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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Mixed Impact of Care Work on the Finances of Low-income Canadians: Insights from the Canadian Financial Diaries Research Project	54
Family Intervention Projects as Poverty-Alleviating Measures: Results from a Norwegian Cluster-Randomised Study	47
Extra Care Housing: The Current State of Research and Prospects for the Future	35
What Is Out There and What Can We Learn? International Evidence on Funding and Delivery of Long-Term Care	32
SPS volume 21 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	26
SPS volume 20 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	22
Incentives and Deterrents to the Supply of Long-term Care for the Elderly in England: Evidence and Experience in Two Local Authorities	21
SPS volume 22 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	20
Climate Crisis and Social Protection - From Worker Protection to Post-growth Transformation?	19
Navigating the Australian Welfare System for Those Relying on Emergency and Community Food Assistance	19
Social Spending and Income Inequality in Latin America. A Panel Data Approach	19
Predicting Unpaid Care Work in India Using Random Forest: An Analysis of Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors	16
SPS volume 22 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	16
The Social Practices of Food Bank Volunteer Work	15
Beyond the Work Society? Social Policy and the Reduction of Working Time	13
Covid-19 and the Crisis in Social Care: Exploring the Experiences of Disabled People in the Pandemic	13
Meeting Marginal Demands in New Welfare Governance? China’s Contracting of Welfare Services in the Sectors of Disability and HIV/AIDS	11
List of Referees for 2023	11
Social Policy Without Growth: Moving Towards Sustainable Welfare States	11
Prostitution and Sex Work, Who Counts? Mapping Local Data to Inform Policy and Service Provision	11
Some Useful Sources	10
Defamilisation, Familisation, Debates on Same Sex Marriage Issues in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan – An Introduction	9
Linguistic Autonomy in a Monolingual Social Imaginary: Social Work Practitioners’ Sense-making of the Role of Language in Migrant ‘Integration’	9
“I’m Not Worthless, I Do Help Society”: Exploring the Lived Experience of Community Placement in Activation Schemes	9
SPS volume 23 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	8

Analysing Co-creation and Co-production Initiatives for the Development of Age-friendly Strategies: Learning from the Three Capital Cities in the Basque Autonomous Region	8
Colonial Aphasia and the Circuits of Whiteness in Inclusive and Anti-Racist Youth Social Policy	8
Defamilisation, Familisation, and LGBTQ+ Studies	8
SPS volume 23 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	8
Workplace Factors Associated with Employment of Refugees – Evidence from a Survey Among Danish Employers	8
Principles of Success: Facilitating Sustainable Transformation through a Progressive Relational Pedagogy	7
SPS volume 21 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	7
Disability and Regulatory Approaches to Employer Engagement: Cross-National Challenges in Bridging the Gap between Motivation and Hiring Practice	7
Does Performance Matter? The Influence of Attitudes Towards Welfare State Performance on Voting for Rightwing and Leftwing Populist Parties	7
Investment Decisions on Physical Activity Promotion: A Locality Case Study in Complex Public Health Policy Making	7
Child Support in Shared Care Cases: Do Child Support Policies in Thirteen Countries Reflect Family Policy Models?	7
Not Free at All: Home Care User Fees in a Nordic Care 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
An Ontology of Social and Economic Reproduction: Modern Slavery, Housing, and Critical Realism	6
Breaking Up Is Risky Business: Personalisation and Collaboration in a Marketised Disability Sector	6
Reconceptualising Youth Poverty through the Lens of Precarious Employment during the Pandemic: The Case of Creative Industry	6
The Conditionality of Trusting Caseworkers in the Social Services Sector – Insights from Germany and Denmark	6
SPS volume 21 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	6
The Entrepreneurial Welfare Mix: The Case of Community-Based Old Age Services in China	6
Introduction: ‘Race’, Learning and Teaching in Social Policy in Higher Education	6
Varieties of Just Transition? Eco-Social Policy Approaches at the International Level	6
Editors’ Notes: Towards the Centenary of the ‘Beveridge Report’: A Debate on the Welfare State for the Next Twenty Years	6
The Same Storm, but Different Boats: Unpicking the ‘Housing Crisis’	6
Case Study: Enhancing the Learning Experiences of BAME Students at a University: The University Role	6
Introduction: The (Un)Deserving Migrant? Street-Level Bordering Practices and Deservingness in Access to Social Services	5
Do Red-Flagged Clients Exit Social Assistance Earlier than Others? The Case of the Finnish Social Assistance System	5
Understanding the Inflation and Social Policy Nexus	5
Constituting ‘Problems’ through Policies: A WPR Approach of Policies Governing Teenage Pregnancy in France	5
People’s Contrasting Attitudes Towards Universal Basic Income in Sweden and South Korea	5
Ambivalent Internationalisation: Reviewing Literature on the Social Policy Context for International Students in the United Kingdom and Implications for Social Exclusion – CORRIGENDUM	5
Social Security, Gender and Class: The impacts of the Universal Credit Conditionality Regime on Unpaid Care and Paid Work – CORRIGENDUM	5
When Can Government Paternalist Interventions Be Justified? Welfare-to-Work and Interference Intentions	5
The Cross-Regional Impact of Taiwan’s Same-Sex Marriage Legalisation: The Queer Economy of Welfare Mix	5
The Problems with Troubled Families: Rethinking the Analysis Behind the 120,000 Troubled Families Statistic	5
More than Money? Job Quality and Food Insecurity among Employed Lone Mother Households in the United States	5
Introduction: Towards a Sustainable Welfare State	4
Vulnerability and Critical Human Security in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond in the UK and South Korea	4
Children as Linguistic Rights Holders in the Swedish Welfare System	4
Social Policy Responses to Covid-19 in the Global South: Evidence from 36 Countries	4
Governing the Family through Parental Responsibilisation and Professionalisation: An Analysis of the State ‘Family Education’ Discourses in Contemporary China	4
Enabling Participation Income for an Eco-Social State	4
SPS volume 21 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	4
Welfare Reform and Housing Insecurity: The Impact of Universal Credit Rollout on Demand for Rent Arrears and Homelessness Advice from Citizens Advice in England	4
Contracting Out Social Services in China’s Three First-Tier Cities: Exploring ‘Variation’ through the Eyes of NGO Practitioners	4
Introduction: Personalisation and Collaboration: Dual Tensions in Individualised Funding Policy for Older and Disabled Persons	4
A Multi-Dimensional View of Stigma Experienced by Lone Parents in Irish Homeless and Employment Services	4
What Can Welfare Stigma Do?	4
Explore the Mutual Benefits of Studying the Rights of Sexual Minority People in Hong Kong Confucianism	4
SPS volume 20 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4