Pia Christensen

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Pia Christensen is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Education and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Pia Christensen has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 14 papers in Education and 5 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Pia Christensen's work include Children's Rights and Participation (14 papers), Early Childhood Education and Development (10 papers) and Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (5 papers). Pia Christensen is often cited by papers focused on Children's Rights and Participation (14 papers), Early Childhood Education and Development (10 papers) and Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (5 papers). Pia Christensen collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Denmark and Norway. Pia Christensen's co-authors include Alan Prout, Miguel Romero Mikkelsen, Sophie Hadfield‐Hill, Allison James, John Horton, Peter Kraftl, Karen Bruns⊘, Thomas Alexander Sick Nielsen, Henrik Harder and Morten Grønbæk and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Social Science & Medicine and Addiction.

In The Last Decade

Pia Christensen

30 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Working with Ethical Symmetry in Social Research with Children
    2002 522 citations Pia Christensen et al. profile →

Peers

Pia Christensen
John Sandberg United States
Susie Weller United Kingdom
Kathryn Backett‐Milburn United Kingdom
Virginia Morrow United Kingdom
Laura M. Stough United States
Caroline C. Wang United States
Karen Malone Australia
Samantha Punch United Kingdom
Donald G. Unger United States
Yolanda Suarez‐Balcazar United States
John Sandberg United States
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Countries citing papers authored by Pia Christensen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Pia Christensen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pia Christensen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Pia Christensen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Pia Christensen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Pia Christensen. Pia Christensen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hadfield‐Hill, Sophie & Pia Christensen. (2019). ‘I’m big, you’re small. I’m right, you’re wrong’: the multiple P/politics of ‘being young’ in new Sustainable Communities. Social & Cultural Geography. 22(6). 828–848. 11 indexed citations
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Christensen, Pia, Sophie Hadfield‐Hill, John Horton, & Peter Kraftl. (2017). Children Living In Sustainable Built Environments. 16 indexed citations
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Christensen, Pia, et al.. (2014). Unfolding the Pushchair. Children’s Mobilities and Everyday Technologies. White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York). 6(2). 9–18. 11 indexed citations
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Christensen, Pia, et al.. (2013). GPs’ strategies in exploring the preschool child’s wellbeing in the paediatric consultation. BMC Family Practice. 14(1). 177–177. 6 indexed citations
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Kraftl, Peter, Pia Christensen, John Horton, & Sophie Hadfield‐Hill. (2013). Living on a building site: Young people’s experiences of emerging ‘Sustainable Communities’ in England. Geoforum. 50. 191–199. 18 indexed citations
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Horton, John, Sophie Hadfield‐Hill, Pia Christensen, & Peter Kraftl. (2013). Children, young people and sustainability: introduction to special issue. Local Environment. 18(3). 249–254. 19 indexed citations
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Horton, John, Pia Christensen, Peter Kraftl, & Sophie Hadfield‐Hill. (2013). ‘Walking … just walking’: how children and young people's everyday pedestrian practices matter. Social & Cultural Geography. 15(1). 94–115. 93 indexed citations
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Christensen, Pia, Margareta Mikkelsen, Thomas Alexander Sick Nielsen, & Henrik Harder. (2011). Children, Mobility, and Space: Using GPS and Mobile Phone Technologies. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 1 indexed citations
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Christensen, Pia & Miguel Romero Mikkelsen. (2011). ‘There is Nothing Here for Us..!’ How Girls Create Meaningful Places of Their Own Through Movement. Children & Society. 27(3). 197–207. 22 indexed citations
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Christensen, Pia, et al.. (2011). The consultation as an interpretive dialogue about the child's health needs. Family Practice. 28(4). 430–436. 8 indexed citations
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Mikkelsen, Miguel Romero & Pia Christensen. (2009). Is Children's Independent Mobility Really Independent? A Study of Children's Mobility Combining Ethnography and GPS/Mobile Phone Technologies1. Mobilities. 4(1). 37–58. 148 indexed citations
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Christensen, Pia & Allison James. (2008). Research with children: Perspectives and practices, 2nd ed.. 62 indexed citations
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Christensen, Pia & Miguel Romero Mikkelsen. (2007). Jumping off and being careful: children's strategies of risk management in everyday life. Sociology of Health & Illness. 30(1). 112–130. 94 indexed citations
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Bruns⊘, Karen, et al.. (2007). Children's influence on and participation in the family decision process during food buying. Young Consumers Insight and Ideas for Responsible Marketers. 8(3). 197–216. 101 indexed citations
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Christensen, Pia. (2003). The health-promoting family: a conceptual framework for future research. Social Science & Medicine. 59(2). 377–387. 188 indexed citations
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Christensen, Pia. (2003). Børn, mad og daglige rutiner. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 21(2–3). 5 indexed citations
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Christensen, Pia. (2002). Why more ‘quality time’ is not on the top of children's lists: the ‘qualities of time’ for children1. Children & Society. 16(2). 77–88. 46 indexed citations
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Christensen, Pia & Allison James. (2002). What are schools for? The temporal experience of children’s learning in Northern England. 84–99. 14 indexed citations
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Christensen, Pia, et al.. (1994). Computerized Treatment Planning. Psychiatric Services. 45(8). 825–827. 3 indexed citations

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