Journal of Children and Media

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Children and Media is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Representation of refugee characters and experiences in children’s animated television: Missed opportunities and hopes40
Youth in the crossfire: Polarization and fast-changing media environments26
Predictors of children’s and young people’s digital engagement in informational, communication, and entertainment activities: findings from ten European countries23
Going gray for gains: Exploring the role of monochrome displays in enhancing children’s well-being in India18
What do parents really know about their child’s online behaviour? Discrepancies between parents and their children in Israel17
Systematic review: Characteristics and outcomes of in-school digital media literacy interventions, 2010-202116
Audio description as a tool for supporting emotion processing in autistic children: Results of an eye-tracking study on randomised Polish participants aged 5–1216
Toddlers and the Telly: A latent profile analysis of children’s television time and content and behavioral outcomes one year later in the U.S.15
The next time is now! How children and media professionals must respond to Russia’s war in Ukraine14
Parental digital mediation: Restriction and enablement during the COVID-19 lockdown among low SES parents in Lima, Peru14
Is this a return to normal? Longitudinal trajectories of child screen and problematic media use across the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States13
The road to addiction (might be) paved with good intentions: Motives for social media use and psychological distress among early adolescents13
“In your face!”: Do family communication patterns influence U.S. tween’s imitation of disrespectful talk and behavior found in their favorite television shows?12
Integrating values into the social learning process: The occupational world in children’s television shows in Israel12
Characters’ realism, not familiarity, improved Chinese children’s learning from video11
Revealing the interplay between digital media use and affective well-being across developmental stages: Results of an experience sampling study with Austrian adolescents10
A bifactor model of U.S. parents’ attitudes regarding mediation for the digital age9
Effect of co-engagement with a conversational agent on children’s video story comprehension and learning transfer: The role of children’s utterances8
Evolution or revolution? Reflecting on what JOCAM at 18 reveals about our field8
Let’s get critical! The effects of facilitated peer discussions on Dutch adolescents’ perceptions of risk behavior in entertainment media and real life8
Digital ethics of care and digital citizenship in UK primary schools: Children as interviewers8
Socioeconomic disparities in Swiss children’s use of digital technology: A typological approach based on parental reports7
Deconstructing gender and media: A mixed methods study with U.S. early adolescents7
When screens are everywhere you look: Contemporary media ecologies in the United States7
Under the influence of (alcohol)influencers? A qualitative study examining Belgian adolescents’ evaluations of alcohol-related Instagram images from influencers7
Assessing the state of media literacy policy in U.S. K-12 schools7
U.S. adolescents’ daily social media use and well-being: Exploring the role of addiction-like social media use7
Exploring adolescents’ vulnerability and resilience to online risks in Trinidad and Tobago7
Understanding the Media in Young Children’s Lives: An Introduction to the Key Debates (1st ed.) Understanding the Media in Young Children’s Lives: A6
Contesting the framing of digital risk: An analysis of Australian children’s experiences6
Remote observation of hands-on problem solving among preschool children: Methodological challenges and solutions5
The youth social media literacy inventory: Development and validation using item response theory in the US4
Parent problematic media use, child reactivity, and income: Context for parents’ use of media emotion regulation strategies in the United States4
Do parental control tools fulfil family expectations for child protection? A rapid evidence review of the contexts and outcomes of use4
Research brief: A quantitative content analysis to explore work value portrayals among characters in Belgian adolescents’ favorite TV series4
Parents talking algorithms: Navigating datafication and family life in digital societies,4
The paradox of play: How Dutch children develop digital literacy via offline engagement with digital media4
The interplay between sensationalism and scientific information framing: Examining the representation of screen time research online and on social media in the United States4
COVID-19 and children’s screen time in Ceará, Brazil: a repeated cross-sectional survey4
Children’s perceptions of scary news in Belgium: Examining parental mediation and consolation strategies from their perspective4
Research brief: early adolescents’ perceptions of the motivations and consequences of sharing passwords with friends in Belgium4
Respecting children`s rights in research ethics and research methods4
Empowering narratives: Understanding consent, personal boundaries, and body autonomy in US children’s picture books4
How do Canadian parents evaluate numeracy content in math apps for young children?4
Problematic online gaming, subjective health complaints, and depression among adolescent gamers from the United States: the role of console-gaming aggression4
The politics of showing and not showing: Politicized media representations of war-affected children in the East and the West3
Parental mediation and problematic media use among U.S. children with disabilities and their non-disabled siblings during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Parental mediation and the relational practices of negotiation and resistance: Insights from a qualitative panel study from Germany3
Do I have the right to share? Sharenting and psychological ownership of children’s information in the U.S.3
Unveiling a blind spot: The importance and challenges of exploring the digital lives of minor parents3
Histories of children’s television around the world3
Parent and clinician perspectives on the ethics of extended reality technologies for neurodivergent children in the U.S.3
Bridging the cultures of research and practice: The global evolution of Sesame Street ’s playful problem-solving curriculum3
Analysis of the constructions of children and the internet in Kenya and Ghana3
Assessing Belgian adolescents’ negative digital experiences in everyday life: The mundane digital harms scale3
Review of Digital Girlhoods (2025)3
Journal of Children and Media comes of age: An introduction to the special section3
Digital dilemmas of families with young children – An exploratory study on a day in the life of Australian children’s data3
A research brief investigating educational television and U.S. children’s interest in science and world culture3
Roadblocks and resistance: Digital mediation as a process of calibration among U.S. parents of adolescents3
Parasocial romantic relationships: falling in love with media figures3
Honesty, morality, and parasocial relationships in U.S. children’s media3
Picture perfect during a pandemic? Body image concerns and depressive symptoms in U.S. adolescent girls during the COVID-19 lockdown3
Rules at home, rules online: Parental mediation and adolescents’ orientation toward social media community guidelines in the United States3
Water woes: The effects of children’s science media on conservation knowledge, self-efficacy, and environmental worry in the United States of America2
Examining profiles of U.S. children’s screen time and associations with academic skills2
Datafied Childhoods: data practices and imaginaries in children’s lives2
Coparenting of child media use and associations with child media limits and frequency of media use in the United States2
Age recommendations for children’s films: associations between advisories on a U.S. site and parents’ ratings2
Gender and parent–adolescent differences in perceived media parenting: Evidence from a Chinese validation study2
Are cartoons pointless? Patterns of gesture and speech use in young children’s television programs in the U.S.2
Digital parenting as internet governance: The case of China’s ‘Mum Jury’2
Representations of LGBQ+ families in young children’s media2
What can heroes and villains teach young audiences? A research brief investigating the values emphasized in family-rated Walt Disney films2
Development, validity, and reliability of the parent-adolescent communication about adolescents’ social media use scale (PACAS)2
Grandparents and children’s media use in the USA: Screen time, mediation practices, and relationship outcomes2
Factors influencing young people’s news consumption in Switzerland during normative transitions: A mixed methods study2
Teens and digital media: How do we move toward productive public discourse?2
Measuring digital well-being in everyday life among Slovenian adolescents: The Perceived Digital Well-Being in Adolescence Scale2
Wait Until 8th ?: Mothers’ decision-making and management of children’s smartphones in the United States2
Preschoolers’ knowledge acquisition from German educational media: The impact of a training program fostering media sign literacy1
Testing an intervention to stimulate early adolescents’ news literacy application in the Netherlands: A classroom experiment1
Predictors of young children’s problematic screen media use in Aotearoa New Zealand: Testing the interactional theory of childhood problematic media use model1
The impact of familiarity with pedagogical agents on 3- and 5-year-old children’s learning of scientific knowledge1
U.S. tweens’ reactions to unboxing videos: Effects of sponsorship disclosure and advertising training1
Digital inequities and well-being in middle childhood during COVID-19: Testing the third-level divide across 18 societies1
A call for the adoption of translational science principles in children’s media effects research1
Generative AI and children’s digital futures: New research challenges1
Exploring the effectiveness of mobile learning on early literacy skills of kindergarteners in Indonesia1
Maternal factors and one-year-olds’ screen time: A cross-sectional study using birth cohort data from the Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS)1
Educators as news mediators: Educational initiatives for war-related content in Israel1
Association between parent technology rules and loneliness among adolescents in the United States1
Digital media and technology use by families with infants, toddlers, and young children: A scoping review and call for forward momentum1
It’s the will, not the skill: How malleability narratives affect Belgian adolescents’ academic development1
Love and sexual scripts: A content analysis of 19 Netflix teen series1
Exploring children’s perspectives on parental surveillance in Belgium1
COMPUGIRLS: How Girls of Color Find and Define Themselves in the Digital Age1
Longitudinal associations between parental screen time monitoring, screen time exposure, diet, and body mass index in young U.S. children1
The social media (moral) panic this time: Why CAM scholars may need a more complex approach1
Parental mediation and children’s digital well-being in family life in Norway1
Social media monitoring efficacy among parents of adolescents in the United States: A brief report1
From experiencing parental mediation as a child to practicing it as a parent: An exploratory study with Israeli mothers1
A call to action for teens, sex, and media research: Recommendations for structural support, collaboration, and funding1
Representation in best-selling preschool storybook apps in the United States1
There is no right age! The search for age-appropriate ways to support children’s digital lives and rights1
Writing and producing for children and young audiences: Cases from Danish film and television1
“I would say almost every single case has some sort of an internet connection”: Law enforcement and service provider insights on technology’s role in the commercial sexual exploitation of children and1
Children and adolescents as news sources: research brief on voice and agency of minors in Swedish and Estonian journalistic regulative documents1
Affordance and ambivalence in South African teenage girls’ digital dating practices1
How film stories can inspire character strengths: A qualitative study among Dutch children1
Does digital media use increase risk of social-emotional delay for Chinese preschoolers?1
The role of socioeconomic status in U.S. children’s co-viewing television and family member relationship quality over time1
Princesses and paupers: a content analysis of socioeconomic status in animated Disney films1
Exploring the relationship between screen exposure and self-regulation in early childhood: A meta-analysis1
“I wonder, what if, let’s try”: Sesame Street ’s playful learning curriculum impacts children’s problem solving1
Gender differences in Internet self-efficacy: Psychometric validation and cultural adaptation of the scale for Iranian adolescents1
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