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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Black social workers: Identity, racism, invisibility/hypervisibility at work	17
The Impact of COVID-19 on Social Workers: An Assessment of Peritraumatic Distress	16
Secondary traumatic stress and vicarious post-traumatic growth among social workers who have worked with abused children	15
Social service providers under COVID-19 duress: adaptation, burnout, and resilience	14
Barriers to knowledge acquisition and utilisation in child welfare decisions: A qualitative study	11
Social work involvement in the COVID-19 response in China: Interdisciplinary remote networking	11
The impact of COVID-19 quarantine measures on the mental health of families	10
Working conditions and well-being in UK social care and social work during COVID-19	10
Interrogating settler social work with indigenous persons in Canada	9
Social workers’ use of critical reflection	8
Establishing core competencies, opportunities, roles and expertise for oncology social work	8
Social work, emotion management and the transformation of the welfare state	8
Challenges faced by informal caregivers of patients in a Nigerian hospital and implications for social work	7
Social work in sport: Playmakers in the athletic arena	7
Experiences of adult social work addressing self-neglect during the Covid-19 pandemic	7
The influence of work-family conflict on social worker job satisfaction	6
Supporting social work field instructors: Empowerment as a strategy for preventing burnout	6
Public trust of social workers in Sweden: A repeated cross-sectional study	6
A systematic review of technology-mediated social work practice: Benefits, uncertainties, and future directions	6
Social workers and refugee service users (re)constructing their relationships in a hostile political climate	5
Examining the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on social work in health care	5
Social workers’ experiences in integrated health care during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Using the capability approach in social work with unaccompanied young adult refugees	5
A multitheoretical perspective for addressing domestic and family violence: Supporting fathers to parent without harm	5
Involvement of parents of children with ADHD in schools: Implications for social work practice	5

Social work indigenization in Mainland China: Towards a state-led decolonizing framework	5
The effects of social, familial, and economic stress on social workers working with disabled individuals	5
Service user violence against social workers in Italy: Prevalence and characteristics of the phenomenon	5
Beyond medicalized approaches to violence and trauma: Empowering social work practice	5
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	5
Interprofessional dynamics that promote client empowerment in mental health practice: A social work perspective	4
An intersectional theoretical framework for exploring racialized older immigrant women’s subjectivities	4
Work-life balance, social support, and burnout: A quantitative study of social workers	4
Luhmann's theory of psychic systems and communication in social work practice	4
Emotional dissonance and burnout among child welfare workers: The moderating role of social support from colleagues, supervisors, and organization	4
Dimensions of social rehabilitation: A qualitative interpretive meta-synthesis	4
Child protection investigations by private consultants or municipally employed social workers: What are the differences for children?	4
Remembering love: Memory work of orphaned children in the Philippine drug war	4
Aspirations of People With Intellectual Disabilities Living in a Care Organization	4
Mental health professionals' (AMHPs) perspectives on interpreter-mediated mental health act assessments	4
The association among neighborhood mutual support, well-being, and social work	3
Gerontological social workers’ perspectives about the future at the start of a COVID-19 vaccination program: A photovoice study	3
The social worker in community mental health teams: Findings from a national survey	3
Validating a model for indicating the professionalisation of social work in China	3
Advances in social work practice: Understanding uncertainty and unpredictability of complex non-linear situations	3
A Review of participant, agency, and community outcomes of non-familial intergenerational programs	3
Digitalization, stress, and social worker–client relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Child-focused practice in social services for adults in Norway	3
Indigenised approaches to addressing elder abuse in Uganda	3
Social workers’ attitudes toward reparations for African American descendants	3
Core competencies in disaster management for social workers in China: A modified e-Delphi study	3
Foster parent perspectives on necessary supports for youth and their families departing foster care	3
Paper trails: Using letter writing to understand social isolation and poverty in a rural community	2
Young adults’ protest participation and mental health	2
The attitudes of Vietnamese social work practitioners toward sexual minorities	2
Native American social work – Including family and community	2
Book Review: Cornerstones of attachment research by Duschinsky Robbie	2
Exploring empowerment of participants and peer workers in a self- managed homeless shelter	2
Social workers’ perceptions of their peers’ unprofessional behavior	2
Critical realism, mimetic theory and social work	2
Social workers’ challenges in working with deaf bedouin service users	2
Indigenous mothers’ experiences of power and control in child welfare: Families being heard	2
Knowing poverty: Social workers’ perceptions of poverty knowledge	2
Critical social work in public social services: Poverty-aware organizational practices	2
Social Workers’ Impact on Policy Through Regulations: A Case Study of the U.S. Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program	2
Parenting in migration: Critical aspects and challenges of “doing family” of refugee families and social workers	2
The myth of spirituality	2
Differences between adolescents in secure residential care and non-residential educational facilities	2
Vulnerability among older people ageing with deafblindness	2
Integrating an innovative social work practice into a pediatric dental residency program	2
Convergence of community social work practice, collective impact, and design thinking: What, why, and how?	2
The educational journey of former foster youth: A dream deferred	2
Emerging social workers during COVID-19: Exploring perceived readiness and training needs	2
Parents with intellectual disability and their reflections about relationships and support	2
Public perception of social workers as a source for providing help during the COVID-19 pandemic	2

Predictors of service utilization among homeless former foster youth: Implications for intervention	2
Looking into backstage discussions in social work: A qualitative synthesis of recent empirical findings	2
Mindfulness and cognitive training interventions that address intersecting cognitive and aging needs of older adults	2
Paradoxes, contradictions, and dilemmas: Reflections on the contours of a pandemic and its implications for social work education	2