OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Parental Methamphetamine Use, Substance Use Treatment Engagement, and Child Welfare Outcomes	45
Social Work Researchers: From Scientific Technicians to Changemakers	30
Understanding the Effects of Client Violence on the Health of Child Protection Services Workers	19
Bullying, Discrimination, and Mental Health among South Korean Youth in Institutional Care: The role of peer and family support	18
Young Adults’ Cannabis Environments and their Cannabis Use and Misuse	17
“Innovation For the Good:” An Historical Analysis of How Private Organizations Brokered Racialized Evidence	16
Housing Insecurity and Adverse Parenting of Adolescents: The Roles of Maternal Stress and Depression	15
Students’ and Caregivers’ Attitudes and Preferences Toward Screening for Social Risk Factors in a Predominantly Latinx High School	14
Neighborhood Institutions and Well-Being: Youth Perspectives From East Oakland	13
The Trajectory of Public Attitudes Toward Immigrants in the United States: Latent Growth Analysis Approach	12
Physician Perspectives on the Role of Social Workers in Reporting Alcohol and Drug Use in Pregnancy to Child Protective Services	12
Experiences of Queer People of Color in Mental Health Care and Substance Use Treatment: A Systematic Review	12
Understanding the Long-term Impact of Mother’s Criminal Legal Involvement on Child Outcomes	12
The Potentials of Using Arts-Based Research Methodologies as an Exploratory Tool for Researchers	12
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Bridging the Grey Gap: Conducting Grey Literature Reviews for Ethical Social Work Practice and Research	10
Case Managers, HIV-Positive Youth, and a Text Messaging Intervention: “That care just didn’t happen before.”	9
Assessing Individual and Interpersonal Attitudes and Behavior Associated with School Outcomes in a Predominantly Low Income, Latino, and Immigrant High School Population.	9
Spiritual Identification, Engagement and Social Justice: Examining the Relationships among a Nationally Representative Sample of Americans	9
Mental Health, Social Support, and Relational Regulation During COVID-19 Among Trauma Exposed Adults	9
Does Sharing Activities With Parents Protect African American Adolescents From Low Self-Esteem When Bullied?	8
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Effects of Pension and Financial Literacy on Life Satisfaction in Chinese Retired Older Adults: Mediation Effects of Diversified Portfolio and Financial Well-being	7
Two-Part Models for Father–Child Relationship Variables: Presence in the Child’s Life and Quality of the Relationship Conditional on Some Presence	7
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Reducing Confounding Bias in Nonexperimental Evaluation: An Application of Empirical Bayes Residuals	6
Opportunities to Strengthen Child Abuse Prevention Service Systems: A Jurisdictional Assessment of Child Welfare Interventions	6
Microsystem Supports, Therapeutic Progress, and Court Reinvolvement: Implications for Juvenile Probation	6
Testing the Feasibility and Acceptability of Geographic Ecological Momentary Assessments Among Black Youth Living in Neighborhoods Impacted by Community Violence	6
Resisting Political Backlash and Advancing Critical Scholarship Through Collaborative Autoethnography	6
The Relationship Between Receipt of Childcare Subsidies and Child Protective Services Involvement in [MASKED COUNTY], Colorado: A Brief Research Report	6
Could Savings-Group Interventions Be Interesting and Acceptable for Young Women Intimate Partner Violence Survivors Formerly in Foster Care?	6
Parent-Reported Income Insufficiency and Childhood Adversity: Insights from the National Survey of Children's Health	6
Silent Suffering: Understanding the Experiences of Black Women Caregivers of Violently Injured Men	6
Associations Between Exposure to Neighborhood Violence and Firearm Possession Among Chicago Adults	6
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Occupational Turnover Because of Supervisors’ Excellence? The Dilemma of the Professional Development of Social Workers in China	5
Validation of the Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire Among Korean Older Adults: Factor Structure and Convergent Validity	5
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A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF FAMILY FUNCTIONING AND ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR AMONG ADOLESCENTS	5
Social Work Research Using Electronic Health Records and Criminal Justice Data: Recommendations and Lessons Learned	5
Extreme Risk Protection Orders in Washington State: Understanding the Role of Health Professionals	4
Material Hardship and Mental Health Among Older Americans During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
ETHICS: An Ethical Framework for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use in Social Work Research	4
Getting to the Root of the Problem: A Decision-Tree Analysis for Suicide Risk Among Young People Experiencing Homelessness	4
The Science of Social Work: Public Perceptions	4
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Learning From Practitioners Serving LGBTQ+ Forced Migrants and Other Diverse Groups: Implications for Culturally Informed Affirmative Practice	4
Psychometric Properties of the Coping Strategies Inventory-Short Version (CSI-S) among Korean American Adolescents	4
Content Analysis of Child Abuse Risks in YouTube Mukbang Video	4
The Urgency of Antiracist Research in Social Work: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Research Methods to Elevate the Study of Race and Antiracism in Social Work	3
Instant Trauma: The Impact of Viewing Police Excessive Use of Force Recordings on Black Emerging Adult Women	3
"I was acting out of desperation": 'Well' siblings' retrospective insights alongside anorexia	3
Dismantling White Supremacy and Promoting Antiracism in Social Work: Tensions, Paradoxes, and a Collective Response	3
Neonatal Intensive Care Providers' Lived Experiences and Trauma-Informed Care to Mother-Infant Dyads Impacted by Opioid Use	3
How Do Public Benefits Affect the Material Hardship of Underemployed and Unemployed Single Mothers? Lessons From the Great Recession	3
Social Determinants of Health and Parenting Self-Efficacy Among Mothers of Preterm Infants	3
Correlates of LGBQ Activism and High-Risk Activism: The Role of a Critical Orientation to Social Justice and Ally Identity Measure Subdomains	3
Benevolent Childhood Experiences Scale: A Validation Study in a Sample of Young Black American Adults	3
The Relationship Between Housing Status and Behavioral Health Outcomes Among Youth Experiencing Homelessness With a Foster Care History	3
Editor’s Acknowledgment of Service to JSSWR	2
Predictor Importance of Childhood Trauma to Early Literacy Skills in Kindergarteners	2
Social Work Students’ Experiences of Loss and Grief During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed-Methods Study	2
Introduction to the Special Section: Developing Antiracist Research From Research Questions to Dissemination	2
The Role of Racial–Ethnic Identity in Understanding Depressive Symptoms in the Context of Racial Discrimination Among African American Youth	2
Victimization and Mental Health Symptoms Among Recently Incarcerated Women: The Roles of Homelessness Prior to Incarceration and Community-Based Social Support	2
Introducing a New JSSWR Specialty Series on Artificial Intelligence and Social Work	2
A Qualitative Study on Strengthening the Client–Worker Relationship in Welfare-to-Work Services	2
An Antiracist CBPAR Approach to Honoring Victims of Racial Terror Lynching in Washington County, Arkansas	2
Measuring the Impact of Prison-Based Dog Training Programs on Recidivism: A Propensity Score-Matched Survival Analysis	2
Financial Outcomes of Interventions to Improve Financial Capability Through Children’s Development Accounts: A Systematic Review	2
Attitudinal Tolerance of Deviance in At-Risk Early Adolescents	2
Police Contact, Collective Efficacy, and Grit among Youth in Urban Areas	2

Isolation, Mindfulness, and Academic Resilience Among Students with Disabilities in Higher Education: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach	2
An Item Response Theory Analysis of the Welfare Attitudes Scale: Evidence From the 2016 General Social Survey	2
The Relationship Between Employing Latinx Staff and Domestic Violence Service Provision: A Brief Research Report	2
The importance of personal interviews in assessing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) in India	2
The Longitudinal Relationship Between Broken Windows and Sexual Behaviors Among African American Girls in Juvenile Detention: The Moderating Effects of Sexual Sensation Seeking and Parental Monitoring	2
Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Context: An Empirical Investigation of Large Language Models’ Performance on Chinese Social Work Professional Standards	2
Self-efficacy is not just about the Self: African American cross-age youth mentors	2
Inside the “super hero combo”: Interprofessional tensions in legal-social service teams providing immigration services	2
The Last Straw: Reasons for Leaving among Post Hurricane Maria Migrant Families	2
ChatGPT for Social Work Science: Ethical Challenges and Opportunities	2
Advancing Administrative Data Justice Through Indigenous Representation and Co-Governance Methodologies	2
Secondary Traumatic Stress Among Social Workers: The Contribution of Resilience, Social Support, and Exposure to Violence and Ethical Conflicts	2
Examining the effect of previous interactions with social workers on divorced fathers' perceptions of them and the likelihood of seeking their help	2
Stress, Satisfaction, and Turnover Among Child Welfare Workers: Examining Associations With Quality of Interprofessional Collaboration	2
Prioritizing community expertise in decarceration research: Exploring the social capacity concept in two high incarceration neighborhoods	2
Predictors of Mental Health Profile Membership Among Vulnerable Emerging Adults	2
Black Critical Methodology as a Radical Research Paradigm	2
Navigating Crisis: Venezuelan Parents’ Experiences of Hardship and Decision to Migrate	2