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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The social worker-client relationship in the digital era: a configurative literature review	36
The covid-19 pandemic and care homes for older people in Europe - deaths, damage and violations of human rights	21
Dilemmas and conflicting pressures in social work practice	18
Burnout in Health Social Work: an international systematic review (2000–2020)	18
Practitioner perspectives on the implementation of an electronic information system to enforce practice standards in England	15
Supervision in child protection: a space and place for reflection or an excruciating marathon of compliance?	14
The use of Electronic Information Systems in social work. A scoping review of the empirical articles published between 2000 and 2019	12
Using intuition in social work decision making	11
Resilience of child protection social workers: a scoping review	11
Integrated care for individuals with mental illness and substance abuse – the example of the coordinated individual plan in Sweden	11
Implementing the Individual Placement and Support approach in institutional settings for employment and mental health services – perceptions and challenges from a case study in Denmark	10
Social workers in politics–a qualitative analysis of factors influencing social workers’ decision to run for political office	10
Automated decision-making, discretion and public values: a case study of two municipalities and their case management of social assistance	10
‘You get a completely different feeling’ – an empirical exploration of emotions and their functions in digital frontline work	9
Decision support and algorithmic support: the construction of algorithms and professional discretion in social work	9
The encounter between professional and cultural values of social workers in the Arab sector in Israel: dilemmas, difficulties and challenges	8
Three caregiver profiles: who are they, what do they do, and who are their co-carers?	8
Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures	8
Exploring populations view on thresholds and reasons for child protection intervention – comparing England, Norway, Poland and Romania	8
The impact of social support on emotional exhaustion and workplace bullying in social workers	8
‘But what are we doing to that baby?’ Attachment, psy-Speak and designed order in social work	7
‘People are responsible for their own individual actions’: dominant ideologies within the Neoliberal Institutionalised Social Work Order	7
The struggle over the character of social services: conceptualising hybridity and power	7
Temporal dispossession through migration bureaucracy: on waiting within the asylum process in Sweden	7
Outcomes in adulthood among former child welfare services recipients: findings from a Norwegian registry study covering two decades	6

Moving forward, waiting or standing still? Service users’ experiences from a Norwegian labour activation programme	6
Smart welfare and slow digital poverty: the new face of social work	6
Perspectives on organizational structure and social services’ work with clients – a narrative review of 25 years research on social services	6
The challenges of combining ‘knowing-that’ and ‘knowing-how’ in social work education and professional practice in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration	6
Coordinated individual care planning and shared decision making: staff perspectives within the comorbidity field of practice	6
Ukrainian refugees’ reception in Swedish sports clubs: ‘deservingness’ and ‘promising victimhood’	6
Social work and the Roma community: elements to improve current practices	6
The unfinished democratisation of family service systems: parental consent and children’s viewpoints on receiving support in child and family welfare in Sweden	6
Child-researcher relationships in child protection research. An integrative review	6
Conceptualizing critical practice in social work: an integration of recognition and redistribution	6
A scoping review of research on coordinated pathways towards employment for youth in vulnerable life situations	6
Trust and Power in the Space Between Visibility and Invisibility. Exploring Digital and Social Media Practices in Norwegian Child Welfare Services	5
Child, parent or family? Applying a systemic lens to the conceptualisations of Family Support in Europe	5
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	5
No choice? Hiring agency social workers in the Swedish personal social services	5
Gender and ethnicity in social assistance assessments of single applicants with substance abuse problems	5
Transformative change in social service delivery and social work practice in Latvia during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Perceptions of participation: how nursing home staff and managers perceive and strive for participation of older residents	5
Factors affecting user participation for nursing home residents with dementia: a critical interpretive synthesis	5
Strengthening the working alliance between social workers and parents living in households with low income	5
Integration from the perspective of young women who came to Sweden as unaccompanied asylum-seeking girls from Afghanistan. An interpretative phenomenological analysis	5
The double-edged sword – abused women’s experiences of digital technology	5
Agency in waiting? Everyday tactics of asylum seekers and refugees in Glasgow	5
Dedication to work: social workers in a Norwegian activation work context	5
German social workers as professional politicians: career paths and social advocacy	5
Enhancing reflectivity in social, care and health professionals – identifying students’ abilities and needs	5
Health social workers and research knowledge utilisation – a Swedish survey study	4
Policymakers on social cohesion: contradictory expectations for child and family social work	4
Waiting for housing: municipal practices of mobility control	4
What matters while assessing quality of social services? Stakeholders’ perspective in Czechia	4
Perceptions of intimacy and integrity in formal home care	4
Social workers’ navigation between repression and social support for men purchasing sex	4
‘Easy ride or born to be wild'? The travelling of evidence-based social work to Sweden	4
Professional caring in affective services: the ambivalence of emotional nurture in practice	4
Waiting for what? Hope and endurance in situations of uncertainty for asylum-seekers in Greece	4
Utilized discretion: a vignette study of social assistance assessments in Sweden	4
Enabling positive framings of stigmatised settings: a neglected responsibility for social work	4
From silence to recognition: Swedish social services and the handling of honor-based violence	4
Prerequisites for empowerment: a study of procurement documents for the provision of care in Swedish nursing homes	4
Working conditions, health and exhaustion among social workers in Germany	4
When your source of livelihood also becomes the source of your discomfort: the perception of work–family conflict among child welfare workers	4
Stress, sense of meaningful work, and well-Being among social workers during Covid-19	4
Waiting in the welfare lines. Exploring everyday racism as waiting in the migration and unemployment complexes in England and Sweden	4
Between othering and recognition: in search of transformative practice at the street level	4
Collectivity in waiting: transnational experiences in Swedish family reunification	4
Caring neighbourhoods: maintaining collective care under neoliberal care reforms	4
Social work research and human rights: where do we go from here?	4
Towards an agonistic social work: a framework for political action and radical practice	4
‘In the end you’re no longer the kid from the children’s home, you‘re just yourself’: Resilience in care leavers over 25	4
Examining self-care practice frequency among social workers: an international comparison	3

Support groups for informal caregivers of people with dementia as opportunities for empowerment in Estonia	3
Competence and professionalisation among return-to-work coordinators in Sweden: comparisons by original profession	3
Academic self-efficacy and future work skills in unaccompanied foreign minors: structural equation analysis according to residence time	3
Personal, professional and political: minority social workers as policy actors	3
Medication management in Swedish nursing homes: an ethnographic study of resistance, negotiation and control	3
Ambivalence in activation encounters	3
‘Informed consent’ in consensual child welfare: some reflections on its controversial nature	3
Unaccompanied young refugees in the European Union: a perennial limbo situation studied in a longitudinal perspective	3
Social work competencies: a descriptive analysis on practice behaviours among Romanian social workers	3
Promoting financial capability within the field of social work practice among families with children: a systematic review	3
Holding hope and mastering the possible: mapping resilient moves of asylum-seeking and refugee families post arrival	3
Structural disavowal and personal inundation of responsibility – a local perspective on pressure on mental health front-line professionalsStrukturell ansvarsfraskrivelse og individuell ansvarsoversvøm	3
An anti-oppressive approach to social work practice with transgender youth and young adults experiencing homelessness	3
Smooth sailing with the occasional ‘culture shock’: the experiences of Romanian social workers in England	3
A hybrid job center. Composite client experiences with employment services between enforcement and care	3
Therapeutic content in Swedish residential care for children and youth – managers choices and the reasoning behind	3
The child perspective within family intervention projects: a cluster-randomised study with a mixed methods design	3
Children’s perspectives on contact with birth parents: a mixed-methods systematic review	3
Waiting for welfare: experiences of street traders from Delhi, India	3
Help and support for bereaved persons who use drugs: a qualitative study	3
Work conditions and burnout: an exploratory study among Hungarian workers in family and child welfare, child protection and pedagogical professional services	3
Inclusive child welfare services, disabled children, and their families: insights from a European comparison of social policy and social (work) practice in Austria, Iceland, and Ireland	2
‘What’s important to me is to get people moving.’ Fostering social resilience in people with severe debt problems	2
‘I want to be one of them’: a study using photovoice to explore the inequities of floating children in China	2
Determining interventions for vulnerable families: the nature of disagreement and consensus-seeking	2
The research circle as a strategy for developing knowledge about children’s participation in child welfare services	2
Be ready for the clash of powers: theorising power for teaching policy practice in social work	2
The migration of social workers to and from the United Kingdom: a comparative perspective	2
Group decision-making theories for child and family social work	2
Hospital social workers’ contributions to increasing health literacy among parents of acutely and critically ill children	2
General support versus individual work support: a qualitative study of social workers and therapists in collaboration meetings within individual placement and support	2
Balancing in the pandemic: how social workers respond to new risks when supporting clients who experience domestic violence	2
Swedish citizenship through multicultural parenting: parental support as a learning practice for migrant parents in Sweden	2
Social work development in the Arab indigenous minority society in Israel at the turn of the millennium (1996-2006)	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
Independent experts in care order proceedings: a scoping review	2
Rural social work: practices and organisation. A case study in Andalusia (Spain)	2
Effects of crises and neoliberalism on Spanish social workers: coping with meaningfulness, dissatisfaction, and withdrawal	2
Frontline discretion from a Bourdieu-inspired field perspective: an ethnographic case study of a Norwegian activation measure for sick-listed employees	2
Developing and integrating professional resilience: influencing factors for social workers as students and new practitioners	2
ICT training in Spanish non-formal education: a revolution in the making	2
Social workers’ engagement in social rights advocacy: individual capacities, organizational milieus, and associations with the working alliance	2
How children and young people understand and experience individual participation in social services for children and young people: a synthesis of qualitative studies	2
The complexity of constructing empowerment measuring instruments: a delphi study*	2
Implementing attachment and biobehavioral catch-up in Norway: experiences from CWS parents, clinicians and leaders	2
Betwixt and between: qualitative findings from a study on a specialist social work service for Travellers in Ireland	2
Bedtime stories from inside – family practices and affinities in families with incarcerated fathers	2
Waiting for and in gender-confirming healthcare in Sweden: An analysis of young trans people’s experiences	2
Evidence-based activation work and service individualisation: client and frontline worker experiences with a standardised intervention	2
Self-rated child maltreatment, behavioural problems, and contacts with welfare and police authorities – longitudinal community data	2
Dealing with risk in situations of poverty: when complexity in frontline practice becomes wallpaper for organisational policy	2
Psychometric properties of a modification of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) for child protection services	2
Cripping time in eldercare: waiting for the home care service	2
Variables of community social work and their interconnections in socio-spatial excluded neighbourhoods – example of the Czech Republic	2
Examining the association of the subjective experience of poverty, adverse and positive childhood experiences in the adult population of Slovenia	2
The father absence-mother blame paradigm in child protection social work: an Italian feminist single case study	2
Ubuntu-based social work: what can social workers in Global South learn from Ubuntu to promote children welfare in communities?	2
Teaching disability using problem-based learning in the international context: utility for social work	2
Ethical transformations: developing ethical competencies for the social professions through action research	2
Coping strategies in life stories of young adults with foster care backgrounds	2
Studying in challenging times – a longitudinal study on social work students’ situations during the Covid-19 pandemic	2
The construction of the unmotivated client as a tool for solving the dilemma between control and reflexive approaches of social workers working with vulnerable children in the Czech Republic	2
Contact with parents from childhood to adulthood – a longitudinal study of children in kinship care and non-kinship care	2