OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of European Social Policy is 6. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A tall order. South European welfare states’ readiness for climate-adjusted social policy	33
A step too far: Employer perspectives on in-work conditionality	30
Defamilization? Not for everyone. Unequal labour-market participation among informal caregivers in Europe	25
Indicators of familialism and defamilialization in long-term care: A theoretical overview and introduction of macro-level indicators	24
Mapping the distinct patterns of educational and social stratification in European countries	21
From efficiency to ambivalence: How digitalisation reshapes labour market activation and the moral economy of welfare state	21
Deservingness and solidarity: Choosing who should get help among people who beg	19
Regional Inequality and the Knowledge Economy: North America and Europe	18
Poverty reduction during the COVID-19 pandemic: How did the European union perform relative to the United States?	17
Iceberg of discontent? Emotional responses to welfare state development and political trust	15
Paternity leave take-up in a segmented labor market: A cautionary tale of rapid policy expansion in Spain	14
Reinforcing unsustainable welfare in Europe? Growth-centrism, Eurocentrism and anthropocentrism in the 2024 EU Europarty election manifestos	13
Taking stock of individual power resources in European Union law: The blurry lines between adaptable and malleable social rights	12
Moving towards fairer regional minimum income schemes in Spain	11
Higher education in welfare regimes: Three worlds of post-Soviet transition	11
Does it pay to say ‘I do’? Marriage bonuses and penalties across the EU	9
Quid pro quo? A cross-national analysis of European citizens’ opinions toward the universality and conditionality of a basic income	9
The ethnic penalty in welfare deservingness: A factorial survey experiment on welfare chauvinism in pension attitudes in Germany	9
Towards a Re-insurance union? SURE as an EU response to preserve jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Beyond trade-offs: Exploring the changing interplay of public and private welfare provision in old age and health in the historical long-run	9
Weathering the storm together: Does unemployment insurance help couples avoid divorce?	9
The positive relationship between female employment and fertility rates: The role of family benefits expenditure and gender-role ideologies	9
Public preferences for social investment versus compensation policies in Social Europe	9
Welfare chauvinism in times of crises: The impact of the radical right political discourse	8
What distinguishes radical right welfare chauvinism? Excluding different migrant groups from the welfare state	8

Help or harm? Examining the effects of active labour market programmes on young adults’ employment quality and the role of social origin	8
Welfare Euroscepticism and socioeconomic status	8
The unhappy marriage of standardization and activation policy: Welfare bureaucracy and service professionalism in delivering digital social assistance in Finland	7
Do temporary employees experience increased material deprivation? Evidence from German panel data	7
Men in European Union’s gender equality policies	7
Kids back to school – parents back to work? School and daycare opening and parents’ employment in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic	7
What makes social policy programs (un)popular? Disentangling the causal impact of policy design, risk group deservingness and mode of delivery	7
Attitudes toward healthcare performance in Europe, 2002–2017: How absolute and relative measures can reveal different patterns	7
Party ideology and care policy: The decline of institutional care since 1950	6
The politics of subnational social policy: Social consumption versus social investment in Austria	6
When caring comes at a cost: Psychological wellbeing of unpaid and paid carers and the role of social expenditure	6
Complementary policy fields in action: Local policies targeted at multi-problem NEETs	6
An examination of ‘instrumental resources’ in earmarked parental leave: The case of the work–life balance directive	6
The moderating role of government heuristics in public preferences for redistribution	6