OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Social Policy is 5. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding informal care burden domains’ impact on overall burden – a structural equation modeling approach with cross-sectional data from Germany	50
How Does the Content of Deservingness Criteria Differ for More and Less Deserving Target Groups? An Analysis of Polish Online Debates on Refugees and Families with Children	45
Logistics of care: Trust-reform and self-managing teams in municipal home care services	37
The Dynamics of Social Assistance in the Informal Economy: Empirical Evidence from Urban China	32
What They Talk About When They Talk About Homelessness: Discourse and Knowledge Culture as a Barrier to Integrated Policy Initiatives	30
To what extent does early childhood education policy in Australia recognise and propose action on the social determinants of health and health equity?	28
JSP volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	25
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.	21
Amandine Crespy (2022), The European Social Question: Tackling Key Controversies, Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, £24.99, pp. 256, pbk.	19
Digitally Networked Social Services: Mapping the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) online network in Queensland, Australia	18
The contested jurisdiction of Social Policy in UK universities since 1972	18
How Does the Provision of Childcare Services Affect Mothers’ Employment Intentions? Empirical Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment	16
‘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	14
Cross-jurisdictional youth employment policy and welfare in Scotland, Wales and England: a street-level perspective	14
Emergency Responses to COVID-19 and Opportunities for Inclusive Social Policy	14
The impact of health impairments on employment entry and the quality of employment among basic income support recipients in Germany	13
Organisational outputs of administrative reforms: disability in Danish job centres	13
Adapting to an older workforce: health and the (non) response of employers in an era of insecurity	13
Wishing for More: Technological Change, the Rise of Involuntary Part-Time Employment and the Role of Active Labour Market Policies	12
Ship of Theseus: from ILO Standards to Outcome of Maternity Protection Policy	12
Cities as social investment frontrunners: the case of Amsterdam as innovator and welfare stopgap	12
Opening the black box of the municipal government: exploring the lived experiences of local public servants with citizen participation and decentralisation in The Netherlands	12
Not that basic: how level, design, and context matter for the redistributive outcomes of universal basic income	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
Competition and childcare quality: Evidence from Quebec	10

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.	10
Subnational Social Investment in Three European Cities: An Exploratory Comparison	10
Social Policy and Queer Lives: Coming Out of the Closet?	10
JSP volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	10
Addressing social risks of older people with care needs: how European welfare states combine pension and long-term care policies	10
Deserving more? A vignette study on the role of self-interest and deservingness opinions for popular support for wealth taxation in Germany	10
Bent Greve (2022), Rethinking Welfare and the Welfare State, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, £63.00, pp. 160, hbk.*	9
First thing to go? Key findings from a foundational study of hygiene poverty in Ireland	9
Financialisation and private equity in early childhood care and education in England	9
JSP volume 51 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	9
The Persistence in Gendering: Work-Family Policy in Britain since Beveridge	9
Recognising and addressing wealth privilege in policymaking through an analysis of epistemic practice and agency	9
Parental Freedom in the Context of Risk to the Child: Citizens’ Views of Child Protection and the State in the US and Norway	9
To Claim or Not to Claim: Investigating Non-Take-Up of Welfare Schemes Targeting Hong Kong Older Adults and the Stigma Attached to Them	9
Ethnic differences in intergenerational housing mobility in England and Wales	9
Legitimating collaboration, collaborating to legitimate: Justification work in “holistic” services for long-term unemployed persons	8
Does the Family Care Best? Ideals of Care in a Familialistic Care Regime – ERRATUM	8
JSP volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	8
Incoherent and Indefensible? A Normative Analysis of Young People’s Position in England’s Welfare and Homelessness Systems	8
Does the family care best? Ideals of care in a familialistic care regime	8
How Incarcerating Children Affects their Labour Market Outcomes	8
State inspection in contexts of cultural and sociopolitical conflict: The case of social services offered to Arab-Palestinian young women in Israel	8
Did increasing the UK’s Universal Credit and working tax credits by £20 per week in 2020–2021 reduce food insecurity?	7
How and why does relational welfare work to support young people not in employment, education or training (NEET)? A realist evaluation	7
Between ideology and self-interest: exploring variations in public support for basic income schemes in Germany	7
Socio-Economic Gaps in Workers’ Participation in Private Pension Programmes in Ten European Countries	7
Does young adulthood caring influence educational attainment and employment in the UK and Germany?	7
Financializing Healthcare and Infrastructures of Social Reproduction: How to Bankrupt a Hospital and be Unprepared for a Pandemic	7
John Stewart (2020), Richard Titmuss: A Commitment to Welfare, Bristol: Policy Press, £47.99, pp. 600, hbk.	6
Individual and Contextual Sources of (Mis)Perceptions About the Impact of Immigration on the Welfare State	6
In Defence of Ordinary Help: Estimating the effect of Early Help/Family Support Spending on Children in Need Rates in England using ALT-SR	6
Booming opportunities and looming challenges? Expansion strategies among finance-controlled providers in the field of Swedish eldercare	6
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	6
Income Insecurity and the Relational Coping Strategies of Low-Income Households in the UK	6
Derek Fraser (2023), The Beveridge Report: Blueprint for the Welfare State, London & New York: Routledge, £120, pp. 240, hbk.	6
When trade-offs touch self-interests: attitudes on education spending in a cross-country analysis	6
The Participation of People in Vulnerable Situations in Interest Organisations: A Qualitative Study of Representatives Views	6
Lisa Dellmuth (2021), Is Europe Good For You? EU Spending and Well-Being, Bristol University Press, £47.99, pp. 202, hbk.	6
Investigating social protection amongst platform workers in Germany: forced individualisation, hybrid income generation and undesired regulation	6
Missing Incomes in the UK: Evidence and Policy Implications	6
Comparing Government Social Welfare Service Acquisition Regimes: Marketisation and Bases for Competition in Canadian and English Homelessness	6
‘It’s Not Just About a Rainbow Lanyard’: How Structural Cisnormativity Undermines the Enactment of Anti-Discrimination Legislation in the Welsh Homelessness Service	6
Paul Spicker (2022), How to Fix the Welfare State: Some Ideas for Better Social Services, Bristol: Policy Press, £27.99, pp. 168, pbk.	5
Making the most of language acquisition of Syrian asylum permit holders in the Netherlands: the role of policy factors examined	5
What are the Barriers to Taxing Wealth? The Case of a Wealth Tax Proposal in the UK	5
Will Bartlett , Vassilis Monastiriotis and Panagiotis Koutrumpis (eds) (2020), Social Exclusion and Labour Market Challenges in the Western Balkans, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, £64.99, pp. 309, h	5
A dynamic perspective on profiling financial-aid eligibility: the case of South Africa	5
The Effect of Social Benefit Reform on Educational Inequality	5
Welfare Attitudes in Crisis: The Role of Ideology in Healthcare Satisfaction in Portugal and Ireland	5
JSP volume 51 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	5

Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen (2020), Finntopia: What We Can Learn From the World’s Happiest Country, Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, £18.99, pp. 320, hbk.