OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Qualitative Social Work is 4. 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
Digital social work: Conceptualising a hybrid anticipatory practice	42
The emotional labour of academia in the time of a pandemic: A feminist reflection	33
Big enough? Sampling in qualitative inquiry	29
“People look at me like I AM the virus”: Fear, stigma, and discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic	23
Black women and COVID-19: The need for targeted mental health research and practice	22
Approaching uncertainty in social work education, a lesson from COVID-19 pandemic	21
The revitalization of “Osekkai”: How the COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the importance of Japanese voluntary social work	20
Amplified injustices and mutual aid in the COVID-19 pandemic	15
Place and space in social work	15
Participant validation: Exploring a contested tool in qualitative research	15
Revealing the hidden performances of social work practice: The ethnographic process of gaining access, getting into place and impression management	14
The double pandemic: Covid-19 and white supremacy	14
Death, dying and bereavement care during COVID-19: Creativity in hospital social work practice	14
Beyond a shared experience: Queer and trans youth navigating COVID-19	14
Emotional intelligence as a part of critical reflection in social work practice and research	13
Expanding the methodological repertoire of participatory research into homelessness: The utility of the mobile phone diary	13
Social isolation continued: Covid-19 shines a light on what self-advocates know too well	13
Entanglements with offices, information systems, laptops and phones: How agile working is influencing social workers’ interactions with each other and with families	13
Covid-19, social distancing and the ‘scientisation’ of touch: Exploring the changing social and emotional contexts of touch and their implications for social work	12
Academic and family disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A reflexive from social work	11
Parenting, privilege, and pandemic: From surviving to thriving as a mother in the academy	11
The COVID-19 pandemic, emergency aid and social work in Brazil	10
Professional identity of Wuhan and Hong Kong social workers: COVID-19 challenges and implications	10
Discursive decisions: Signposts to guide the use of critical discourse analysis in social work	10
Exploring opportunities for holistic family care of parental caregivers of children with life-threatening or life-limiting illnesses	9

Implications for social work teaching and learning in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, due to the COVID-19 pandemic: A reflection	9
Experiences of secure transport in outdoor behavioral healthcare: A narrative inquiry	9
Disruptions, distractions, and discoveries: Doctoral students’ reflections on a pandemic	9
Photovoice as a creative coping tool with the COVID-19 crisis in practical training seminar for social work students	8
Centering a pedagogy of care in the pandemic	8
Telehealth, friend and foe for health care social work	8
Safeguarding health equality for the disadvantaged during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned for the social work profession	8
COVID-19: Where are the Nigerian social workers?	8
Will someone knock on my door? COVID-19 and social work education	7
Beware the kudzu: Corporate creep, university consumers, and epistemic injustice	7
The dialogue between what we are living and what we are teaching and learning during Covid-19 pandemic: Reflections of two social work educators from Italy and Spain	7
Black men’s conversations about mental health through photos	7
When narrative practice suddenly goes online due to COVID-19 …	7
“Their needs are higher than what I can do”: Moral distress in providers working with Latino immigrant families	7
Giving up the ghost: Findings on fathers and social work from a study of pre-birth child protection	7
A place for therapy: Clients reflect on their experiences in psychotherapists’ offices	7
Resisting the politics of the pandemic and racism to foster humanity	7
Harnessing Covid-19 to celebrate qualitative social work: Research and practice	6
Demoralization in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic: Whereto the future for young Australians?	6
Contributing to indigenous social work practice in Africa: A look at the cultural conceptualisations of social problems in Ghana	6
“We are not like those who/…/sit in the woods and drink”: The making of drinking spaces by youth	6
Disrupting hegemony in social work doctoral education and research: Using autoethnography to uncover possibilities for radical transformation	6
Latinx immigrants raising children in the land of the free: Parenting in the context of persecution and fear	6
Doctoral research amidst the Covid-19 pandemic: Researcher reflections on practice, relationships, and unexpected intimacy	6
Global collaboration and social practices to mitigate impacts of COVID-19 in the world: a lived experience of infecting	6
Confusing questions in qualitative inquiry: Research, interview, and analysis	6
Perinatal social work during the Covid-19 pandemic: Reflecting on concepts of time and liminality	6
Greenland’s emerging social conscience – Voluntary food delivery to people experiencing homelessness in Nuuk	6
Professional or authentic motherhood? Negotiations on the identity of the birth mother in the context of foster care	6
Studying social workers’ roles in natural disasters during a global pandemic: What can we learn?	6
‘Through no fault of their own’: Social work students’ use of language to construct ‘service user’ identities	6
Participatory research in a pandemic: The impact of Covid-19 on co-designing research with autistic people	6
What creates the public’s impression of social work and how can we improve it?	6
Towards digitally mediated social work – the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on encountering clients in social work	5
Social work undergraduates students and COVID-19 experiences in Nigeria	5
Narratives, masks and COVID-19: A qualitative reflection	5
“We belong to nature”: Communicating mental health in an indigenous context	5
Fragile minds, porous selves: Shining a light on autoethnography of mental illness	5
“Some days it’s like she has died.” A qualitative exploration of first mothers’ utilisation of artefacts associated with now-adopted children in coping with grief and loss	5
Slow scholarship for social work: A praxis of resistance and creativity	5
‘It was the best of times; it was the worst of times’: The impact of Covid-19 on families in the child protection process	5
A reflection on living through COVID-19 as a social work professor	5
Community mobilization during epidemic emergencies: Insights from Kerala	5
On becoming “essential”: Coronavirus lessons of ontology- from the migrant farmworker and us who consume the fruits of her labor	5
Pandemic disruptions: The subversion of neoliberalism	5
Hearing their voices: Youths’ experiences of unstable housing and homelessness post-care	5
COVID and Camus: Reflections on The Plague, collective experience, and qualitative inquiry during a pandemic	5
Constructing a conceptual framework for professional identity development in international social work students: A meta-ethnographic review	5
Daily life in National Disability Insurance Scheme times: Parenting a child with Down syndrome and the disability politics in everyday places	5
Perceptions of the social worker role in adult community mental health teams in England	5

Towards a critical decision-making ecology approach for child protection research	5
“The feel of the place”: Investigating atmosphere with the residents of a modernist housing estate	4
Managing older adults’ fear of coronavirus disease: A new role for social work practice	4
Barriers and opportunities for nontraditional social work during COVID-19: Reflections from a small LGBTQ+ nonprofit in Detroit	4
Grandparenting in rural China: A culture-centered approach (CCA) to understand economic inequality and rural labor change	4
Older immigrant Latino gay men and childhood sexual abuse: Findings from the Palabras Fuertes project	4
“I’m meant to be his comfort blanket, not a punching bag” – Ethnomimesis as an exploration of maternal child to parent violence in pre-adolescents	4
“Thanks for hearing me out”: Voices of social work students during COVID-19	4
Unpacking the worlds in our words: Critical discourse analysis and social work inquiry	4
Migrants in Chile: Social crisis and the pandemic (or sailing over troubled water…)	4
Reflections on navigating the PhD journey as a social work practitioner	4
Children’s agency when experiencing family-related adversities: The negotiation of closeness and distance in children’s personal narratives	4
In (and about) this special issue: Things are NOT normal	4
The scarred body: A personal reflection of self-injury scars	4
Tales of precarity: A reflexive essay on experiencing the COVID pandemic as a social work educator on a precarious contract	4
Making labor visible in the food movement: Outreach to farmworkers in Michigan	4
“I would say it’s alive”: Understanding the social construction of place, identity, and neighborhood effects through the lived experience of urban young adults	4
Critical reflections and reflexivity on responding to the needs of LGBTQ+ youth in a global pandemic	4
Emotion governance and practice resilience in the reflexive modernity: How community social workers in a low-risk Chinese city work with people from Wuhan	4
Independent visiting with children in care during the pandemic: Disruptions and discoveries	4
An ethic of care? Academic administration and pandemic policy	4
“The pain is real”: A [modified] photovoice exploration of disability, chronic pain, and chronic illness (in)visibility	4
Collecting grief: Indigenous peoples, deaths by police and a global pandemic	4
Working in the department of social services in the shadow of the coronavirus	4
Using auto-ethnography to bring visibility to coloniality	4
Parent–Child Interaction Therapy: Findings from an exploratory qualitative study with practitioners and foster parents	4