OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Social Policy 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding informal care burden domains’ impact on overall burden – a structural equation modeling approach with cross-sectional data from Germany	64
Logistics of care: Trust-reform and self-managing teams in municipal home care services	30
JSP volume 55 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	23
JSP volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	22
Stewart Lansley (2021), The Richer, The Poorer: How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor. A 200-Year History, Bristol: Policy Press, £19.99, pp. 318, pbk.	20
Amandine Crespy (2022), The European Social Question: Tackling Key Controversies, Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, £24.99, pp. 256, pbk.	18
Digitally Networked Social Services: Mapping the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) online network in Queensland, Australia	16
Extending working lives and the subjective financial wellbeing of mid-later life workers	15
Deserving more? A vignette study on the role of self-interest and deservingness opinions for popular support for wealth taxation in Germany	14
Not that basic: how level, design, and context matter for the redistributive outcomes of universal basic income	13
Emergency Responses to COVID-19 and Opportunities for Inclusive Social Policy	12
Cross-jurisdictional youth employment policy and welfare in Scotland, Wales and England: a street-level perspective	12
Adapting to an older workforce: health and the (non) response of employers in an era of insecurity	11
Opening the black box of the municipal government: exploring the lived experiences of local public servants with citizen participation and decentralisation in The Netherlands – CORRIGENDUM	11
Opening the black box of the municipal government: exploring the lived experiences of local public servants with citizen participation and decentralisation in The Netherlands	10
Organisational outputs of administrative reforms: disability in Danish job centres	10
Cities as social investment frontrunners: the case of Amsterdam as innovator and welfare stopgap	10
R Erne, S Stan, D Golden, I Szabó, V Maccarrone (2024), Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency, Cambridge: Cambridge Uni	9
‘It’s Like the Sword of Damocles’ – A Trauma-Informed Framework Analysis of Individuals’ Experiences of Assessment for the Personal Independence Payment Benefit in the UK	9
JSP volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	9
The impact of health impairments on employment entry and the quality of employment among basic income support recipients in Germany	9
Bent Greve (2022), Rethinking Welfare and the Welfare State, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, £63.00, pp. 160, hbk.*	8
Addressing social risks of older people with care needs: how European welfare states combine pension and long-term care policies	8
The costs of caring: understanding the lived experience of unpaid caregiving and risks to financial wellbeing	8
Ute Klammer, Simone Leiber and Sigrid Leitner (eds) (2020), Social Work and the Making of Social Policy, Bristol: Policy Press, £26.99, pp. 256, pbk.	8

Competition and childcare quality: Evidence from Quebec	8
How Incarcerating Children Affects their Labour Market Outcomes	7
Subsidising silence: how policy ideas entrench Italy’s use of employment subsidies	7
To Claim or Not to Claim: Investigating Non-Take-Up of Welfare Schemes Targeting Hong Kong Older Adults and the Stigma Attached to Them	7
Ethnic differences in intergenerational housing mobility in England and Wales	7
Recognising and addressing wealth privilege in policymaking through an analysis of epistemic practice and agency	7
Legitimating collaboration, collaborating to legitimate: Justification work in “holistic” services for long-term unemployed persons	7
First thing to go? Key findings from a foundational study of hygiene poverty in Ireland	7
Incoherent and Indefensible? A Normative Analysis of Young People’s Position in England’s Welfare and Homelessness Systems	6
Does young adulthood caring influence educational attainment and employment in the UK and Germany?	6
Socio-Economic Gaps in Workers’ Participation in Private Pension Programmes in Ten European Countries	6
State inspection in contexts of cultural and sociopolitical conflict: The case of social services offered to Arab-Palestinian young women in Israel	6
Between ideology and self-interest: exploring variations in public support for basic income schemes in Germany	6
How and why does relational welfare work to support young people not in employment, education or training (NEET)? A realist evaluation	6
Did increasing the UK’s Universal Credit and working tax credits by £20 per week in 2020–2021 reduce food insecurity?	6
Individual and Contextual Sources of (Mis)Perceptions About the Impact of Immigration on the Welfare State	5
A framework for analysing family policy and an application to the UK	5
Managing moral distress: social policy cuts and the suppression of employee conscience	5
The Participation of People in Vulnerable Situations in Interest Organisations: A Qualitative Study of Representatives Views	5
Paul Spicker (2022), How to Fix the Welfare State: Some Ideas for Better Social Services, Bristol: Policy Press, £27.99, pp. 168, pbk.	5
The very early antecedents of NEET: understanding the role of birthweight	5
Investigating social protection amongst platform workers in Germany: forced individualisation, hybrid income generation and undesired regulation	5
Derek Fraser (2023), The Beveridge Report: Blueprint for the Welfare State, London & New York: Routledge, £120, pp. 240, hbk.	5
Mobilising Voluntary Action in the UK: Learning from the Pandemic. Edited by Irene Hardill, Jurgen Grotz and Laura Crawford. Policy Press, 2022, 202pp, Paperback, £14.99/EPUB Open Access. ISBN 2978-1-	5
Determinants of support for reintroducing inheritance taxes in Mexico	5
JSP volume 51 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	5
John Stewart (2020), Richard Titmuss: A Commitment to Welfare, Bristol: Policy Press, £47.99, pp. 600, hbk.	5
UK resident preferences on tax reform: survey-based evidence suggests support for progressive change in the run up to the 2024 General Election	5
Booming opportunities and looming challenges? Expansion strategies among finance-controlled providers in the field of Swedish eldercare	5
Welfare Attitudes in Crisis: The Role of Ideology in Healthcare Satisfaction in Portugal and Ireland	5
Steven Haines and David Ruebain (Eds.), Education, Disability and Social Policy (2nd Edition), Policy Press, 2025, 180 pages, ISBN: 978-1447369851, GBP 27.99	5
When trade-offs touch self-interests: attitudes on education spending in a cross-country analysis	5
Reframing long-term care policy: from services to social determinants	4
Take-up and distribution of a universal cash benefit: The case of the Austrian long-term care allowance	4
Making the most of language acquisition of Syrian asylum permit holders in the Netherlands: the role of policy factors examined	4
A dynamic perspective on profiling financial-aid eligibility: the case of South Africa	4
JSP volume 52 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	4
Philanthropic Foundations and Institutional Change under Rigid Authoritarianism: Exploring the Ford Foundation’s Historical Grantmaking in the Chinese Family Planning Field (1991–2005)	4
Jonathan Wistow (2022), Social Policy, Political Economy and the Social Contract, Bristol: Policy Press, £24.99, pp. 190, pbk.	4
Visible but precarious: gendered and racialised representations of migrant care workers on digital care platforms – CORRIGENDUM	4
How has the idea of prevention been conceptualised and progressed in adult social care in England?	4
The Effect of Social Benefit Reform on Educational Inequality	4
The unexpected impact of geographic access on take-up of social benefits	4
Did the COVID-19 pandemic fuel public support for social protection?	3
Discrimination in marketized welfare services: a field experiment on Swedish schools	3
Global Patterns of Contemporary Welfare States – ERRATUM	3
New shades of conflict? Theorising the multi-dimensional politics of eco-social policies	3
Which Active Labor Market Policies Work for Male Refugees? Evidence from Germany – CORRIGENDUM	3
Attitudes toward government, rich and poor, and support for redistribution	3
Universal Credit: administrative burdens of automated welfare	3

Exploring Social Entrepreneurship Co-Production Processes in the Disability Sector: Individual and Collection Action Views	3
Unemployment entry and life satisfaction in Germany: types of unemployment benefits and the mediating roles of income losses and material deprivation dimensions	3
Fostering societal participation of marginalised people in street-outreach services in the Netherlands	3
Co-producing care: roles and strategies of informal carers	3
JSP volume 54 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3
John Mohan, Volunteering in the United Kingdom: The spirit of service. 2024. Manchester University Press. ISBN: 978 1 5261 45529, pbk. £20. doi: 10.1017/S0047279426101391	3
The two-child policy was not associated with an increase in abortions among its target population	3
JSP volume 52 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	3
Unconditional cash transfers and compliance with public health recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	2
Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin, Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum (New York University Press, 2024) ISBN: 9781479824328	2
Paternity leave-taking and US Fathers’ participation in housework	2
Why Do People Support or Oppose Maximum Income? Ideological Dispersion around Four Positions and Shared Concerns about Implementation	2
Support or suppress: Father’s parental leave uptake in the private-sector workplace context in Finland	2
Can activation policies foster sustainable wellbeing? Phenomenological analysis of long-term unemployed jobseekers’ lived experiences	2
Between left and right: A discourse network analysis of Universal Basic Income on Dutch Twitter	2
Hope in a paranoid place? Critique, utopianism and prefigurative policy reform	2
Rethinking street-level bureaucracy: everyday bordering and networks of enactment and resistance in mixed welfare economies	2
Paternalism in Australian parliamentary debate: the case of drug testing social security recipients	2
Inequality of Opportunity in Health Among Urban, Rural, and Migrant Children: Evidence from China	2
Varieties of engagement: exploring the micro-practices of managers in employing disadvantaged jobseekers	2
JSP volume 54 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	2
Which training leads to employment? The effectiveness of varying types of training programmes for unemployed jobseekers in Flanders	2
The Rise and Fall of Social Housing? Housing Decommodification in Long-run Comparison	2
Disability, Happiness and the Welfare State: Finland and the Nordic Model, edited by Hisayo Katsui and Matti T. Laitinen (Routledge, 2024, 230 pp., ISBN 978-1-032-46621-5 [hbk], 978-1-032-46622-2 [pbk	2
Housing affordability and poverty in Europe: on the deteriorating position of market renters	2
Delivering ‘50 PLUS Choices’ in the UK: how compatible are ‘fuller working lives’ with an increasing reliance on informal carers to deliver social care?	2
Who deserves economic relief? Examining Twitter/X debates about Covid-19 economic relief for small businesses and the self-employed in Germany	2
Ecosocial policy and the social risks of climate change: foundations of the US ecosocial safety net	2
JSP volume 52 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	2
Social and environmental protection: the effects of social insurance generosity on the acceptance of material sacrifices for the sake of environmental protection	2
JSP volume 53 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	2
Do crisis narratives encourage redistribution? Australian housing policy debates during COVID-19	2
JSP volume 55 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
JSP volume 51 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	1
A Framework for Evaluating the Adequacy of Disability Benefit Programs and its Application to the U.S. Social Security Disability Programs	1
A crisis-induced bricolage policy in Australia: ethical contradictions in policymaking in times of crisis	1
Understanding the expansion of social control and helping professionals as unwilling agents of the state: The passing of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act in the United States	1
Weakly institutionalized, heavily contested: Does support for contemporary welfare reforms rely on norms of distributive justice?	1
Beyond individual responsibility – towards a relational understanding of financial resilience through participatory research and design	1
JSP volume 55 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	1
Goodbye human annotators? Content analysis of social policy debates using ChatGPT	1
Richard Bellamy, Sandra Kröger and Marta Lorimer (2022), Flexible Europe: Differentiated Integration, Fairness, and Democracy, Bristol: Policy Press, £47.99, pp. 200, pbk.	1
Peter Taylor-Gooby (2022), A Kinder City: A Market World Novel, Market Harborough: Troubador Publishing, £9.99, pp. 320 pbk, £2.99 ebook.	1
Elisabeth Anderson (2021), Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State, Princeton: Princeton University Press, £25.00, pp. 384, pbk.	1
An impossible move? Households’ experiences of trying to escape the UK’s benefit cap	1
Charities’ income during the COVID-19 pandemic: administrative evidence for England and Wales	1
Embedded and exterior practices of cross-sector co-production: the impact of fields – CORRIGENDUM	1
Territory and solidarity: evidence from Taiwan’s pension policy reform	1
Polarisation and inequality: ‘peace’ in Northern Ireland	1
The politics of minimum income reform in Spain: explaining unexpected and consensual path departure	1
Horses for Courses: Subject Differences in the Chances of Securing Different Types of Graduate Jobs in the UK	1
Tom Bewick, Skills Policy in Britain and the Future of Work: A Historical-Political Analysis, Policy Press, 2025, pp. 320, ISBN: 978-1447372226 (Paperback), and USD 49.95 (Paperback)	1
Suspicious Minds? Media effects on the perception of disability benefit claimants	1
Female mayors do not lead to greater childcare provision – Evidence from Polish municipalities	1
Towards policies of dignity? The German Participation Opportunities Act as a response to long-term unemployment	1
JSP volume 53 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	1
The dynamic effects of becoming disabled on work, wages and wellbeing in the UK from 1991 to 2018	1
A time of need: Exploring the changing poverty risk facing larger families in the UK	1