OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Childrens Geographies 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Interface childhood: emoji mapping as a method of gaining the perspective of Belfast children on their local urban environment	31
The war within: emotional experiences of children in Norwegian child protection services	29
The Forgotten Child : poetry as a vehicle for exploration in children’s geographies	28
Correction	26
Attuning to processes of affective sociomaterialisation: exploring subjectivity and identity in outdoor early childhood provision in Scotland, UK	24
Responsibility at a distance: parents’ accounts of their children’s unaccompanied travelling	20
PARqueologia Migrante: Latinas engaging in Virtual Youth Participatory Action Research	19
Fare-free public transport supporting children’s independence and ease of using public transport	16
To do or not to do: practical and ethical concerns in online research with children and young people during crises	16
Growing up in the ‘Ghetto’: children's ambiguous attachment in racialised communities in Denmark	14
Imagining an ecological right to the city in Toronto through drama-based research	14
‘I never do the workbooks’: comparing the affordances of schools and homes as learning environments during COVID-19 for adolescent girls in Aglomerado da Serra, Brazil	14
Protecting children's rights from climate change: analysing the CRC's general comment through global south perspectives	14
Kid power, inequalities and intergenerational relations Kid power, inequalities and intergenerational relations , by Clara Rübner Jørgensen and Michael Wyness, UK, Londo	13
Pooh-poohing school toilet policies: (more than) leaky bodies as resistance for school children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)	13
Lived Democracy in Education: Young Citizens’ Democratic Lives in Kindergarten, School and Higher Education Lived Democracy in Education: Young Citizens’ Democratic Lives in Kindergarte	13
Editorial statement on violence against children and a call for a ceasefire in Gaza	12
The child in death and the death of a child: notions of childhood on children’s gravestones	12
Refugee and asylum-seeker children’s experiences: results of a meta ethnography	11
Democratic citizenship education in a Canadian youth city council: the case of the Commission Jeunesse Gatineau (CJG)	11
‘There is a lot of traffic at the school gate in the morning which makes me nervous’: exploring children’s current and desired school commutes	11
Tiny human geographies: babies and toddlers as non-representational and barely human life?	11
Stories of shimmer and pollution: understanding child-environment aesthetic encounters in urban wilds	10
‘If I tell them that I live near the neighborhood, they’re like, oh are you poor?’ Differences in young people’s reactions to territorial stigma in the Helsinki metropolitan area, Finland	10
Mobility and fixity: factors of rural hometown attachment among migrant youths in the pearl river delta region of China	10

Growing up in place: two middle-class London girlhoods in the 1920s and late 1940s/1950s	10
Our culturally maladaptive transport discourses are continuing to fail our children	10
‘This place does not feel safe’: safe and unsafe spaces in Swedish school-age educare	9
Multi-dimensional lens to article 12 of the UNCRC: a model to enhance children’s participation	9
Patterns, evolution and determinants of child trafficking in Henan Province, China	9
Children’s perceptions of safety in their school path: the case of the Basque Country	9
Category construction and knowledge production in childhood studies: rethinking ‘left-behind children’ through the case of ‘liushou children’ in China	9
Knowledge and perception of Spanish school children of climate change	9
Towards kinship literacies: attending to place relations in a play-based library program	8
‘There’s not a lot of places for them to go’: rural and remote family perspectives on children’s independent mobility	8
The Schoolyard I’d Like : an ideas competition for Australian school children ages 12 to 17	8
Designing inclusive playgrounds in Switzerland: why is it so complex?	8
Storying the inclusive playground experiences of families of disabled and non-disabled children	8
‘They’ll be the ones that’s looking after it’ – unravelling institutional factors that shape children’s participation in urban planning for informal settlements	8
Not an agenda for idiosyncratic creative collaborations: sharing stories about trees, childhoods, council estates, roots, blackbirds, textures, up/unrootedness, families, anxieties, darkness, tears, p	8
Mining-nostalgias: youth speculative fictions about place and the future	7
Diagnosing communities’ childcare friendliness: case studies of two South Korean cities	7
Malnutrition as more-than-food: understanding failings in the broader infrastructures of nurture	7
The indeterminacy of atmospheres with/in youth geographies: desire, destruction, and detachment	7
Young people and the biocultural politics of voice in the anthropocene	7
Anchors and thresholds in the formation of a transnational sense of belonging of migrant children in Poland	7
Crossed by the border: children’s lived experiences with flooding in an urbanized transborder watershed	7
Children’s rights to the city: growth and decline in Aotearoa-New Zealand	7
Child-Friendly Cities and Communities: opportunities and challenges	7
Does children’s independent mobility matter? Insights into escorting practices in a developing country	7
Children’s tourism memory: an iconological analysis of drawings	6
Toddlers’ engagements with preschool playgrounds: ethnographic insights from Sweden	6
‘The school of our dreams’: engaging with children’s experiences and hopes at a remote school in India	6
The desire to hold one's vessel in place; an ethnography of children anchoring up in a world of digitalized dependencies	6
Navigating dis/ableist school playgrounds and toilets with geographic maturity: stories of young people with dwarfism from their secondary education	6
Identifying clientelism in orphanages: a conceptual model	6
The influence of the physical environment on social behavior, school climate, and bullying in schools	6
(Un-)Protocoling post-qualitative childhood research: a novice researcher	5
Voices in a pandemic: using deep mapping to explore children’s sense of place during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK	5
Modelling geographic access and school catchment areas across public primary schools to support subnational planning in Kenya	5
‘We discovered places we never used before’. Home and parenting geographies during the 2020 lockdowns in Italy and Greece	5
Socialising in parks: a systematic scoping review to understand how children use parks for social engagement	5
Student storytelling: critical reflections on gender and intergenerational practice at the National Centre for Children’s Books	5
"Out and about": relationships between children's independent mobility and mental health in a national longitudinal study	5
The (unaccompanied) minor as mobility: the tactics of young African migrants in Italy to contest spatio-temporal control	5
Syrian young people in Jordan and the question of return	5
Walking collaboratories: experimentations with climate and waste pedagogies	5
Youth arts pedagogy for climate justice: radical relationality and interspecies poiesis in a yet-to-be-known world	5