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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
SPS volume 24 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	41
Compassionate Cites and Compassionate Communities: A Critical Interpretative Review	32
SPS volume 21 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	23
The Mixed Impact of Care Work on the Finances of Low-income Canadians: Insights from the Canadian Financial Diaries Research Project	23
Welfare Stigma, Need, and Benefit Take-Up among Low-Income Parents: The Impossible Triangle of Being a Good Parent in a Liberal Welfare City	21
SPS volume 22 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	19
Predicting Unpaid Care Work in India Using Random Forest: An Analysis of Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors	18
SPS volume 22 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	18
Beyond the Work Society? Social Policy and the Reduction of Working Time	13
Social Spending and Income Inequality in Latin America. A Panel Data Approach	12
Navigating the Australian Welfare System for Those Relying on Emergency and Community Food Assistance	12
List of Referees for 2023	11
Climate Crisis and Social Protection - From Worker Protection to Post-growth Transformation?	11
Pension Inequalities and Policy Responses	9
Navigating the Contradictory Politics of being a Marginalised Migrant during Covid-19	9
Between Family and Market: China’s Emerging Third Way Model of Childcare and Its Challenges	9
SPS volume 23 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	8
The Supply Side of Personalisation in Disability Policies in the Welfare Service System	7
“I’m Not Worthless, I Do Help Society”: Exploring the Lived Experience of Community Placement in Activation Schemes	7
Linguistic Autonomy in a Monolingual Social Imaginary: Social Work Practitioners’ Sense-making of the Role of Language in Migrant ‘Integration’	7
SPS volume 23 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	7
Meeting Marginal Demands in New Welfare Governance? China’s Contracting of Welfare Services in the Sectors of Disability and HIV/AIDS	7
Defamilisation, Familisation, Debates on Same Sex Marriage Issues in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan – An Introduction	7
Taxation, Environmental Sustainability, and Distributive Outcomes: Balancing Behavioural Change and Fairness	7
A Scoping Review on the Conceptualisation of Employer Engagement in the Employment of Vulnerable Workers: An Interdisciplinary Perspective	7

Workplace Factors Associated with Employment of Refugees – Evidence from a Survey Among Danish Employers	6
Taxation and Intergenerational Fairness: Exploring the Role of Inheritance Taxes with a Focus on Ireland	6
Defamilisation, Familisation, and LGBTQ+ Studies	6
Colonial Aphasia and the Circuits of Whiteness in Inclusive and Anti-Racist Youth Social Policy	6
Does Performance Matter? The Influence of Attitudes Towards Welfare State Performance on Voting for Rightwing and Leftwing Populist Parties	6
Dealing With COVID-19 in Czechia: Why Social Policies and Epidemiological Policies had Different Dynamics	5
SPS volume 21 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	5
Breaking Up Is Risky Business: Personalisation and Collaboration in a Marketised Disability Sector	5
An Ontology of Social and Economic Reproduction: Modern Slavery, Housing, and Critical Realism	5
Assessing the Impact of Cash Transfer Programmes on Socioeconomic Outcomes in the MENA Region: A Systematic Review	4
The Conditionality of Trusting Caseworkers in the Social Services Sector – Insights from Germany and Denmark	4
The Same Storm, but Different Boats: Unpicking the ‘Housing Crisis’	4
Do Red-Flagged Clients Exit Social Assistance Earlier than Others? The Case of the Finnish Social Assistance System	4
Varieties of Just Transition? Eco-Social Policy Approaches at the International Level	4
SPS volume 21 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	4
Enrolment of Second-Generation Migrant Jobseekers in Training Programmes and Internships: Exploring the Gap between Natives with and Without a Migration Background	4
Introduction to Themed Section – Trust and Distrust in Social Welfare: The Perspective of Users	4
Editors’ Notes: Towards the Centenary of the ‘Beveridge Report’: A Debate on the Welfare State for the Next Twenty Years	4
Financial Exclusion in the UK: Evidence on Ethnicity	4
“They’re Not Thinking on the Same Side We Are”: Street-Level Activation of Parents under Universal Credit	4
Ambivalent Internationalisation: Reviewing Literature on the Social Policy Context for International Students in the United Kingdom and Implications for Social Exclusion – CORRIGENDUM	4
The Entrepreneurial Welfare Mix: The Case of Community-Based Old Age Services in China	4
Introduction: Personalisation and Collaboration: Dual Tensions in Individualised Funding Policy for Older and Disabled Persons	3
The Cross-Regional Impact of Taiwan’s Same-Sex Marriage Legalisation: The Queer Economy of Welfare Mix	3
SPS volume 24 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3
Understanding the Inflation and Social Policy Nexus	3
SPS volume 24 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	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
Get Britain Working? Continuity and Change in Labour’s Post-2024 Welfare and Employment Strategy	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
Social Security, Gender and Class: The impacts of the Universal Credit Conditionality Regime on Unpaid Care and Paid Work – CORRIGENDUM	3
The Importance of Financial and Pension Literacy in Closing the Financial Advice Gap in the U.K.	3
People’s Contrasting Attitudes Towards Universal Basic Income in Sweden and South Korea	3
Redistribution and the Tax System: A Social Policy Perspective	3
Critical Human Security, State Capacity, and Policy Challenges in a Post-Covid-19 World: South Korea and the UK	3
The Practical Politics of Doughnut Economics and Climate Crisis	3
Children as Linguistic Rights Holders in the Swedish Welfare System	3
SPS volume 24 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3
Vulnerability and Critical Human Security in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond in the UK and South Korea	3
When Can Government Paternalist Interventions Be Justified? Welfare-to-Work and Interference Intentions	3
SPS volume 25 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
Making Sense of Bureaucratic Information: Conceptualising Bureaucratic Translation	3
What Can Welfare Stigma Do?	3
Trying to Reverse Demographic Decline: Pro-Natalist and Family Policies in Russia, Poland and Hungary	3
Silent Elements of Policy Change: Inflation and Uprating Mechanisms in the Low Countries	3