OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Social Work is 3. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Practising ethically during COVID-19: Social work challenges and responses	160
Social work and COVID-19 pandemic: An action call	79
The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on international students in Canada	74
Reducing social worker burnout during COVID-19	49
Lessons learned from COVID-19: Being known in online social work classrooms	47
Ten gentle reminders to social workers in the pandemic	38
Ubuntu and its potential impact on the international social work profession	35
Social work practice education and training during the pandemic: Disruptions and discoveries	35
COVID-19 and beyond: Social work interventions for supporting homeless populations	35
Pandemic sex workers’ resilience: COVID-19 crisis met with rapid responses by sex worker communities	34
COVID-19, Prolonged Grief Disorder and the role of social work	29
Social workers helping each other during the COVID-19 pandemic: Online mutual support groups	27
International student experiences in Queensland during COVID-19	27
Working with refugees during COVID-19: Social worker voices from Turkey	24
COVID-19 experience among slum dwellers in Nairobi: A double tragedy or useful lesson for public health reforms?	23
News from our societies – IFSW: COVID-19: The struggle, success and expansion of social work – Reflections on the profession’s global response, 5 months on	23
Examining COVID-19 and HIV: The impact of intersectional stigma on short- and long-term health outcomes among African Americans	22
Global standards for social work education and training	22
Stand against anti-Asian racial discrimination during COVID-19: A call for action	22
Emotional well-being and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: Guidelines for social work practice	19
Recasting social workers as frontline in a socially accountable COVID-19 response	18
Post-disaster social work research: A scoping review of the evidence for practice	18
The more you know, the less you fear: Reflexive social work practices in times of COVID-19	18
The role of social work in the field of education during COVID-19	16
Reflections on Israeli hospital-based social work with COVID-19 patients and their families	15

Firewalls: A necessary tool to enable social rights for undocumented migrants in social work	15
Unwed single mothers in South Korea: Increased vulnerabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
COVID-19: Health disparities and social determinants of health	13
COVID-19 pandemic in Africa: What lessons for social work education and practice?	12
Impacts of COVID-19 on refugees and immigrants in the United States: A call for action	12
Coping with grief, loss, and well-being during a pandemic: A collaborative autoethnography of international educators during COVID-19	11
Social work and COVID-19: A gap in Nigeria’s intervention	11
African migrants and stress coping strategies in Australia: Implications for social work	11
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on intercountry adoption and international commercial surrogacy	11
Global trends in forced migration: Policy, practice and research imperatives for social work	10
8 minutes and 46 seconds of ‘I Can’t Breathe’: A call for anti-racist feminist solidarity amid COVID-19	10
Hong Kong under COVID-19: Roles of community development service	10
From coronavirus to ‘hunger virus’: Mapping the urgency of social work response amid COVID-19 pandemic in Africa	10
Older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic – Forgotten and stigmatized?	9
Social work’s role during and after the pandemic: Keeping vigilant and hopeful on human rights	9
Creating solace and hope during COVID-19: An innovative Internet-based social work intervention	9
Community work, love and the indigenous worldview of buen vivir in Peru	9
The response of Jordanian society and social workers to the COVID-19 crisis	9
Social workers of the world unite! A call to unionize the social work profession	9
Care and rehabilitation institutions for people with intellectual disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic: Polish experiences	9
Interdisciplinary bridging response teams for field hospitals in Wuhan during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Social work with families in the pandemic of COVID-19: Ten challenges facing families	9
Establishing the relevance of the Ubuntu philosophy in social work practice: Inspired by the Ubuntu World Social Work Day, 2021 celebrations and the IFSW and IASSW’s (2014) Global Definition of Social	8
Rethinking the transformative role of the social work profession in Albania: Some lessons learned from the response to COVID-19	8
A quality function deployment–based resource allocation approach for elderly care service: Perspective of government procurement of public service	8
The conundrum of old age and COVID-19 responses in Eswatini and Zimbabwe	8
Global social work working conditions and wellbeing	8
Environmental social work through the African philosophy of Ubuntu: A conceptual analysis	8
Navigating the territories of transition: An exploration of the experiences of transnational social workers in Aotearoa New Zealand	7
Social exclusion, mental health, and social well-being among African immigrants in the United States	7
The health and well-being of LGBTQ people in mainland China: The role of social work	7
Social assistance institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of Polish social workers	7
Effects of corruption and unaccountability on responses of frontline health workers to COVID-19 in Nigeria: Lessons and considerations for the social work profession	7
Leaving no one behind: Intellectual disability during COVID-19 in Africa	7
COVID-19 and older adults in Africa: Social workers’ utilization of mass media in enforcing policy change	7
Statutory neglect and care in a pandemic	7
Globalisation and social work education in the Republic of Ireland: Towards informed transnational social work for transnational problems such as COVID-19	7
Reimagining Indigenised social work in Uganda: Voices of practitioners	7
The place of social work in improving access to health services among refugees: A case study of Nakivale settlement, Uganda	6
Gendered dimensions of health in refugee situations: An examination of sexual and gender-based violence faced by refugee women in Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda	6
Working and learning from home during COVID-19: International experiences among social work educators and students	6
Considerations for integrating technology into social work practice: A content analysis of nine professional social work associations’ Codes of Ethics	6
Vulnerability of children in Botswana during COVID-19	6
Perceptions of stigma toward mental illness in Arab society in Israel	6
A systematic review of the roles of social workers in inclusive education for children with disabilities	6
Responding to COVID-19 in social work field education in Australia, New Zealand and the United States	6
Practising social work groups online: Practitioners’ reflection on the COVID-19 outbreak	5
Understanding professional distress through social representations: Investigating the shared experience of healthcare social workers in Canada	5
Rights-based social work in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Validating tools for education and practice	5
Challenges in adapting field placement during a pandemic: A Jamaican perspective	5

The professionalization of social work in Israel’s Arab society	5
COVID-19 feminist framework and biopsychosocial-spiritual perspective for social workers and mental health practitioners to manage violence, abuse, and trauma against children, women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ	5
News from our societies – ICSW: COVID-19 – Five tests we face	5
Managing social policy in the emerging welfare regime of governance: What Indonesia can learn from South Korea’s experience	5
Social workers’ adaptation in times of pandemic crisis: A Hong Kong case	5
Child protection social workers facing the Covid-19 challenge	5
Is the deinstitutionalisation of alternative care a ‘wicked problem’? A qualitative study exploring the perceptions of child welfare practitioners and policy actors in Thailand	4
Deconstructing bias: The decision-making process among child protective service workers in Chile	4
Rethinking the residual policy response: Lessons from Hong Kong older women’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Factors associated with the prevalence of diarrhoea among children in rural areas of Enugu State, Nigeria: Practice considerations for social workers	4
Does macrosocial orientation matter in frontline social workers’ professional identity? Considering the critical factors of social work development in China	4
Development of research on social work practice in mainland China: Context, challenges, and opportunities	4
Clinical intervention with autistic adolescents and adults during the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of clinicians and their clients	4
Social work with a person in the crisis of homelessness in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland: Problems and challenges	4
Multidimensional perspective of the poverty and dynamics of middle-aged and older adults in Taiwan	4
A review of Indigenous social work around the world: Concepts, debates and challenges	4
COVID-19 and mental health services delivery at Ingutsheni Central Hospital in Zimbabwe: Lessons for psychiatric social work practice	4
How religious women students of social work in Israel experience academe	4
Disrupting social work ethics	4
The intersection and parallels of Aboriginal peoples’ and racialized migrants’ experiences of colonialism and child welfare in Canada	4
Resisting politics of authoritarian populism during COVID-19, reclaiming democracy and narrative justice: Centering critical thinking in social work	4
Exploring factors influencing social workers’ attitudes toward evidence-based practice: A Chinese study	4
Chinese women revising meanings of marriage and divorce: Comparing women who divorced in the 1990s and 2000s	4
Community responses to LGBT+ adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities during the COVID-19 confinement in Madrid	4
The experience of violence of Syrian women living in Konya: An intersectional study through the narratives of service providers	4
Staying resilient, compassionate and ethical: Social work at the front line of the pandemic	4
Shifting senses of solidarity and belonging in the internal migration pathways of citizens in ger areas in Ulaanbaatar: A social work perspective	4
When field isn’t field anymore: Innovating the undergraduate social work field experience in response to the COVID-19 pandemic	4
An international profession with commonalities and differences: Social work responses to COVID-19 where local is global and vice versa	4
Feeding Indigenous people in Canada	4
Let’s not return to business as usual: Integrating environmental and social wellbeing through hybrid business models post COVID-19	3
A global review of violence prevention plans: Where are the men and boys?	3
The influence of leisure-based community activities on neighbourhood support and the social cohesion of communities in Spain	3
Citizenship and multicultural social work: Challenges and opportunities of ethnic minority youth in political engagement in Hong Kong	3
Addressing the issue of child sexual abuse in Pakistan: A conceptual analysis	3
Is indigenisation a social justice risk? Exploring indigenisation of social work in Africa through the lens of universalism versus relativism of social work ethics and values	3
Indigenization and authentization of epistemology in China’s social work: Moving beyond Confucianism, Taoism, and Chinese Buddhism	3
All people matter – Global vaccine equity and human rights: An urgent macro social work challenge	3
Application of social work in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals for children: A case study from Abkhazia	3
‘We were social ICUs’: Qualitative study on the perception of the impact of Covid-19 on social work professionals in Spain	3
Child Well-Being and Rights in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Considerations for Social Work Practice and Acknowledging their Sacrifices	3
Resilience-based intervention for youth: An initial investigation of school social work program in Kuwait	3
Creating alternative interventions in social work to promote socio-economic development in South Africa: Lessons from selected social enterprises	3
The immigration of social workers: From Zimbabwe to England	3
Peace, love, and justice: A participatory phenomenological study of psychosocial well-being in Afghanistan	3
Exploring the influence of transnationalism on the immigrant integration process: The case of Ghanaians’ transnational housing activities in Toronto, Canada	3
Lived experience: A constant companion for the social work relationship	3
Connecting nature and the people: Environmental social work	3
Informal care of older adults with chronic life-limiting illness in Africa: An integrative review	3