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Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Youth Studies is 5. 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
Sages of the street: violence management and neighborhood conflict among crime- and violence-exposed young males in southwest Houston	67
Subculture in the news: a longitudinal, semantic network analysis of punk media representation	65
Opportunities and limits: exploring young people’s views of staff care in residential alcohol and other drug services	43
Addressing youths’ digital agency with internet technologies: discourses and practices that produce inequalities	42
At the ‘risky’ end of things: labelling, self-concept and the role of supportive relationships in young lives	39
Falling between the cracks – the experiences of young parents on Universal Credit	38
Trapped in the predicament of lacking recognition: Chinese youths’ experiences of hikikomori	34
Continuing existence: viability and indigenous youth action in Himachal Pradesh, India	25
‘Nothing happens here, but that’s ok’: reflexivity, immobility and staying among young people in marginalised rural locations	24
Problematising engagement with technologies in transitions of young people identified as ‘Not in Education, Employment or Training’ (NEET) in Scotland	24
Work, employment and the material conditions of young people in developed economies: a Marxist political economy of youth perspective	24
Understanding the public participation of young people in border regions of mainland Portugal: youth as local development agent	23
‘Morphing between the margins’: how youth make a living across multiple spaces in South Africa and beyond	23
Vintage cameras: young people's nostalgic practices on social media and the pursuit of identity in contemporary China	21
Hyper(in)visibility of Blackness in spaces of whiteness: representations of race, gender and mental distress in the imageries of youth mental health services	21
Mobilised yet unaffiliated: Italian youth and the uneven return to political participation	21
Tramadol consumption as edgework: intersections of pleasures and risks in the accounts of Nigerian youths	19
#Relationshipgoals: fantasies of the good life in young people’s digitally-networked peer cultures	18
Rewiring remote urban futures? Youth well-being in northern industry towns	18
Pragmatic, pious and pissed off: young Muslim girls managing conflicting sexual norms and social control	16
The impact of pandemic-related loss of work on young adults’ plans	15
Infrastructures of support: Australian young people’s perspectives on caring during the pandemic and future disability and care policy reform	15
“A game show at the end of the world” The currency of youth in UN climate summitry	13
Girl Culture, Unspectacular Resistance and Social Media – A Study of How Adolescent Girls Undo Emphasized Femininity through Shitposting	13
Does cohort size matter? Assessing the effect of youth cohort size and peer influence on young people’s electoral participation	13

Young people’s agency in Zimbabwe’s precarious informal sector	13
Inequalities in the making: the role of young people’s relational resources through the COVID-19 lockdown	12
Feeling close, disclosing feelings – family practices and practices of intimacy in youth–parent relations across three generations in Norway	12
‘I hate having my mental health’ – Making sense of mental health through coproduction and visual methods with young people with complex needs	11
Normalising sex and resisting shame: young Aboriginal women’s views on sex and relationships in an urban setting in Australia	11
‘After god, we give strength to each other’: young people’s experiences of coping in the context of unaccompanied forced migration	11
‘It’s like a hug’: examining the role of music-making for the well-being of youth during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Using body mapping to explore gender with adolescents in Uttar Pradesh	10
Simply the best? Bridging perfectionism in psychology and girlhood studies	10
Framing Covid-19 through memes: a way for young people to shape the narrative in Austria	10
There are no gays in the village: youth perspectives of LGBTQIA+ people in Java, Indonesia	10
Demographic predictors of experiences of homelessness among lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, gender-diverse and queer-identifying (LGBTIQ) young people in Australia	9
‘Blind alley’ to ‘steppingstone’? Insecure transitions and policy responses in the downturns of the 1930s and post 2008 in the UK	9
Are images of seized knives an effective crime deterrent? A comparative thematic analysis of young people’s views within the Scottish context	9
Embodying debt: youth, consumer credit and its impacts for wellbeing	9
Influences on gambling during youth: comparisons between at-risk/problem, non-problem and non-gambling adolescents in Australia	9
Youth and insecurity from an intersectional perspective: the case of Catalonia	9
‘Choosing the lesser of evils’: cultural narrative and career decision-making in post-Soviet Russia	9
Teenagers as curators: digitally mediated curation of the self on Instagram	8
Evaluating youth empowerment in neighbourhood settings: applying the capabilities 3C model to evidence and extend the social justice outcomes of youth work in Scotland	8
BeyondAngry White Men: a progressive sociological imagination as an alternative to aggrieved entitlement	8
‘I have to start from where I’m capable:’ how low-income postsecondary students overcome financial and academic obstacles	8
‘Pro-moral order’ activism: a study of diversity within youth communities of struggle in St Petersburg	8
Correction	8
A multi-stakeholder analysis of the risks to early school leaving: comparing young peoples’ and educators’ perspectives on five categories of risk	8
Taking back control: a study on young people’s agency to overcome a violent neighbourhood context	8
Conceptualising transitions from higher education to employment: navigating liminal spaces	8
In-between child’s play and teenage pop culture: tweens, TikTok & privacy	8
‘Stability is a foggy concept’: work stability from the perspective of young people with mobility experiences	7
Youth reflections on ethics in research and practice: a case study of youth born of genocidal rape in Rwanda	7
Young carers in Ghana: caring activities, ways into care and the impacts of caregiving	7
Multiple jobholding and non-standard employment among young workers: a comparative analysis of EU-28 member states	7
‘Not really leaving home’ in Southern Europe: intermediate living situations in Catalan youth housing trajectories	7
Each person in their place: the ‘praxe’ as a ritual of integration, stratification and differentiation	7
Collective and material embeddedness: a critique of subcultural studies and a new perspective	7
Pinball transitions: exploring the school-to-work transitions of ‘the missing middle’	7
Relational epistemic safety: what young people facing harm in their communities want and need from professionals tasked with helping them	7
Lost in transition? Young graduates’ employment after internships in public and private organisations	7
About them, without them? figures of youth in Australian policy 2014–2021	6
NEET youth in central and eastern European countries: a panel model approach	6
‘The ability to change stuff up': volunteering as a young person within established organisations	6
Dynamics of belonging amid geographical immobility: a longitudinal analysis of youth trajectories in rural Australia	6
The memorable nature experiences of youth: a phenomenological approach to visualized and written experiences	6
Figurations of youth in regional Australia: conceptualising the ‘young person’ as spatially figured	6
Political socialisation narratives of young activists. Contexts, settings, and actors.	6
‘We never get a space to just have a good time together’: indigenous LGBTIQSB+ young people carving out alternative viable lives	6
From responsibilization to responsibility: justifications of everyday ecological practices of Moscow youth and worth of proactivity	6
#GenZ on TikTok: the collective online self-Portrait of the social media generation	6
Media representations of young people during pandemic times in Turkey	6
Is part-time work a demotivating factor for applying to high-status UK universities?	6

Engaging in politics through youth transitions	6
Assemblages of well-being and belonging in young adults’ life-historical narrations: experiences from education and the labour market	5
Correction	5
Mentoring young people involved in the justice system: unpacking the ‘black box’ of rapport and relationship-building	5
The social reproductive labour of university students with hostile Jobs	5
Educational homogamy, values, activities, and inequality: an intergenerational perspective	5
Sexual division of labor, unemployment, and drug use in Buenos Aires underprivileged youths	5
The role of youth-led activist organisations for contemporary climate activism: the case of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition	5
Rural Chinese youth on Kuaishou : performing gender, labor, and rurality	5
Historical reflection as a source of inspiration for youth resistance in illiberal regimes – a qualitative study of the FreeSZFE movement in Hungary	5
‘Basically, my only dream is to be a part of society’ – young adults’ negotiations for citizenship in the institutional system	5
Symbolic mobility capital to fight the social stigma of staying: how young adults re-imagine narratives of ‘leaving’ during higher education	5
Going against the grain? A longitudinal study of the material-discursive practices of staying among young adults in rural Finland	5
Feminists, popular feminists, and transfeminists: young Argentine activists define their own identities	5