OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Australian Social Work is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Sexual Health, Fertility, and Relationships in Cancer Care. Psycho-oncology Care Series: Companion Guides for Clinicians	17
We Come With This Place	15
Special Issue: Safety and Innovation in Out-of-home Care	14
Announcement of Journal Awards 2021	13
Body, Relationship, Space: Dance Movement Therapy as an Intervention in Embodied Social Work With Parents and Their Children	11
Developing Social Work Professional Identity Resilience: Seven Protective Factors	10
Caring for the Caring Professionals Within a Cancer Hospital: Research into Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, and Distress	10
Everyday Community Practice: Principles and Practice	9
Beyond Implicit Bias: Embodied Cognition, Mindfulness, and Critical Reflective Practice in Social Work	9
Adding Eye-Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy to a Workforce Wellbeing Model	8
Children’s Rights to Participate in Out-of-Home Care: International Social Work Contexts	8
Child Protection Staff Perspectives of the SOFT Program: Touch, Textures, Weights, and Pressures	8
Enhancing Access to Income Support for Vulnerable Hospital Patients	7
Sharing the Care: One Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisation’s Approach to Out-of-Home Care of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children	7
Grief and Loss: Supporting Foster Carer Families Through Placement Terminations	7
Community Service Perspectives on Climate Change and Social Justice in Western Australia	7
Young Person–to–Mother Violence: An Integrative Review of Evidence from Australia and New Zealand	7
Decolonisation: More Than a Trendy Word	6
Embodiment: A Key to Social Workers’ Wellbeing and Attainment of Social Justice	6
A Simulated Placement: Using a Mixed-Reality Learning Environment for Social Work Field Education	6
A Yarn Among Social Workers: Knowing, Being, and Doing Social Work Learning, Expertise, and Practice	6
An Indigenous Strengths-based Theoretical Framework	6
Applying Human-Centred Design Tools in Social Work Research: A Desire-Centred Approach	5
Explaining Psychological Distress among Men in the Helping Professions: A Serial Mediation Model	5
Living with the Long-Term Effects of Cancer: Acknowledging Trauma and Other Emotional Challenges	5

The Human Services: Practitioners’ Experiences of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s & 1990s	5
Reflecting on Social Work Practice in the Northern Territory, Australia*	5
Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Social Work in Australia	5
Staying Connected During a Global Pandemic: Telephone Support for Vulnerable Populations	5
Effective Group Therapies for Young Adults Affected by Cancer: Using Support Groups in Clinical Settings in the US	5
A Structured Template for Social Work Psychosocial Assessments and Formulations in Healthcare	5
Challenging the Neoliberal Paradigm: Homelessness, Displacement, and the Need for Care	5
Community Reintegration of Long-Stay Hospitalised Mental Health Consumers During COVID-19 Pandemic	5
“Our Voices: Being Seen and Heard”	4
The Impact of Community Work: How to Gather Evidence	4
Safety, Innovation, and Hope in Out-of-Home Care	4
Investigating the Sense of Smell and Its Relevance to Embodied Social Work Practice: Exploring the Literature	4
Aboriginal Cultural Safety: A Case Study of Collaborative Practice at the Intersection of Family Violence and Child Protection	4
Call for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander/First Nations ReviewersAustralian Social Work	4
Social Work and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Student Placement Model	4
Innovative Cultural Care for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children in Out-of-Home Care	4
“Our Voices: Being Seen and Heard”	4
Social Work and Cancer: The Unique Contribution of Social Workers	4
Attitudes of Cancer Patients to Medicinal Cannabis Use: A Qualitative Study	4
Book reviews	4
Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care: International Research, Policy and Practice	4
The S.E.L.F. Framework for Keeping Children Connected to Their Culture in Out-of-Home Care	4
Social Work in the Oncology Setting Compared to Social Work in General Medical Settings: An Analysis of Findings From a Multisite Australian Social Work Practice Audit	3
Service Users in Social Work Student Supervision: A Scoping Review	3
Afro-diasporic Experiences of Highly Skilled Black African Immigrants in Australia	3
Practicing Critical Reflection in Social Care Organisations	3
Improving Service Responses for Children and Young People Who Experience Domestic and Family Violence: A Way Forward	3
Indigenous Research into Mainstream Australian Culture: Shifting the Lens Indigenous Research into Mainstream Australian Culture: Shifting the Lens , by Lorraine Muller,	3
The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Parents and Young People With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)	3
Social Work and Human Services Responsibilities in a Time of Climate Change: Country, Community and Complexity	3
Artificial Intelligence and Implications for the Australian Social Work Journal	3
Mental Health Service Staff on Sharing Lived Experience in the Workplace	3
Civic Engagement and Loneliness in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer+ Australian Volunteers	3
Safety Planning for Youth With Suicide Risk: A Clinical Audit	3
Turning Pages Together: The Power of Book Clubs for People Living with Dementia	2
A Cultural Newsletter: Sharing Information and Embedding Cultural Conversations in Practice	2
Interprofessional Collaboration: How Social Workers, Psychologists, and Teachers Collaborate to Address Student Wellbeing	2
First Contact Social Work: Responding to Domestic and Family Violence	2
The Types of Scholarly Publications Produced by Australian Social Work Researchers	2
Ethical Basics for the Caring Professions: Knowledge and Skills for Thoughtful Practice Ethical Basics for the Caring Professions: Knowledge and Skills for Thoughtful Practice	2
The Experiences of Indigenous Students on Placement: A Scoping Review	2
Contemporary Practitioner Experiences of Relational Social Work: The Case of Child Welfare	2
Resistance to Assimilation: Expanding Understandings of First Nations Cultural Connection in Child Protection and Out-of-home Care	2
Enabling Emergency Department Staff to Support Domestic Violence Victims of Strangulation	2
Stressors and Supports in Postdisaster Recovery: Experiences After the Black Saturday Bushfires	2
Gay Men’s Working Lives, Retirement and Old Age	2
Barriers Preventing Indigenous Women with Violence-related Head Injuries from Accessing Services in Australia	2
Voices from the Frontline: Insights on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing Advocacy	2
Interventions and Practice Models for Improving Health and Psychosocial Outcomes for Children in Residential Out-of-Home Care: Systematic Review	2
Social Spaces for Older Queer Adults: A Guide for Social Work Educators, Students and Practitioners	2

A Modern History of Child Protection in Australia: Queensland 1965–1980	2
Exploring Fathers’ Experiences in Caring for Their Child on a Paediatric Oncology Ward	2