OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Health & 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Keeping Safe and Working Effectively for Social Workers and Health Professionals (2nd edition). Brian Atkins	20
“Drugs Can Be a Great Coercion”: Service Providers’ Perspectives on the Relationship between Substance Use and Trauma Bonding among Survivors of Sex Trafficking	17
Assessing Change in Participation in Clinical Evaluations of Deployed Veterans with Medically Unexplained Symptoms	13
HIV Criminal Laws Are Legal Tools of Discrimination	11
Intimate Partner Violence and Traumatic Brain Injury: Leveraging Opportunities to Reimagine Interprofessional Collaboration	9
Verbal Administration of Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Questions: Increasing the Accuracy of Clients’ Histories	9
Clinician Scientists in Health Social Work	9
Association between Multitype Child Maltreatment and Life Satisfaction: The Mediating Effects of Health Literacy and Perceived Stress	8
Making Meaning of Difficult Experiences: A Self-Guided Program. Sheila A. M. Rauch & Barbara Olasov Rothbaum	7
Designing a Patient-Centered Interdisciplinary Intervention to Promote Equitable Access to Kidney Transplantation across Health Systems: The STEPS Study	6
Social Policy Priorities to Promote Health and Social Work	6
Dignity of Risk: A Path Forward	6
Self-Care in Social Work: A Person-in-Environment Approach to Managing Occupational Stress and Burnout (2nd ed.). Kathleen Cox and Sue Steiner	6
The Impact of Neighborhood-Level Factors on Perceived Quality of Hospice Service Satisfaction: A Geographic Information System Study	5
Health & Social Work	5
Navigating Intimate Partner Violence and Social Support Services: Testimonials of Latina Survivors	5
Black Alaskans Health Needs Assessment during COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Social Work	4
The Power of Social Prescribing in Addressing Social Determinants of Health	4
Descriptions of Spirituality among the American Public: The Relationship between Spiritual Salience and Specific Spiritual Understandings	4
A Call to Shift Theoretical Orientation for Eating Disorder Treatment in Social Work: Inside-Out and Outside-In	4
Embodiment and Erasure: Understanding Health Inequity for Queer and Trans Communities through a Queer Ecosocial Lens	4
Pain Reprocessing Therapy: An Opportunity for Social Work Practice and Visibility	4
Mental Health, Food Insecurity, and Economic Hardship among College Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Social Determinants and the Role of School-Based Mental Health Services in Adolescents’ Depressive Symptoms and Happiness	3
“All I Know Is That We Failed”: The Experiences of Human Service Workers Supporting the Health of Unaccompanied Minors	3

COVID-19 and the Postviral Syndrome of Long COVID: Where We Have Come from and Where We Are Going	3
Balancing Voter Fatigue and Election Exhaustion with the Profession’s Role in Social Justice	3
How Medical Social Workers Go through Ethical Dilemmas with Displaced Patients: A Qualitative Study Based on a Tertiary Hospital in Shanghai, China	3
Closing the Health Gap: Addressing the Underdiagnosis of Depression among Men	3
Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Cancer Access for Urban and Rural Survivors in the Philippines	3
Reimagining Professional Development for Mental Health Professionals: A Collaborative Approach to Achieve Mental Health Equity	3
Validation of the Attitudes toward Lying to People with Dementia (ALPD) Questionnaire among Social Workers in Spain	3
Piloting a Community-Based, Culturally Adapted Health Promotion Program for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Developmental Disabilities in First-Generation Korean Immigrant Families	3
Understanding Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (DMST) and Considerations for Medical Social Workers and Other Healthcare Professionals in Emergency Departments	3
Stabilizing the Direct Care Workforce: Challenges and Progress	2
Substance Use and Mental Health among Canadian Social Workers	2
Motivational Interviewing: A Physician and Social Worker Partnership in Rehabilitation Healthcare	2
Associations between Functional Disability and Chronic Conditions with Depressive Symptoms in Vietnamese-Origin Older Refugees	2
Accounting for Social Workers’ Emotions during and after the Pandemic	2
Staff Safety and Experiences with Electronic Safety Devices among a Sample of Veterans Affairs Homeless Service Providers	2
The COMPLETE Care Act: A Step Forward for Integrated Care	2
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Their Relationships with Perceived Stress and Self-Care Behaviors in African American Social Work Students: Insights from a Latent Class Analysis	2
Social Marketing for Social Work in Crisis Communication: A Holistic and Evidence-Based Perspective for Public Health	2
Reimagining Food Equity: A Multilevel Health Framework	2
Examining Women’s HIV Protective Behaviors in Nepal	2
Design Thinking for Health Disparities and Interdisciplinary Knowledge Translation: An LGBTQ+ Youth Health Literacy Project	2
Burden Predictors for Informal Caregivers of Older Adults in Spain: The Role of Cohabitation, Coping Strategies, Social Support, and Evaluation of Preexisting Relationships	2
Bridging Research and Practice in Health & Social Work : Publishing Perspectives from NASW Press Editors and Authors	2
Revealing Mindsets: An Effective Approach to Play Therapy Concerning the Treatment of Childhood Behavioral Disorders	2
Race and COVID-19 among Social Workers in Health Settings: Physical, Mental Health, Personal Protective Equipment, and Financial Stressors	2
Mental Health Emergency Department Use among Treatment-Seeking Adults in a Rural Northern Appalachian Clinic: The Role of Homelessness and Alcohol Use	2
Reflections of a Social Worker: Contributions to an Interdisciplinary Brain Healthcare Team	2
Health & Social Work	2
Empowering the Future: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Address Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking in the Philippines	2
A Promising Approach to Addressing the Needs of Patients with Endocarditis Secondary to Injection Drug Use: A Case Report	2
Promoting Antiracism and a Multisectoral System in Healthcare	2
When Chronic Illness Strikes: How Social Workers Support Adolescent Athletes	2
Mental Health of Veterinary Staff Members	2
Health & Social Work	2
Reenvisioning Social Work Education to Prepare Leaders in Integrated Health and Social Care	2
Oral Health and Social Work Integration: Advancing Social Workers’ Roles in Dental Education	2