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

Article	Citations
A green social work perspective on social work during the time of COVID‐19	66
Long‐term NEET among young adults with experience of out‐of‐home care: A comparative study of three Nordic countries	21
Psychophysical burden and lack of support: Reasons for care workers’ intentions to leave their work in the Nordic countries	16
Changing society, changing lives: Three decades of family change in China	12
Adolescent gambling advertising awareness: A national survey	11
Family policies, social norms and marital fertility decisions: A quasi‐experimental study	11
Social assistance dynamics in Norway revisited: A two‐decade prospective study of trajectories of young social assistance recipients	11
Family policies and care regimes in Asia	10
The attitudes of young citizens in higher education towards universal basic income in the context of automation—A qualitative study	10
Security or autonomy? A comparative analysis of work values and labor market policies in different European welfare states	10
Frontline provision of integrated welfare and employment services: Organising for activation competency	10
Emotional creaming: Street‐level bureaucrats’ prioritisation of migrant clients ‘likely to succeed’ in labour market integration	9
Child‐related family policies in East and Southeast Asia: An intra‐regional comparison	9
Addressing environmental justice: Virtue ethics, social work, and social welfare	8
Role conflict, role ambiguity, and depressive symptoms: The moderating effects of job autonomy among social workers in China	8
‘It's always a battle against time’. Experiencing and handling temporal conditions in homecare work	8
Storytelling as a tool: A family‐based intervention for newly resettled Syrian refugee children	8
Developments in China’s governance of its aging society: Evidence from aging policies between 1982 and 2017	7
Expansion of Thailand’s social pension policy and its implications for family support for older persons	7
The two‐child limit and child poverty in the United Kingdom	6
Effective local governance assisting vulnerable groups: The case of youth not in employment, education or training (NEETs) in Sweden	6
An exploratory study of the prevalence and correlates of student maltreatment by teachers in Cameroon	6
The private sector and multidimensional poverty reduction in Vietnam: A cross‐province panel data analysis	6
Effect of financial services access on health services utilisation among rural older adults in Ghana	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

Reaching without outreaching: A comparative policy study of EU member states policy agenda on youth unemployment	5
The pension system in Peru: Parallels and intersections	5
How large families fare in Germany: Examining child poverty risks and policy solutions	5
Progress of the social service professions in South Africa's developmental social welfare system: Social work, and child and youth care work	4
The crumbling pillar: Assessing the impact of housing costs on recent trends in poverty and deprivation in Australia	4
One ‘welfare recipient’ stereotype or many? Using the stereotype content model to examine the stereotypes of different categories of benefit recipients	4
Welfare state dissatisfaction and support for major welfare reform: Towards means‐tested welfare or a universal basic income?	4
Long maternal working hours were linked to obesity, underweight and stunting in children under age 5 in China	4
Imagining the ecosocial within social work	4
Digital industrial accidents: A case study of the mental distress of platform workers in South Korea	4
Exploring care leavers' agency in achieving entry into the world of work: A cross‐national study in six countries	4
Precarious welfare‐to‐work transitions in a segmented labour market: Evidence from the Netherlands	3
The role of social transfers in mitigating families with children from the economic impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic	3
A scoping review of gambling policy research in Europe	3
Using a hybrid data collection tool: Analysis of youth labour market trajectories integrating quantitative, qualitative and social network data	3
The limits of healthcare reforms in Indonesia: Interrogating the Dutch colonial legacies’ influence within the logic and principles of welfare	3
Validation of the ultra‐short scale for measuring work engagement among social workers in Chinese contexts	3
Multidimensional poverty among different age cohorts in South Korea	3
The role of experts in forming family policy under an adversarial subsystem in the Czech Republic	3
Dimensions of controversy: Investigating the structure of public support for universal basic income in the Netherlands	3
Practising professionalism in activation work: Developing and testing a questionnaire	3
Constructing meaningful transitions in a vulnerable situation—The role of lifelong learning policies in European regions	3
Stabilise, balance and adjust—Framing the early years transitions of children whose parents work non‐standard hours	3
Child welfare policy and services in Korea	3
The rise of artificial intelligence, the fall of human wellbeing?	3
Social investment agenda setting: A personal note	3
Predictors of burnout for immigrant mental health professionals in the United States	3
Who spends more to combat COVID‐19 social risks and why?	3
Changing attitudes towards government responsibility for social welfare in China between 2004 and 2014: Evidence from three national surveys	3
De‐gendering parents: Gender inclusion and standardised language in screen‐level bureaucracy	3
Network governance among actors involved in the government’s contracting out of foster care services: A case study in China	3
From altruism to sociality: A switch in perception	3
How family policies redefine families: The case of mainland China–Hong Kong cross‐border families	3
Integrating familial care and extra‐familial care into a new long‐term care policy for China: Examples from Germany's long‐term care insurance	2
Narrating connection in intercountry adoption: Complexities of openness in Taiwan‒Australia adoptions	2
Exploring the displacement induced changes in social convoys and support for older women in displacement (OWD) in Abuja, Nigeria	2
Hazards of anti‐Blackness in the United States	2
Cost‐effectiveness of a ‘Housing First’ programme implemented in Spain: An evaluation based on a randomised controlled trial	2
Additional income support buffers the demand for child protection services at the municipality level	2
Social tax expenditures in Quebec (Canada): The state of play	2
Mobility and life satisfaction among wheelchair users: A study using mobile phone data in Seoul, South Korea	2
“That's where the hunt for the correction begins”: Experiences of administrative errors as sites of administrative burden	2
Internet use and Chinese migrant older adults' life satisfaction: A panel data study	2
Same‐sex partnership in the family policies of Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan	2
Alleviating administrative burden through digitalization and redesign: A laboratory experiment on student financial aid in Germany	2
Living situations among undocumented migrants in Sweden: The effects of exclusion from fundamental housing rights	2
Social policy expansion and segmentation in the first two decades of the 21st century in Latin America	2
Indian older adults and the ‘familialist’ state policies	2
The puzzles of daily life: The temporal orders of families when parents have non‐standard work schedules	2
Conceptualising service integration for inclusive activation: Exploring transferal and translation of models from health care	2

Smaller net or just fewer to catch? Disentangling the causes for the varying sizes of minimum income schemes	2
Changes in active ageing in a Nordic regional context: Results based on the GERDA study in 2005 and 2016	2
Three dimensions of long‐term care provision in middle‐income countries—A view across Africa, Latin America and Asia	2
Chinese older adults' personal–family life balance and its associations with social networks: The moderating role of internet use	2
“They need more programs for the kids:” Low‐income mothers' views of government amidst economic precarity and burdensome programs	2
Social assistance assessments of couple households: A vignette study on applicants’ ethnicity and gendered family roles	2