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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Extra Care Housing: The Current State of Research and Prospects for the Future	42
SPS volume 24 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	28
Family Intervention Projects as Poverty-Alleviating Measures: Results from a Norwegian Cluster-Randomised Study	26
The Mixed Impact of Care Work on the Finances of Low-income Canadians: Insights from the Canadian Financial Diaries Research Project	25
SPS volume 21 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	22
Predicting Unpaid Care Work in India Using Random Forest: An Analysis of Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors	21
SPS volume 22 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	19
SPS volume 22 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	19
Beyond the Work Society? Social Policy and the Reduction of Working Time	17
Covid-19 and the Crisis in Social Care: Exploring the Experiences of Disabled People in the Pandemic	15
Prostitution and Sex Work, Who Counts? Mapping Local Data to Inform Policy and Service Provision	15
Climate Crisis and Social Protection - From Worker Protection to Post-growth Transformation?	15
The Social Practices of Food Bank Volunteer Work	14
Social Spending and Income Inequality in Latin America. A Panel Data Approach	13
Navigating the Australian Welfare System for Those Relying on Emergency and Community Food Assistance	12
List of Referees for 2023	12
Some Useful Sources	11
“I’m Not Worthless, I Do Help Society”: Exploring the Lived Experience of Community Placement in Activation Schemes	11
Navigating the Contradictory Politics of being a Marginalised Migrant during Covid-19	11
SPS volume 23 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	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	9
Meeting Marginal Demands in New Welfare Governance? China’s Contracting of Welfare Services in the Sectors of Disability and HIV/AIDS	9
Linguistic Autonomy in a Monolingual Social Imaginary: Social Work Practitioners’ Sense-making of the Role of Language in Migrant ‘Integration’	9

Defamilisation, Familisation, and LGBTQ+ Studies	8
SPS volume 23 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	8
Workplace Factors Associated with Employment of Refugees – Evidence from a Survey Among Danish Employers	7
The Supply Side of Personalisation in Disability Policies in the Welfare Service System	7
Unequal and Gendered: Assessing the Impacts of Austerity Cuts on Public Service Users	7
Financial Exclusion in the UK: Evidence on Ethnicity	7
Colonial Aphasia and the Circuits of Whiteness in Inclusive and Anti-Racist Youth Social Policy	7
Does Performance Matter? The Influence of Attitudes Towards Welfare State Performance on Voting for Rightwing and Leftwing Populist Parties	7
The Conditionality of Trusting Caseworkers in the Social Services Sector – Insights from Germany and Denmark	7
SPS volume 21 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	7
Not Free at All: Home Care User Fees in a Nordic Care System	7
Taxation and Intergenerational Fairness: Exploring the Role of Inheritance Taxes with a Focus on Ireland	7
An Ontology of Social and Economic Reproduction: Modern Slavery, Housing, and Critical Realism	7
Varieties of Just Transition? Eco-Social Policy Approaches at the International Level	6
The Same Storm, but Different Boats: Unpicking the ‘Housing Crisis’	6
Breaking Up Is Risky Business: Personalisation and Collaboration in a Marketised Disability Sector	6
“They’re Not Thinking on the Same Side We Are”: Street-Level Activation of Parents under Universal Credit	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 3 Cover and Front matter	6
Editors’ Notes: Towards the Centenary of the ‘Beveridge Report’: A Debate on the Welfare State for the Next Twenty Years	6
Do Red-Flagged Clients Exit Social Assistance Earlier than Others? The Case of the Finnish Social Assistance System	5
Reconceptualising Youth Poverty through the Lens of Precarious Employment during the Pandemic: The Case of Creative Industry	5
Understanding the Inflation and Social Policy Nexus	5
The Entrepreneurial Welfare Mix: The Case of Community-Based Old Age Services in China	5
The Cross-Regional Impact of Taiwan’s Same-Sex Marriage Legalisation: The Queer Economy of Welfare Mix	5
Ambivalent Internationalisation: Reviewing Literature on the Social Policy Context for International Students in the United Kingdom and Implications for Social Exclusion – CORRIGENDUM	5
SPS volume 24 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	4
Introduction: Towards a Sustainable Welfare State	4
People’s Contrasting Attitudes Towards Universal Basic Income in Sweden and South Korea	4
Social Security, Gender and Class: The impacts of the Universal Credit Conditionality Regime on Unpaid Care and Paid Work – CORRIGENDUM	4
The Problems with Troubled Families: Rethinking the Analysis Behind the 120,000 Troubled Families Statistic	4
More than Money? Job Quality and Food Insecurity among Employed Lone Mother Households in the United States	4
Introduction to Themed Section – Trust and Distrust in Social Welfare: The Perspective of Users	4
A Multi-Dimensional View of Stigma Experienced by Lone Parents in Irish Homeless and Employment Services	4
When Can Government Paternalist Interventions Be Justified? Welfare-to-Work and Interference Intentions	4
Enabling Participation Income for an Eco-Social State	4
Redistribution and the Tax System: A Social Policy Perspective	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
Vulnerability and Critical Human Security in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond in the UK and South Korea	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
What Can Welfare Stigma Do?	3
Transnational Private Actors Shaping the Policy and Practice of Child Institutionalisation	3
The Practical Politics of Doughnut Economics and Climate Crisis	3
Social Policy Responses to Covid-19 in the Global South: Evidence from 36 Countries	3
SPS volume 21 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
Explore the Mutual Benefits of Studying the Rights of Sexual Minority People in Hong Kong Confucianism	3
Government Contracting Services to Social Organisations in China: A Review of Research for Future Enquiry	3
The Role of Bureaucratic Procedures and ‘Caring Professionals’ in Fostering User Trust: Evidence from Serbia and the Czech Republic	3
Constructions of Unemployed Individuals in German Parliamentary Debates on Active Labour Market Policy Reforms: A Comparative Analysis of 2003 and 2016	3

Critical Human Security, State Capacity, and Policy Challenges in a Post-Covid-19 World: South Korea and the UK	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
Efficiency of the Long-Term Care Sector in Poland based on an Activities of Daily Living evaluation	3
Welfare Users’ Perceptions of Distributive Justice and Trust When Facing Institutional Enigma	3
Governing the Family through Parental Responsibilisation and Professionalisation: An Analysis of the State ‘Family Education’ Discourses in Contemporary China	3