OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Poverty and Social Justice 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
Living in ‘waithood’: perceived impact of socio-economic conditions on quality of life of youth in Zandspruit informal settlement, South Africa	26
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	15
The legal poverty lines in Brazil: contributions from a human rights-based approach to poverty	14
Children’s centres, families and food insecurity in times of crisis	12
Inequalities in receipt of long-term care services by disabled or older people and co-resident carer dyads in England	10
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	10
Explaining the abolition of the wage stop in the UK	9
Contradictions, dilemmas, views and motivations of volunteers in two community food support schemes in two London boroughs	9
Drawing a line: commenting culture, food povertyism and neoliberal responsibilisation	8
Living unequally, feeling unequally: the poverty–inequality nexus through objective and subjective lenses in transition economies	6
‘It’s a struggle’ – the role of the school Health and Well-being Lead in supporting families in poverty	5
Poverty, extreme poverty and homelessness in Spain: an analysis for the period 2010–2019	5
‘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
Welfare attitudes in Korean society: effects of cohort and social exclusion	4
Sticking plaster support: the Household Support Fund and localised assistance in the UK welfare state	3
Take-up of social security benefits: past, present – and future?	3
Same shit, different crisis? Feminist activism against period poverty during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK	3
Shaping poverty governance: the role of sustainable leadership, CSR, and industry dynamics	3
The energy crisis, homelessness and fuel poverty	3
‘Lads are daft though, aren’t they?’ Exploring men’s narratives of mitigating food insecurity and navigating food aid	3
The demise of USAID: a ‘revolution’ against the wretched of the earth	3
Corrigendum to Editorial on ‘Modern slavery’ by Joanna Mack and Marco Pomati	3
How are employers represented in and affected by the policymaking of in-work benefits? Policy stakeholders’ views in Hong Kong	2
The merging of knowledge? Lived experience of poverty and its place in public debate	2

Framing family homelessness in the United States: media representations and the invisibility of families	2
Exploring a public health approach to modern slavery: potential, problems and translating principles into practice	2
Is research the new advocacy? Mobilising social science research through ‘solutions-focused advocacy’	2
An analysis of repeat food bank use and development of an ‘opportunity pathways’ framework	2
Poverty and social security in South Korea	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
Digital resistance and survival: Palestinian women’s online appeals during Gaza war	1
The return of forced labour in the workfare state: enforced work for benefits in the UK in the 1930s and since 2010	1
More than a mental health issue: broadening the concept of ‘work capability’ through qualitative secondary analysis of claimant narratives	1
Capturing the neglected extremes of UK poverty: a composite modelling approach to destitution and food bank usage	1
Universal Credit and the invalidation of mental health problems: claimant and Jobcentre Plus staff experiences	1
Pro-poor sustainable development	1
Barriers and facilitators to women’s leadership in savings associations in Uganda	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
Benefit levels in Swedish social assistance: a vignette-based study of social work professionals’ assessments	1
Two crises, two policy responses in Spain? Poverty among working-age population in the Great Recession and Covid-19	1
Protection and support for survivors of modern slavery in the UK: assessing current provision and what we need to change	1
Tribal affiliation, social justice, and women’s empowerment: a study of social sustainability in renewable energy projects in Gilgit-Baltistan	1
Menstrual poverty among young women: a cross-sectional study in the urban context of Barcelona, Spain	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
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
Making ends meet: revisiting the consensual income approach to measuring poverty	1
Editorial	1
‘Ain’t I a human being?’: self-documentation of living in poverty in the face of the abandoning state	1
A life in dignity for all? UK social security support, income adequacy and minimum living standards under austerity, 2008–2023	1
Young and hungry in the United Kingdom: a qualitative study of youth food insecurity in Edinburgh and London	1