OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Public Child Welfare is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Applying the Nurtured Heart Approach® to resource parenting: a mixed methods approach	14
STRENGTHS-BASED CASE MANAGEMENT	13
County variations in child maltreatment risk and service responses during and post the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study	10
Understanding the roles and challenges of child protection employees in out-of-home care arrangements for children of minority and immigrant backgrounds in Rogaland, Norway	10
Meeting them where they’re at: service provider perspectives on the needs of extended foster care participants	10
Experiences of perceived support post discharge among foster care alumni: differences among LGBTQ+ youth and youth of color	10
Sexual identity development and sexual well-being: differences between racial/ethnic minority and non-racial/ethnic minority former foster youth	10
Satisfaction with child welfare workers and services: reports from mothers receiving child welfare services	9
Sinking or swimming: perspectives of the children without placement crisis	8
Patience and protocol: Advice to newly hired child welfare workers from experienced colleagues regarding challenging cases	8
The caseworker as an external locus of hope for LGB youth in foster care	8
Rebalancing prevention and protection services: a policy shock analysis of Finland’s child welfare reform	7
The invisible side of child protection: infant abandonment from the mothers’ perspective	7
Qualitative exploration of child welfare workers’ decision-making experiences and perspectives on fairness	6
Youth in transition: an exploratory comparative analysis of outcomes for youth placed in kinship and non-kinship foster homes	6
Supporting the educational success of children in foster care: the educational advocacy program	6
Exploring Organizational Learning, Risk, and Psychological Safety: Perspectives of Child Welfare Senior Leaders in Canada	5
Which participation practices can be found in child welfare service records?	5
The challenge within challenges: a common thread of instability in interorganizational child welfare practice	5
Service referral decisions for children involved in the child welfare system: modeling the decision-making ecology framework using latent profile analysis	5
Disparities in Mental Health Service Referrals in Child Sexual Abuse Cases	5
According to their own accounts: former child welfare involved youth recalling their participation in child protective services interviews that occurred at school	5
“Why is my skin so intimidating to you?”: Exploring social connectivity and racial identity of youth of color with foster care experience	5
Using a structured decision-making model to inform child welfare practice in Florida: safety versus removal	5
COVID-19 and resource families: an examination of ongoing impact and disparities	5

A review of the literature on capacity building service strategies in child welfare	5
Synergistic benefits of inclusive leadership to foster child welfare workers’ job self-efficacy: race matters	5
Exploring the relationships between self-care and well-being outcomes among child welfare professionals	5
Diagnostic disparities among maltreated youth in a child protective services agency	5
The impact of title IV-E training on public child welfare turnover	5
Reproductive Justice for young Black women aging out of foster care	5
Safeguarding children with disabilities: a life course perspective	4
Emotional abuse, an invisible aspect in Norwegian child welfare documents	4
Evidence for expanding policy: the connection between community adversity and foster care entry	4
Child maltreatment prevention interventions for Latinx immigrant populations: a systematic review	4
Attention to disability in child protection policies across four liberal welfare regimes	4
The ripple effect of relationships: family preservation workers’ insights on what drives effectiveness	3
Development and validation of a new scale to assess motivations for fostering	3
Identifying the essential competencies for court professionals to promote youth engagement in permanency planning in court hearings	3
Legal permanency and kinship care: assessing the challenges, meeting the needs	3
Bridging justice expectations in child protection: media influence and societal bias	3
Examining the use of foster care during emerging adulthood in the United States	3
Collection and maintenance of vital child records in the foster care system	3
A balancing act: a qualitative examination of foster parent rights and well-being	3
The cyclical effect of secondary traumatic stress and burnout among child welfare professionals	3
2022 Article of the Year	3
Factors leading to foster care reentry: experiences of housing unstable families	3
A propensity score matched pair outcome evaluation of a parenting program for dually involved youth	3
Experiences with and perceptions of the child welfare system during the perinatal period of mothers with intellectual and developmental disabilities	3
Do online parenting blogs discourage psychological maltreatment and corporal punishment?	2
Response to violence committed by children at welfare facilities: evidence from Japan	2
The socio-technical organization of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in child welfare	2
“My heart is in the right place, but I don’t feel the court’s heart is beating”: perspectives on feeling valued from multiple nonprofessional stakeholders in child welfare court	2
Examining prevalence and predictors of food insecurity for transition-age youth transitioning out of foster care	2
Reinstating Parental Rights That Have Been Terminated: Finding Ways to Restore Legal Connections for Children Who Had Been in Foster Care	2
Kinship Care: Evaluating Policy and Practice	2
Maltreatment of children with disabilities in the United States	2
Burnout, resilience, and retention of child protection caseworkers	2
What’s on your mind? The effects of an attachment-based intervention on residential youth workers’ reflexive functioning	2
Exploring the colonial contours of child welfare services and their implications for immigrant parents’ participation and trust	2
When forever does not mean forever: perspectives of foster care alumni following legal and relational permanency disruption	2
Monitoring and recording child protection in schools: a review of practice	2
Framing mothers, shaping policy: media portrayals of African American women accused of filicide and implications for child welfare practice	2
Integrating trauma-informed practices in child welfare: a process study of graduate education	2
Examining the feasibility and acceptability of an online mindfulness-based stress reduction program for frontline child protection social workers in England	2
Factors impacting out-of-home placement stability in young children	2
Child protection and safety concerns: some evidence from Ghana	2
Analyzing decision-maker’s justifications of care orders for newborn children: equal and individualized treatment	2
A Multiple-Path Model of Workforce Development for Improving the Fidelity of Family Team Conference in the Child Welfare System	2
Evaluation of the Strong Foundations training for the child welfare supervisor	2
Longitudinal analysis of education training vouchers utilization and post-secondary education enrollment among youth experiencing foster care, 2019–2023	2
Stakeholder perspectives on acceptability of implementing a child mental health intervention in child welfare services: a pilot study	2
An institutional understanding of child Welfare workers’ handling of suspected violence against children in families involved in family law disputes in Sweden	2
Building trust with children in collaborative processes within in-home child welfare services	2
Leveraging continuous quality improvement in technical assistance (TA): a case study of a national TA center supporting child welfare agencies	2

A mixed-methods evaluative study of the life model of residential care for trauma-affected children and youth	2
Examining the roles of rurality and Latine ethnic density on child maltreatment report and substantiation rates among Latine families: A county-level analysis	2
Fostering a sense of belonging: The role of family terminology and discourse for individuals involved in non-kinship foster care	2
How do academic and career services affect employment, education, and disability benefit receipt in the transition to adulthood for youth with disabilities who have aged out of foster care?	2
Improving the policy-making and executive structure of the child welfare system in Iran, a qualitative content analysis study	2
Transformative lessons learned from COVID-19 to reimagine child welfare work	2
Using procedural justice theory to understand public perceptions of child protection	2
Child welfare futures: toward more poverty responsive child welfare services	1
Independent living skills program use and outcomes of youth in and aging out of foster care in Florida	1
Community- and systems-level factors that contribute to foster care entry: Perspectives from child-serving professionals	1
Intersections for justice: conceptualizing justice-centered child welfare practice	1
Children removed for inadequate housing are less likely to be reunified than peers: analysis from AFCARS data	1
“They want to hear my voice”: facilitators of interprofessional collaboration among professionals supporting the education of children and youth in foster care	1
An examination of child welfare agency models that serve immigrant children and families	1
A mixed methods study of how interprofessional communication relates to timely reunification in the U.S. child welfare system	1
Using leisure in foster care to generate advantage	1
The use of mental health services among children in kinship care: an application of Andersen’s Behavioral Model for Health Services Use	1
Barriers to the involvement of extended family and fictive kin in the lives of children in foster care	1
Foster parents’ encounters with the system: the importance of child welfare workers’ traits in promoting satisfaction with the foster care system	1
Court-level stakeholders’ reunification decisions and perceived role in parents’ readiness to support early emotional development post-abuse and/or neglect	1
Exploring metacompetence in child welfare simulation training: toward a holistic model	1
Children hospitalized for suspected maltreatment in Greece: who, why and what for?	1
2021 Article of the Year	1
The development of the SIASP framework for evaluating child protection systems	1
Economic impact of CarePortal donations in Glynn County, Georgia	1
Examining a decade of Title IV-E outcomes: a scoping review	1
Persistent racial disproportionality in investigated and substantiated child maltreatment reports: Trend analysis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2019–2020)	1
From student engagement to school engagement of students: toward providing the luxury of engagement to youth involved with the child welfare system	1
Behavioral health and legal system involvement among transition-age youth in foster care: a longitudinal analysis of youth in California	1
Mind-mindedness in non-kin foster care: relationships with caregiver-child interactions, caregivers’ parental stress, and children’s psychological adjustment	1
Utilizing focus groups to inform the development of a standardized pre-certification resource parent training curriculum	1
Strengths, compliance, or deficits: examining professional viewpoints on the ‘realistic possibility of reunification’ for parents with children in care	1
“Siblings must stick together”: Chilean parents’ perspectives on sibling group adoption and post-adoption contact	1
Supervision in child welfare: Its importance to investigators and case managers	1
The Cuyahoga youth count: one county’s prevalence of and experience data from LGBTQ+ youth in out-of-home placements	1
Examining child welfare agency-level and youth-level factors associated with youth mental health: a multi-level analysis	1
Understanding subgroups of child welfare placement histories in the context of youth behavior and development: a latent class analysis	1
Development of the Family Engagement in Residential Care Measure	1
User comments to parents engaging in psychologically maltreating behaviors on TikTok: implication for child protection	1
“Resilience,” as Defined by Foster Youth and Key Stakeholders	1
Examining the impact of participation in a foster parent support program on child welfare outcomes in Georgia	1
From learning to the bench: enhanced judicial practice following Judicial Academies on reasonable efforts	1
Inviting Plain Mennonite and Amish families to provide foster care for children	1
Perspectives and experiences of preschool teachers in preventing and intervening child abuse and neglect	1
“Unfortunately what’s right isn’t always what’s best”: Exploring teacher and school staff experiences with mandated reporting	1
Foster parents’ need for greater information sharing when caring for children with prenatal substance exposure within child welfare	1
Long-term foster parenting: grief, loss, love, persistence, and growth in the face of tragedy and trauma	1
Youth engagement in permanency planning within tribal child welfare systems: a qualitative study of current practice	1
The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA): Where we’ve been, where we’re headed, and where we need to go	1
How to protect those who protect: psychosocial risks in child welfare workers during the pandemic	1
Disentangling the impact of poverty threshold and material hardship on child maltreatment: a mediating role of parenting aggravation	1
The state of the research on parents with disabilities’ involvement in the child protection system: A comprehensive review	1
Understanding the health and well-being of adults 10-15 years after adoption from the US foster care system	1
Physiological evidence of escalating stress during COVID-19: a longitudinal assessment of child welfare workers	1