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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond the Auditable: Pathology, Professional Vision, and the Limits of Oversight for Regulating Psychotropic Drugs in Foster Care	25
Front Matter	21
Dimensions of Organizational and Personal Evidence Use by Senior Managers in Private Child Welfare Agencies	14
The Benefits and Costs of Paid Parental Leave in the United States	11
The Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize	10
“A Little Bit of a Security Blanket”: Renter Experiences with COVID-19–Era Eviction Moratoriums	10
Brief Notices	10
Liminal Citizenship: Young People’s Perspectives on Civic and Political Engagement in Three European Cities	9
Who Counts? Educational Disadvantage among Children Identified as Homeless and Implications for the Systems That Serve Them	8
Help after Hardship: Trends and Disparities in Sources of Support following Experiences with Material Hardship	8
Brief Notices	7
Book Review	7
The Long-Term Impacts of Child Development Accounts on Parental Educational Expectations and College Preparation	7
Good Clients and Hard Cases: The Role of Typologies at the Welfare Front Line	7
The Well-Being Development Model: A Theoretical Model to Improve Outcomes among Criminal Justice System–Involved Individuals	6
Unconditional Cash and Breastfeeding, Child Care, and Maternal Employment among Families with Young Children Residing in Poverty	6
Front Matter	6
In the Aftermath of the Storm: Administrative Burden in Disaster Recovery	6
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).	5
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
Front Matter	4
How Is Instability in Child-Care Subsidy Use Associated with Instability in Child-Care Arrangements?	4
Racialized Administrative Burden in Disability Assistance Programs in Two Rural Counties	4
Lost Time: Family Reintegration following a Youth Life Sentence	4

The Effects of State Workplace Pregnancy Accommodation Laws on Women’s Employment and Income during Pregnancy	4
: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
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
Front Matter	2
The Limits of Human Rights Discourse within Sovereign Territory: Examining US Refugee Policy Formation	2
Acknowledgments to Reviewers	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
Banks as Racialized and Gendered Organizations: Interviews with Frontline Workers	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 Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize	2
Maternal Employment Patterns and the Risk for Child Maltreatment	1
Take Me Home: Housing Insecurity and Transactional Ties among Poor Families	1
Front Matter	1
Patterns of Advance Child Tax Credit Receipt and Spending among Children with Retired or Disabled Household Members	1
Becoming a Peer, Becoming a Person: Subject Formation in China’s Antidrug Social Work	1
The Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize	1
:The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education	1
All Work and No Play: Indigenous Women “Pulling the Weight” in Home Life	1
Material Needs, Epistemic Neglect, and Slow Violence: A Systematic Review of Research Focused on Women Affected by the Criminal Legal System	0
Satisfaction with Child Support Services	0
:What Workers Say: Decades of Struggle and How to Make Real Opportunity Now	0
The Vernacular Ethics of Stigmatized Care: Reinterpreting Acceptance and Confidentiality for Social Work in the West Bank, Palestine	0
“We’re Here to Help”: Criminal Justice Collaboration among Social Service Providers across the Urban-Rural Continuum	0
Parent-Child Contact during Incarceration: Predictors of Involvement among Resident and Nonresident Parents Following Release from Prison	0
:Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State	0
Brief Notices	0
Acknowledgments to Reviewers	0
Social Work and the Platform Economy: A Labor Process Theory Analysis	0
Public Cash Assistance and Spatial Predation: How State Cash-Transfer Environments Shape Payday Lender Geography	0
Front Matter	0
:Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System	0
Examining the Role of Public Pre-K Expansions in the Changing Supply of Child Care in Wisconsin	0
Economic Outcomes of Shared Placement among Divorced Mothers in Wisconsin	0
:Working the Difference: Science, Spirit, and the Spread of Motivational Interviewing	0
Paying for Childcare to Work? Evaluating the Role of Policy in Affordable Care and Child Poverty	0
Fact Construction and Categorization in Assessment: Cultivating Epistemic Justice and Resistance in Social Work Assessment	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
Front Matter	0
Brief Notices	0
The Effects of Child Poverty Reductions on Child Protective Services Involvement	0
Brief Notices	0
Front Matter	0

Increasing Home Visiting Enrollment through Enhanced Outreach	0
On Causal Inference and the Limits of Disproportionality as a Construct: The Case of Foster Care Placement	0
Earnings and Employment Patterns Following Child-Care Subsidy Receipt	0
“Bodies in the Building”: Incarceration’s Afterlife in a Reentry Housing Facility	0
“It’s Like Night and Day”: How Bureaucratic Encounters Vary across WIC, SNAP, and Medicaid	0
The Analogy of Child Protection as Public Health: An Analysis of Utility, Fit, Awareness, and Need	0
Brief Notices	0
How Would Americans Respond to Direct Cash Transfers? Results from Two Survey Experiments	0
Standardization or Discretionary Space? A Mixed-Method Study on Government-Imposed Performance Measurement Instruments in Social Services	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
Carceral Migrations: Reframing Race, Space, and Punishment	0
Which Families Benefited from the Expanded Child Tax Credit? The Effects of Income, Race, and Education	0
The Effects of Waiving WIC Physical Presence Requirements on Program Caseloads	0
Failed Mothers, Risky Children: Carceral Protectionism and the Social Work Gaze	0
How the Earned Income Tax Credit Sustains Informal Child-Care Arrangements with Family Members and Helps Maintain Intergenerational Relations	0
No Safe Harbor: Eviction Filing in Public Housing	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
Spatial Burdens of State Institutions: The Case of Criminal Courthouses	0
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).	0
Youth Justice at a Crossroads: Twenty-First Century Progressive Reforms and Lessons to Inform the Path Forward	0
:Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World	0
The Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize	0
Brief Notices	0
Dual Debtors: Child Support and Criminal Legal Financial Obligations	0
Tolerating Risk: Professional Judgment in Suicide Risk Assessment	0
Carceral Citizens Rising: Understanding Oppression Resistance Work through the Lens of Carceral Status	0
An Equity Analysis of Applying for Welfare: TANF Application and Denial Reasons by Household and County Characteristics	0
Brief Notices	0
“Making It Work”: Accommodation and Resistance to Federal Policy in a Homelessness Continuum of Care	0
From “Revolutionary Adventure” to “Not Great, Just Better”: The Fight to Remove Juveniles from Pennsylvania’s Camp Hill Prison	0
:Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb	0
Front Matter	0
:Autistic Intelligence: Interaction, Individuality, and the Challenges of Diagnosis	0
Race Talk to Change Carceral Attitudes: A Field Experiment on Deep Canvass Organizing	0
Poverty Reduction through Federal and State Policy Mechanisms: Variation over Time and across the United States	0
Experiences of Trauma-Informed Care in a Family Drug Treatment Court	0
Front Matter	0
To “Elevate, Humanize, Christianize, Americanize”: Social Work, White Supremacy, and the Americanization Movement, 1880–1930	0
Of the State, against the State: Public Defenders, Street-Level Bureaucracy, and Discretion in Criminal Court	0
How Is Child Support Regularity Associated with Custodial Mothers’ Employment? Evidence from the United States	0
Front Matter	0
Brief Notices	0
Front Matter	0
Parenting Strengths and Distress among Black Mothers Reported to the Child Welfare System: The Role of Social Network Quality	0
Lost and Found: Young Fathers in the Age of Unwed Parenthood. By Paul Florsheim and David Moore. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 432. $29.95 (cloth).	0
Theorizing a Social Ecology of Displacement: Structural-, Relational-, and Individual-Level Conditions of Homelessness among Young People	0
Strategies for Cultivating Organizational Legitimacy among Core-Stigmatized Service Providers: The Case of Syringe Service Programs	0
Front Matter	0
Brief Notices	0
Reciprocal Legibility: How School Social Workers Broker Equity for Legally Precarious Immigrant Students	0
Barriers to Formal Child Support Payment	0
Emerging Tensions in Data Work: Staff and Youth Perspectives in Youth-Serving Organizations	0
The Effects of the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) on Child-Care Use and Maternal Labor Supply	0
Did Unemployment Insurance Modernization Provisions Increase Benefit Receipt among Economically Disadvantaged Workers?	0
:Schooled and Sorted: How Educational Categories Create Inequalities	0
Brief Notices	0
Front Matter	0
Brief Notices	0
Voting Infrastructure and Process: Another Form of Voter Suppression?	0
Front Matter	0
:The Compassionate Court? Support, Surveillance, and Survival in Prostitution Diversion Programs	0
Acknowledgments to Reviewers	0
Hard to Count? The 2020 Census “Citizenship Question” and Bureaucratic Visibility among Undocumented Latin Americans in Chicago	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
Estimating the Antipoverty Effects of Social Security Programs for Children in Multigenerational Families	0
Brief Notices	0
Brief Notices	0