OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Information needs of current and prospective foster caregivers: a content analysis of Reddit posts	15
Sexual identity development and sexual well-being: differences between racial/ethnic minority and non-racial/ethnic minority former foster youth	15
STRENGTHS-BASED CASE MANAGEMENT	14
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	12
Experiences of perceived support post discharge among foster care alumni: differences among LGBTQ+ youth and youth of color	8
Meeting them where they’re at: service provider perspectives on the needs of extended foster care participants	7
The caseworker as an external locus of hope for LGB youth in foster care	6
Qualitative exploration of child welfare workers’ decision-making experiences and perspectives on fairness	6
Sinking or swimming: perspectives of the children without placement crisis	5
Comparing population views on state responsibility for children in vulnerable situations – the role of institutional context and socio-demographic characteristics	5
Diagnostic disparities among maltreated youth in a child protective services agency	5
Supporting the educational success of children in foster care: the educational advocacy program	5
Evaluation of a Brief Foster Parent/ Case Worker Training to Support Relationship Building Skills and Acceptance of LGBTQ+ Youth in Care	5
Using a structured decision-making model to inform child welfare practice in Florida: safety versus removal	4
Synergistic benefits of inclusive leadership to foster child welfare workers’ job self-efficacy: race matters	4
Exploring the relationships between self-care and well-being outcomes among child welfare professionals	4
“Why is my skin so intimidating to you?”: Exploring social connectivity and racial identity of youth of color with foster care experience	4
Which participation practices can be found in child welfare service records?	4
Exploring Organizational Learning, Risk, and Psychological Safety: Perspectives of Child Welfare Senior Leaders in Canada	4
Safeguarding children with disabilities: a life course perspective	3
Identifying the essential competencies for court professionals to promote youth engagement in permanency planning in court hearings	3
Factors leading to foster care reentry: experiences of housing unstable families	3
Disparities in Mental Health Service Referrals in Child Sexual Abuse Cases	3
The impact of title IV-E training on public child welfare turnover	3
According to their own accounts: former child welfare involved youth recalling their participation in child protective services interviews that occurred at school	3

Child maltreatment prevention interventions for Latinx immigrant populations: a systematic review	3
Establishing centers of excellence: a primer for child welfare	3
COVID-19 and resource families: an examination of ongoing impact and disparities	3
The challenge within challenges: a common thread of instability in interorganizational child welfare practice	3
Attention to disability in child protection policies across four liberal welfare regimes	3
Emotional abuse, an invisible aspect in Norwegian child welfare documents	3
Service referral decisions for children involved in the child welfare system: modeling the decision-making ecology framework using latent profile analysis	3
Development and validation of a new scale to assess motivations for fostering	2
Examining the use of foster care during emerging adulthood in the United States	2
A principles-based approach to evaluating family engagement group strategies: Lessons from a IV-E Waiver Demonstration Project	2
Do online parenting blogs discourage psychological maltreatment and corporal punishment?	2
Longitudinal analysis of education training vouchers utilization and post-secondary education enrollment among youth experiencing foster care, 2019–2023	2
A propensity score matched pair outcome evaluation of a parenting program for dually involved youth	2
2022 Article of the Year	2
Reproductive Justice for young Black women aging out of foster care	2
Using procedural justice theory to understand public perceptions of child protection	2
Transformative lessons learned from COVID-19 to reimagine child welfare work	2
2020 Article of the Year	2
Experiences with and perceptions of the child welfare system during the perinatal period of mothers with intellectual and developmental disabilities	2
Bridging justice expectations in child protection: media influence and societal bias	2
Response to violence committed by children at welfare facilities: evidence from Japan	2
Evaluation of the Strong Foundations training for the child welfare supervisor	2
Mandatory reporting of child abuse/neglect among substance use counselors	2
Community- and systems-level factors that contribute to foster care entry: Perspectives from child-serving professionals	1
Assessing appeals against emergency placements in Norway: A balancing act	1
Examining a decade of Title IV-E outcomes: a scoping review	1
Fostering a sense of belonging: The role of family terminology and discourse for individuals involved in non-kinship foster care	1
Differences in developmental problems between victims of different types of child maltreatment	1
“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	1
Understanding vocational rehabilitation service access among adolescents and young adults in foster care	1
Preliminary evaluation of a multicomponent youth development program for siblings separated by foster care: pandemic related impacts to service delivery and youth well-being	1
Who are our caregivers? An assessment of the characteristics of foster parents at certain foster parenting milestones across two states	1
A longitudinal investigation of infants and out-of-home care	1
A mixed-methods evaluative study of the life model of residential care for trauma-affected children and youth	1
Persistent racial disproportionality in investigated and substantiated child maltreatment reports: Trend analysis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2019–2020)	1
Independent living skills program use and outcomes of youth in and aging out of foster care in Florida	1
“Resilience,” as Defined by Foster Youth and Key Stakeholders	1
Examining prevalence and predictors of food insecurity for transition-age youth transitioning out of foster care	1
Maltreatment of children with disabilities in the United States	1
Impact of COVID-19 on the educational experiences of youth in foster care: caseworker perspectives	1
Building trust with children in collaborative processes within in-home child welfare services	1
A Multiple-Path Model of Workforce Development for Improving the Fidelity of Family Team Conference in the Child Welfare System	1
The socio-technical organization of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in child welfare	1
Reinstating Parental Rights That Have Been Terminated: Finding Ways to Restore Legal Connections for Children Who Had Been in Foster Care	1
Examining the feasibility and acceptability of an online mindfulness-based stress reduction program for frontline child protection social workers in England	1
Examining the roles of rurality and Latine ethnic density on child maltreatment report and substantiation rates among Latine families: A county-level analysis	1
Child welfare futures: toward more poverty responsive child welfare services	1
Economic impact of CarePortal donations in Glynn County, Georgia	1
Examining the impact of participation in a foster parent support program on child welfare outcomes in Georgia	1
Analyzing decision-maker’s justifications of care orders for newborn children: equal and individualized treatment	1

Integrating trauma-informed practices in child welfare: a process study of graduate education	1
Child protection and safety concerns: some evidence from Ghana	1
Kinship Care: Evaluating Policy and Practice	1
Burnout, resilience, and retention of child protection caseworkers	1
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?	1
What’s on your mind? The effects of an attachment-based intervention on residential youth workers’ reflexive functioning	1
Enhancing Behavioral Health Services for Child Welfare-Involved Parents: A Qualitative Study	1
2021 Article of the Year	1