Journal of Youth Studies

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Youth Studies is 16. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Sages of the street: violence management and neighborhood conflict among crime- and violence-exposed young males in southwest Houston76
Subculture in the news: a longitudinal, semantic network analysis of punk media representation74
At the ‘risky’ end of things: labelling, self-concept and the role of supportive relationships in young lives43
Falling between the cracks – the experiences of young parents on Universal Credit42
Trapped in the predicament of lacking recognition: Chinese youths’ experiences of hikikomori40
Work, employment and the material conditions of young people in developed economies: a Marxist political economy of youth perspective30
Continuing existence: viability and indigenous youth action in Himachal Pradesh, India30
‘Nothing happens here, but that’s ok’: reflexivity, immobility and staying among young people in marginalised rural locations28
Opportunities and limits: exploring young people’s views of staff care in residential alcohol and other drug services26
Problematising engagement with technologies in transitions of young people identified as ‘Not in Education, Employment or Training’ (NEET) in Scotland22
Understanding the public participation of young people in border regions of mainland Portugal: youth as local development agent21
Vintage cameras: young people's nostalgic practices on social media and the pursuit of identity in contemporary China19
Mobilised yet unaffiliated: Italian youth and the uneven return to political participation18
‘Morphing between the margins’: how youth make a living across multiple spaces in South Africa and beyond17
Hyper(in)visibility of Blackness in spaces of whiteness: representations of race, gender and mental distress in the imageries of youth mental health services16
Addressing youths’ digital agency with internet technologies: discourses and practices that produce inequalities16
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