OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Qualitative Social Work is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Indigenous social work: Knowing, being and doing	50
Book Review: Social Work Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: A Methodological Approach for Practice and Research	25
Relationality and online interpersonal research: Ethical, methodological and pragmatic extensions	17
Delivering community-based social work: The role of participatory action research in supporting community harm prevention in rural Cambodia	15
Using conversation analysis to develop reflective practice in social work	13
Book Review: Broken: Women’s stories of intimate and institutional harm and repair LaranceLisa Young. Broken: Women’s Stories of Intimate and Institutional Harm and Repair. Oakland, CA: University of	13
Putting the auto in ethnography: The embodied process of reflexivity on positionality	12
Thematic analysis: A practical guide	12
Drawing out the relationship: An art-informed study of collaboration between social workers and other professionals in the child protection multi-disciplinary process	12
Speaking the unspeakable: An autoethnography exploring unintended sexism in important personal relationships	11
Timelines, convoy circles, and ecomaps: Positing diagramming as a salient tool for qualitative data collection in research with forced migrants	10
Creating space for dialogue: Exploring what matters for children on St Helena Island through The World Café	10
In this issue …	10
Following a thread: A commentary on Jane Gilgun’s transformative intellectual legacy	9
The mighty abstract: An overlooked element of peer review	9
Ostensibly small moments and their ethical implications in research with care experienced children and young people	9
“You come up from the ashes, and you’re like a phoenix.” Survivors of sex trafficking define resilience	9
Using vignettes to compare the views of social workers and service-users: Some findings and reflections regarding assessments in child welfare	9
Ara Wairua: Developing and utilising a Māori cultural analysis tool for research	8
Exploring Indigenous adoptees’ stories of reconnection after adoption through the lens of the Indigenous connectedness framework	8
Exploring the use of focused ethnography in social work research: A scoping review	8
In this issue …	8
In this issue - articles	8
Book Review: Radical Hope: Poverty-Aware Practice for Social Work	8
Reviewer list	7

Co-producing a social workable matter: Topics and collaborating in social work encounters	7
A dialogical talk about power and partnership in participatory action research in social work	7
Navigating survivorhood? Lived experiences of social support-seeking among LGBTQ survivors of intimate partner violence	7
Book Essay: Time	7
Professional engagement: A comprehensive understanding of social work intervention for juvenile offenders	7
“The trauma of system failure:” The Interactional Process affecting MSW intern trauma exposure response	7
Creating a family centre by categorising clients in a steering group meeting interaction	6
In this issue…	6
‘I just want you to listen’: People who have experienced suicidal ideation/attempts talk about what they want from their crisis teams	6
Understanding social justice in a changing sociopolitical context: The perspective of social workers in Hong Kong	6
Book review: Photovoice for social justice: Visual representation in action	6
In this issue…A reader’s positionality	6
Sweden’s front-line: an ethnographic approach to understanding child protection decisions	6
Thanks to reviewers	6
Governing failed neoliberal subjects: Representations of women’s mental health in Australian mental health policies	6
Collaborative autoethnography as a Tool for Research–Practice partnerships: Facilitating Self and School Transformation	6
Worker collectivity in child welfare: Mobilising action and commitment through team meetings	6
Day-break or groundhog day?: Pūao-te-Ata-tū and institutional racism in social service provision in Aotearoa New Zealand	6
Reflections on social work education during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of faculty members and lessons moving forward	6
Between plans and realities: Reflecting on experiences of participatory research in archiving residential Children’s homes in Scotland and Germany	6
Experiences, life changes, and support systems of recovered COVID-19 patients from practitioners’ perspectives: A qualitative study	5
Eliciting third person perspectives in social work case discussions: A device for reflective supervision?	5
Decolonization and qualitative epistemology: Toward reconciliation in the academy	5
Doing “ethics work” in practice: An analysis of care managers’ collegial discussions concerning reluctant clients	5
Navigating the dynamics of trust, rapport and power while conducting social health research with people in prison	5
Navigating multiple identities in the American workplace: Microaggression and the caribbean diaspora	5
Using text-based vignettes in qualitative social work research	5
Indigenous community level strengths for the promotion of wellbeing	5
Musings on a poetic puzzlement: Norman K. Denzin and T.S. Eliot	5
Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research	5
Enabling collaboration through co-design: Insights from child protection and domestic and family violence practice	5
A 40 year (contextualized) social work journey	5
Qualitative examination of homecoming experiences among active-duty military fathers during reintegration	5
An introduction to conversation analysis in social work research	4
Clients’ and social workers’ stories about discretion in social work with persons with disabilities	4
Social work research: An invitation to write	4
A method worth telling: Using story completion to understand social work responses to discriminatory abuse	4
COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and Indigenous knowledges informing the future of social work	4
The power of the Birkenstocks: Critical social work and the Denzin a/effect	4
In this issue… ethics, lived experience, and practice innovations in social work	4
Japanese parents’ experiences supporting their school-aged children’s acculturation to the U.S.	4
‘It was kinda like D.I.Y closure’. Using Photovoice to capture the experiences of final year social work students graduating amidst the pandemic	3
Nowhere to turn: A Black feminist autoethnography of interpersonal violence	3
Children’s agency when experiencing family-related adversities: The negotiation of closeness and distance in children’s personal narratives	3
“Conscious compassion”: A co-created poetic representation of social workers’ experiences with compassion	3
Traditional wellness therapy	3
A perfect storm: How digital transformation, changing office spaces and the blurring of work and non-work lives are driving the individualisation of social workers’ practice in England	3
The power and potential of space and place in family group conferencing: Reimagining the role of the venue in child protection practice	3
‘If we weren’t reflecting, we would be like robots’: The case for thinking aloud in social work supervision	3
Strengthening the relationships between different parties: Boundary-spanning competencies in hospital social work	3

“The doctors have more questions for us”: Geographic differences in healthcare access and health literacy among transgender and nonbinary communities	3
Meanings of parenting and dis/ability for mothers and fathers with intellectual disabilities in the context of social work in Austria: Potentials of deconstruction for shifts in meaning	3
The power of relationship-based supervision in supporting social work retention: A case study from long-term ethnographic research in child protection	3
Black Deaf feminist methodology: The methodological complexities of conducting research with Black Deaf women using intersectionality and critical race grounded theories	3
Meanings and expressions of co-responsibility: A small qualitative study based on the reflections from Chilean social workers involved in public-private child welfare	3
Innovative technology-enhanced social work service during COVID-19: How ‘Garden on the Balcony’ promoted resilience, community bonds and a green lifestyle	3
Now you see them, now you don’t: Professional recognition of specialist professionals working with Deaf British Sign Language parents in child safeguarding	3
Age logics in social work: The case of harm reduction for people over the age of 50 with long-term substance use problems residing in wet eldercare facilities in Sweden	3
Te Wāhi Whangai methodology: A nurturing space for storytelling, achievement and research	3
In this issue…	3
In this issue…	3
Poverty metaphors: An autoethnography in three parts	3
Giving voice by doing with not doing through: Collaborating with tactile sign language interpreters in interpretative phenomenological analysis research involving older deafblind people	3
Towards anti-colonial approaches in social work: Enhancing culturally safe HIV care for Indigenous communities in Manitoba and Saskatchewan	3
Learning self-compassion through social connection at work: The experiences of healthcare professionals in a 6-week intervention	3
Student stories of resilience after campus sexual assault	3
Using theory – To predict outcomes, describe, analyse or interpret? A framework for analysing the use of theories	3
In this issue	2
Late colonial social work practice	2
Career interview	2
Understanding the mental health needs of mothers who have had children removed through the family court: A call for action	2
Performance ethnography as a method for the critical investigation of direct social work practice	2
Experiences of baby removal prevention: A collective case study of mothers and community-based workers	2
An Indigenous scholar’s journey towards decolonizing social work	2
Whiteness in our understanding of culture: A critical discourse analysis of the cultural responsivity practice frameworks in child protection	2
Stress and trauma among police officers: Implications for social work research and practice	2
The value of sourcing social work journals for critical discourse analysis	2
Enhancing child safety and well-being in the northern territory: Bridging gaps in support services and strengthening community engagement	2
Recognising child protection social workers’ shifting professional identity after becoming a parent: An insider perspective	2
In this issue…	2
Assessing deaf parents in safeguarding and child protection processes: Deaf experts’ experience of routine social work practice	2
“I Don’t Know What World I Live in Anymore”: Social work student narratives of the COVID-19 pandemic	2
‘I know how it sounds on paper’ risk talk, the use of documents and epistemic justice in child protection assessment home visits	2
Jane the evangelist versus fire-breathing dragons: Dueling discourses on sexuality, a tribute to the work of Norman K. Denzin	2
Book Review: How to write a phenomenological dissertation: A step-by-step guide	2
Body mapping as a site to negotiate eating struggles and food insecurity for street-involved and homeless youth	2
Using the talking album to elicit the views of young children in foster care regarding a reading intervention	2
Book Review: How Social Workers Assess and Manage Risk and Uncertainty	2
Talking about family with children in care proceedings: Constructions of “family” in an analysis of spokespersons’ accounts	2
(How) are decisions made in child and family social work supervisions?	2
“You have to continue doing the work”: Black women essential workers coping amidst the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racism	2
Geographic interviews: A qualitative geographic information systems (QGIS) method for understanding person-in-environment	2
Rethinking qualitative social work: From Latin American reconceptualization to a Denzinian-inspired approach	1
Making excuses and making sense: The role and nuances of active listening in eliciting and managing accounts of sexual violations	1
Thinking boxes, behavioural boys and the politics of love: ‘Doing’ post-qualitative social work research	1
“To be faithful to ourselves, we pay a price”: Jane F. Gilgun’s journey as a feminist qualitative social work practice researcher	1
“He went from being a monster to a person:” Using narrative analysis to explore how victim-offender dialogue (VOD) participants transform through the VOD process	1
‘They would rather not have known and me kept my mouth shut’: The role of neutralisation in responding to the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse	1
In this issue …	1
In this issue …	1
Navigating grief and pregnancy loss through online story telling	1
‘Like the boy who cried wolf’: The tensions of hospitality and role of deconstruction in dyadic discursive therapy interactions with children and their caregivers	1
Member checking: A brief metalogue of a career interview	1
Embodying place: Embodied geographic methods as a method-in-development	1
Needs of Children With Incarcerated Parents in Their Own Voice	1
Interpretative phenomenological analysis and social work: Hailing its development in the field	1
A journey towards resurgence: Reflections from a graduate of the master of social work based in Indigenous knowledges program	1
Stories of building friendships during long-term recovery from problematic substance use	1
Being, becoming, belonging: Negotiating temporality, memory and identity in life story conversations with care-experienced children and young people	1
Social work and the idea of object	1
Norman Denzin and autoethnography	1
What do young women want? Using a qualitative survey to explore the potential for feminist-informed mental health peer support	1
In this issue – New voices	1
Still waters run deep: The invisible life of working mothers with disabilities in Lithuania	1
‘I like checking in on myself’: Control group experiences in a strengths-based addiction recovery study, with implications for self-monitoring and measurement reactivity	1
Engaging youth as co-researchers in virtual qualitative mental health research: Practical guidelines and recommendations	1
Participatory research with women in the perinatal period: Considerations for reflexive, community-oriented and power-sensitive research practices	1
How conversations can empower and involve: Building the evidence for Approved Mental Health Professionals’ communicative practices	1
Motivational talk: Doing motivation in job centre meetings with disadvantaged youth	1
Reviewer list	1
In this issue…Onward!	1
Experiences of parents of autistic children who adopted a cat	1
The AltaVoces project: A digital narrative approach to anti-oppressive social work research with Latino youth	1
Rethinking comorbidity: A case study of syndemic risk, eating disorders, and suicidal behaviors in adolescent girls of color	1
Mental health struggles of social work students: Distress, stigma, and perseverance	1
Navigating uncertainty	1
Arts-based research with immigrant and racialized older adults: A scoping review	1
The body as a site of knowledge: Tacit and embodied narratives of child sexual abuse	1