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

Article	Citations
Digital social work: Conceptualising a hybrid anticipatory practice	56
Big enough? Sampling in qualitative inquiry	51
The emotional labour of academia in the time of a pandemic: A feminist reflection	38
Black women and COVID-19: The need for targeted mental health research and practice	29
“People look at me like I AM the virus”: Fear, stigma, and discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic	29
Approaching uncertainty in social work education, a lesson from COVID-19 pandemic	28
The revitalization of “Osekkai”: How the COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the importance of Japanese voluntary social work	21
The double pandemic: Covid-19 and white supremacy	18
Amplified injustices and mutual aid in the COVID-19 pandemic	17
Academic and family disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A reflexive from social work	16
Emotional intelligence as a part of critical reflection in social work practice and research	15
Beyond a shared experience: Queer and trans youth navigating COVID-19	15
Covid-19, social distancing and the ‘scientisation’ of touch: Exploring the changing social and emotional contexts of touch and their implications for social work	15
Death, dying and bereavement care during COVID-19: Creativity in hospital social work practice	15
Parenting, privilege, and pandemic: From surviving to thriving as a mother in the academy	14
Towards digitally mediated social work – the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on encountering clients in social work	14
Social isolation continued: Covid-19 shines a light on what self-advocates know too well	13
Implications for social work teaching and learning in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, due to the COVID-19 pandemic: A reflection	13
Professional identity of Wuhan and Hong Kong social workers: COVID-19 challenges and implications	12
Disruptions, distractions, and discoveries: Doctoral students’ reflections on a pandemic	11
Discursive decisions: Signposts to guide the use of critical discourse analysis in social work	11
The COVID-19 pandemic, emergency aid and social work in Brazil	10
COVID-19: Where are the Nigerian social workers?	10
Telehealth, friend and foe for health care social work	10
Photovoice as a creative coping tool with the COVID-19 crisis in practical training seminar for social work students	10

Centering a pedagogy of care in the pandemic	10
Beware the kudzu: Corporate creep, university consumers, and epistemic injustice	9
Latinx immigrants raising children in the land of the free: Parenting in the context of persecution and fear	9
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	9
Experiences of secure transport in outdoor behavioral healthcare: A narrative inquiry	9
‘Through no fault of their own’: Social work students’ use of language to construct ‘service user’ identities	9
Doctoral research amidst the Covid-19 pandemic: Researcher reflections on practice, relationships, and unexpected intimacy	8
Resisting the politics of the pandemic and racism to foster humanity	8
Giving up the ghost: Findings on fathers and social work from a study of pre-birth child protection	8
When narrative practice suddenly goes online due to COVID-19 …	8
“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	8
Will someone knock on my door? COVID-19 and social work education	8
Safeguarding health equality for the disadvantaged during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned for the social work profession	8
Confusing questions in qualitative inquiry: Research, interview, and analysis	8
Disrupting hegemony in social work doctoral education and research: Using autoethnography to uncover possibilities for radical transformation	8
Demoralization in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic: Whereto the future for young Australians?	7
Slow scholarship for social work: A praxis of resistance and creativity	7
Studying social workers’ roles in natural disasters during a global pandemic: What can we learn?	7
Narratives, masks and COVID-19: A qualitative reflection	7
Contributing to indigenous social work practice in Africa: A look at the cultural conceptualisations of social problems in Ghana	7
Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research	7
“The pain is real”: A [modified] photovoice exploration of disability, chronic pain, and chronic illness (in)visibility	6
Harnessing Covid-19 to celebrate qualitative social work: Research and practice	6
Global collaboration and social practices to mitigate impacts of COVID-19 in the world: a lived experience of infecting	6
Community mobilization during epidemic emergencies: Insights from Kerala	6
Towards a critical decision-making ecology approach for child protection research	6
COVID and Camus: Reflections on The Plague, collective experience, and qualitative inquiry during a pandemic	6
What creates the public’s impression of social work and how can we improve it?	6
“Thanks for hearing me out”: Voices of social work students during COVID-19	6
Migrants in Chile: Social crisis and the pandemic (or sailing over troubled water…)	6
Fragile minds, porous selves: Shining a light on autoethnography of mental illness	6
Social work undergraduates students and COVID-19 experiences in Nigeria	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
Afghan women perceptions of gender roles, possibilities and barriers to change after settlement in Australia: A qualitative study	6
Unpacking the worlds in our words: Critical discourse analysis and social work inquiry	6
On becoming “essential”: Coronavirus lessons of ontology- from the migrant farmworker and us who consume the fruits of her labor	6
The problem of professionalism: How White social workers enact Whiteness in their work with people of refugee background	6
Participatory research in a pandemic: The impact of Covid-19 on co-designing research with autistic people	6
Weighing the options: Service user perspectives on homeless outreach services	5
Emotion governance and practice resilience in the reflexive modernity: How community social workers in a low-risk Chinese city work with people from Wuhan	5
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	5
Unpacking support: A strengths-based investigation into the needs of incarcerated individuals’ loved ones	5
Collaborative autoethnography as a Tool for Research–Practice partnerships: Facilitating Self and School Transformation	5
Many realities, one world: Dharavi, stranded migrants, and the lockdown in India	5
Historiography of empathy: Contributions to social work research and practice	5
Critical reflections and reflexivity on responding to the needs of LGBTQ+ youth in a global pandemic	5
Using auto-ethnography to bring visibility to coloniality	5
“Why wasn’t I doing this before?”: Changed school social work practice in response to the COVID-19 pandemic	5
An ethic of care? Academic administration and pandemic policy	5

“It’s my life they are talking about” – On children’s participation in decision-making for secure placement	5
Tales of precarity: A reflexive essay on experiencing the COVID pandemic as a social work educator on a precarious contract	5
Collecting grief: Indigenous peoples, deaths by police and a global pandemic	5
The scarred body: A personal reflection of self-injury scars	5
Pandemic disruptions: The subversion of neoliberalism	5
Conversation analysis in social work research: a scoping review	5
Where has vulnerability gone?	5
Older immigrant Latino gay men and childhood sexual abuse: Findings from the Palabras Fuertes project	5
A reflection on living through COVID-19 as a social work professor	5
Transferring from wheelchair to bed: (Re)subjectifying and partner-positioning a person with late-stage dementia in the care task	5
The struggle for social work professional identity in contemporary Zimbabwe: A study on abuse of the social work title	4
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	4
Toward a conceptual model for successful transgender aging	4
Exhaustion and possibility. The wor(l)dlyness of social work in (G)local environment worlds during a pandemic	4
‘Becoming more confident in being themselves’: The value of cultural and creative engagement for young people in foster care – Dawn Mannay, Phil Smith, Catt Turney, Stephen Jennings and Peter Davies	4
Liberation-based social work theory in progress: Time to practice what I teach	4
Independent visiting with children in care during the pandemic: Disruptions and discoveries	4
“They’re not bad parents. They’ve just made bad choices.”: Mental health clinicians’ perspectives of parents involved with child protective services	4
Barriers and opportunities for nontraditional social work during COVID-19: Reflections from a small LGBTQ+ nonprofit in Detroit	4
Compound loss, complex grief: Social work during a pandemic	4
Children’s agency when experiencing family-related adversities: The negotiation of closeness and distance in children’s personal narratives	4
Understanding the mental health needs of mothers who have had children removed through the family court: A call for action	4
‘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	4
(How) are decisions made in child and family social work supervisions?	4
Grandparenting in rural China: A culture-centered approach (CCA) to understand economic inequality and rural labor change	4
Working in the department of social services in the shadow of the coronavirus	4
Using text-based vignettes in qualitative social work research	4
In (and about) this special issue: Things are NOT normal	4
Messiness in international qualitative interviewing: What I did, what I didn’t do, and a little bit about why	4
Building research capacity in hospital-based social workers: A participatory action research approach	4
Children helping to co-construct a digital tool that is designed to increase children’s participation in child welfare investigations in Sweden	4
Connecting in resettlement: An examination of social support among Congolese women in the United States	4
Pandemic and protest in 2020: Questions and considerations for social work research	4
Innovative technology-enhanced social work service during COVID-19: How ‘Garden on the Balcony’ promoted resilience, community bonds and a green lifestyle	4
The uses of small talk in social work: Weather as a resource for informally pursuing institutional tasks	4
Making labor visible in the food movement: Outreach to farmworkers in Michigan	4
Managing older adults’ fear of coronavirus disease: A new role for social work practice	4
Coronavirus and domestic violence: Practices for dealing with a double emergency	4
The power of relationship-based supervision in supporting social work retention: A case study from long-term ethnographic research in child protection	4