OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Social Work Practice 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Impersonalisation: the corruption of social care. Competing dimensions, personal perspectives and experiences of care	17
Feeling safe enough to explore as a newly qualified social worker	11
Editorial	10
Communication and interpersonal skills in social work	8
Mentalizing and epistemic trust. The work of Peter Fonagy and colleagues at the Anna Freud Centre	7
“Unaccompanied social workers, unaccompanied families”: qualitative research on Italian professionals’ feelings and emotions on working with African refugee families	7
Experiences of a service user advisor to a post-qualifying social work course: a personal account	7
Reflective practice editorial	6
Chinese male survivors of intimate partner violence: living in and transforming stigma	5
Thinking the unthinkable: ‘white liberal’ defences against understanding in anti-racist training	5
Critical pedagogy and open dialogue – their parallels and importance for social work practice	5
The lived experience of poverty in Ireland: a commentary on the ‘Object Poverty’ exhibition	4
Art-based social work experiences in Portugal	4
From knowledge to the heart: conceptualizing practice wisdom in social work from an Eastern perspective	4
Integrating professional identities: an ethnographic study of psychoanalytic child psychotherapy in a children’s social care setting	4
The social work team post-COVID: why workers are still in recovery	4
The Empathy Diaries: a memoir	4
A review on social work and climate change: the need for a transdisciplinary approach	4
The acceptability of non-abstinent treatment goals among clinical social workers in the United States	4
The importance of reflective social work practice in a traumatised country like South Africa	3
Towards critical child protection: for a relationship-based and humane practice with children and families	3
Connection and hope in a post-pandemic world?	3
Editorial	3
Eco-anxiety: A Q method analysis towards eco-anxiety attitudes in the United Arab Emirates	3
Supervision as a secure base: the role of attachment theory within the emotional and psycho-social landscape of social work supervision	3

Follow the leader: anxiety, managerialism and basic assumption dependency in children and family social work decision-making	3
Editorial	3
The changing face of community work: from radicalism to networking. A European perspective	2
An investigation of social justice: the values, attitudes, and behaviour of newly qualified South African social workers	2
The role of meeting management in group decision-making: lessons learnt from UK fostering and adoption panels	2
‘Beautifully masked’: hidden tragedies at the heart of Mental Health Act assessments in England	2
‘Control or support?’ Professional roles and judgements in problem solving in adult social work team conferences	2
Why group therapy works and how to do it: a guide for health and social care professionals Why group therapy works and how to do it: a guide for health and social care professionals	2
Editorial	2
Radical Hope: poverty-aware practice for social work	2
An intercultural critical reflection model	2
Letting go of ‘the way things are done here’: from reflection to disruption in local authority social work	2
Keeping our heads: preserving therapeutic values in a time of change	2
Editorial	1
What do child protection social workers consider to be the systemic factors driving workforce instability within the English child protection system, and what are the implications for the UK Governmen	1
Current caregiver involvement and contact with biological parents are associated with lower externalizing symptoms of youth in out-of-home child welfare placements	1
Containment as a lived experience	1
A systematic review of psychosocial interventions for child soldiers: types, length and main findings	1
Development of a culturally safe recovery-oriented mental health practice	1
Looking back thinking forward	1
Effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions to reduce stress among social workers- a meta-analysis	1
The importance of social work in a challenging world	1
Critical psychoanalytic social work. Research and case studies for clinical practice	1
How learning from the lived experiences of child protection social workers can help us understand the factors underpinning workforce instability within the English child protection system	1
Improving communication in mental health settings: Evidence-based recommendations from practitioner-led research	1
Healing in relationships, the power of equine-assisted mental health interventions	1
Enhancing relationship-based practice in the homeless sector by applying Hall’s representation theory (1997) and peer reviewed research	1
Social workers’ evaluation of ChatGPT for solving ethical dilemmas within the limits of confidentiality	1
Organisational culture as a professional care strategy. Public social work in Andalusia (Spain)	1
Perception of father absence in family assessment and intervention: are they not involved because they don’t want to be?	1
Exploring the socialization of homeless children in Czechia: sibling relationships	1
Taking it personally: practitioner perspectives on the unfinished business of putting personalisation into practice	1
Imagined interactions of social workers in social work with families: how and why the practitioners talk to themselves?	1
Finding a way to the child: selected clinical papers 1983–2021	1
Social workers’ experience with the concept of empowerment: voices from the disability field	1
A qualitative exploration of recognition and judgement in social work practice with street children in Ghana	1
The ‘team’ in child and family social work: exploratory findings from a longitudinal study on factors influencing the retention of child and family social workers in England	1
To take, place and refuse accountability: how team members handle tasks and roles in collaboration on school attendance problems	1
Information and communication technologies in the communication between the social worker and the client	1
Editorial	1
The future of social work	1
Subverting, challenging and working within bureaucratic and managerialist systems: strategies for upholding relationship-based social work practice	1