OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Service Review 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond the Auditable: Pathology, Professional Vision, and the Limits of Oversight for Regulating Psychotropic Drugs in Foster Care	26
Dimensions of Organizational and Personal Evidence Use by Senior Managers in Private Child Welfare Agencies	26
The Benefits and Costs of Paid Parental Leave in the United States	15
The Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize	11
Front Matter	11
Brief Notices	10
“A Little Bit of a Security Blanket”: Renter Experiences with COVID-19–Era Eviction Moratoriums	9
:Intersectional Advocacy: Redrawing Policy Boundaries Around Gender, Race, and Class	9
Who Counts? Educational Disadvantage among Children Identified as Homeless and Implications for the Systems That Serve Them	8
The Long-Term Impacts of Child Development Accounts on Parental Educational Expectations and College Preparation	8
Help after Hardship: Trends and Disparities in Sources of Support following Experiences with Material Hardship	8
Good Clients and Hard Cases: The Role of Typologies at the Welfare Front Line	7
In the Aftermath of the Storm: Administrative Burden in Disaster Recovery	7
Book Review	7
The Well-Being Development Model: A Theoretical Model to Improve Outcomes among Criminal Justice System–Involved Individuals	7
Brief Notices	7
Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity. By Armando Lara-Millán. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 240. $27.95 (paper).	6
Unconditional Cash and Breastfeeding, Child Care, and Maternal Employment among Families with Young Children Residing in Poverty	6
Front Matter	6
Does Reducing Child Benefits Mean Parents Work More? A Mixed-Methods Study of the Labor Market Effects of the United Kingdom’s “Two-Child Limit”	5
Social Transfer Programs as Non-Spatially-Targeted Methods of Reducing Interregional Geographic Inequality	5
Lost Time: Family Reintegration following a Youth Life Sentence	5
How Is Instability in Child-Care Subsidy Use Associated with Instability in Child-Care Arrangements?	4
:Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles	4
Front Matter	4

Racialized Administrative Burden in Disability Assistance Programs in Two Rural Counties	4
Increasing Access to Free and Reduced-Price School Meals through Social Service Programs: Findings from a Direct Certification with Medicaid Demonstration	3
Which Environmental Social Work? Environmentalisms, Social Justice, and the Dilemmas Ahead	3
The Effects of State Workplace Pregnancy Accommodation Laws on Women’s Employment and Income during Pregnancy	3
:Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy	3
:Grow and Hide: The History of America’s Health Care State	3
Inequality of the Safety Net: The Rural-Urban Continuum, County-Level Poverty, and Nonprofit Human Services Expenditures	3
Relationships That Persist and Protect: The Role of Enduring Relationships on Early-Adult Outcomes among Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care	3
Measuring Psychological Burden in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Inequalities across Applicants in Stress and Disrespect	3
The Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize	2
Acknowledgments to Reviewers	2
Front Matter	2
Banks as Racialized and Gendered Organizations: Interviews with Frontline Workers	2
Case Management or Child Care: Which Has the Greater Impact on Parental Human Capital and Self-Sufficiency in Two-Generation Programs?	2
Acknowledgments to Reviewers	2
Front Matter	2
The Limits of Human Rights Discourse within Sovereign Territory: Examining US Refugee Policy Formation	2
The Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, or What Does It Mean to Need a “Brute” in the Twenty-First Century?	2
Uses of the Trauma of Others: Insights from Two Ethnographic Studies of Human Service Workers	2
:The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education	1
Becoming a Peer, Becoming a Person: Subject Formation in China’s Antidrug Social Work	1
Time to Recover and Bond: The Relationship Between State Paid Family Leave Policies and Postpartum Leave-Taking	1
The Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize	1
Take Me Home: Housing Insecurity and Transactional Ties among Poor Families	1
Patterns of Advance Child Tax Credit Receipt and Spending among Children with Retired or Disabled Household Members	1
Maternal Employment Patterns and the Risk for Child Maltreatment	1
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration. By Reuben Jonathan Miller. New York: Little, Brown, 2021. Pp. 352. $29.00 (cloth); $18.99 (paper).	1
Front Matter	0
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Economic Outcomes of Shared Placement among Divorced Mothers in Wisconsin	0
Brief Notices	0
Shaping a Science of Social Work: Professional Knowledge and Identity. Edited by John Brekke and Jeane Anastas. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 252. $45.00 (cloth).	0
Paying for Childcare to Work? Evaluating the Role of Policy in Affordable Care and Child Poverty	0
Front Matter	0
Front Matter	0
Carceral Migrations: Reframing Race, Space, and Punishment	0
The Effects of Child Poverty Reductions on Child Protective Services Involvement	0
“Bodies in the Building”: Incarceration’s Afterlife in a Reentry Housing Facility	0
The Vernacular Ethics of Stigmatized Care: Reinterpreting Acceptance and Confidentiality for Social Work in the West Bank, Palestine	0
:Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb	0
Brief Notices	0
Urban Gun Violence: Self-Help Organizations as Healing Sites, Catalysts for Change, and Collaborative Partners. By Melvin Delgado. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 404. $60.00 (clot	0
Race Talk to Change Carceral Attitudes: A Field Experiment on Deep Canvass Organizing	0
:What Workers Say: Decades of Struggle and How to Make Real Opportunity Now	0
Parenting Strengths and Distress among Black Mothers Reported to the Child Welfare System: The Role of Social Network Quality	0
“Making It Work”: Accommodation and Resistance to Federal Policy in a Homelessness Continuum of Care	0
Parent-Child Contact during Incarceration: Predictors of Involvement among Resident and Nonresident Parents Following Release from Prison	0
Front Matter	0
Experiences of Trauma-Informed Care in a Family Drug Treatment Court	0
:Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State	0

:Working the Difference: Science, Spirit, and the Spread of Motivational Interviewing	0
Brief Notices	0
Acknowledgments to Reviewers	0
Front Matter	0
Estimating the Antipoverty Effects of Social Security Programs for Children in Multigenerational Families	0
Reciprocal Legibility: How School Social Workers Broker Equity for Legally Precarious Immigrant Students	0
Fact Construction and Categorization in Assessment: Cultivating Epistemic Justice and Resistance in Social Work Assessment	0
Brief Notices	0
The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s. By Michael Goldfield. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 432. $53.00 (cloth).	0
Front Matter	0
Tolerating Risk: Professional Judgment in Suicide Risk Assessment	0
The Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize	0
From “Revolutionary Adventure” to “Not Great, Just Better”: The Fight to Remove Juveniles from Pennsylvania’s Camp Hill Prison	0
Brief Notices	0
“I Don’t Fit the Stereotypes”: Housing Choice Voucher Recipients and the Navigation of a Voucher Identity	0
Carceral Citizens Rising: Understanding Oppression Resistance Work through the Lens of Carceral Status	0
Brief Notices	0
:Schooled and Sorted: How Educational Categories Create Inequalities	0
:The Compassionate Court? Support, Surveillance, and Survival in Prostitution Diversion Programs	0
Brief Notices	0
Of the State, against the State: Public Defenders, Street-Level Bureaucracy, and Discretion in Criminal Court	0
Hard to Count? The 2020 Census “Citizenship Question” and Bureaucratic Visibility among Undocumented Latin Americans in Chicago	0
Social Work and the Platform Economy: A Labor Process Theory Analysis	0
Brief Notices	0
Brief Notices	0
Brief Notices	0
:Autistic Intelligence: Interaction, Individuality, and the Challenges of Diagnosis	0
“It’s Like Night and Day”: How Bureaucratic Encounters Vary across WIC, SNAP, and Medicaid	0
Which Families Benefited from the Expanded Child Tax Credit? The Effects of Income, Race, and Education	0
Brief Notices	0
Acknowledgments to Reviewers	0
Front Matter	0
Brief Notices	0
Strategies for Cultivating Organizational Legitimacy among Core-Stigmatized Service Providers: The Case of Syringe Service Programs	0
The Effects of the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) on Child-Care Use and Maternal Labor Supply	0
Standardization or Discretionary Space? A Mixed-Method Study on Government-Imposed Performance Measurement Instruments in Social Services	0
Failed Mothers, Risky Children: Carceral Protectionism and the Social Work Gaze	0
:Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World	0
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Debt Strain and Child Protective Services Involvement	0
Front Matter	0
Brief Notices	0
Did Unemployment Insurance Modernization Provisions Increase Benefit Receipt among Economically Disadvantaged Workers?	0
On Causal Inference and the Limits of Disproportionality as a Construct: The Case of Foster Care Placement	0
An Equity Analysis of Applying for Welfare: TANF Application and Denial Reasons by Household and County Characteristics	0
Examining the Role of Public Pre-K Expansions in the Changing Supply of Child Care in Wisconsin	0
Poverty Reduction through Federal and State Policy Mechanisms: Variation over Time and across the United States	0
Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State. By Amy C. Sullivan. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. Pp. 288. $25.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).	0
How Would Americans Respond to Direct Cash Transfers? Results from Two Survey Experiments	0
Increasing Home Visiting Enrollment through Enhanced Outreach	0
The Effects of Waiving WIC Physical Presence Requirements on Program Caseloads	0
Material Needs, Epistemic Neglect, and Slow Violence: A Systematic Review of Research Focused on Women Affected by the Criminal Legal System	0
Earnings and Employment Patterns Following Child-Care Subsidy Receipt	0
To “Elevate, Humanize, Christianize, Americanize”: Social Work, White Supremacy, and the Americanization Movement, 1880–1930	0
Theorizing a Social Ecology of Displacement: Structural-, Relational-, and Individual-Level Conditions of Homelessness among Young People	0
No Safe Harbor: Eviction Filing in Public Housing	0
Front Matter	0
Public Cash Assistance and Spatial Predation: How State Cash-Transfer Environments Shape Payday Lender Geography	0
Satisfaction with Child Support Services	0
Street-Level Disparities: How Place Shapes the Process of Frontline Child Welfare Investigations	0
:Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System	0
How the Earned Income Tax Credit Sustains Informal Child-Care Arrangements with Family Members and Helps Maintain Intergenerational Relations	0
How Is Child Support Regularity Associated with Custodial Mothers’ Employment? Evidence from the United States	0
Youth Justice at a Crossroads: Twenty-First Century Progressive Reforms and Lessons to Inform the Path Forward	0
Spatial Burdens of State Institutions: The Case of Criminal Courthouses	0
“We’re Here to Help”: Criminal Justice Collaboration among Social Service Providers across the Urban-Rural Continuum	0
Dual Debtors: Child Support and Criminal Legal Financial Obligations	0
Emerging Tensions in Data Work: Staff and Youth Perspectives in Youth-Serving Organizations	0