Journal of Children and Media

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Children and Media is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Respecting children`s rights in research ethics and research methods18
Are cartoons pointless? Patterns of gesture and speech use in young children’s television programs in the U.S.17
Contesting the framing of digital risk: An analysis of Australian children’s experiences15
Media parenting in a pandemic: Understanding U.S. Parents’ motivations for parental mediation during the COVID-19 lockdown15
Critical reflections on children and media research in India14
Understanding the Media in Young Children’s Lives: An Introduction to the Key Debates (1st ed.) Understanding the Media in Young Children’s Lives: A14
Malaysian Parents’ Perception of How Screen Time Affects their Children’s Language13
Representation of refugee characters and experiences in children’s animated television: Missed opportunities and hopes13
Multidimensional predictors of adolescents’ nonacademic digital media use in the United States: Insights from a bioecological perspective11
Remote observation of hands-on problem solving among preschool children: Methodological challenges and solutions11
The paradox of play: How Dutch children develop digital literacy via offline engagement with digital media11
Caught between autonomy and control: How Liberian teenagers perceive and navigate parental mediation of their mobile phone use10
The role of character age and content type in US adolescents’ involvement with television characters engaging in drinking and sex-related behaviors9
Sesame Street: Beyond 509
Finding the self through others: exploring fandom, identification, and self-concept clarity among U.S. adolescents9
The role of socioeconomic status in U.S. children’s co-viewing television and family member relationship quality over time9
Educational ICT use outside school in the European Union: disparities by social origin, immigrant background, and gender9
Children’s documentaries: distance and ethics in European storytelling about the wider world8
Masters of media: A longitudinal study of parental media efficacy, media monitoring, and child problematic media use across early childhood in the United States8
Chinese children’s perspectives of long-distance familyhood via WeChat8
Predictors of children’s and young people’s digital engagement in informational, communication, and entertainment activities: findings from ten European countries8
From experiencing parental mediation as a child to practicing it as a parent: An exploratory study with Israeli mothers8
Parental mediation and children’s digital well-being in family life in Norway6
COMPUGIRLS: How Girls of Color Find and Define Themselves in the Digital Age5
This picture does not portray reality: developing and testing a disclaimer for digitally enhanced pictures on social media appropriate for Austrian tweens and teens5
The youth social media literacy inventory: Development and validation using item response theory in the US5
Teens and digital media: How do we move toward productive public discourse?5
Children’s digital experiences in Indian slums: Technologies, identities, and Jugaad5
Through the (distorted) looking glass: Priorities for research with young people and social media in politically polarized times5
Making the best of app use: The impact of parent-child co-use of interactive media on children’s learning in the U.S5
News videos consumption in an age of new media: a comparison between adolescents and adults5
The role of formative research in teaching playful problem solving on Sesame Street4
Research brief: early adolescents’ perceptions of the motivations and consequences of sharing passwords with friends in Belgium4
Do parental control tools fulfil family expectations for child protection? A rapid evidence review of the contexts and outcomes of use4
Systematic review: Characteristics and outcomes of in-school digital media literacy interventions, 2010-20214
Datafied Childhoods: data practices and imaginaries in children’s lives4
Screen media for Arab and European children: policy and production encounters in the multiplatform era4
Digital rights in digital exclusion settings: the experiences of institutionalised youth in Portuguese detention centres4
Children and adolescents as news sources: research brief on voice and agency of minors in Swedish and Estonian journalistic regulative documents4
Teens’ “right to be let alone”: Privacy under datafication3
Representation in best-selling preschool storybook apps in the United States3
Longitudinal relations of screen time duration and content with executive function difficulties in South Korean children3
A call for the adoption of translational science principles in children’s media effects research3
Parent problematic media use, child reactivity, and income: Context for parents’ use of media emotion regulation strategies in the United States3
What do parents really know about their child’s online behaviour? Discrepancies between parents and their children in Israel3
Towards building expertly inclusive methodology: A call to rebalance youth ethnic-racial identity measures3
Representations of LGBQ+ families in young children’s media3
The interplay between sensationalism and scientific information framing: Examining the representation of screen time research online and on social media in the United States2
Examining profiles of U.S. children’s screen time and associations with academic skills2
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.2
The next time is now! How children and media professionals must respond to Russia’s war in Ukraine2
“My brother teaches me everything”: Sibling mediation of young Israeli children’s media use2
On sex, drugs, and alcohol: a mixed-method analysis of youth posts on social media in the United States2
Children making big money: The implications of Kidfluencing as new form of child labor2
Online and offline victimisation: a cluster analysis of adolescent victims of bullying and cyber-bullying in Chile2
Affordance and ambivalence in South African teenage girls’ digital dating practices2
How do Canadian parents evaluate numeracy content in math apps for young children?2
How the COVID-19 shutdown revealed the effectiveness of a northern Nigerian educational media program2
Early vocabulary size in Argentinean toddlers: associations with home literacy and screen media exposure2
Measuring digital well-being in everyday life among Slovenian adolescents: The Perceived Digital Well-Being in Adolescence Scale2
Love and sexual scripts: A content analysis of 19 Netflix teen series2
“In your face!” Do family communication patterns influence U.S. tween’s imitation of disrespectful talk and behavior found in their favorite television shows?2
Socio-technical practices of young children and parents in the home: a case study from Japan2
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