Use of Civic and Political Engagement as a Path to Employment in Algeria: A Functional Analysis	0
Contradictions in Young Black Men’s Attitudes and Practices: Philogyny Towards Their Mothers and Misogyny to Other Women on a Housing Estate	0

‘Democracy and Active Citizenship Are Not Just About the Elections’: Youth Civic and Political Participation During and Beyond Singapore’s Nine-day Pandemic Election (GE2020)	0
Ambiguous Encounters: Young Women’s Expectations and Experiences with Intoxicated Sexual Relations in Danish Nightlife	0
Book review: J. C. Lopez and B. Fisher-Yoshida, Peacebuilding in Colombia: From the Lens of Community and Policy	0
Reconciling Work and Skateboarding in Morocco: Exploring Young People’s Lifestyle Entrepreneurship Ventures	0
Incel Epistemology: On Marginality, Experience and Legitimization of Knowledge	0
Contrasting Experiences: Two Case Studies on Teenage Boys’ Perceptions of Unsolicited Dick Pics and Gender Dynamics at Two Schools	0
‘I Never Got Out of that Locker Room’, an Autoethnography on Sexual Abuse in Organized Sports	0
Social, Spatial and Material Conditions for Mattering: Newly Arrived Young Migrants’ Possibilities to Matter in Everyday Life in a Swedish School	0
Young Women’s Informal Leadership: Reflections on Taking Responsibility in Youth Participation	0
Skateboarding: From Urban Spaces to Subcultural Olympians	0
Be Real! Age Effects on the Interpretations of Political Participation	0
Editorial: Pleasures, practices and troubles—Young people’s gendered sexualities in the 21st century	0
Outsiders Looking in. The Re-enrolment Struggles of Early School Leavers in Norway	0
Pathways to Aesthetic Education in a World of Profitability	0
Book review: J. Patrick Williams (Ed.), Interpreting Subcultures: Approaching, Contextualizing, and Embodying Sense-making Practices in Alternative Cultures	0
Elements of Communication Competence in Encountering Traumatized Adolescents in Substitute Care	0
A Community of People Like Me. An Analysis of Members’ Perceptions of Their Engagement in Party Youth Wings	0
Young People and Subjective Employment Insecurity: Evidence from the Finnish Youth Barometer between 2009 and 2019	0
Structural and Cultural Othering: An Organizational Culture Perspective on Young People’s Participation in Decision-making in Sport Organizations	0
‘Women’s Problems Are Everyone’s Problem, but Men’s Problems Are Their Own’—Anti-feminist Meaning-making in Affective Discourses on Young Men’s Mental Health	0
‘I Think It’ll All Blow Over in the End’: How Young People Perceive the Impact of COVID-19 on Their Future Orientations	0
Feeling Out of Place and Creating Their Own Space: Young Queers of Colour in Sweden	0
The Weight of Emotions: Exploring How Young Activists Feel About Their Identity, Agency and Political Participation	0
The Impact of Within-family Housing Assistance on the Certainty of Young People’s (Housing) Aspirations in the Czech Republic	0
Too Complacent About Digitalization? What Can the Youth Field Do?	0
Exploring the Landscape of Children’s Rights in Sports: A Scoping Review of Research Topics and Approaches in Social Sciences	0
Consent? At the Start, You Do Not Even Think About It. Coercive Discourse in the Awakening of Affective–Sexual Relationships in Young Women	0
Recognizing Vulnerabilities of Young Masculinities in Youth Work: Three Perspectives on Masculine Vulnerability Linking Social Structures and Agency	0
Radically Ordinary Lives: Young Rural Stayers and the Ingredients of the Good Life in Finnish Lapland	0
De-Westernizing Punk: Chinese Punk Lyrics and the Translocal Politics of Resistance	0
Introduction to Special Issue. Distancing, Disease and Distress: The Young and COVID-19: Exploring Young People’s Experience of Inequalities and Their Resourcefulness During the Pandemic	0
Precarious Pro-school Positions: Boys and Schooling in a Stigmatized Urban Area	0
Everyday Violence and Crosscutting Conditions Shaping Social and Political Dimensions of Unsafety in Youth Activism	0
Between Return and Resistance: Rap as a Means of Access to Engagement and Empowerment Among French Hmong Youth	0
A Toxic Combination: Performance, Temporariness, and Struggling for Success in Early Working Life	0
School, Online Communities and Creative Workshops as Spaces for Non-normative Pre-teen Gendered and Sexual Cultures	0
Comparison of Scheduled Caste Youth Lifestyles and Those of Other Castes in Tamil Nadu: Youth Subculture and Identity	0
‘You Can’t Do Anything Right’: How Adolescents Experience and Navigate the Achievement Imperative on Social Media	0
Slow Time, School Time, and Strange Times: Opposing and Entangled Discourses on Temporality in Teenagers’ Everyday Lives During a Pandemic	0
Book review: Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right	0
Narrating Gender (Un)Fairness: Masculinity and Generational Comparisons Among Young South Korean Men	0
Shame, Anger and the Lived Experience of School Disengagement for Marginalised Students: A Recognition Theory Approach	0
EPA (aka A-Traktor) Girl Greasers in Sweden: Girlhood in Motion?	0
Friends from the Past, Friends for the Future: Exploring How Young Refugees’ Friendship Practices Change and Endure Through Life Transitions	0
Stepping Up—Leaning Back: Young Adults Constructing Financial Agency in the Verge of Financial Independence	0
Young Adults’ Perceptions of Intergenerational Solidarity and Conflict: The Renegotiation of Compliance with Restrictions During the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Parent–Adolescent Political Disagreement and Adolescent Political Development amid Duterte’s Presidency: A Positioning Analysis	0
Book review: V. Vasudevan, N. Gross, P. Nagarajan and K. Clonan-Roy (Eds.), Care-based Methodologies: Reimagining Qualitative Research with Youth in US Schools	0
Understanding the Impact of Sexual Youth Intimate Partner Violence: Unmasking the Social Consequences for Young Victims	0
‘I Just Don’t Drink’: Examining the Experiences of Young Adult Abstainers in Australia’s Changing Drinking Trends	0
Making and Knowing Digital Pictures: Young People Displaying Visual-digital Literacies	0
Understanding Young People not in Employment, Education or Training in Indonesia: Gendered Transition in the Changing Cultural Context	0
‘School is the Foundation of Everything’: Master- and Counter-narratives in Lower Secondary School Pupils’ Stories About the Importance of Schooling and Education	0
The Incel Subculture: Drifting In and Out	0