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

Article	Citations
Understanding informal care burden domains’ impact on overall burden – a structural equation modeling approach with cross-sectional data from Germany	57
Logistics of care: Trust-reform and self-managing teams in municipal home care services	30
JSP volume 55 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	21
JSP volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	20
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.	18
Amandine Crespy (2022), The European Social Question: Tackling Key Controversies, Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, £24.99, pp. 256, pbk.	18
Digitally Networked Social Services: Mapping the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) online network in Queensland, Australia	17
Extending working lives and the subjective financial wellbeing of mid-later life workers	15
The impact of health impairments on employment entry and the quality of employment among basic income support recipients in Germany	14
Cities as social investment frontrunners: the case of Amsterdam as innovator and welfare stopgap	14
Opening the black box of the municipal government: exploring the lived experiences of local public servants with citizen participation and decentralisation in The Netherlands – CORRIGENDUM	13
Organisational outputs of administrative reforms: disability in Danish job centres	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	12
Subnational Social Investment in Three European Cities: An Exploratory Comparison	12
Emergency Responses to COVID-19 and Opportunities for Inclusive Social Policy	11
Adapting to an older workforce: health and the (non) response of employers in an era of insecurity	11
Wishing for More: Technological Change, the Rise of Involuntary Part-Time Employment and the Role of Active Labour Market Policies	11
Cross-jurisdictional youth employment policy and welfare in Scotland, Wales and England: a street-level perspective	11
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
JSP volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	10
Not that basic: how level, design, and context matter for the redistributive outcomes of universal basic income	10
Deserving more? A vignette study on the role of self-interest and deservingness opinions for popular support for wealth taxation in Germany	10
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
Bent Greve (2022), Rethinking Welfare and the Welfare State, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, £63.00, pp. 160, hbk.*	8
Competition and childcare quality: Evidence from Quebec	8

Financialisation and private equity in early childhood care and education in England	8
Addressing social risks of older people with care needs: how European welfare states combine pension and long-term care policies	8
First thing to go? Key findings from a foundational study of hygiene poverty in Ireland	7
Subsidising silence: how policy ideas entrench Italy’s use of employment subsidies	7
Does the Family Care Best? Ideals of Care in a Familialistic Care Regime – ERRATUM	7
Legitimating collaboration, collaborating to legitimate: Justification work in “holistic” services for long-term unemployed persons	7
Ethnic differences in intergenerational housing mobility in England and Wales	7
JSP volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	7
To Claim or Not to Claim: Investigating Non-Take-Up of Welfare Schemes Targeting Hong Kong Older Adults and the Stigma Attached to Them	7
How Incarcerating Children Affects their Labour Market Outcomes	7
Recognising and addressing wealth privilege in policymaking through an analysis of epistemic practice and agency	7
State inspection in contexts of cultural and sociopolitical conflict: The case of social services offered to Arab-Palestinian young women in Israel	7
Incoherent and Indefensible? A Normative Analysis of Young People’s Position in England’s Welfare and Homelessness Systems	6
Did increasing the UK’s Universal Credit and working tax credits by £20 per week in 2020–2021 reduce food insecurity?	6
How and why does relational welfare work to support young people not in employment, education or training (NEET)? A realist evaluation	6
The very early antecedents of NEET: understanding the role of birthweight	6
Between ideology and self-interest: exploring variations in public support for basic income schemes in Germany	6
Does young adulthood caring influence educational attainment and employment in the UK and Germany?	6
John Stewart (2020), Richard Titmuss: A Commitment to Welfare, Bristol: Policy Press, £47.99, pp. 600, hbk.	5
Investigating social protection amongst platform workers in Germany: forced individualisation, hybrid income generation and undesired regulation	5
UK resident preferences on tax reform: survey-based evidence suggests support for progressive change in the run up to the 2024 General Election	5
Welfare Attitudes in Crisis: The Role of Ideology in Healthcare Satisfaction in Portugal and Ireland	5
Paul Spicker (2022), How to Fix the Welfare State: Some Ideas for Better Social Services, Bristol: Policy Press, £27.99, pp. 168, pbk.	5
Socio-Economic Gaps in Workers’ Participation in Private Pension Programmes in Ten European Countries	5
Managing moral distress: social policy cuts and the suppression of employee conscience	5
Derek Fraser (2023), The Beveridge Report: Blueprint for the Welfare State, London & New York: Routledge, £120, pp. 240, hbk.	5
When trade-offs touch self-interests: attitudes on education spending in a cross-country analysis	5
Determinants of support for reintroducing inheritance taxes in Mexico	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
Lisa Dellmuth (2021), Is Europe Good For You? EU Spending and Well-Being, Bristol University Press, £47.99, pp. 202, hbk.	5
Individual and Contextual Sources of (Mis)Perceptions About the Impact of Immigration on the Welfare State	5
Booming opportunities and looming challenges? Expansion strategies among finance-controlled providers in the field of Swedish eldercare	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 2978-1-	5
Steven Haines and David Ruebain (Eds.), Education, Disability and Social Policy (2nd Edition), Policy Press, 2025, 180 pages, ISBN: 978-1447369851, GBP 27.99	5
The Participation of People in Vulnerable Situations in Interest Organisations: A Qualitative Study of Representatives Views	5
A dynamic perspective on profiling financial-aid eligibility: the case of South Africa	4
Co-producing care: roles and strategies of informal carers	4
Take-up and distribution of a universal cash benefit: The case of the Austrian long-term care allowance	4
The Effect of Social Benefit Reform on Educational Inequality	4
Making the most of language acquisition of Syrian asylum permit holders in the Netherlands: the role of policy factors examined	4
JSP volume 52 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	4
Did the COVID-19 pandemic fuel public support for social protection?	4
Jonathan Wistow (2022), Social Policy, Political Economy and the Social Contract, Bristol: Policy Press, £24.99, pp. 190, pbk.	4
Reframing long-term care policy: from services to social determinants	4
The unexpected impact of geographic access on take-up of social benefits	4
How has the idea of prevention been conceptualised and progressed in adult social care in England?	4
JSP volume 54 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	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
JSP volume 51 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	4