OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Social Policy is 4. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Logistics of care: Trust-reform and self-managing teams in municipal home care services	46
How Does the Content of Deservingness Criteria Differ for More and Less Deserving Target Groups? An Analysis of Polish Online Debates on Refugees and Families with Children	42
What They Talk About When They Talk About Homelessness: Discourse and Knowledge Culture as a Barrier to Integrated Policy Initiatives	32
To what extent does early childhood education policy in Australia recognise and propose action on the social determinants of health and health equity?	31
The Dynamics of Social Assistance in the Informal Economy: Empirical Evidence from Urban China	29
Understanding informal care burden domains’ impact on overall burden – a structural equation modeling approach with cross-sectional data from Germany	27
JSP volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	21
Amandine Crespy (2022), The European Social Question: Tackling Key Controversies, Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, £24.99, pp. 256, pbk.	19
Stewart Lansley (2021), The Richer, The Poorer: How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor. A 200-Year History, Bristol: Policy Press, £19.99, pp. 318, pbk.	19
JSP volume 50 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	16
How Does the Provision of Childcare Services Affect Mothers’ Employment Intentions? Empirical Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment	15
Digitally Networked Social Services: Mapping the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) online network in Queensland, Australia	15
The contested jurisdiction of Social Policy in UK universities since 1972	14
Adapting to an older workforce: health and the (non) response of employers in an era of insecurity	13
‘It’s Like the Sword of Damocles’ – A Trauma-Informed Framework Analysis of Individuals’ Experiences of Assessment for the Personal Independence Payment Benefit in the UK	13
The impact of health impairments on employment entry and the quality of employment among basic income support recipients in Germany	12
Organisational outputs of administrative reforms: disability in Danish job centres	12
Emergency Responses to COVID-19 and Opportunities for Inclusive Social Policy	12
Cross-jurisdictional youth employment policy and welfare in Scotland, Wales and England: a street-level perspective	12
Not that basic: how level, design, and context matter for the redistributive outcomes of universal basic income	11
Deserving more? A vignette study on the role of self-interest and deservingness opinions for popular support for wealth taxation in Germany	11
Wishing for More: Technological Change, the Rise of Involuntary Part-Time Employment and the Role of Active Labour Market Policies	10
Ship of Theseus: from ILO Standards to Outcome of Maternity Protection Policy	10
Opening the black box of the municipal government: exploring the lived experiences of local public servants with citizen participation and decentralisation in The Netherlands	10
Cities as social investment frontrunners: the case of Amsterdam as innovator and welfare stopgap	10

Competition and childcare quality: Evidence from Quebec	9
Subnational Social Investment in Three European Cities: An Exploratory Comparison	9
Social Policy and Queer Lives: Coming Out of the Closet?	9
JSP volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	9
The Persistence in Gendering: Work-Family Policy in Britain since Beveridge	9
Ute Klammer, Simone Leiber and Sigrid Leitner (eds) (2020), Social Work and the Making of Social Policy, Bristol: Policy Press, £26.99, pp. 256, pbk.	9
How Incarcerating Children Affects their Labour Market Outcomes	8
Bent Greve (2022), Rethinking Welfare and the Welfare State, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, £63.00, pp. 160, hbk.*	8
To Claim or Not to Claim: Investigating Non-Take-Up of Welfare Schemes Targeting Hong Kong Older Adults and the Stigma Attached to Them	8
Legitimating collaboration, collaborating to legitimate: Justification work in “holistic” services for long-term unemployed persons	8
First thing to go? Key findings from a foundational study of hygiene poverty in Ireland	8
Does the family care best? Ideals of care in a familialistic care regime	8
Ethnic differences in intergenerational housing mobility in England and Wales	8
Financialisation and private equity in early childhood care and education in England	8
Parental Freedom in the Context of Risk to the Child: Citizens’ Views of Child Protection and the State in the US and Norway	8
JSP volume 51 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	8
Recognising and addressing wealth privilege in policymaking through an analysis of epistemic practice and agency	8
Socio-Economic Gaps in Workers’ Participation in Private Pension Programmes in Ten European Countries	7
State inspection in contexts of cultural and sociopolitical conflict: The case of social services offered to Arab-Palestinian young women in Israel	7
Between ideology and self-interest: exploring variations in public support for basic income schemes in Germany	7
JSP volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	7
Incoherent and Indefensible? A Normative Analysis of Young People’s Position in England’s Welfare and Homelessness Systems	7
Did increasing the UK’s Universal Credit and working tax credits by £20 per week in 2020–2021 reduce food insecurity?	7
Financializing Healthcare and Infrastructures of Social Reproduction: How to Bankrupt a Hospital and be Unprepared for a Pandemic	7
Does the Family Care Best? Ideals of Care in a Familialistic Care Regime – ERRATUM	7
Does young adulthood caring influence educational attainment and employment in the UK and Germany?	7
Income Insecurity and the Relational Coping Strategies of Low-Income Households in the UK	7
John Stewart (2020), Richard Titmuss: A Commitment to Welfare, Bristol: Policy Press, £47.99, pp. 600, hbk.	6
Derek Fraser (2023), The Beveridge Report: Blueprint for the Welfare State, London & New York: Routledge, £120, pp. 240, hbk.	6
Comparing Government Social Welfare Service Acquisition Regimes: Marketisation and Bases for Competition in Canadian and English Homelessness	6
How and why does relational welfare work to support young people not in employment, education or training (NEET)? A realist evaluation	6
Individual and Contextual Sources of (Mis)Perceptions About the Impact of Immigration on the Welfare State	6
When trade-offs touch self-interests: attitudes on education spending in a cross-country analysis	6
Lisa Dellmuth (2021), Is Europe Good For You? EU Spending and Well-Being, Bristol University Press, £47.99, pp. 202, hbk.	6
Investigating social protection amongst platform workers in Germany: forced individualisation, hybrid income generation and undesired regulation	6
‘It’s Not Just About a Rainbow Lanyard’: How Structural Cisnormativity Undermines the Enactment of Anti-Discrimination Legislation in the Welsh Homelessness Service	6
Paul Spicker (2022), How to Fix the Welfare State: Some Ideas for Better Social Services, Bristol: Policy Press, £27.99, pp. 168, pbk.	5
JSP volume 50 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	5
The Participation of People in Vulnerable Situations in Interest Organisations: A Qualitative Study of Representatives Views	5
In Defence of Ordinary Help: Estimating the effect of Early Help/Family Support Spending on Children in Need Rates in England using ALT-SR	5
Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen (2020), Finntopia: What We Can Learn From the World’s Happiest Country, Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, £18.99, pp. 320, hbk.	5
Missing Incomes in the UK: Evidence and Policy Implications	5
Booming opportunities and looming challenges? Expansion strategies among finance-controlled providers in the field of Swedish eldercare	5
Will Bartlett , Vassilis Monastiriotis and Panagiotis Koutrumpis (eds) (2020), Social Exclusion and Labour Market Challenges in the Western Balkans, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, £64.99, pp. 309, h	5
JSP volume 51 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	5
Welfare Attitudes in Crisis: The Role of Ideology in Healthcare Satisfaction in Portugal and Ireland	5
Mobilising Voluntary Action in the UK: Learning from the Pandemic. Edited by Irene Hardill , Jurgen Grotz and Laura Crawford . Policy Press, 2022, 202pp, Paperback, £14.99/EPUB Open Access. ISBN 2978	5
A dynamic perspective on profiling financial-aid eligibility: the case of South Africa	4
Anja Eleveld , Thomas Kampen and Josien Arts (eds) (2020) Welfare to Work in Contemporary European Welfare States: Legal, Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives on Justice and Domination, Brist	4
The unexpected impact of geographic access on take-up of social benefits	4

Can Robots Understand Welfare? Exploring Machine Bureaucracies in Welfare-to-Work	4
Philanthropic Foundations and Institutional Change under Rigid Authoritarianism: Exploring the Ford Foundation’s Historical Grantmaking in the Chinese Family Planning Field (1991–2005)	4
Paul Spicker (2019), Thinking Collectively Social Policy, Collective Action and the Common Good, Bristol: Policy Press, £75.00, pp. 188, hbk.	4
Improving Take-Up by Reaching Out to Potential Beneficiaries. Insights from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in Belgium	4
Jonathan Wistow (2022), Social Policy, Political Economy and the Social Contract, Bristol: Policy Press, £24.99, pp. 190, pbk.	4
Take-up and distribution of a universal cash benefit: The case of the Austrian long-term care allowance	4
JSP volume 52 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	4
Making the most of language acquisition of Syrian asylum permit holders in the Netherlands: the role of policy factors examined	4
The Effect of Social Benefit Reform on Educational Inequality	4
What are the Barriers to Taxing Wealth? The Case of a Wealth Tax Proposal in the UK	4
Conditionality and contentment: Universal Credit and UK welfare benefit recipients’ life satisfaction	4
Exploring Social Entrepreneurship Co-Production Processes in the Disability Sector: Individual and Collection Action Views	4