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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Parental Methamphetamine Use, Substance Use Treatment Engagement, and Child Welfare Outcomes	48
Social Work Researchers: From Scientific Technicians to Changemakers	27
Bullying, Discrimination, and Mental Health among South Korean Youth in Institutional Care: The role of peer and family support	24
“Innovation For the Good:” An Historical Analysis of How Private Organizations Brokered Racialized Evidence	23
Housing Insecurity and Adverse Parenting of Adolescents: The Roles of Maternal Stress and Depression	17
Experiences of Queer People of Color in Mental Health Care and Substance Use Treatment: A Systematic Review	16
Young Adults’ Cannabis Environments and their Cannabis Use and Misuse	16
Students’ and Caregivers’ Attitudes and Preferences Toward Screening for Social Risk Factors in a Predominantly Latinx High School	15
Neighborhood Institutions and Well-Being: Youth Perspectives From East Oakland	15
The Potentials of Using Arts-Based Research Methodologies as an Exploratory Tool for Researchers	14
Understanding the Effects of Client Violence on the Health of Child Protection Services Workers	12
The Trajectory of Public Attitudes Toward Immigrants in the United States: Latent Growth Analysis Approach	12
Understanding the Long-term Impact of Mother’s Criminal Legal Involvement on Child Outcomes	10
Physician Perspectives on the Role of Social Workers in Reporting Alcohol and Drug Use in Pregnancy to Child Protective Services	10
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Assessing Individual and Interpersonal Attitudes and Behavior Associated with School Outcomes in a Predominantly Low Income, Latino, and Immigrant High School Population.	9
Case Managers, HIV-Positive Youth, and a Text Messaging Intervention: “That care just didn’t happen before.”	9
Mental Health, Social Support, and Relational Regulation During COVID-19 Among Trauma Exposed Adults	9
Spiritual Identification, Engagement and Social Justice: Examining the Relationships among a Nationally Representative Sample of Americans	9
Bridging the Grey Gap: Conducting Grey Literature Reviews for Ethical Social Work Practice and Research	9
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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 Among Retired Older Adults in China: Mediation Effects of Diversified Portfolio and Financial Well-Being	7

The Social Contract in the Age of Intelligence Reconstructing Inclusive Welfare through Universal Basic Assets	7
Resisting Political Backlash and Advancing Critical Scholarship Through Collaborative Autoethnography	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
Opportunities to Strengthen Child Abuse Prevention Service Systems: A Jurisdictional Assessment of Child Welfare Interventions	6
Silent Suffering: Understanding the Experiences of Black Women Caregivers of Violently Injured Men	6
The Relationship Between Receipt of Childcare Subsidies and Child Protective Services Involvement in [MASKED COUNTY], Colorado: A Brief Research Report	6
Reducing Confounding Bias in Nonexperimental Evaluation: An Application of Empirical Bayes Residuals	6
Parent-Reported Income Insufficiency and Childhood Adversity: Insights from the National Survey of Children's Health	6
Microsystem Supports, Therapeutic Progress, and Court Reinvolvement: Implications for Juvenile Probation	6
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
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Occupational Turnover Because of Supervisors’ Excellence? The Dilemma of the Professional Development of Social Workers in China	5
Could Savings-Group Interventions Be Interesting and Acceptable for Young Women Intimate Partner Violence Survivors Formerly in Foster Care?	5
Validation of the Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire Among Korean Older Adults: Factor Structure and Convergent Validity	5
Associations Between Exposure to Neighborhood Violence and Firearm Possession Among Chicago Adults	5
Testing the Feasibility and Acceptability of Geographic Ecological Momentary Assessments Among Black Youth Living in Neighborhoods Impacted by Community Violence	5
Learning From Practitioners Serving LGBTQ+ Forced Migrants and Other Diverse Groups: Implications for Culturally Informed Affirmative Practice	4
Material Hardship and Mental Health Among Older Americans During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Content Analysis of Child Abuse Risks in YouTube Mukbang Video	4
Addressing food insecurity in ultra-poor families: Findings from a randomized controlled trial in Burkina Faso	4
Getting to the Root of the Problem: A Decision-Tree Analysis for Suicide Risk Among Young People Experiencing Homelessness	4
Front Matter	4
Psychometric Properties of the Coping Strategies Inventory-Short Version (CSI-S) among Korean American Adolescents	4
Extreme Risk Protection Orders in Washington State: Understanding the Role of Health Professionals	4
Correlates of LGBQ Activism and High-Risk Activism: The Role of a Critical Orientation to Social Justice and Ally Identity Measure Subdomains	4
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How Do Public Benefits Affect the Material Hardship of Underemployed and Unemployed Single Mothers? Lessons From the Great Recession	3
Dismantling White Supremacy and Promoting Antiracism in Social Work: Tensions, Paradoxes, and a Collective Response	3
Instant Trauma: The Impact of Viewing Police Excessive Use of Force Recordings on Black Emerging Adult Women	3
The Relationship Between Housing Status and Behavioral Health Outcomes Among Youth Experiencing Homelessness With a Foster Care History	3
Predictor Importance of Childhood Trauma to Early Literacy Skills in Kindergarteners	3
Benevolent Childhood Experiences Scale: A Validation Study in a Sample of Young Black American Adults	3
Commentary: ETHICS—An Ethical Framework for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use in Social Work Research	3
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
"You Realize That You Did Not Understand Just How Hard This Can Be": The Support Needs and Challenges of Foster Parents of a Child with a Disability	3
Isolation, Mindfulness, and Academic Resilience Among Students with Disabilities in Higher Education: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach	3
Social Work Students’ Experiences of Loss and Grief During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed-Methods Study	3
Social Determinants of Health and Parenting Self-Efficacy Among Mothers of Preterm Infants	3
"I was acting out of desperation": 'Well' siblings' retrospective insights alongside anorexia	3
Neonatal Intensive Care Providers' Lived Experiences and Trauma-Informed Care to Mother-Infant Dyads Impacted by Opioid Use	3
The Last Straw: Reasons for Leaving among Post Hurricane Maria Migrant Families	3
Introduction to the Special Section: Developing Antiracist Research From Research Questions to Dissemination	3
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
Inside the “super hero combo”: Interprofessional tensions in legal-social service teams providing immigration services	2
An Item Response Theory Analysis of the Welfare Attitudes Scale: Evidence From the 2016 General Social Survey	2
Police Contact, Collective Efficacy, and Grit Among Youth in Urban Areas	2
Advancing Administrative Data Justice Through Indigenous Representation and Co-Governance Methodologies	2
Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Context: An Empirical Investigation of Large Language Models’ Performance on Chinese Social Work Professional Standards	2

Introducing a New JSSWR Specialty Series on Artificial Intelligence and Social Work	2
Morally tainted – consequences of stigma in three types of organizations supporting sex workers in Poland	2
A Qualitative Study on Strengthening the Client–Worker Relationship in Welfare-to-Work Services	2
Stigma and Public Support for Treatment and Harm Reduction Policy in Response to the US Overdose Crisis	2
Measuring the Impact of Prison-Based Dog Training Programs on Recidivism: A Propensity Score-Matched Survival Analysis	2
Editor’s Acknowledgment of Service to JSSWR	2
The Role of Racial–Ethnic Identity in Understanding Depressive Symptoms in the Context of Racial Discrimination Among African American Youth	2
Financial Outcomes of Interventions to Improve Financial Capability Through Children’s Development Accounts: A Systematic Review	2
The Relationship Between Employing Latinx Staff and Domestic Violence Service Provision: A Brief Research Report	2
Navigating Crisis: Venezuelan Parents’ Experiences of Hardship and Decision to Migrate	2
Is household wealth important for child behavior under persistent food insecurity? An application of longitudinal latent class analysis and generalized propensity score weight	2
Prioritizing community expertise in decarceration research: Exploring the social capacity concept in two high incarceration neighborhoods	2
An Antiracist CBPAR Approach to Honoring Victims of Racial Terror Lynching in Washington County, Arkansas	2
Black Critical Methodology as a Radical Research Paradigm	2
Victimization and Mental Health Symptoms Among Recently Incarcerated Women: The Roles of Homelessness Prior to Incarceration and Community-Based Social Support	2
ChatGPT for Social Work Science: Ethical Challenges and Opportunities	2
Predictors of Mental Health Profile Membership Among Vulnerable Emerging Adults	2
Stress, Satisfaction, and Turnover Among Child Welfare Workers: Examining Associations With Quality of Interprofessional Collaboration	2
Attitudinal Tolerance of Deviance in At-Risk Early Adolescents	2
Examining the effect of previous interactions with social workers on divorced fathers' perceptions of them and the likelihood of seeking their help	2
Self-efficacy is not just about the Self: African American cross-age youth mentors	2