OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Service Review is 0. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond the Auditable: Pathology, Professional Vision, and the Limits of Oversight for Regulating Psychotropic Drugs in Foster Care	24
Front Matter	18
Dimensions of Organizational and Personal Evidence Use by Senior Managers in Private Child Welfare Agencies	12
Brief Notices	10
The Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize	10
“A Little Bit of a Security Blanket”: Renter Experiences with COVID-19–Era Eviction Moratoriums	9
Liminal Citizenship: Young People’s Perspectives on Civic and Political Engagement in Three European Cities	8
Who Counts? Educational Disadvantage among Children Identified as Homeless and Implications for the Systems That Serve Them	8
Help after Hardship: Trends and Disparities in Sources of Support following Experiences with Material Hardship	7
Brief Notices	7
Book Review	7
Good Clients and Hard Cases: The Role of Typologies at the Welfare Front Line	7
Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity. By Armando Lara-Millán. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 240. $27.95 (paper).	6
Unconditional Cash and Breastfeeding, Child Care, and Maternal Employment among Families with Young Children Residing in Poverty	6
Front Matter	6
The Well-Being Development Model: A Theoretical Model to Improve Outcomes among Criminal Justice System–Involved Individuals	6
In the Aftermath of the Storm: Administrative Burden in Disaster Recovery	6
Social Transfer Programs as Non-Spatially-Targeted Methods of Reducing Interregional Geographic Inequality	5
How Is Instability in Child-Care Subsidy Use Associated with Instability in Child-Care Arrangements?	4
:Grow and Hide: The History of America’s Health Care State	4
Does Reducing Child Benefits Mean Parents Work More? A Mixed-Methods Study of the Labor Market Effects of the United Kingdom’s “Two-Child Limit”	4
Racialized Administrative Burden in Disability Assistance Programs in Two Rural Counties	4
The Effects of State Workplace Pregnancy Accommodation Laws on Women’s Employment and Income during Pregnancy	4
Front Matter	4
Measuring Psychological Burden in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Inequalities across Applicants in Stress and Disrespect	4

Lost Time: Family Reintegration following a Youth Life Sentence	4
Inequality of the Safety Net: The Rural-Urban Continuum, County-Level Poverty, and Nonprofit Human Services Expenditures	3
Relationships That Persist and Protect: The Role of Enduring Relationships on Early-Adult Outcomes among Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care	3
Increasing Access to Free and Reduced-Price School Meals through Social Service Programs: Findings from a Direct Certification with Medicaid Demonstration	3
Which Environmental Social Work? Environmentalisms, Social Justice, and the Dilemmas Ahead	3
:Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy	3
Front Matter	2
Acknowledgments to Reviewers	2
Uses of the Trauma of Others: Insights from Two Ethnographic Studies of Human Service Workers	2
Patterns of Advance Child Tax Credit Receipt and Spending among Children with Retired or Disabled Household Members	2
The Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize	2
Front Matter	2
The Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, or What Does It Mean to Need a “Brute” in the Twenty-First Century?	2
Banks as Racialized and Gendered Organizations: Interviews with Frontline Workers	2
Case Management or Child Care: Which Has the Greater Impact on Parental Human Capital and Self-Sufficiency in Two-Generation Programs?	2
Acknowledgments to Reviewers	2
The Limits of Human Rights Discourse within Sovereign Territory: Examining US Refugee Policy Formation	2
The Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize	1
All Work and No Play: Indigenous Women “Pulling the Weight” in Home Life	1
Becoming a Peer, Becoming a Person: Subject Formation in China’s Antidrug Social Work	1
Maternal Employment Patterns and the Risk for Child Maltreatment	1
Front Matter	1
Take Me Home: Housing Insecurity and Transactional Ties among Poor Families	1
:The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education	1
Front Matter	1
Standardization or Discretionary Space? A Mixed-Method Study on Government-Imposed Performance Measurement Instruments in Social Services	0
Strategies for Cultivating Organizational Legitimacy among Core-Stigmatized Service Providers: The Case of Syringe Service Programs	0
:Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System	0
Brief Notices	0
Brief Notices	0
Acknowledgments to Reviewers	0
:Working the Difference: Science, Spirit, and the Spread of Motivational Interviewing	0
Which Families Benefited from the Expanded Child Tax Credit? The Effects of Income, Race, and Education	0
Tolerating Risk: Professional Judgment in Suicide Risk Assessment	0
Brief Notices	0
Brief Notices	0
Brief Notices	0
From “Revolutionary Adventure” to “Not Great, Just Better”: The Fight to Remove Juveniles from Pennsylvania’s Camp Hill Prison	0
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration. By Reuben Jonathan Miller. New York: Little, Brown, 2021. Pp. 352. $29.00 (cloth); $18.99 (paper).	0
:Autistic Intelligence: Interaction, Individuality, and the Challenges of Diagnosis	0
Did Unemployment Insurance Modernization Provisions Increase Benefit Receipt among Economically Disadvantaged Workers?	0
Paying for Childcare to Work? Evaluating the Role of Policy in Affordable Care and Child Poverty	0
The Effects of Child Poverty Reductions on Child Protective Services Involvement	0
Experiences of Trauma-Informed Care in a Family Drug Treatment Court	0
An Equity Analysis of Applying for Welfare: TANF Application and Denial Reasons by Household and County Characteristics	0
:The Compassionate Court? Support, Surveillance, and Survival in Prostitution Diversion Programs	0
Of the State, against the State: Public Defenders, Street-Level Bureaucracy, and Discretion in Criminal Court	0
Front Matter	0
Hard to Count? The 2020 Census “Citizenship Question” and Bureaucratic Visibility among Undocumented Latin Americans in Chicago	0
Brief Notices	0

Brief Notices	0
Brief Notices	0
Parenting Strengths and Distress among Black Mothers Reported to the Child Welfare System: The Role of Social Network Quality	0
To “Elevate, Humanize, Christianize, Americanize”: Social Work, White Supremacy, and the Americanization Movement, 1880–1930	0
Front Matter	0
The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s. By Michael Goldfield. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 432. $53.00 (cloth).	0
Examining the Role of Public Pre-K Expansions in the Changing Supply of Child Care in Wisconsin	0
Spatial Burdens of State Institutions: The Case of Criminal Courthouses	0
Youth Justice at a Crossroads: Twenty-First Century Progressive Reforms and Lessons to Inform the Path Forward	0
Front Matter	0
Acknowledgments to Reviewers	0
Carceral Migrations: Reframing Race, Space, and Punishment	0
:Schooled and Sorted: How Educational Categories Create Inequalities	0
Front Matter	0
Front Matter	0
Lost and Found: Young Fathers in the Age of Unwed Parenthood. By Paul Florsheim and David Moore. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 432. $29.95 (cloth).	0
Front Matter	0
Barriers to Formal Child Support Payment	0
On Causal Inference and the Limits of Disproportionality as a Construct: The Case of Foster Care Placement	0
Economic Outcomes of Shared Placement among Divorced Mothers in Wisconsin	0
Shaping a Science of Social Work: Professional Knowledge and Identity. Edited by John Brekke and Jeane Anastas. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 252. $45.00 (cloth).	0
How Is Child Support Regularity Associated with Custodial Mothers’ Employment? Evidence from the United States	0
Brief Notices	0
Social Work and the Platform Economy: A Labor Process Theory Analysis	0
Material Needs, Epistemic Neglect, and Slow Violence: A Systematic Review of Research Focused on Women Affected by the Criminal Legal System	0
Voting Infrastructure and Process: Another Form of Voter Suppression?	0
Increasing Home Visiting Enrollment through Enhanced Outreach	0
The Vernacular Ethics of Stigmatized Care: Reinterpreting Acceptance and Confidentiality for Social Work in the West Bank, Palestine	0
Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State. By Amy C. Sullivan. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. Pp. 288. $25.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).	0
Earnings and Employment Patterns Following Child-Care Subsidy Receipt	0
Brief Notices	0
Dual Debtors: Child Support and Criminal Legal Financial Obligations	0
Satisfaction with Child Support Services	0
Public Cash Assistance and Spatial Predation: How State Cash-Transfer Environments Shape Payday Lender Geography	0
:What Workers Say: Decades of Struggle and How to Make Real Opportunity Now	0
No Safe Harbor: Eviction Filing in Public Housing	0
How the Earned Income Tax Credit Sustains Informal Child-Care Arrangements with Family Members and Helps Maintain Intergenerational Relations	0
Brief Notices	0
“We’re Here to Help”: Criminal Justice Collaboration among Social Service Providers across the Urban-Rural Continuum	0
:Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World	0
Emerging Tensions in Data Work: Staff and Youth Perspectives in Youth-Serving Organizations	0
Parent-Child Contact during Incarceration: Predictors of Involvement among Resident and Nonresident Parents Following Release from Prison	0
The Effects of the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) on Child-Care Use and Maternal Labor Supply	0
:Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State	0
Brief Notices	0
Poverty Reduction through Federal and State Policy Mechanisms: Variation over Time and across the United States	0
Front Matter	0
Front Matter	0
Fact Construction and Categorization in Assessment: Cultivating Epistemic Justice and Resistance in Social Work Assessment	0
The Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize	0
Carceral Citizens Rising: Understanding Oppression Resistance Work through the Lens of Carceral Status	0
Theorizing a Social Ecology of Displacement: Structural-, Relational-, and Individual-Level Conditions of Homelessness among Young People	0
Front Matter	0
The Analogy of Child Protection as Public Health: An Analysis of Utility, Fit, Awareness, and Need	0
How Would Americans Respond to Direct Cash Transfers? Results from Two Survey Experiments	0
Brief Notices	0
:Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb	0
Urban Gun Violence: Self-Help Organizations as Healing Sites, Catalysts for Change, and Collaborative Partners. By Melvin Delgado. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 404. $60.00 (clot	0
“Bodies in the Building”: Incarceration’s Afterlife in a Reentry Housing Facility	0
Race Talk to Change Carceral Attitudes: A Field Experiment on Deep Canvass Organizing	0
“It’s Like Night and Day”: How Bureaucratic Encounters Vary across WIC, SNAP, and Medicaid	0
The Effects of Waiving WIC Physical Presence Requirements on Program Caseloads	0
“Making It Work”: Accommodation and Resistance to Federal Policy in a Homelessness Continuum of Care	0
Failed Mothers, Risky Children: Carceral Protectionism and the Social Work Gaze	0