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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The Corona crisis and the erosion of ‘the social’ – giving a decisive voice to the social professions	28
The social worker-client relationship in the digital era: a configurative literature review	18
The covid-19 pandemic and care homes for older people in Europe - deaths, damage and violations of human rights	17
Exploring stress, coping, and health outcomes among social workers	17
Burnout in Health Social Work: an international systematic review (2000–2020)	14
‘Perhaps I should be working with potted plants or standing at the fish counter instead?’: newly educated social workers’ reflections on their first years in practice	14
Using risk factor statistics in decision-making: prospects and challenges	14
Social work with refugee and displaced populations in Europe: (dis)continuities, dilemmas, developments	13
Social workers use of knowledge in an evidence-based framework: a mixed methods study	13
Governing the family: immigrant parents’ perceptions of the controlling power of the Norwegian welfare system	12
Integrated care for individuals with mental illness and substance abuse – the example of the coordinated individual plan in Sweden	11
Supervision in child protection: a space and place for reflection or an excruciating marathon of compliance?	10
Practitioner perspectives on the implementation of an electronic information system to enforce practice standards in England	10
Dilemmas and conflicting pressures in social work practice	10
Social workers in politics–a qualitative analysis of factors influencing social workers’ decision to run for political office	9
The dignity circle: how to promote dignity in social work practice and policy?	9
Social work during the Covid-19 pandemic: staying close while maintaining social distancing	8
The importance of relationships in the encounter between NAV staff and young, vulnerable users. An action research study	8
Resilience of child protection social workers: a scoping review	8
How congruent is person-centred practice with labour activation policy? Person-centred approach to vocational interventions on immigrant jobseekers in Norway	7
Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures	7
Other ‘lenses’: a training programme for social workers and others working with asylum seekers and migrants in Italy	7
Exploring populations view on thresholds and reasons for child protection intervention – comparing England, Norway, Poland and Romania	7
The meaning of professionalism in activation work: frontline managers’ perspectives	7
Transformative practice: social work practice with vulnerable young people	7

Using intuition in social work decision making	7
Collaborative research and development: a typology of linkages between researchers and practitioners	7
Three caregiver profiles: who are they, what do they do, and who are their co-carers?	7
Coordinated individual care planning and shared decision making: staff perspectives within the comorbidity field of practice	6
Should we take their children? Caseworkers’ negotiations of ‘good enough’ care for children living with high-conflict parents	6
Politics, preoccupations, pragmatics: a race/ethnicityreduxfor social work research	6
‘But what are we doing to that baby?’ Attachment, psy-Speak and designed order in social work	6
The struggle over the character of social services: conceptualising hybridity and power	6
Preparing students for social work practice in contemporary societies: insights from a transnational research network	6
Refugee ‘crisis’ and social services in Greece: social workers’ profile and working conditions	6
Professionals’ tinkering with standardised tools: dynamics involving actors and tools in child welfare practices	6
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	6
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
Community work and citizen activism as a response to the crisis in Spain: gender, poverty and social exclusion	5
Decision support and algorithmic support: the construction of algorithms and professional discretion in social work	5
Conceptualizing critical practice in social work: an integration of recognition and redistribution	5
The personal is political: reframing individual acts of kindness as social solidarity in social work practice	5
Temporal dispossession through migration bureaucracy: on waiting within the asylum process in Sweden	5
Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) among young people in secure state care and their non-incarcerated peers – a qualitative, descriptive and comparative study	5
The use of Electronic Information Systems in social work. A scoping review of the empirical articles published between 2000 and 2019	5
Strengthening the working alliance between social workers and parents living in households with low income	5
Politicisation processes in everyday practice with refugees: the experiences of Israeli and German social workers	5
The impact of social support on emotional exhaustion and workplace bullying in social workers	5
Enhancing reflectivity in social, care and health professionals – identifying students’ abilities and needs	4
Gender and ethnicity in social assistance assessments of single applicants with substance abuse problems	4
Between othering and recognition: in search of transformative practice at the street level	4
Trust and Power in the Space Between Visibility and Invisibility. Exploring Digital and Social Media Practices in Norwegian Child Welfare Services	4
Marginalised groups protest against social welfare and public health: conceptualising the challenge for social workers	4
Working conditions, health and exhaustion among social workers in Germany	4
Constructions of childhood: the assessment of respite care for children with disabilities in Sweden	4
Social justice, first? The policy action of South European social workers’ professional organisations in the shadow of austerity	4
The challenges of combining ‘knowing-that’ and ‘knowing-how’ in social work education and professional practice in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration	4
Child-researcher relationships in child protection research. An integrative review	4
Agency in waiting? Everyday tactics of asylum seekers and refugees in Glasgow	4
The encounter between professional and cultural values of social workers in the Arab sector in Israel: dilemmas, difficulties and challenges	4
Social work and the Roma community: elements to improve current practices	4
Outcomes in adulthood among former child welfare services recipients: findings from a Norwegian registry study covering two decades	4
‘People are responsible for their own individual actions’: dominant ideologies within the Neoliberal Institutionalised Social Work Order	4
Is there a shared social work signature pedagogy cross-nationally? Using a case study methodology to explore signature pedagogy in England, Israel, Finland, Spain and Sweden	4
Transformative change in social service delivery and social work practice in Latvia during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Loïc Wacquant, the concept of the ‘centaur state' and social work: the case of the Czech Republic	4
Stress, sense of meaningful work, and well-Being among social workers during Covid-19	4
‘They should cook borsch, chop wood … ’: contemporary images of social work in the context of welfare policy reforms in Russia’s print media	3
Social workers’ navigation between repression and social support for men purchasing sex	3
Professional caring in affective services: the ambivalence of emotional nurture in practice	3
‘Informed consent’ in consensual child welfare: some reflections on its controversial nature	3
‘You get a completely different feeling’ – an empirical exploration of emotions and their functions in digital frontline work	3
The relevance of practice development for professionalisation of social work	3
Waiting for what? Hope and endurance in situations of uncertainty for asylum-seekers in Greece	3
Academic self-efficacy and future work skills in unaccompanied foreign minors: structural equation analysis according to residence time	3

Policy values related to support for care leavers with disabilities	3
Enabling positive framings of stigmatised settings: a neglected responsibility for social work	3
German social workers as professional politicians: career paths and social advocacy	3
‘In the end you’re no longer the kid from the children’s home, you‘re just yourself’: Resilience in care leavers over 25	3
Into the swampy lowlands. Evaluating family group conferences	3
Therapeutic content in Swedish residential care for children and youth – managers choices and the reasoning behind	3
The double-edged sword – abused women’s experiences of digital technology	3
Structural disavowal and personal inundation of responsibility – a local perspective on pressure on mental health front-line professionalsStrukturell ansvarsfraskrivelse og individuell ansvarsoversvøm	3
From silence to recognition: Swedish social services and the handling of honor-based violence	3
Ambivalence in activation encounters	3
The child perspective within family intervention projects: a cluster-randomised study with a mixed methods design	3
Experiences of family caregivers with day-care centers for elders in Southern China: a qualitative study	3
The potential for civic and political engagement practice in social work as a means of achieving greater rights and justice for marginalised youth	3
Perceptions of participation: how nursing home staff and managers perceive and strive for participation of older residents	3
Social work research and human rights: where do we go from here?	3
‘Easy ride or born to be wild'? The travelling of evidence-based social work to Sweden	3
What matters while assessing quality of social services? Stakeholders’ perspective in Czechia	3
Perspectives on organizational structure and social services’ work with clients – a narrative review of 25 years research on social services	3
Smart welfare and slow digital poverty: the new face of social work	3
Waiting for housing: municipal practices of mobility control	3
Moving forward, waiting or standing still? Service users’ experiences from a Norwegian labour activation programme	3
The unfinished democratisation of family service systems: parental consent and children’s viewpoints on receiving support in child and family welfare in Sweden	3
Dedication to work: social workers in a Norwegian activation work context	3
Smooth sailing with the occasional ‘culture shock’: the experiences of Romanian social workers in England	3
Factors affecting user participation for nursing home residents with dementia: a critical interpretive synthesis	2
Self-rated child maltreatment, behavioural problems, and contacts with welfare and police authorities – longitudinal community data	2
Inscrutable patchwork: exploring inconsistencies in the history of twentieth-century residential childcare	2
Automated decision-making, discretion and public values: a case study of two municipalities and their case management of social assistance	2
Holding hope and mastering the possible: mapping resilient moves of asylum-seeking and refugee families post arrival	2
The father absence-mother blame paradigm in child protection social work: an Italian feminist single case study	2
When your source of livelihood also becomes the source of your discomfort: the perception of work–family conflict among child welfare workers	2
Unaccompanied young refugees in the European Union: a perennial limbo situation studied in a longitudinal perspective	2
Health social workers and research knowledge utilisation – a Swedish survey study	2
Children’s perspectives on contact with birth parents: a mixed-methods systematic review	2
Utilized discretion: a vignette study of social assistance assessments in Sweden	2
Contact with parents from childhood to adulthood – a longitudinal study of children in kinship care and non-kinship care	2
Human rights as an opportunity and challenge for social work in a changing Norwegian welfare state	2
Waiting in the welfare lines. Exploring everyday racism as waiting in the migration and unemployment complexes in England and Sweden	2
Dealing with risk in situations of poverty: when complexity in frontline practice becomes wallpaper for organisational policy	2
Independent experts in care order proceedings: a scoping review	2
Spiritual diversity in social work practice. The heart of helping third edition	2
The research circle as a strategy for developing knowledge about children’s participation in child welfare services	2
Variables of community social work and their interconnections in socio-spatial excluded neighbourhoods – example of the Czech Republic	2
Examining self-care practice frequency among social workers: an international comparison	2
A scoping review of research on coordinated pathways towards employment for youth in vulnerable life situations	2
Personal, professional and political: minority social workers as policy actors	2
Implementing attachment and biobehavioral catch-up in Norway: experiences from CWS parents, clinicians and leaders	2
The unreflective practitioner: a pilot study on functional stupidity and social work	2
The use of discretion in decision-making by social workers at child protection services in Italy	2
Prerequisites for empowerment: a study of procurement documents for the provision of care in Swedish nursing homes	2
Policymakers on social cohesion: contradictory expectations for child and family social work	2
A hybrid job center. Composite client experiences with employment services between enforcement and care	2
Comparative social work practices with young refugee and asylum seeker: the European experiences	2
No choice? Hiring agency social workers in the Swedish personal social services	2
Ukrainian refugees’ reception in Swedish sports clubs: ‘deservingness’ and ‘promising victimhood’	2
Social workers’ engagement in social rights advocacy: individual capacities, organizational milieus, and associations with the working alliance	2
Be ready for the clash of powers: theorising power for teaching policy practice in social work	2
Promoting financial capability within the field of social work practice among families with children: a systematic review	2
General support versus individual work support: a qualitative study of social workers and therapists in collaboration meetings within individual placement and support	2
Studying in challenging times – a longitudinal study on social work students’ situations during the Covid-19 pandemic	2
An anti-oppressive approach to social work practice with transgender youth and young adults experiencing homelessness	2
Ethical transformations: developing ethical competencies for the social professions through action research	2
Medication management in Swedish nursing homes: an ethnographic study of resistance, negotiation and control	2