OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The challenges of combining ‘knowing-that’ and ‘knowing-how’ in social work education and professional practice in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration	45
Enabling positive framings of stigmatised settings: a neglected responsibility for social work	23
Datenschutz in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe. Praxishandbuch für die sozialpädagogische Arbeit	21
The role of child protection managers during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Challenges, priorities, new knowledge and skills	19
A tale of two cases – investigating reasoning in similar cases with different outcomes	17
Radical hope: poverty-aware practice for social work	15
Writing skills for social work students	15
Policymakers on social cohesion: contradictory expectations for child and family social work	15
Call for Papers	13
‘The only thing I do is coordination’: on the voluntarisation of social work in the Netherlands	12
The impact of neurobiological sciences on family placement policy and practice	12
Resonating relationships: an interview study with participants in an individual placement and support programme in Denmark	12
Gendered alignment and place-making: adolescents shaping social space in stigmatised neighbourhoods	11
Editorial	11
Travelling meanings: accountability practices and standardised instruments at a child protection service in the Netherlands	11
Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures	11
Support to ‘non-clients’: care managers’ role in direct and indirect carer support	10
COVID-19 and risk: policy making in a global pandemicCOVID-19 and risk: policy making in a global pandemic, by Andy Alaszewski, Bristol, Policy Press, 2021, 160 pp., ISBN 978-1-4473-6202-9 (ePDF), 978	10
Positive parenting, family resilience, and child participation in family reunification: good professional practices	9
Domestic violence professionals in Portuguese shelters: navigating challenges amidst the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Balancing the line — the relation between waiting and activity among people in need of food in Sweden	9
Diminishing their voice through choice? How ‘self-placing’ in out-of-home care affects children and young people’s participation in decision-making	8
Influence of street outreach work on the lives of marginalised people	8
Hospital social workers’ contributions to increasing health literacy among parents of acutely and critically ill children	8
Participation at the margins – participation practices from the viewpoint of young people in residential care	8

Participation of youth in group social intervention programmes in Madrid. A qualitative study focused on participants’ experiences	7
Adolescents in therapeutic residential care: treatment needs and characteristics	7
Voices from the silent cradles. Life histories of Romania’s looked-after children	7
Teaching social work	7
Participation in practice in child welfare: processes, benefits and challenges	7
The migration of social workers to and from the United Kingdom: a comparative perspective	7
Group decision-making theories for child and family social work	7
Mentoring for social inclusion: a call for social work to engage with an emerging model of social intervention	6
Constructing a client category of the experience of buying sex: an explorative study of how sexuality and masculinity construct the client category of men who buy sex within social work in Sweden	6
Advocacy and legal aid for homeless people. Challenges and insights from a study of voluntary organisation in Italy	6
Are they waiting for the welfare state or Godot? Reflections from people who lost their jobs or incomes during Covid-19 pandemic in Turkey	6
Social sustainability: what implications for social work?	6
‘Is it a positive or a negative?’ Children’s participation in discharge of care order proceedings	6
Digital communication and child participation in child welfare services: a scoping review of potentials and challenges	6
Exploring theoretical resources for social work from the global south: Latin American critical theory	6
“Social Space: Creating Condizioni – Milieus – Territorio – Landscapes”	5
Social work research using arts-based methods	5
A cluster analysis of the family dynamics in a family prevention programme for adolescents from vulnerable families	5
What prevents people from becoming foster carers?	5
The child perspective within family intervention projects: a cluster-randomised study with a mixed methods design	5
Mental health and quality of life among Norwegian child welfare service workers	5
Editorial	5
Editorial	5
The politics and economics of Brexit	5
What is in a failure: a descriptive study about conceptions of failures within social services	5
Rural social work: practices and organisation. A case study in Andalusia (Spain)	5
Humanities at the crossroads: reflections on theory, culture and resistance	5
Social workers’ navigation between repression and social support for men purchasing sex	5
Revealing the freedom of movement of youngsters in residential youth care: towards the creation of a socio-spatial citizenship climate	5
Discursively constructing youth at risk: street-level professionals’ blending of othering and de-othering	5
The origins of social care and social work: creating a global future	5
Ready and steady? – A cross-sectional study of Norwegian social workers’ resilience and job satisfaction during COVID-19	5
An anti-oppressive approach to social work practice with transgender youth and young adults experiencing homelessness	4
Ambivalence in activation encounters	4
‘Exploring Heteronormativity’: a teaching programme to develop experience-based knowledge of the reproduction of power asymmetries	4
The social worker-client relationship in the digital era: a configurative literature review	4
Well-being at work factors perceived by social work professionals during COVID-19: reflections for the generation of Healthy Organisations	4
Social work in a superdiverse society: an exploration of cooperation in professional practice	4
Child protection and rights in India: COVID-19 experiences and contemporary challenges	4
‘I have the strength and the Faith’ — adaptation of Ukrainian refugee parents in Estonia after fleeing the war	4
Allowing time to piece the puzzle together: experiences of Norwegian service providers in supporting the empowerment of refugees with limited formal education	4
Editorial	4
Independent experts in care order proceedings: a scoping review	4
Integration from the perspective of young women who came to Sweden as unaccompanied asylum-seeking girls from Afghanistan. An interpretative phenomenological analysis	4
Conceptualizing critical practice in social work: an integration of recognition and redistribution	4
Child welfare workers’ understanding of gender, sexual orientation and sexual health in assessments of youths with a problematic substance use	4
A hybrid job center. Composite client experiences with employment services between enforcement and care	4
When opinions differ: the development of a reflection tool for youth professionals to support shared decision-making with parents	4
Activation policy and discretion in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) – introducing a multi-layered explanatory model	4
Navigating multiple displacements: encounters and emplacement practices at municipal service centres in marginalised communities in Sweden	4

The meaning of social cohesion in preventive family support: a practitioners’ perspective	4
Strategic leadership and management in nonprofit organisations – theory and practice, 2nd edition	4
Eco-social work: Politica e lavoro sociale nella crisi ecologica (Strumenti per il servizio sociale)	4
Transformative change in social service delivery and social work practice in Latvia during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Providing help or restrictions? Frontline workers’ understandings of behavioural conditionality for health-related social insurance and social assistance benefit in a joined-up governance context	4
The untold stories of resilience, reworking and resistance of ageing non-European migrant women	4
Perceptions of participation: how nursing home staff and managers perceive and strive for participation of older residents	4
Single Moms, absent Dads: neglecting fathers and burdening mothers in social work practice with separated families	4
Cultural well-being and social work: conceptual understandings and their application to music-based interventions for older people	4
Life after Covid-19: the other side of the crisis	4
The father absence-mother blame paradigm in child protection social work: an Italian feminist single case study	3
The use of independent foster care agencies by Swedish local authorities: Do structural factors matter?	3
Invisible children and young people in Child Protection Services	3
Social workers’ risk assessment in child protection: the problem of disagreement and a lack of a precise language about risk	3
Delivering trauma-informed outreach to women involved in street-based prostitution: enablers and barriers	3
Critical social psychology of social class	3
‘Theatre has made me look people in the eye’: achievements and challenges of applied theatre in social work	3
Waiting for welfare: experiences of street traders from Delhi, India	3
Admission of an older person into a care home in Europe: exploring the dimensions of a ‘Healthy Transition’ and the potential role of social work	3
Editorial	3
Help and support for bereaved persons who use drugs: a qualitative study	3
L’Accompagnement social et la mort	3
African immigrants in Sweden experiencing the threat of forced child removal	3
Commoning by zoning? Social work’s involvement in urban spatial conflicts	3
Evidence and evidence gaps in assessments and interventions in areas related to social work research and practice – an overview of four evidence maps	3
Editorial	3
Confronting and managing ethical dilemmas in social work using ChatGPT	3
Teaching disability using problem-based learning in the international context: utility for social work	3
The bridging role of social work: the quest towards installing a structural approach within primary health care	3
Embedding sustainability in local welfare systems: bottom-up contributions from social workers and care professionals in public and third sector organisations	3
Voices from the frontline: practicing school social work in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Who would never grant them equal rights? A comparative analysis of welfare chauvinism in Central and Eastern Europe	3
When the outside penetrates the inside: the relationship between Palestinian Israeli and Jewish Israeli social workers in mixed cities during the events of May 2021	3
Unfolding the ‘grey scene’: exploring the intersection of work and home during post-COVID remote social work	2
Between emotion and occupation: employment promoting practice from social workers’ perspective	2
Berührungspunkte von Sozialer Arbeit und Klimawandel. Perspektiven und Handlungsspielräume	2
Hitting the road together: how do care workers develop pedagogical praxis in relation to a positive living climate in residential youth care?	2
No choice? Hiring agency social workers in the Swedish personal social services	2
Stress, sense of meaningful work, and well-Being among social workers during Covid-19	2
Narratives of social work practice and education in Sweden	2
Competence and professionalisation among return-to-work coordinators in Sweden: comparisons by original profession	2
The philosophy of liberation and social work: a short essay in memory of Enrico Dussel (1934–2023)	2
A scoping review of research on coordinated pathways towards employment for youth in vulnerable life situations	2
Alice Salomon: critical social work pioneer	2
Decent incomes for All: Improving policies in Europe	2
Gendered domestic violence and abuse in popular culture	2
Under pressure: a critical scoping review of scales and instruments used in work with people in over-indebtedness	2
What do childcare professionals agree on when they propose non-kin foster care?	2
Not trustworthy. African parents’ perspectives on Norwegian child protection care measures	2
Narratives of social work practice and education in Sweden	2
‘In the end you’re no longer the kid from the children’s home, you‘re just yourself’: Resilience in care leavers over 25	2
Adoption from care, the reunification principle and consensual placements: the political promotion of a controversial child protection measure in Sweden	2
Notice of duplicate publication: Social work: past, present and future	2
Emerging opportunities for relationship-based social work? Finnish social workers’ reflections on utilising digital environments during two phases of the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Arab social workers navigating multiple jobs in Israel: a qualitative investigation of their experiences	2
Dedication to work: social workers in a Norwegian activation work context	2
German social workers as professional politicians: career paths and social advocacy	2
The materiality of home visits at the margins of community care before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Collaborative mental health treatment: current practices among mental health providers in Norway	2
Political ideology and social work	2
Working with pupils who use alcohol and drugs: emotional labour and crime prevention of Swedish high school staff members	2
A safe place of one’s own? Exploring practice and policy dilemmas in child welfare practice with families waiting for adequate and secure housing	2