OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of 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
Organizational justice, burnout, and turnover intention of social workers in China	29
Working conditions and wellbeing in UK social workers	19
Strengthening the empowerment approach in social work practice: An EPS model	16
Black social workers: Identity, racism, invisibility/hypervisibility at work	14
The tension between managerial and critical professional discourses in social work	12
Parents’ perceived social support and children’s psychological adjustment	11
The Impact of COVID-19 on Social Workers: An Assessment of Peritraumatic Distress	11
Secondary traumatic stress and vicarious post-traumatic growth among social workers who have worked with abused children	11
Social workers’ constructions of child risk and protection in the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community	11
Barriers to knowledge acquisition and utilisation in child welfare decisions: A qualitative study	10
Social work involvement in the COVID-19 response in China: Interdisciplinary remote networking	10
Impact of organisational practices on the relationships between young people with disabilities and paid social support workers	9
Social service providers under COVID-19 duress: adaptation, burnout, and resilience	9
Psychological distress among social workers	8
The impact of COVID-19 quarantine measures on the mental health of families	8
Working conditions and well-being in UK social care and social work during COVID-19	7
Identifying service needs and service gaps for sexually exploited/trafficked persons in Missouri	7
Loneliness, older people and a proposed social work response	7
Interrogating settler social work with indigenous persons in Canada	7
Social work, emotion management and the transformation of the welfare state	7
Empowerment theory and prison-based dog training programs	6
Societies’ hostility, anger and mistrust towards Migrants: A vicious circle	6
Exploring mistakes and errors of professional judgement in social work in China and Italy: The impact of culture, organization and education	6
Social work in sport: Playmakers in the athletic arena	6
Experiences of adult social work addressing self-neglect during the Covid-19 pandemic	6

Workload and workplace safety in social service organizations	6
Using Therapeutic Beat Making and lyrics for empowerment	6
Social work and technology: Text mining three decades of scholarly literature (1985–2018)	5
Professional identity construction among social work agencies	5
Volunteer work with vulnerable persons in the community: A qualitative study of social inclusion	5
Evidence-based practice in social work: Who are the critics?	5
Social workers and refugee service users (re)constructing their relationships in a hostile political climate	5
The impact of adolescent parentification on family relationship and civic engagement	5
Transnational social work: Challenging and crossing borders and boundaries	5
Building knowledge for policy and practice based on service user and carer experiences: A case study of Scottish adult safeguarding research	4
Predictors of self-efficacy among residents of low-income neighborhoods: Implications for social work practice	4
Motivational interviewing with individuals at risk of sex trafficking	4
Enhancing resilience in cross-boundary families: A parent–child parallel group intervention	4
Involvement of parents of children with ADHD in schools: Implications for social work practice	4
Child protection investigations by private consultants or municipally employed social workers: What are the differences for children?	4
The effects of social, familial, and economic stress on social workers working with disabled individuals	4
Social workers as state and citizen-agents. How social workers in a German, Dutch and Flemish public welfare organisation manage this dual responsibility in practice	4
Public trust of social workers in Sweden: A repeated cross-sectional study	4
Decision-making in foster care: A view on the dynamic and collective nature of the process	4
Fifty years of social work education: Analysis of motivations and outcomes	4
Social workers’ experiences in integrated health care during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Establishing core competencies, opportunities, roles and expertise for oncology social work	4
Third place theory and social work: Considering collapsed places	4
The voices of parents and children in foster care	4
Social workers’ construction of cultural competence in polarized cities	4
Challenges faced by informal caregivers of patients in a Nigerian hospital and implications for social work	4
Searching for contact with birth relatives: Search angels and search facilitators	4
Social workers’ use of critical reflection	4
Overcoming non-take-up of rights: A realist evaluation of Integrated Rights-Practices	4
Social work indigenization in Mainland China: Towards a state-led decolonizing framework	4
Luhmann's theory of psychic systems and communication in social work practice	4
Using the capability approach in social work with unaccompanied young adult refugees	4
Social workers and recovery from stress	3
Remembering love: Memory work of orphaned children in the Philippine drug war	3
Foster parent perspectives on necessary supports for youth and their families departing foster care	3
The influence of work-family conflict on social worker job satisfaction	3
Unaccompanied minors’ needs and the child welfare response	3
Effectiveness of empathy enhancement programs for social workers working with older adults: A quasi-experimental study	3
Social workers’ views about children’s and parents’ competence in child protection decision-making	3
The social worker in community mental health teams: Findings from a national survey	3
Child-focused practice in social services for adults in Norway	3
Hospital-based social workers’ perceptions of generalist- and specialist-level palliative social work activities	3
Differences between adolescents in secure residential care and non-residential educational facilities	3
Service user violence against social workers in Italy: Prevalence and characteristics of the phenomenon	3
Dimensions of social rehabilitation: A qualitative interpretive meta-synthesis	3
Israeli-Palestinian social work encounters	3
Navigating helping relationships amidst heavy workloads: An institutional ethnography of social workers’ accounts	3
Once arrived: A qualitative study of refugees and service providers in the first six months of resettlement	3
Data-driven outreach to opportunity youth using population data and Geographic Information System technology	3
Mental health among the Hmong population in the U.S.: A systematic review of the influence of cultural and social factors	3

Choice, control and person-centredness in day centres for older people	3
Supporting social work field instructors: Empowerment as a strategy for preventing burnout	3
An intersectional theoretical framework for exploring racialized older immigrant women’s subjectivities	3
The association among neighborhood mutual support, well-being, and social work	2
A Fisher-eye lens on social work reform	2
Being a social worker in the unrecognized villages in Israel	2
Family relations of older people: Personal and practical support	2
A systematic review of parenting interventions used by social workers to support vulnerable children	2
Discovering socially withdrawn youth in Shanghai through the eyes of social workers: A mixed-methods study	2
Public perception of social workers as a source for providing help during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
A multitheoretical perspective for addressing domestic and family violence: Supporting fathers to parent without harm	2
Perspectives of caregivers with child welfare involvement in a supportive housing program	2
A systematic review of technology-mediated social work practice: Benefits, uncertainties, and future directions	2
Motivational interviewing: An approach to support youth aging out of foster care	2
Interrogating culture: Anthropology, social work, and the concept trade	2
Do implementation contexts for the Positive Parenting Program improve child and parental well-being?	2
Parents with intellectual disability and their reflections about relationships and support	2
Parenting in migration: Critical aspects and challenges of “doing family” of refugee families and social workers	2
Advances in social work practice: Understanding uncertainty and unpredictability of complex non-linear situations	2
A Review of participant, agency, and community outcomes of non-familial intergenerational programs	2
Paradoxes, contradictions, and dilemmas: Reflections on the contours of a pandemic and its implications for social work education	2
Paper trails: Using letter writing to understand social isolation and poverty in a rural community	2
Interprofessional dynamics that promote client empowerment in mental health practice: A social work perspective	2
The attitudes of Vietnamese social work practitioners toward sexual minorities	2
A qualitative interpretive meta-synthesis of social workers’ experience in end-of-life care	2
Validating a model for indicating the professionalisation of social work in China	2
Examining the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on social work in health care	2