OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Poverty and Social Justice is 0. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Where does the buck stop? UK Home Office and other statutory body responses to allegations of human rights violations in two Serco-run hotels housing people seeking asylum	18
Living in ‘waithood’: perceived impact of socio-economic conditions on quality of life of youth in Zandspruit informal settlement, South Africa	11
Children’s centres, families and food insecurity in times of crisis	10
Inequalities in receipt of long-term care services by disabled or older people and co-resident carer dyads in England	10
Contradictions, dilemmas, views and motivations of volunteers in two community food support schemes in two London boroughs	7
An untested premise: would voters really support redistribution through UBI which left many of them worse off? A reply to ‘Changing circumstances and new basic premises: turning the affordability and	7
Explaining the abolition of the wage stop in the UK	6
Welfare attitudes in Korean society: effects of cohort and social exclusion	5
Poverty, extreme poverty and homelessness in Spain: an analysis for the period 2010–2019	5
‘It’s a struggle’ – the role of the school Health and Well-being Lead in supporting families in poverty	5
Thatcher’s ‘Right to Buy’ reform at 40: a policy feedback analysis of UK social housing policies	4
‘Lads are daft though, aren’t they?’ Exploring men’s narratives of mitigating food insecurity and navigating food aid	4
‘Workers using foodbanks’: the embedding of food insecurity at the nexus of welfare and employment laws	4
Poor and satisfied? A review of the monetary poverty indicator in the EU	4
The ethical dilemmas of foodbanking: an analysis of the More Than Food programme	3
Framing family homelessness in the United States: media representations and the invisibility of families	3
Sticking plaster support: the Household Support Fund and localised assistance in the UK welfare state	3
The merging of knowledge? Lived experience of poverty and its place in public debate	3
Take-up of social security benefits: past, present – and future?	3
Exploring a public health approach to modern slavery: potential, problems and translating principles into practice	3
How are employers represented in and affected by the policymaking of in-work benefits? Policy stakeholders’ views in Hong Kong	2
A life in dignity for all? UK social security support, income adequacy and minimum living standards under austerity, 2008–2023	2
Universal Credit and the invalidation of mental health problems: claimant and Jobcentre Plus staff experiences	2
Is research the new advocacy? Mobilising social science research through ‘solutions-focused advocacy’	2
Capturing the neglected extremes of UK poverty: a composite modelling approach to destitution and food bank usage	2

Corrigendum to Editorial on ‘Modern slavery’ by Joanna Mack and Marco Pomati	2
‘Ain’t I a human being?’: self-documentation of living in poverty in the face of the abandoning state	2
Protection and support for survivors of modern slavery in the UK: assessing current provision and what we need to change	2
Poverty and social security in South Korea	1
Young and hungry in the United Kingdom: a qualitative study of youth food insecurity in Edinburgh and London	1
The return of forced labour in the workfare state: enforced work for benefits in the UK in the 1930s and since 2010	1
India’s labour force during a pandemic: how we have failed	1
Benefit levels in Swedish social assistance: a vignette-based study of social work professionals’ assessments	1
Pro-poor sustainable development	1
Childcare costs and Universal Credit: awareness, affordability and the challenge of an embedded system	1
‘We should not have to choose between hunger and death’: exploring the experiences of primary caregivers of recipients of a South African child cash transfer programme during COVID-19 lockdown in Cape	1
Editorial	1
Making ends meet: revisiting the consensual income approach to measuring poverty	1
Menstrual poverty among young women: a cross-sectional study in the urban context of Barcelona, Spain	1
Does home equity liquidation reduce older adults’ poverty rate? Evidence from South Korea	1
Barriers and facilitators to women’s leadership in savings associations in Uganda	1
The hidden dimensions of poverty: reflections on NGO/academic partnership	1
The big tax hikes that make UBI ‘affordable’ could be used to cut poverty in more targeted ways: a reply to ‘Universal Basic Income is affordable and feasible: evidence from UK economic microsimulatio	1
Editorial	1
Disrespect or dignity? Experiences of mandatory work participants in the Netherlands from the perspective of the right to work	1
The use of the consensual approach for the improvement of existing multidimensional poverty data in Latin America: an illustration based on data from the City of Buenos Aires	1
Does moving to paid work make me a better mum? Mismatches between political and social ideologies of ‘good motherhood’ and that of lone mothers in the UK	1
Universalism versus residualism: a micro-simulation of alternative income maintenance schemes in South Korea	0
Universal Basic Income: the debate	0
Seeking recognition for people with severe disabilities on benefits	0
Corrigendum to ‘“Covering all the [welfare] basics”: a critical policy study of the Expert Panel on Basic Income report in British Columbia, Canada’ by Tracy Smith-Carrier et al	0
Rural household food security status and its determinants in Libokemkem woreda of the Amhara region, North Western Ethiopia	0
The limits of burden-reducing policies: a case study of unemployment insurance during the COVID-19 crisis in Israel	0
In search of nexus triple wins: planning for and evidence of economic transformation, social inclusion and ecological sustainability in Sri Lanka, Thailand and the Dominican Republic	0
Scamming the poor: fraudulent loans in Mexico	0
Remembering Terry Patterson	0
Stigma and emergency and community food assistance: ‘But… beggars can’t be choosers’	0
Stakeholders’ perspectives about national target programme for new rural development in Vietnam	0
Exploring poverty heterogeneity between older old and younger old: evidence from South Korea	0
Promoting fairness? Exploring the gendered impacts of the benefit cap and the two-child limit	0
Regimes of social minima in Europe: a wide view of policy changes	0
Idealised notions of home and working-class mothers’ realities	0
Corrigendum to ‘Open for the childless skilled only: the poverty risks of migrant workers with children under the UK points-based immigration system’ by Traute Meyer and Paul Bridgen	0
Exploring the disability–poverty nexus in children: a cross-national comparative analysis in Europe	0
The UK – a home for Ukrainians? An analysis of social security and housing policy	0
A balance of sub-national minimum-income schemes in Spain in a new multi-level scenario	0
Micro intervention as an alternative way towards social justice and poverty alleviation in Ethiopia	0
Navigating tricky waters: inter-agency collaboration and competing logics in Swedish welfare provision	0
The making of irregular migration: post-Brexit immigration policy and risk of labour exploitation	0
Poverty and child agency in urban China	0
Goodbye to PIP, but hello to what? Disability, social security, devolution and policy change in Scotland	0
Out of area housing by local authorities in England: displacement of vulnerable households in a neoliberal housing crisis	0
Abolishing poverty in the Basque Country: two feasible basic income models	0
‘The scales never seem to balance’: exploring the lived realities of poverty during the UK ‘cost-of-living crisis’ through participatory research	0
Inclusive, sustainable economic transformation: an analysis of trends and trade-offs	0

From Working Tax Credit to Universal Credit: is the older workforce ready? Perspectives from employees and employers in Northern Ireland	0
Putting gender and capabilities into the equation: transformative evaluation for enhancing social justice	0
The household as a constraint on social assistance: analysing the household-construct in the Netherlands’ parliamentary history on social assistance	0
Safety net of last resort: the evolution, determinants and adequacy of Dutch minimum income support	0
The fragrance of ghee: food aesthetics, food insecurity and policy dreams	0
Indonesia’s anti-extramarital sex legislation: why and how should policymakers respond to prostitution	0
The Early Warning System: how frontline evidence helps us understand the UK’s social security response to COVID-19	0
Changing circumstances and new basic premises: turning the affordability and feasibility relationship on its head: a reply to ‘The big tax hikes that make UBI “affordable” could be used to cut poverty	0
Food, work and poverty in the UK today	0
The influence of political ideology on stereotypes, meta-stereotypes and causal attributions of homelessness in Spain	0
The effects of Bolsa Família on human development: systematic review approach	0
How do people understand the causes of poverty and wealth? A revised structural dimensionality of the attributions about poverty and wealth scales	0
Open for the childless skilled only: the poverty risks of migrant workers with children under the UK points-based immigration system	0
Multidimensional child poverty in South Korea: developing measures to assess progress towards the sustainable development goals	0
Impact of COVID-19 lockdown and social distancing policies on small businesses in south-eastern Nigeria: whither the stimulus packages?	0
Economic situation, sources of income and coverage of basic needs among older adults in a vulnerable community in Cuba	0
Universal Basic Income is affordable and feasible: evidence from UK economic microsimulation modelling1	0
Enacting the socio-economic duty: inequalities of outcome and section 1 Equality Act 2010	0
The place of a basic income in the search for a more just society: a comment on ‘”Covering all the [welfare] basics”: a critical policy study of the Expert Panel on Basic Income report in British Colu	0
Modern slavery	0
Early action in the asylum support sector: a scoping review	0
Tax reform and redistribution for a better recovery	0
‘Covering all the [welfare] basics’: a critical policy study of the Expert Panel on Basic Income report in British Columbia, Canada	0