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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial	54
Impersonalisation: the corruption of social care. Competing dimensions, personal perspectives and experiences of care	12
Communication and interpersonal skills in social work	10
Feeling safe enough to explore as a newly qualified social worker	10
Experiences of a service user advisor to a post-qualifying social work course: a personal account	8
Chinese male survivors of intimate partner violence: living in and transforming stigma	8
Mentalizing and epistemic trust. The work of Peter Fonagy and colleagues at the Anna Freud Centre	7
Critical pedagogy and open dialogue – their parallels and importance for social work practice	6
Reflective practice editorial	5
From knowledge to the heart: conceptualizing practice wisdom in social work from an Eastern perspective	5
“Unaccompanied social workers, unaccompanied families”: qualitative research on Italian professionals’ feelings and emotions on working with African refugee families	5
The lived experience of poverty in Ireland: a commentary on the ‘Object Poverty’ exhibition	4
Working in complex contexts; mother social workers and the mothers they meet	4
A review on social work and climate change: the need for a transdisciplinary approach	4
Time-limited adolescent psychodynamic psychotherapy. A developmentally focussed psychotherapy for young people	4
The Empathy Diaries: a memoir	4
Integrating professional identities: an ethnographic study of psychoanalytic child psychotherapy in a children’s social care setting	3
Healing and Resilience after Trauma (HaRT) Yoga: programming with survivors of human trafficking in Uganda	3
Art-based social work experiences in Portugal	3
The acceptability of non-abstinent treatment goals among clinical social workers in the United States	3
Supervision as a secure base: the role of attachment theory within the emotional and psycho-social landscape of social work supervision	2
Editorial	2
The importance of reflective social work practice in a traumatised country like South Africa	2
Editorial	2
Eco-anxiety: A Q method analysis towards eco-anxiety attitudes in the United Arab Emirates	2

The social work team post-COVID: why workers are still in recovery	2
Connection and hope in a post-pandemic world?	2
Towards critical child protection: for a relationship-based and humane practice with children and families	2
‘Beautifully masked’: hidden tragedies at the heart of Mental Health Act assessments in England	1
‘Control or support?’ Professional roles and judgements in problem solving in adult social work team conferences	1
An investigation of social justice: the values, attitudes, and behaviour of newly qualified South African social workers	1
Social work in addiction: opportunities and alliances	1
Letting go of ‘the way things are done here’: from reflection to disruption in local authority social work	1
A systematic review of psychosocial interventions for child soldiers: types, length and main findings	1
Perception of father absence in family assessment and intervention: are they not involved because they don’t want to be?	1
The role of meeting management in group decision-making: lessons learnt from UK fostering and adoption panels	1
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	1
An intercultural critical reflection model	1
Intersectionality and relational psychoanalysis. New perspectives on race, gender and sexuality	1
Social workers’ evaluation of ChatGPT for solving ethical dilemmas within the limits of confidentiality	1
To take, place and refuse accountability: how team members handle tasks and roles in collaboration on school attendance problems	1
Organisational culture as a professional care strategy. Public social work in Andalusia (Spain)	1
Editorial	1
Who thinks about death? A psychoanalytically informed interpretive study of communication about death among nursing home staff	1
Editorial	1
The changing face of community work: from radicalism to networking. A European perspective	1
Radical Hope: poverty-aware practice for social work	1
The future of social work	1
Development of a culturally safe recovery-oriented mental health practice	1
Information and communication technologies in the communication between the social worker and the client	1
Looking back thinking forward	1