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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Precarious welfare‐to‐work transitions in a segmented labour market: Evidence from the Netherlands	25
Cost‐effectiveness of a ‘Housing First’ programme implemented in Spain: An evaluation based on a randomised controlled trial	16
Challenging scalar fallacy in state‐wide welfare studies: AUKsub‐state comparison of civil society approaches to addressing youth unemployment	13
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A journey into the new employment service landscape of responsibilisation: Towards de‐personalisation of the caseworker–jobseeker relationship	12
Alleviating administrative burden through digitalization and redesign: A laboratory experiment on student financial aid in Germany	11
Poverty and public works: Evidence from Hungary	11
Chinese older adults' personal–family life balance and its associations with social networks: The moderating role of internet use	11
Distinguishing characteristics of out‐of‐school adolescents in South Korea: A machine learning approach	11
The family structural and socioeconomic characteristics of the family well‐being of Hong Kong people	10
Self‐initiated moves during the formal eviction process: Findings from Swedish Register Data	10
The role of experts in forming family policy under an adversarial subsystem in the Czech Republic	9
How culture influences the strengthening of market principles in conservative welfare states: The case of long‐term care policy	9
Intergenerational transmission or local labour market context? A comparative analysis of the formation of work value patterns in 65 European regions	9
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Examining coping and acculturative stress as mediators between perceived discrimination and internalising symptoms among African immigrants	7
Same‐sex partnership in the family policies of Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan	7
Poverty and inequality impact of COVID‐19 pandemic: The case of Mazar‐i‐Sharif, Balkh province, Afghanistan	7
Rights‐based community practice and academic activism in a turbulent world: Putting theory into practice in Israel, Palestine and Jordan By James L.Torczyner, 2021. New York: Routledge, 377 pp., $170	7
Hazards of anti‐Blackness in the United States	6
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When hidden politics become visible: Administrative burden experiences of older adults and professionals in home care	6
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The crumbling pillar: Assessing the impact of housing costs on recent trends in poverty and deprivation in Australia	6

Daily challenges and coping strategies of Chin irregular migrant workers in Malaysia: A qualitative study on health and well‐being	6
Intertwined precariousness and precarity: Disentangling a phenomenon that characterises Spanish youth	4
Effect of financial services access on health services utilisation among rural older adults in Ghana	4
Integrating familial care and extra‐familial care into a new long‐term care policy for China: Examples from Germany's long‐term care insurance	4
Capping welfare payments for workless families increases employment and economic inactivity: Evidence from the UK's benefit cap	4
Who's minding the children: Gender equity in the first 2 years of the pandemic	4
Multidimensional poverty among different age cohorts in South Korea	4
Dissenting social work: Critical theory, resistance and pandemicPaul MichaelGarrett, 2021. London and New York: Routledge, 288 pp., ISBN 9780367903701 (Paperback) \| ISBN 9781003024019 (eBook).	4
Changing society, changing lives: Three decades of family change in China	4
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De‐gendering parents: Gender inclusion and standardised language in screen‐level bureaucracy	4
An ideology of deserving: A historical analysis of the United States' immigration policies governing forced migration and social welfare	4
Impact evaluation of a new counselling and support programme for unemployed with multiple placement obstacles	4
Epistemic justice in international social work research: Postcolonial theory and analytic strategies	4
Editorial	3
Examining the potential impact of universal basic income on labor supply: Focusing on the South Korean models	3
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Sustainability and inequality of Taiwan's National Pension Insurance	3
Social investment agenda setting: A personal note	3
New configurations of labour insertion processes. The case of secondary technical and vocational education and training students in Chile	3
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The attitudes of young citizens in higher education towards universal basic income in the context of automation—A qualitative study	3
Using a hybrid data collection tool: Analysis of youth labour market trajectories integrating quantitative, qualitative and social network data	3
Bureaucratic sludge: Bureaucratic tasks and procedures leading to experiences of strain	3
Editorial	3
Success in agenda setting through failure in policymaking: Exploring a new policy venue in the Polish European Semester 2012–2022	3
Unemployed and then? The role of non‐standard employment in labour market trajectories after unemployment	3
Evaluating socio‐economic resilience interventions among out‐of‐school adolescent girls and young women in rural Central Uganda: A quasi‐experimental approach	3
Security or autonomy? A comparative analysis of work values and labor market policies in different European welfare states	3
Reducing sex work by targeting ‘vulnerable’ sex workers: A post‐structural analysis of policies regulating Danish exit programmes directed at people involved in sex work	3
Behavioral health literacy: A new construct to improve outcomes among incarcerated individuals	3
Intergenerational solidarity in a developing welfare state: The case of South Korea	3
The efficacy and efficiency of public transfer programmes on the poverty of the older population in South Korea	3
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Targeting social welfare for people with severe mental illness: A review of policies in China and a call for further action	3
Making sense of reablement within different institutional contexts. Collaborative service ideals in Norwegian and Danish home care	3
COVID‐19 and support for basic income in Korea	2
Ukraine's poor majority: Exploring the driving factors of subjective poverty	2
Social workers' recommendations regarding child custody of parents with intellectual developmental disabilities or mental illness	2
Editorial	2
Generosity of old‐age pensions for the self‐employed—A typology of European welfare states	2
Effective local governance assisting vulnerable groups: The case of youth not in employment, education or training (NEETs) in Sweden	2
The perceived fair duration of unemployment benefits for older workers. The role of lifetime achievements in the labour market	2
Changing attitudes towards government responsibility for social welfare in China between 2004 and 2014: Evidence from three national surveys	2
State temporary assistance for needy families policies and high school diploma or equivalent attainment among mothers following a nonmarital birth: An event history analysis	2
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Loans for welfare benefit recipients: Evidence from the Sample of Integrated Welfare Benefit Biographies (SIG) 2007–2020	2
“Every day is a disaster”: Climate vulnerabilities and disaster subculture of jjokbang‐chon in Seoul, Korea and its implications for social work	2

Toward a livable life: A 21st century agenda for social work Edited by Mark RobertRank, 2020. New York: Oxford University Press, 382 pp., HB. ISBN 978‐0‐190‐69105‐9.	2
Job demands‐control, job support, and depressive symptoms: Unraveling job support's moderating mechanism among social workers in China	2
Administrative burden in older adults: A look at SNAP	2
How large families fare in Germany: Examining child poverty risks and policy solutions	2
Unpacking vulnerability among migrant minors in the EU: A case study of vulnerability among migrant minors in Spain	2
The importance of belonging: Interactions between individual and structural risk factors for youth‐disengagement	2
Three dimensions of long‐term care provision in middle‐income countries—A view across Africa, Latin America and Asia	2
Women's welfare attitudes in South Korea	2
The rise of artificial intelligence, the fall of human wellbeing?	2
Welfare state dissatisfaction and support for major welfare reform: Towards means‐tested welfare or a universal basic income?	2
A quartered typology of welfare attitudes: Evidence from the World Values Survey Wave 7	2
The lived experiences of the welfare state of platform workers: The barriers to accessing social protection in Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom	2
Cultural–legal brokering and gender: A study of refugee‐serving institutions upon resettlement	2
Beyond the precariat: Trajectories of precarious work and its determinants in South Korea	2
Poor labour market prospects due to intensive caregiving? Childcare and eldercare among welfare recipients in Germany	2
It's the middle that matters? Income group coalitions in support of redistributive welfare reform	2
Social assistance assessments of couple households: A vignette study on applicants’ ethnicity and gendered family roles	2
Poverty in Europe: How long‐term poverty developed following the financial crisis and what drives it	2
Family and work‐related risk factors in children's social–emotional well‐being and parent–educator cooperation in flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care	2