OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Social Welfare 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
A green social work perspective on social work during the time of COVID‐19	61
The Social Policy Indicators (SPIN) database	33
Impacts of off‐farm employment on welfare, food security and poverty: Evidence from rural Vietnam	29
Long‐term NEET among young adults with experience of out‐of‐home care: A comparative study of three Nordic countries	17
Raising awareness of transformative ecosocial work: Participatory action research with Australian practitioners	14
Ecosocial innovations enabling social work to promote new forms of sustainable economy	14
Equity in sustainable development: Community responses to environmental gentrification	12
‘Between heaven and hell’: Subjective well‐being of asylum seekers	12
Financial exclusion in OECD countries: A scoping review*	12
Psychophysical burden and lack of support: Reasons for care workers’ intentions to leave their work in the Nordic countries	10
Social assistance dynamics in Norway revisited: A two‐decade prospective study of trajectories of young social assistance recipients	10
Social work and sustainable rural development: The practice of social economy in China	10
Frontline provision of integrated welfare and employment services: Organising for activation competency	9
Empowering refugees and asylum seekers in the Italian agriculture sector by linking social cooperative entrepreneurship and social work practices	9
Social insurance reform and absenteeism in Vietnam	9
The attitudes of young citizens in higher education towards universal basic income in the context of automation—A qualitative study	9
Changing society, changing lives: Three decades of family change in China	9
Emotional creaming: Street‐level bureaucrats’ prioritisation of migrant clients ‘likely to succeed’ in labour market integration	8
Storytelling as a tool: A family‐based intervention for newly resettled Syrian refugee children	8
Family policies and care regimes in Asia	8
Security or autonomy? A comparative analysis of work values and labor market policies in different European welfare states	8
Adolescent gambling advertising awareness: A national survey	8
Child‐related family policies in East and Southeast Asia: An intra‐regional comparison	7
Providing a safety net for the vulnerable persons in Ghana: Does the extended family matter?	6
Addressing environmental justice: Virtue ethics, social work, and social welfare	6

Family policies, social norms and marital fertility decisions: A quasi‐experimental study	6
The will to sanction: How sensitive are caseworkers to recipients’ responsibility when imposing sanctions on non‐compliance in a welfare‐to‐work programme?	6
An exploratory study of the prevalence and correlates of student maltreatment by teachers in Cameroon	6
Effect of financial services access on health services utilisation among rural older adults in Ghana	5
Role conflict, role ambiguity, and depressive symptoms: The moderating effects of job autonomy among social workers in China	5
Social work in a conflict context: Challenges facing social workers with indigenous inhabitants of unrecognised villages in Israel	5
Expansion of Thailand’s social pension policy and its implications for family support for older persons	5
Reaching without outreaching: A comparative policy study of EU member states policy agenda on youth unemployment	5
Developments in China’s governance of its aging society: Evidence from aging policies between 1982 and 2017	5
Managing the tensions between service and advocacy: The case of the AJEEC Social Change Service Organization, Naqab, Israel	5
Climate change in Alaska: Social workers’ attitudes, beliefs, and experiences	4
The pension system in Peru: Parallels and intersections	4
The effectiveness of minimum income benefits in poverty reduction in Spain	4
Moving targets: Target groups of active labour market policies and transitions to employment in Europe	4
Building racial bridges? Social capital among community gardeners in US food deserts	4
The private sector and multidimensional poverty reduction in Vietnam: A cross‐province panel data analysis	4
Research‐based knowledge about social work and sustainability	4
An intersection of East Asian welfare and immigration regimes: The social rights of low‐skilled labour migrants in Japan and Korea	4
Economic distress and health: A fixed effects analysis of low‐income persons in Singapore	4
Effective local governance assisting vulnerable groups: The case of youth not in employment, education or training (NEETs) in Sweden	4
Constructing meaningful transitions in a vulnerable situation—The role of lifelong learning policies in European regions	3
Child welfare policy and services in Korea	3
The crumbling pillar: Assessing the impact of housing costs on recent trends in poverty and deprivation in Australia	3
How family policies redefine families: The case of mainland China–Hong Kong cross‐border families	3
Using a hybrid data collection tool: Analysis of youth labour market trajectories integrating quantitative, qualitative and social network data	3
‘It's always a battle against time’. Experiencing and handling temporal conditions in homecare work	3
Health and living conditions of Samis compared with other citizens based on representative surveys in three Swedish regions	3
The role of social transfers in mitigating families with children from the economic impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic	3
The limits of healthcare reforms in Indonesia: Interrogating the Dutch colonial legacies’ influence within the logic and principles of welfare	3
Welfare state dissatisfaction and support for major welfare reform: Towards means‐tested welfare or a universal basic income?	3
Growing up in economic hardship: The relationship between childhood social assistance recipiency and early adulthood obstacles	3
One ‘welfare recipient’ stereotype or many? Using the stereotype content model to examine the stereotypes of different categories of benefit recipients	3
Indian older adults and the ‘familialist’ state policies	2
Social tax expenditures in Quebec (Canada): The state of play	2
Stabilise, balance and adjust—Framing the early years transitions of children whose parents work non‐standard hours	2
Narrating connection in intercountry adoption: Complexities of openness in Taiwan‒Australia adoptions	2
Hazards of anti‐Blackness in the United States	2
Understandings of environmental injustice and sustainability in marginalized communities: A qualitative inquiry in Nevada	2
Exploring care leavers' agency in achieving entry into the world of work: A cross‐national study in six countries	2
Chinese older adults' personal–family life balance and its associations with social networks: The moderating role of internet use	2
Social assistance assessments of couple households: A vignette study on applicants’ ethnicity and gendered family roles	2
Reexamining the poverty cycle in middle and late adulthood: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study 2002–2014	2
Network governance among actors involved in the government’s contracting out of foster care services: A case study in China	2
Multidimensional poverty among different age cohorts in South Korea	2
Same‐sex partnership in the family policies of Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan	2
Changes in active ageing in a Nordic regional context: Results based on the GERDA study in 2005 and 2016	2
Cost‐effectiveness of a ‘Housing First’ programme implemented in Spain: An evaluation based on a randomised controlled trial	2
Practising professionalism in activation work: Developing and testing a questionnaire	2
Are the needs of racialized lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer newcomers in Newfoundland and Labrador being met? Preliminary findings from a focus group discussion with Canadian stakeholde	2
Changing attitudes towards government responsibility for social welfare in China between 2004 and 2014: Evidence from three national surveys	2

Validation of the ultra‐short scale for measuring work engagement among social workers in Chinese contexts	2
Exploring the displacement induced changes in social convoys and support for older women in displacement (OWD) in Abuja, Nigeria	2
Social investment agenda setting: A personal note	2
Between hope and fear? Regional and social dividing lines in attitudes towards an EU minimum income scheme	2
Who spends more to combat COVID‐19 social risks and why?	2