OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Social Policy is 4. 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
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	40
The Dynamics of Social Assistance in the Informal Economy: Empirical Evidence from Urban China	40
To what extent does early childhood education policy in Australia recognise and propose action on the social determinants of health and health equity?	34
Understanding informal care burden domains’ impact on overall burden – a structural equation modeling approach with cross-sectional data from Germany	29
What They Talk About When They Talk About Homelessness: Discourse and Knowledge Culture as a Barrier to Integrated Policy Initiatives	28
Logistics of care: Trust-reform and self-managing teams in municipal home care services	27
How Does the Provision of Childcare Services Affect Mothers’ Employment Intentions? Empirical Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment	25
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
Welfare Regime Variation in the Impact of the Great Recession on Deprivation Levels: A Dynamic Perspective on Polarisation vs Convergence for Social Risk Groups, 2005–2014	18
JSP volume 50 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	15
First step and last resort: One-Euro-Jobs after the reform	14
Digitally Networked Social Services: Mapping the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) online network in Queensland, Australia	14
The contested jurisdiction of Social Policy in UK universities since 1972	14
Emergency Responses to COVID-19 and Opportunities for Inclusive Social Policy	12
Organisational outputs of administrative reforms: disability in Danish job centres	12
Subnational Social Investment in Three European Cities: An Exploratory Comparison	12
Deserving more? A vignette study on the role of self-interest and deservingness opinions for popular support for wealth taxation in Germany	11
Wishing for More: Technological Change, the Rise of Involuntary Part-Time Employment and the Role of Active Labour Market Policies	10
Not that basic: how level, design, and context matter for the redistributive outcomes of universal basic income	9
Ship of Theseus: from ILO Standards to Outcome of Maternity Protection Policy	9
Yasmine Ergas , Jane Jenson and Sonya Michel (eds) (2019), Reassembling Motherhood: Procreation and Care in a Globalized World, New York: Columbia University Press, £22.00, pp. 336, pbk.	9
The impact of health impairments on employment entry and the quality of employment among basic income support recipients in Germany	9
Scandinavian Approaches to Begging as a Policy Problem and the Double Insider/Outsider Status of Marginalized Intra-EU Migrants	8

‘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	8
Adapting to an older workforce: health and the (non) response of employers in an era of insecurity	8
The Persistence in Gendering: Work-Family Policy in Britain since Beveridge	8
JSP volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	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	7
JSP volume 51 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	7
How Incarcerating Children Affects their Labour Market Outcomes	7
Recognising and addressing wealth privilege in policymaking through an analysis of epistemic practice and agency	7
Does the family care best? Ideals of care in a familialistic care regime	7
Ethnic differences in intergenerational housing mobility in England and Wales	7
Social Policy and Queer Lives: Coming Out of the Closet?	7
Legitimating collaboration, collaborating to legitimate: Justification work in “holistic” services for long-term unemployed persons	7
Parental Freedom in the Context of Risk to the Child: Citizens’ Views of Child Protection and the State in the US and Norway	7
Bent Greve (2022), Rethinking Welfare and the Welfare State, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, £63.00, pp. 160, hbk.*	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	6
Incoherent and Indefensible? A Normative Analysis of Young People’s Position in England’s Welfare and Homelessness Systems	6
Financializing Healthcare and Infrastructures of Social Reproduction: How to Bankrupt a Hospital and be Unprepared for a Pandemic	6
Did increasing the UK’s Universal Credit and working tax credits by £20 per week in 2020–2021 reduce food insecurity?	6
JSP volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	6
How and why does relational welfare work to support young people not in employment, education or training (NEET)? A realist evaluation	6
Socio-Economic Gaps in Workers’ Participation in Private Pension Programmes in Ten European Countries	6
Does the Family Care Best? Ideals of Care in a Familialistic Care Regime – ERRATUM	6
Financialisation and private equity in early childhood care and education in England	6
Fiona Bloomer , Claire Pierson and Sylvia Estrada Claudio (2020), Reimagining Global Abortion Politics: A Social Justice Perspective, Bristol: Policy Press, £24.99, pp. 176, pbk.	6
State inspection in contexts of cultural and sociopolitical conflict: The case of social services offered to Arab-Palestinian young women in Israel	6
Next to Nothing: The Impact of the Norwegian Introduction Programme on Female Immigrants’ Labour Market Inclusion	6
Does young adulthood caring influence educational attainment and employment in the UK and Germany?	5
Lisa Dellmuth (2021), Is Europe Good For You? EU Spending and Well-Being, Bristol University Press, £47.99, pp. 202, hbk.	5
Hybrid entitlement: Welfare recipients’ perceptions of entitlement to social rights	5
‘It’s Not Just About a Rainbow Lanyard’: How Structural Cisnormativity Undermines the Enactment of Anti-Discrimination Legislation in the Welsh Homelessness Service	5
Derek Fraser (2023), The Beveridge Report: Blueprint for the Welfare State, London & New York: Routledge, £120, pp. 240, hbk.	5
Income Insecurity and the Relational Coping Strategies of Low-Income Households in the UK	5
John Stewart (2020), Richard Titmuss: A Commitment to Welfare, Bristol: Policy Press, £47.99, pp. 600, hbk.	5
Comparing Government Social Welfare Service Acquisition Regimes: Marketisation and Bases for Competition in Canadian and English Homelessness	5
Missing Incomes in the UK: Evidence and Policy Implications	5
Investigating social protection amongst platform workers in Germany: forced individualisation, hybrid income generation and undesired regulation	5
Individual and Contextual Sources of (Mis)Perceptions About the Impact of Immigration on the Welfare State	5
In Defence of Ordinary Help: Estimating the effect of Early Help/Family Support Spending on Children in Need Rates in England using ALT-SR	5
Welfare Attitudes in Crisis: The Role of Ideology in Healthcare Satisfaction in Portugal and Ireland	5
The Effect of Social Benefit Reform on Educational Inequality	4
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	4
JSP volume 51 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	4
JSP volume 50 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	4
Jonathan Wistow (2022), Social Policy, Political Economy and the Social Contract, Bristol: Policy Press, £24.99, pp. 190, pbk.	4
The Participation of People in Vulnerable Situations in Interest Organisations: A Qualitative Study of Representatives Views	4
What are the Barriers to Taxing Wealth? The Case of a Wealth Tax Proposal in the UK	4
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.	4
Improving Take-Up by Reaching Out to Potential Beneficiaries. Insights from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in Belgium	4
Paul Spicker (2019), Thinking Collectively Social Policy, Collective Action and the Common Good, Bristol: Policy Press, £75.00, pp. 188, hbk.	4

Take-up and distribution of a universal cash benefit: The case of the Austrian long-term care allowance	4
A dynamic perspective on profiling financial-aid eligibility: the case of South Africa	4
Paul Spicker (2022), How to Fix the Welfare State: Some Ideas for Better Social Services, Bristol: Policy Press, £27.99, pp. 168, pbk.	4
JSP volume 50 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
Anja Eleveld , Thomas Kampen and Josien Arts (eds) (2020) Welfare to Work in Contemporary European Welfare States: Legal, Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives on Justice and Domination, Brist	4
The unexpected impact of geographic access on take-up of social benefits	4
Making the most of language acquisition of Syrian asylum permit holders in the Netherlands: the role of policy factors examined	4