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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Pretreatment Change in Substance Use: Implications for the Social Work Field	16
Keeping Safe and Working Effectively for Social Workers and Health Professionals (2nd edition). Brian Atkins	15
“Drugs Can Be a Great Coercion”: Service Providers’ Perspectives on the Relationship between Substance Use and Trauma Bonding among Survivors of Sex Trafficking	12
Substance Use in Relation to Mental Illness: A Study of Mexican-Origin Latinos with Schizophrenia and Their Family Members	11
Social Workers’ Self-Care Practices: Buffering the Influence of Work–Family Interferences on Burnout and Engagement	11
Assessing Change in Participation in Clinical Evaluations of Deployed Veterans with Medically Unexplained Symptoms	9
HIV Criminal Laws Are Legal Tools of Discrimination	8
Verbal Administration of Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Questions: Increasing the Accuracy of Clients’ Histories	7
Clinician Scientists in Health Social Work	7
Intimate Partner Violence and Traumatic Brain Injury: Leveraging Opportunities to Reimagine Interprofessional Collaboration	7
Making Meaning of Difficult Experiences: A Self-Guided Program. Sheila A. M. Rauch & Barbara Olasov Rothbaum	6
Association between Multitype Child Maltreatment and Life Satisfaction: The Mediating Effects of Health Literacy and Perceived Stress	6
Designing a Patient-Centered Interdisciplinary Intervention to Promote Equitable Access to Kidney Transplantation across Health Systems: The STEPS Study	5
Social Policy Priorities to Promote Health and Social Work	5
The Impact of Neighborhood-Level Factors on Perceived Quality of Hospice Service Satisfaction: A Geographic Information System Study	5
Dignity of Risk: A Path Forward	5
Self-Care in Social Work: A Person-in-Environment Approach to Managing Occupational Stress and Burnout (2nd ed.) Kathleen Cox & Sue Steiner	5
A Call to Shift Theoretical Orientation for Eating Disorder Treatment in Social Work: Inside-Out and Outside-In	4
Health & Social Work	4
Embodiment and Erasure: Understanding Health Inequity for Queer and Trans Communities through a Queer Ecosocial Lens	4
Black Alaskans Health Needs Assessment during COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Social Work	4
Mental Health, Food Insecurity, and Economic Hardship among College Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Pain Reprocessing Therapy: An Opportunity for Social Work Practice and Visibility	3
Standing against Anti-Asian Racism in America	3
Medication Barriers and Adherence: Experiences of Pediatric Transplant Recipients	3

COVID-19 and the Postviral Syndrome of Long COVID: Where We Have Come from and Where We Are Going	3
Validation of the Attitudes toward Lying to People with Dementia (ALPD) Questionnaire among Social Workers in Spain	3
Closing the Health Gap: Addressing the Underdiagnosis of Depression among Men	3
Descriptions of Spirituality among the American Public: The Relationship between Spiritual Salience and Specific Spiritual Understandings	3
Balancing Voter Fatigue and Election Exhaustion with the Profession’s Role in Social Justice	3
Reimagining Professional Development for Mental Health Professionals: A Collaborative Approach to Achieve Mental Health Equity	3
How Medical Social Workers Go through Ethical Dilemmas with Displaced Patients: A Qualitative Study Based on a Tertiary Hospital in Shanghai, China	3
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
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
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
Race and COVID-19 among Social Workers in Health Settings: Physical, Mental Health, Personal Protective Equipment, and Financial Stressors	2
Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Cancer Access for Urban and Rural Survivors in the Philippines	2
Health & Social Work	2
Managing Ethical and Ideological Practice Conflicts in a Polarizing Political Environment	2
Substance Use and Mental Health among Canadian Social Workers	2
Social Marketing for Social Work in Crisis Communication: A Holistic and Evidence-Based Perspective for Public Health	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
Revealing Mindsets: An Effective Approach to Play Therapy Concerning the Treatment of Childhood Behavioral Disorders	2
Reenvisioning Social Work Education to Prepare Leaders in Integrated Health and Social Care	2
Understanding Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (DMST) and Considerations for Medical Social Workers and Other Healthcare Professionals in Emergency Departments	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
Motivational Interviewing: A Physician and Social Worker Partnership in Rehabilitation Healthcare	2
Gaining an Empathetic Insight into Parenting: Evaluating Infant Simulator Dolls for Professional Learning	2
Examining Women’s HIV Protective Behaviors in Nepal	2
Promoting Antiracism and a Multisectoral System in Healthcare	2
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development–Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing Program: Bring All Homeless Veterans Home	2
When Chronic Illness Strikes: How Social Workers Support Adolescent Athletes	2
Mental Health of Veterinary Staff Members	2
Oral Health and Social Work Integration: Advancing Social Workers’ Roles in Dental Education	2
Bridging Research and Practice in Health & Social Work : Publishing Perspectives from NASW Press Editors and Authors	2
Reflections of a Social Worker: Contributions to an Interdisciplinary Brain Healthcare Team	2
Health & Social Work	2
A Promising Approach to Addressing the Needs of Patients with Endocarditis Secondary to Injection Drug Use: A Case Report	2
Stabilizing the Direct Care Workforce: Challenges and Progress	2
Associations between Functional Disability and Chronic Conditions with Depressive Symptoms in Vietnamese-Origin Older Refugees	2
Design Thinking for Health Disparities and Interdisciplinary Knowledge Translation: An LGBTQ+ Youth Health Literacy Project	2