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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Young and hungry in the United Kingdom: a qualitative study of youth food insecurity in Edinburgh and London	16
Modern slavery	15
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	12
Children’s centres, families and food insecurity in times of crisis	11
The return of forced labour in the workfare state: enforced work for benefits in the UK in the 1930s and since 2010	9
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	7
Abolishing poverty in the Basque Country: two feasible basic income models	7
Living in ‘waithood’: perceived impact of socio-economic conditions on quality of life of youth in Zandspruit informal settlement, South Africa	5
Early action in the asylum support sector: a scoping review	4
How government sees couples on Universal Credit: a critical gender perspective	4
Remembering Terry Patterson	4
The household as a constraint on social assistance: analysing the household-construct in the Netherlands’ parliamentary history on social assistance	3
Multidimensional child poverty in South Korea: developing measures to assess progress towards the sustainable development goals	3
Regimes of social minima in Europe: a wide view of policy changes	2
From Working Tax Credit to Universal Credit: is the older workforce ready? Perspectives from employees and employers in Northern Ireland	2
‘It may not be due to illness’: social rights for applicants for incapacity benefits	2
Exploring poverty heterogeneity between older old and younger old: evidence from South Korea	2
Disrespect or dignity? Experiences of mandatory work participants in the Netherlands from the perspective of the right to work	2
Micro intervention as an alternative way towards social justice and poverty alleviation in Ethiopia	2
Benefit levels in Swedish social assistance: a vignette-based study of social work professionals’ assessments	2
A life in dignity for all? UK social security support, income adequacy and minimum living standards under austerity, 2008–2023	2
Menstrual poverty among young women: a cross-sectional study in the urban context of Barcelona, Spain	2
Putting gender and capabilities into the equation: transformative evaluation for enhancing social justice	2
The ethical dilemmas of foodbanking: an analysis of the More Than Food programme	2
A balance of sub-national minimum-income schemes in Spain in a new multi-level scenario	1

Pro-poor sustainable development	1
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	1
Stigma and emergency and community food assistance: ‘But… beggars can’t be choosers’	1
Food, work and poverty in the UK today	1
Promoting fairness? Exploring the gendered impacts of the benefit cap and the two-child limit	1
The making of irregular migration: post-Brexit immigration policy and risk of labour exploitation	1
Stakeholders’ perspectives about national target programme for new rural development in Vietnam	1
The merging of knowledge? Lived experience of poverty and its place in public debate	1
Gender matters: family background and upper secondary education in Finland	1
The effects of Bolsa Família on human development: systematic review approach	1
Inequalities in receipt of long-term care services by disabled or older people and co-resident carer dyads in England	1
Tax reform and redistribution for a better recovery	1
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	1
Does home equity liquidation reduce older adults’ poverty rate? Evidence from South Korea	1
Enacting the socio-economic duty: inequalities of outcome and section 1 Equality Act 2010	1
India’s labour force during a pandemic: how we have failed	1
Sticking plaster support: the Household Support Fund and localised assistance in the UK welfare state	0
Editorial	0
Poverty and social security in South Korea	0
‘Who cares about Valley people?’ Lived experiences of energy vulnerability in the South Wales Valleys	0
The fragrance of ghee: food aesthetics, food insecurity and policy dreams	0
Universalism versus residualism: a micro-simulation of alternative income maintenance schemes in South Korea	0
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	0
Is research the new advocacy? Mobilising social science research through ‘solutions-focused advocacy’	0
Exploring the disability–poverty nexus in children: a cross-national comparative analysis in Europe	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
Universal Basic Income is affordable and feasible: evidence from UK economic microsimulation modelling1	0
Universal Credit and the invalidation of mental health problems: claimant and Jobcentre Plus staff experiences	0
Corrigendum to Editorial on ‘Modern slavery’ by Joanna Mack and Marco Pomati	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
Universal Basic Income: the debate	0
Childcare costs and Universal Credit: awareness, affordability and the challenge of an embedded system	0
Exploring a public health approach to modern slavery: potential, problems and translating principles into practice	0
Barriers and facilitators to women’s leadership in savings associations in Uganda	0
Multidimensional poverty in Kolkata’s slums: towards data driven decision making in a medium-sized NGO	0
Scamming the poor: fraudulent loans in Mexico	0
Take-up of social security benefits: past, present – and future?	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
Open for the childless skilled only: the poverty risks of migrant workers with children under the UK points-based immigration system	0
Inclusive, sustainable economic transformation: an analysis of trends and trade-offs	0
How are employers represented in and affected by the policymaking of in-work benefits? Policy stakeholders’ views in Hong Kong	0
Navigating tricky waters: inter-agency collaboration and competing logics in Swedish welfare provision	0
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	0
Protection and support for survivors of modern slavery in the UK: assessing current provision and what we need to change	0
Framing family homelessness in the United States: media representations and the invisibility of families	0
Out of area housing by local authorities in England: displacement of vulnerable households in a neoliberal housing crisis	0
Goodbye to PIP, but hello to what? Disability, social security, devolution and policy change in Scotland	0
Making ends meet: revisiting the consensual income approach to measuring poverty	0
The limits of burden-reducing policies: a case study of unemployment insurance during the COVID-19 crisis in Israel	0
Poverty, extreme poverty and homelessness in Spain: an analysis for the period 2010–2019	0

Indonesia’s anti-extramarital sex legislation: why and how should policymakers respond to prostitution	0
Seeking recognition for people with severe disabilities on benefits	0
Economic situation, sources of income and coverage of basic needs among older adults in a vulnerable community in Cuba	0
The influence of political ideology on stereotypes, meta-stereotypes and causal attributions of homelessness in Spain	0
‘We are constantly overdrawn, despite not spending money on anything other than bills and food’: a mixed-methods, participatory study of food and food insecurity in the context of income inequality	0
Explaining the abolition of the wage stop in the UK	0
‘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	0
The Early Warning System: how frontline evidence helps us understand the UK’s social security response to COVID-19	0
‘Period poverty’ in Stoke-on-Trent, UK: new insights into gendered poverty and the lived experiences of austerity	0
Rural household food security status and its determinants in Libokemkem woreda of the Amhara region, North Western Ethiopia	0
‘Lads are daft though, aren’t they?’ Exploring men’s narratives of mitigating food insecurity and navigating food aid	0
Welfare attitudes in Korean society: effects of cohort and social exclusion	0
How do people understand the causes of poverty and wealth? A revised structural dimensionality of the attributions about poverty and wealth scales	0
‘Ain’t I a human being?’: self-documentation of living in poverty in the face of the abandoning state	0
‘Workers using foodbanks’: the embedding of food insecurity at the nexus of welfare and employment laws	0
‘Covering all the [welfare] basics’: a critical policy study of the Expert Panel on Basic Income report in British Columbia, Canada	0
Contradictions, dilemmas, views and motivations of volunteers in two community food support schemes in two London boroughs	0
Thatcher’s ‘Right to Buy’ reform at 40: a policy feedback analysis of UK social housing policies	0
Poor and satisfied? A review of the monetary poverty indicator in the EU	0
The UK – a home for Ukrainians? An analysis of social security and housing policy	0
Capturing the neglected extremes of UK poverty: a composite modelling approach to destitution and food bank usage	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
The hidden dimensions of poverty: reflections on NGO/academic partnership	0
Impact of COVID-19 lockdown and social distancing policies on small businesses in south-eastern Nigeria: whither the stimulus packages?	0
Poverty and child agency in urban China	0
Safety net of last resort: the evolution, determinants and adequacy of Dutch minimum income support	0
‘It’s a struggle’ – the role of the school Health and Well-being Lead in supporting families in poverty	0