OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Policy and Society 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Populism and Religion in Brazil: The View from Education Policy	45
Deservingness and Uneven Geographies of Asylum Accommodation	36
Housing and Papering Over the Cracks of the Welfare State: Exploring the Role and Impact of Technology as Part of Housing Service Provision in an Era of Multi-level Precarity	30
Tailored and Seamless: Individualised Budgets and the Dual Forces of Personalisation and Collaboration	25
Some Useful Sources	23
Introduction: ‘Race’, Learning and Teaching in Social Policy in Higher Education	23
The Green Agenda: Why the Provision and Development of Gypsy/Traveller Sites in Scotland is a Health Hazard as Much as an Accommodation Priority	22
Ideas and Policy Response to the COVID-19 Crisis: Evidence from Jakarta, Indonesia	18
Deservingness in Judicial Discourse. An Analysis of the Legal Reasoning Adopted in Dutch Case Law on Irregular Migrant Families’ Access to Shelter	18
Framing and Shaming: The 2017 Welfare Cheats, Cheat Us All Campaign	17
Homelessness Transitions, Risks, and Prevention Across the Life Course	16
The Mixed Impact of Care Work on the Finances of Low-income Canadians: Insights from the Canadian Financial Diaries Research Project	16
You Are Safe Here: Community Sponsorship Policy and Refugee Integration in the UK	13
People’s Contrasting Attitudes Towards Universal Basic Income in Sweden and South Korea	13
Some Useful Sources	13
Some Useful Sources	12
Introduction: Mapping the Shifts in Russian and European Welfare Polities	12
Extra Care Housing: The Current State of Research and Prospects for the Future	9
Rethinking Knowledge Production in Sociology: A Critical Analysis of the Conceptual, the Methodological and the Institutional	9
Fluid Enquiry, Complex Causality, Policy Processes: Making a Difference with Qualitative Longitudinal Research	9
Interactions between Child Labour and Schooling: Parental Perceptions in Rural and Urban Ghana	9
More than a Free Lunch: A Content Analysis of the Controversies Surrounding Universal Basic Income on Dutch Twitter	8
Informal Care Provision and the Reduction of Economic Activity Among Mid-Life Carers in Great Britain – A Mixed-Methods Approach	8
A Conceptual Framework to Map Responses to Hate Crime, Hate Incidents and Hate Speech: The Case of Australia	8
SPS volume 23 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	8

Austerity, Poverty, and Children’s Services Quality in England: Consequences for Child Welfare and Public Services	8
What Is Out There and What Can We Learn? International Evidence on Funding and Delivery of Long-Term Care	8
SPS volume 23 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	8
Employment Inequalities Among British Minority Ethnic Workers in Health and Social Care at the Time of Covid-19: A Rapid Review of the Literature	8
Comparative Studies of Russian and European Welfare Polities – CORRIGENDUM	7
Crisis Management, Policy Reform, and Institutions: The Social Policy Response to COVID-19 in Australia	7
“I Was Trusted for Once”: Imagining More Humane Income Supports Through the Ontario Basic Income Pilot	7
Two Scenarios for Sustainable Welfare: A Framework for an Eco-Social Contract	7
Understanding Disability Policy Development: Integrating Social Policy Research with the Disability Studies Perspective	7
Do Red-Flagged Clients Exit Social Assistance Earlier than Others? The Case of the Finnish Social Assistance System	7
Understanding the Inflation and Social Policy Nexus	7
The Food Bank: A Safety-Net in Place of Welfare Security in Times of Austerity and the Covid-19 Crisis	6
From Conceptual Gaps to Policy Dialogue: Conceptual Approaches to Disability and Old Age in Ageing Research and Disability Studies	6
The Cross-Regional Impact of Taiwan’s Same-Sex Marriage Legalisation: The Queer Economy of Welfare Mix	6
A Hidden Cost: Estimating the Public Service Cost of Poverty in Ireland	6
Managing Work and Care: Does Employing a Live-in Migrant Care Worker Fill the Gap? The Example of Taiwan	6
Family Intervention Projects as Poverty-Alleviating Measures: Results from a Norwegian Cluster-Randomised Study	6
Austerity, Ageism, and the Rhetoric of Self-reliance: The Policy Drivers and Socio-cultural Attitudes Contributing to the Loneliness Experienced by Older Residents in an Underprivileged Community in S	6
SPS volume 21 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	5
SPS volume 22 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	5
Freedom and Gender Equality in EU Family Policy Tools – ERRATUM	5
Vulnerability and Critical Human Security in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond in the UK and South Korea	5
The Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Lockdown Policies on Young Fathers: Comparative Insights from the UK and Sweden	5
Social Security, Gender and Class: The impacts of the Universal Credit Conditionality Regime on Unpaid Care and Paid Work – CORRIGENDUM	5
The Production of Employment Conditions for Migrant Care Workers: Cross National Perspectives	5
More than Money? Job Quality and Food Insecurity among Employed Lone Mother Households in the United States	5
SPS volume 20 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	5
Exploring the Alternatives to the Male-Breadwinner Model – The Implications for Social Policy Study	5
Does China Need a Carers’ Policy? A Reflection Based on the Caregiving Experience of Older Carers	5
The Problems with Troubled Families: Rethinking the Analysis Behind the 120,000 Troubled Families Statistic	5
SPS volume 22 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	4
Social Policy Responses to Rising Inflation in Canada and the United States	4
Prostitution and Sex Work, Who Counts? Mapping Local Data to Inform Policy and Service Provision	4
Introduction: Towards a Sustainable Welfare State	4
Diversifying the Social Policy Curriculum: A Collaborative Approach	4
Navigating the Australian Welfare System for Those Relying on Emergency and Community Food Assistance	4
Introduction: Populism, Religion and Social Policy	4
The Social Practices of Food Bank Volunteer Work	4
Making a Case for Centring Energy Poverty in Social Policy in Light of the Climate Emergency: A Global Integrative Review	4
Sleepwalking into the ‘Post-Racial’: Social Policy and Research-Led Teaching	4
Enabling Participation Income for an Eco-Social State	4
Social Policy Development Revisited: The Interplay between Push and Pull Factors in the Indonesian Healthcare Expansion	4
Some Useful Sources	4
If Not Now, Then When? Pathways to Embed Climate Change Within Social Policy	4
No Place for Old Men? Meeting the Needs of an Ageing Male Prison Population in England and Wales	4
SPS volume 22 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	4
Responding to Complexity in the Context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme	4
Incentives and Deterrents to the Supply of Long-term Care for the Elderly in England: Evidence and Experience in Two Local Authorities	4
Covid-19 and the Crisis in Social Care: Exploring the Experiences of Disabled People in the Pandemic	4