OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Youth Studies is 6. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Subculture in the news: a longitudinal, semantic network analysis of punk media representation	88
At the ‘risky’ end of things: labelling, self-concept and the role of supportive relationships in young lives	87
Falling between the cracks – the experiences of young parents on Universal Credit	55
Sages of the street: violence management and neighborhood conflict among crime- and violence-exposed young males in southwest Houston	48
Trapped in the predicament of lacking recognition: Chinese youths’ experiences of hikikomori	46
Work, employment and the material conditions of young people in developed economies: a Marxist political economy of youth perspective	33
Continuing existence: viability and indigenous youth action in Himachal Pradesh, India	33
‘Nothing happens here, but that’s ok’: reflexivity, immobility and staying among young people in marginalised rural locations	33
Understanding the public participation of young people in border regions of mainland Portugal: youth as local development agent	25
Everyday resistance: young people's agency and the politics of peacebuilding amid armed conflict and systemic oppression	23
Vintage cameras: young people's nostalgic practices on social media and the pursuit of identity in contemporary China	22
Mobilised yet unaffiliated: Italian youth and the uneven return to political participation	18
Problematising engagement with technologies in transitions of young people identified as ‘Not in Education, Employment or Training’ (NEET) in Scotland	18
‘Morphing between the margins’: how youth make a living across multiple spaces in South Africa and beyond	17
Opportunities and limits: exploring young people’s views of staff care in residential alcohol and other drug services	17
Addressing youths’ digital agency with internet technologies: discourses and practices that produce inequalities	17
Growing up, ill: the challenges of youth for young people living with chronic illness	16
Girl Culture, Unspectacular Resistance and Social Media – A Study of How Adolescent Girls Undo Emphasized Femininity through Shitposting	15
Young people’s agency in Zimbabwe’s precarious informal sector	15
Tramadol consumption as edgework: intersections of pleasures and risks in the accounts of Nigerian youths	14
The impact of pandemic-related loss of work on young adults’ plans	14
Hyper(in)visibility of Blackness in spaces of whiteness: representations of race, gender and mental distress in the imageries of youth mental health services	13
Infrastructures of support: Australian young people’s perspectives on caring during the pandemic and future disability and care policy reform	13
Rewiring remote urban futures? Youth well-being in northern industry towns	13
Does cohort size matter? Assessing the effect of youth cohort size and peer influence on young people’s electoral participation	12

Inequalities in the making: the role of young people’s relational resources through the COVID-19 lockdown	12
Intersectional action in youth activism in the UK: an exploration of data across different social media platforms	12
Feeling close, disclosing feelings – family practices and practices of intimacy in youth–parent relations across three generations in Norway	12
Normalising sex and resisting shame: young Aboriginal women’s views on sex and relationships in an urban setting in Australia	12
#Relationshipgoals: fantasies of the good life in young people’s digitally-networked peer cultures	12
“A game show at the end of the world” The currency of youth in UN climate summitry	11
Framing Covid-19 through memes: a way for young people to shape the narrative in Austria	11
‘It’s like a hug’: examining the role of music-making for the well-being of youth during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Influences on gambling during youth: comparisons between at-risk/problem, non-problem and non-gambling adolescents in Australia	11
Youth and insecurity from an intersectional perspective: the case of Catalonia	11
‘I hate having my mental health’ – Making sense of mental health through coproduction and visual methods with young people with complex needs	11
‘After god, we give strength to each other’: young people’s experiences of coping in the context of unaccompanied forced migration	11
Using body mapping to explore gender with adolescents in Uttar Pradesh	11
There are no gays in the village: youth perspectives of LGBTQIA+ people in Java, Indonesia	10
Simply the best? Bridging perfectionism in psychology and girlhood studies	10
Demographic predictors of experiences of homelessness among lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, gender-diverse and queer-identifying (LGBTIQ) young people in Australia	10
Embodying debt: youth, consumer credit and its impacts for wellbeing	10
Small live music spaces as ‘liminal scenes': exploring self-adjustment and structures of feeling of Chinese youth in an accelerated society	10
Are images of seized knives an effective crime deterrent? A comparative thematic analysis of young people’s views within the Scottish context	10
A multi-stakeholder analysis of the risks to early school leaving: comparing young peoples’ and educators’ perspectives on five categories of risk	10
Supportive geographic communities protect the mental health of LGBTQ+ youth: evidence from linked Australian data	10
‘Pro-moral order’ activism: a study of diversity within youth communities of struggle in St Petersburg	10
Evaluating youth empowerment in neighbourhood settings: applying the capabilities 3C model to evidence and extend the social justice outcomes of youth work in Scotland	10
BeyondAngry White Men: a progressive sociological imagination as an alternative to aggrieved entitlement	9
‘Choosing the lesser of evils’: cultural narrative and career decision-making in post-Soviet Russia	9
Multiple jobholding and non-standard employment among young workers: a comparative analysis of EU-28 member states	9
Correction	9
Teenagers as curators: digitally mediated curation of the self on Instagram	9
‘I have to start from where I’m capable:’ how low-income postsecondary students overcome financial and academic obstacles	9
‘Blind alley’ to ‘steppingstone’? Insecure transitions and policy responses in the downturns of the 1930s and post 2008 in the UK	9
From live-streaming to memes: an exploratory study of the Chinese abstract culture as a structure of feeling among Chinese youth	9
The journey towards staying: a qualitative study on return-home youths’ empowerment in China	9
Taking back control: a study on young people’s agency to overcome a violent neighbourhood context	9
‘Not really leaving home’ in Southern Europe: intermediate living situations in Catalan youth housing trajectories	8
Relational epistemic safety: what young people facing harm in their communities want and need from professionals tasked with helping them	8
From responsibilization to responsibility: justifications of everyday ecological practices of Moscow youth and worth of proactivity	8
About them, without them? figures of youth in Australian policy 2014–2021	8
Pinball transitions: exploring the school-to-work transitions of ‘the missing middle’	8
‘Stability is a foggy concept’: work stability from the perspective of young people with mobility experiences	8
Youth reflections on ethics in research and practice: a case study of youth born of genocidal rape in Rwanda	8
Collective and material embeddedness: a critique of subcultural studies and a new perspective	8
Conceptualising transitions from higher education to employment: navigating liminal spaces	8
Lost in transition? Young graduates’ employment after internships in public and private organisations	8
Young carers in Ghana: caring activities, ways into care and the impacts of caregiving	7
#GenZ on TikTok: the collective online self-Portrait of the social media generation	7
Figurations of youth in regional Australia: conceptualising the ‘young person’ as spatially figured	7
Rules of disengagement: a qualitative study of young people’s relationship breakups	7
Engaging in politics through youth transitions	7
The memorable nature experiences of youth: a phenomenological approach to visualized and written experiences	7
‘The ability to change stuff up': volunteering as a young person within established organisations	7

The role of youth-led activist organisations for contemporary climate activism: the case of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition	6
Identifying the loneliest intersectional groups among young people in England: results from Active Lives Surveys (2022–2023)	6
Sexual division of labor, unemployment, and drug use in Buenos Aires underprivileged youths	6
Is part-time work a demotivating factor for applying to high-status UK universities?	6
‘We never get a space to just have a good time together’: indigenous LGBTIQSB+ young people carving out alternative viable lives	6
Assemblages of well-being and belonging in young adults’ life-historical narrations: experiences from education and the labour market	6
The obligations and opportunities of ‘friendship as method’ in youth mentoring research: investigating the intersections with youth work epistemologies	6
Media representations of young people during pandemic times in Turkey	6
‘Basically, my only dream is to be a part of society’ – young adults’ negotiations for citizenship in the institutional system	6
Dynamics of belonging amid geographical immobility: a longitudinal analysis of youth trajectories in rural Australia	6
Correction	6
Historical reflection as a source of inspiration for youth resistance in illiberal regimes – a qualitative study of the FreeSZFE movement in Hungary	6
NEET youth in central and eastern European countries: a panel model approach	6
Political socialisation narratives of young activists. Contexts, settings, and actors.	6