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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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	82
Drawing out the relationship: An art-informed study of collaboration between social workers and other professionals in the child protection multi-disciplinary process	31
Using conversation analysis to develop reflective practice in social work	20
Delivering community-based social work: The role of participatory action research in supporting community harm prevention in rural Cambodia	17
Indigenous social work: Knowing, being and doing	16
Book Review: Social Work Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: A Methodological Approach for Practice and Research	12
Putting the auto in ethnography: The embodied process of reflexivity on positionality	12
Creating space for dialogue: Exploring what matters for children on St Helena Island through The World Café	11
In this issue …	11
In this issue - articles	10
Ostensibly small moments and their ethical implications in research with care experienced children and young people	10
Using vignettes to compare the views of social workers and service-users: Some findings and reflections regarding assessments in child welfare	10
Thematic analysis: A practical guide	10
Following a thread: A commentary on Jane Gilgun’s transformative intellectual legacy	10
Timelines, convoy circles, and ecomaps: Positing diagramming as a salient tool for qualitative data collection in research with forced migrants	10
“You come up from the ashes, and you’re like a phoenix.” Survivors of sex trafficking define resilience	10
Exploring the use of focused ethnography in social work research: A scoping review	9
Ara Wairua: Developing and utilising a Māori cultural analysis tool for research	9
Considerations for feminist liberatory social work practice and research	9
Hope for change: A reflective journey of social work practice, domestic homicide and doctoral research	9
Co-producing a social workable matter: Topics and collaborating in social work encounters	9
“The trauma of system failure:” The Interactional Process affecting MSW intern trauma exposure response	9
Exploring Indigenous adoptees’ stories of reconnection after adoption through the lens of the Indigenous connectedness framework	9
Naming parents after adoption - are they still a ‘mum’ and ‘dad’? Recognition, rights and a sense of retained parental identity after a child is adopted from care	9
Navigating survivorhood? Lived experiences of social support-seeking among LGBTQ survivors of intimate partner violence	9

The challenge with defining social work in Fiji	8
A dialogical talk about power and partnership in participatory action research in social work	8
Book Essay: Time	8
Between plans and realities: Reflecting on experiences of participatory research in archiving residential Children’s homes in Scotland and Germany	7
Understanding social justice in a changing sociopolitical context: The perspective of social workers in Hong Kong	7
Reviewer list	7
Social work and interpretative phenomenological analysis	7
Governing failed neoliberal subjects: Representations of women’s mental health in Australian mental health policies	7
Sweden’s front-line: an ethnographic approach to understanding child protection decisions	6
Navigating the dynamics of trust, rapport and power while conducting social health research with people in prison	6
Thanks to reviewers	6
In this issue…A reader’s positionality	6
Resilience among immigrant women who experience intimate partner violence: Service providers’ perspectives	6
In this issue…	6
Day-break or groundhog day?: Pūao-te-Ata-tū and institutional racism in social service provision in Aotearoa New Zealand	6
Book review: Photovoice for social justice: Visual representation in action	6
Creating a family centre by categorising clients in a steering group meeting interaction	6
Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research	5
Using text-based vignettes in qualitative social work research	5
Indigenous community level strengths for the promotion of wellbeing	5
“I felt represented” : Incorporating Latino youth’s perspectives into theatre for dating violence prevention	5
‘I just want you to listen’: People who have experienced suicidal ideation/attempts talk about what they want from their crisis teams	5
Eliciting third person perspectives in social work case discussions: A device for reflective supervision?	5
Musings on a poetic puzzlement: Norman K. Denzin and T.S. Eliot	5
Qualitative examination of homecoming experiences among active-duty military fathers during reintegration	5
Enabling collaboration through co-design: Insights from child protection and domestic and family violence practice	5
Experiences, life changes, and support systems of recovered COVID-19 patients from practitioners’ perspectives: A qualitative study	5
Ethics of witnessing in clinical case notes of children in state care: From data extraction to narrative care	5
In this issue… ethics, lived experience, and practice innovations in social work	4
Social work research: An invitation to write	4
Poverty metaphors: An autoethnography in three parts	4
An introduction to conversation analysis in social work research	4
Doing “ethics work” in practice: An analysis of care managers’ collegial discussions concerning reluctant clients	4
COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and Indigenous knowledges informing the future of social work	4
The power and potential of space and place in family group conferencing: Reimagining the role of the venue in child protection practice	4
The power of the Birkenstocks: Critical social work and the Denzin a/effect	4
Clients’ and social workers’ stories about discretion in social work with persons with disabilities	4
A method worth telling: Using story completion to understand social work responses to discriminatory abuse	4
Towards anti-colonial approaches in social work: Enhancing culturally safe HIV care for Indigenous communities in Manitoba and Saskatchewan	4
Student stories of resilience after campus sexual assault	3
“The doctors have more questions for us”: Geographic differences in healthcare access and health literacy among transgender and nonbinary communities	3
Te Wāhi Whangai methodology: A nurturing space for storytelling, achievement and research	3
Traditional wellness therapy	3
Expanding the spiderweb metaphor: A practice-informed reflection on coercive control	3
Learning self-compassion through social connection at work: The experiences of healthcare professionals in a 6-week intervention	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
Shared reporting, facework and participation in multiparty meetings	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
The power of relationship-based supervision in supporting social work retention: A case study from long-term ethnographic research in child protection	3
Strengthening the relationships between different parties: Boundary-spanning competencies in hospital social work	3

Using theory – To predict outcomes, describe, analyse or interpret? A framework for analysing the use of theories	3
Barriers to sexual and reproductive health care for women survivors of intimate partner violence	3
Black Deaf feminist methodology: The methodological complexities of conducting research with Black Deaf women using intersectionality and critical race grounded theories	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
Giving voice by doing with not doing through : Collaborating with tactile sign language interpreters in in	3
‘I know how it sounds on paper’ risk talk, the use of documents and epistemic justice in child protection assessment home visits	2
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	2
Carrying the stranger within: An American Jewish social worker’s reflection on diaspora, otherness, and the weight of moral responsibility	2
Stress and trauma among police officers: Implications for social work research and practice	2
Recognising child protection social workers’ shifting professional identity after becoming a parent: An insider perspective	2
Talking about family with children in care proceedings: Constructions of “family” in an analysis of spokespersons’ accounts	2
Geographic interviews: A qualitative geographic information systems (QGIS) method for understanding person-in-environment	2
Jane the evangelist versus fire-breathing dragons: Dueling discourses on sexuality, a tribute to the work of Norman K. Denzin	2
In this issue…	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
Using the talking album to elicit the views of young children in foster care regarding a reading intervention	2
Book Review: How to write a phenomenological dissertation: A step-by-step guide	2
Nowhere to turn: A Black feminist autoethnography of interpersonal violence	2
Whiteness in our understanding of culture: A critical discourse analysis of the cultural responsivity practice frameworks in child protection	2
A framework for sexual and reproductive health assessment in intimate partner violence agencies	2
An Indigenous scholar’s journey towards decolonizing social work	2
Promises on hold – When youth participation gets lost in institutional translation	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	1
Body mapping as a site to negotiate eating struggles and food insecurity for street-involved and homeless youth	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
Member checking: A brief metalogue of a career interview	1
Social work and the idea of object	1
People with disabilities’ envisions of structural disability social work in the hoped-for future	1
In this issue …	1
Needs of Children With Incarcerated Parents in Their Own Voice	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
Participatory research with women in the perinatal period: Considerations for reflexive, community-oriented and power-sensitive research practices	1
In this issue – New voices	1
The value of sourcing social work journals for critical discourse analysis	1
Are we listening? Insights from Australian social workers navigating discourse and practice tensions in refugee mental health	1
Supervising interpretive research in doctoral social work education	1
Enhancing child safety and well-being in the northern territory: Bridging gaps in support services and strengthening community engagement	1
In this issue	1
Rethinking qualitative social work: From Latin American reconceptualization to a Denzinian-inspired approach	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
‘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
How conversations can empower and involve: Building the evidence for Approved Mental Health Professionals’ communicative practices	1
Interpretative phenomenological analysis and social work: Hailing its development in the field	1
The body as a site of knowledge: Tacit and embodied narratives of child sexual abuse	1
Motivational talk: Doing motivation in job centre meetings with disadvantaged youth	1
Book Review: How Social Workers Assess and Manage Risk and Uncertainty	1
In this issue …	1
Transnational parenting and professional identity: Experiences of migrant child protection social workers in Australia	1
Navigating uncertainty	1
Engaging youth as co-researchers in virtual qualitative mental health research: Practical guidelines and recommendations	1
Assessing deaf parents in safeguarding and child protection processes: Deaf experts’ experience of routine social work practice	1
Career interview	1
A journey towards resurgence: Reflections from a graduate of the master of social work based in Indigenous knowledges program	1
Reflections on the thoughts of Norman Denzin: His connections to the once and future social work qualitative research	1
Examining the role of lived experience consultants in an Australian research study on the educational experiences of children and young people in out-of-home care	1
Norman Denzin and autoethnography	1
Mental health struggles of social work students: Distress, stigma, and perseverance	1
Embodying place: Embodied geographic methods as a method-in-development	1
Arts-based research with immigrant and racialized older adults: A scoping review	1
Making excuses and making sense: The role and nuances of active listening in eliciting and managing accounts of sexual violations	1
What do young women want? Using a qualitative survey to explore the potential for feminist-informed mental health peer support	1
Introducing a category for long-form papers	1
In this issue…	1
Rethinking comorbidity: A case study of syndemic risk, eating disorders, and suicidal behaviors in adolescent girls of color	1