OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Policy and Society is 3. 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
SPS volume 24 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	31
Family Intervention Projects as Poverty-Alleviating Measures: Results from a Norwegian Cluster-Randomised Study	28
The Mixed Impact of Care Work on the Finances of Low-income Canadians: Insights from the Canadian Financial Diaries Research Project	23
Compassionate Cites and Compassionate Communities: A Critical Interpretative Review	20
SPS volume 21 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	19
Predicting Unpaid Care Work in India Using Random Forest: An Analysis of Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors	19
Covid-19 and the Crisis in Social Care: Exploring the Experiences of Disabled People in the Pandemic	16
Welfare Stigma, Need, and Benefit Take-Up among Low-Income Parents: The Impossible Triangle of Being a Good Parent in a Liberal Welfare City	15
Prostitution and Sex Work, Who Counts? Mapping Local Data to Inform Policy and Service Provision	15
SPS volume 22 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	14
SPS volume 22 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	13
Climate Crisis and Social Protection - From Worker Protection to Post-growth Transformation?	13
Beyond the Work Society? Social Policy and the Reduction of Working Time	13
Navigating the Australian Welfare System for Those Relying on Emergency and Community Food Assistance	12
Social Spending and Income Inequality in Latin America. A Panel Data Approach	12
Some Useful Sources	11
List of Referees for 2023	11
SPS volume 23 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	10
Navigating the Contradictory Politics of being a Marginalised Migrant during Covid-19	10
Defamilisation, Familisation, Debates on Same Sex Marriage Issues in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan – An Introduction	9
A Scoping Review on the Conceptualisation of Employer Engagement in the Employment of Vulnerable Workers: An Interdisciplinary Perspective	9
Taxation, Environmental Sustainability, and Distributive Outcomes: Balancing Behavioural Change and Fairness	8
“I’m Not Worthless, I Do Help Society”: Exploring the Lived Experience of Community Placement in Activation Schemes	8
Linguistic Autonomy in a Monolingual Social Imaginary: Social Work Practitioners’ Sense-making of the Role of Language in Migrant ‘Integration’	8
Meeting Marginal Demands in New Welfare Governance? China’s Contracting of Welfare Services in the Sectors of Disability and HIV/AIDS	8

Colonial Aphasia and the Circuits of Whiteness in Inclusive and Anti-Racist Youth Social Policy	7
Not Free at All: Home Care User Fees in a Nordic Care System	7
Defamilisation, Familisation, and LGBTQ+ Studies	7
The Supply Side of Personalisation in Disability Policies in the Welfare Service System	7
Taxation and Intergenerational Fairness: Exploring the Role of Inheritance Taxes with a Focus on Ireland	7
Workplace Factors Associated with Employment of Refugees – Evidence from a Survey Among Danish Employers	7
Does Performance Matter? The Influence of Attitudes Towards Welfare State Performance on Voting for Rightwing and Leftwing Populist Parties	7
SPS volume 23 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	7
Dealing With COVID-19 in Czechia: Why Social Policies and Epidemiological Policies had Different Dynamics	6
Disability and Regulatory Approaches to Employer Engagement: Cross-National Challenges in Bridging the Gap between Motivation and Hiring Practice	6
SPS volume 21 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	6
Financial Exclusion in the UK: Evidence on Ethnicity	6
The Conditionality of Trusting Caseworkers in the Social Services Sector – Insights from Germany and Denmark	6
Assessing the Impact of Cash Transfer Programmes on Socioeconomic Outcomes in the MENA Region: A Systematic Review	6
Varieties of Just Transition? Eco-Social Policy Approaches at the International Level	6
An Ontology of Social and Economic Reproduction: Modern Slavery, Housing, and Critical Realism	6
Editors’ Notes: Towards the Centenary of the ‘Beveridge Report’: A Debate on the Welfare State for the Next Twenty Years	5
The Entrepreneurial Welfare Mix: The Case of Community-Based Old Age Services in China	5
“They’re Not Thinking on the Same Side We Are”: Street-Level Activation of Parents under Universal Credit	5
The Same Storm, but Different Boats: Unpicking the ‘Housing Crisis’	5
SPS volume 21 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	5
Breaking Up Is Risky Business: Personalisation and Collaboration in a Marketised Disability Sector	5
Ambivalent Internationalisation: Reviewing Literature on the Social Policy Context for International Students in the United Kingdom and Implications for Social Exclusion – CORRIGENDUM	4
Redistribution and the Tax System: A Social Policy Perspective	4
Reconceptualising Youth Poverty through the Lens of Precarious Employment during the Pandemic: The Case of Creative Industry	4
Social Security, Gender and Class: The impacts of the Universal Credit Conditionality Regime on Unpaid Care and Paid Work – CORRIGENDUM	4
Critical Human Security, State Capacity, and Policy Challenges in a Post-Covid-19 World: South Korea and the UK	4
Do Red-Flagged Clients Exit Social Assistance Earlier than Others? The Case of the Finnish Social Assistance System	4
People’s Contrasting Attitudes Towards Universal Basic Income in Sweden and South Korea	4
SPS volume 24 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	4
The Importance of Financial and Pension Literacy in Closing the Financial Advice Gap in the U.K.	4
When Can Government Paternalist Interventions Be Justified? Welfare-to-Work and Interference Intentions	4
Introduction to Themed Section – Trust and Distrust in Social Welfare: The Perspective of Users	4
The Cross-Regional Impact of Taiwan’s Same-Sex Marriage Legalisation: The Queer Economy of Welfare Mix	4
Understanding the Inflation and Social Policy Nexus	4
Introduction: Towards a Sustainable Welfare State	4
SPS volume 24 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	4
Making Sense of Bureaucratic Information: Conceptualising Bureaucratic Translation	3
Children as Linguistic Rights Holders in the Swedish Welfare System	3
Introduction: Personalisation and Collaboration: Dual Tensions in Individualised Funding Policy for Older and Disabled Persons	3
Transnational Private Actors Shaping the Policy and Practice of Child Institutionalisation	3
Constructions of Unemployed Individuals in German Parliamentary Debates on Active Labour Market Policy Reforms: A Comparative Analysis of 2003 and 2016	3
Welfare Users’ Perceptions of Distributive Justice and Trust When Facing Institutional Enigma	3
SPS volume 24 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3
What Can Welfare Stigma Do?	3
A Multi-Dimensional View of Stigma Experienced by Lone Parents in Irish Homeless and Employment Services	3
Welfare Reform and Housing Insecurity: The Impact of Universal Credit Rollout on Demand for Rent Arrears and Homelessness Advice from Citizens Advice in England	3
Governing the Family through Parental Responsibilisation and Professionalisation: An Analysis of the State ‘Family Education’ Discourses in Contemporary China	3
Efficiency of the Long-Term Care Sector in Poland based on an Activities of Daily Living evaluation	3
Silent Elements of Policy Change: Inflation and Uprating Mechanisms in the Low Countries	3

The Role of Bureaucratic Procedures and ‘Caring Professionals’ in Fostering User Trust: Evidence from Serbia and the Czech Republic	3
Vulnerability and Critical Human Security in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond in the UK and South Korea	3
More than Money? Job Quality and Food Insecurity among Employed Lone Mother Households in the United States	3
Explore the Mutual Benefits of Studying the Rights of Sexual Minority People in Hong Kong Confucianism	3
Social Policy Responses to Covid-19 in the Global South: Evidence from 36 Countries	3
The Practical Politics of Doughnut Economics and Climate Crisis	3
Contracting Out Social Services in China’s Three First-Tier Cities: Exploring ‘Variation’ through the Eyes of NGO Practitioners	3
Trying to Reverse Demographic Decline: Pro-Natalist and Family Policies in Russia, Poland and Hungary	3