OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Australian Journal of Social Issues is 1. 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
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Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families to Stay Together from the Start (SAFeST Start): Urgent call to action to address crisis in infant removals	34
Mental health and well‐being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia during COVID‐19	28
Issue Information	26
The cost of doing politics: A critical discursive analysis of Australian liberal politicians’ responses to accusations by female politicians of bullying and intimidation	17
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives in Drinking Water Policy: A Realist Review	16
The complementary impacts of nurse home visiting and quality childcare for children experiencing adversity	15
Fairness perceptions of income‐based educational inequality: The impact of social class and ideological orientations	15
The prevalence of corporal punishment in Australia: Findings from a nationally representative survey	15
The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo	14
A Scoping Review of Access and Engagement With Mental Health Services by Young People From Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities in Australia	13
Australia's Wellbeing Framework: Is It Really ‘Measuring What Matters’?	13
Consumer participation in homelessness service delivery in Australia: What is it for?	12
Issue Information	11
On (not) being literate enough: The literacy experiences and literacy programme needs of people experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness	11
Data and evaluation: A match made in policy heaven	10
Public narratives of disadvantage across multiple groups in Australia: A research map and practice reflections	10
Disability, employment and welfare reform: A comparative analysis of Australia and Denmark	10
“You're on your own, kid”: A critical analysis of Australian universities' international student mental health strategies	10
“They Know What's Best for the Poor Little Black Fellows, Like They Did All Them Years Ago”: Continued Paternalism and Pressure to Place in the Australian Child Protection System	9
Understanding the Housing and Support Experience of People With Complex Disability in Australia: A Qualitative Analysis of Submissions to the Disability Royal Commission	9
Examining the Impact of Domestic and Family Violence on Young Australians’ School‐Level Education	9
Understanding the dynamics of support seeking in women with lived experience of non‐physical intimate partner violence (IPV) and the service responses—A qualitative study	8
Deaths of Children in Out‐of‐Home‐Care: What do Inquest Reports Reveal About the Framing of Child Protection Practice?	8
Associations between ongoing COVID‐19 lockdown and the financial and mental health experiences of Australian families	8

Uneven impacts of COVID‐19 on the attendance rates of secondary school students from different socioeconomic backgrounds in Australia: A quasi‐experimental analysis of administrative data	8
‘Playing the Game’: How Aboriginal Families Navigate Child Protection Systems to Restore Their Children Home From Out‐Of‐Home Care	8
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Social science as social action to address inequalities	7
Thank you to our reviewers	7
All opinions are not equal: Toward a consensual approach to the development of drug policy	6
National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis	6
Survival, safety and belonging: An ethnographic study of experiences and perceptions of people who inject drugs accessing a supervised injecting Centre	6
LGBT+ equality, religious freedom and government‐funded faith‐based religiously affiliated educational workplaces	6
Accessing hearing‐health services for deaf and hard‐of‐hearing children during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Parent and child perspectives	6
Policy and practice issues in making an advance care directive with decision making support: A case study	5
Getting more value from Australian Intergenerational Reports	5
Intergenerational Family Relationships and Old‐Age Volunteering: The Perspectives of Older Chinese Immigrants in Greater Sydney, Australia	5
How does the media represent institutional child sexual abuse within Jewish communities? A case study of the Malka Leifer court case	5
Issue Information	5
Reclaiming racial dignity: An ethnographic study of how African youth in Australia use social media to visibilise anti‐Black racism	5
“I hope you aren't becoming woke”: New politicised contours of online ableism in response to disability advocacy by 2022 Australian of the Year Dylan Alcott	5
Prevalence and Factors Associated With Alleged Offending Among Children Aged 10–13 Years in the Northern Territory of Australia	5
Culture, Connection and Care: The Role of Institutional Justice Capital for Enhancing the Wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children in Out‐Of‐Home Care	4
Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data	4
The importance of understanding Indigenous employment in the Indigenous business sector	4
Trauma‐Informed Practice in Welfare‐to‐Work and Employment Services: A Scoping Review	4
Misconceptions about corporal punishment in Islam	4
Robo‐compliance in Australian employment services	4
Unburdening care: Exploring modes of care through post‐productivist thought and Australian parliamentary inquiry representations	4
Care Leavers Into Parenthood: Support Needs and Effective Practice Approaches Through Transitions From Care	4
‘The Other Parent’: A Critical Policy Analysis of Fatherhood Discourses in the Australian Government's Paid Parental Leave Scheme	4
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Robodebt cultures and useful idiots: Why Robodebt was not a techno‐failure	4
Issue Information	3
An ongoing challenge: The impact of federal policies on organisations, communities and individuals serving people seeking asylum	3
Australian women's motherhood aspirations: I've always wanted to be a mum. But at the same time, I wanted the career and everything too	3
‘That's the bloodline’: Does Kinship and care translate to Kinship care?	3
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Supporting young people transition from care to independence: Exploring the impact of coaching in Uniting's youth transitions programs	3
Prohibition of corporal punishment and alternative justifications for the lawful use of force against children in Australia	3
Preventing and responding to harm: Restorative and responsive mental health regulation in Victoria	3
Digital futures in mind: Why lived experience collaboration must guide digital mental health technologies	3
The Systemic Inefficiency of Australian Schools: A Policy and Measurement Review	3
Attitudes toward demographic diversity in 16 advanced economies: Perceptions of conflict matters more than income	3
Sticky places for regional immigrant settlement: A literature review	3
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Commentary on Allegations of child sexual abuse: An empirical analysis of published judgements from the Family Court of Australia 2012–2019	3
Delivering decision making support to people with cognitive disability—What more has been learned from pilot programmes in Australia and internationally from 2016 to 2021?	3
Gender and educational patterns in the demand and supply of grandparent childcare in Australia	3
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Meeting the Needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People With Hearing Loss in the Context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme	3
Universal child health and early education service use from birth through Kindergarten and developmental vulnerability in the Preparatory Year (age 5 years) in Tasmania, Australia	3
Don't Worry About Her; Intersectionality, and the Role of Systems and Structures in the Embodied Experiences of Young Women's Use of Violence	2
The impact of COVID‐19 pandemic on Australian domestic and family violence services and their clients	2

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How do Australian policymakers frame the causes of and policy solutions to poverty? A critical examination of Anti‐Poverty Week parliamentary debates from 2012 to 2021	2
“Not Yours to Reclaim”: White possessive logics and the Reclaim Australia movement of 2015–6	2
Carers’ experiences of the National Disability Insurance Scheme workforce: A qualitative study informing workforce development	2
Lasting legacies: Meeting the housing needs of Forgotten Australians from mid‐life to older age	2
Statement from the Family Court of Australia in response to the paper, Allegations of child sexual abuse: an empirical analysis of published judgments from the Family Court of Australia 2012–2019	2
Health‐Poverty Inequality in Australia from 2001 to 2018	2
Raising post‐secondary education participation of young people transitioning from care: The effects of extended legislative support	2
Adolescents at risk of mental health problems in the COVID‐19 pandemic: A prospective population‐based study of the effects of government mandates and school closures	2
‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme	2
Exploring the role of place‐based arts initiatives in addressing social inequity in Australia: A systematic review	2
Issue Information	2
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Beyond job‐search theory: A value pluralist approach to conditionality in Australian employment services	2
Remote housing for Indigenous children in the Fitzroy Valley, Western Australia: A case study	2
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Integrating the retirement income system and aged care funding in Australia: An Aged Care Levy as a social insurance option	2
“Not just a new house”: The complexities of undoing institutional practices and identities in transitions to community living	2
Issue Information	2
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‘If I don't get a job in six months' time, I can see myself being back in there’: Post‐prison employment experiences of people in Canberra	2
Was the abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission an act of dispossession?	2
Mandating COVID‐19 vaccinations for children: Attitudes of Western Australian parents	2
“We will start building from that”: Social capital, social networks and African migrants’ job‐seeking experiences in Australia	2
Working toward reunification in New South Wales: Professional perspectives on navigating complex systems	2
Promoting the social in psychosocial recovery: Interviews with Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme participants	2
Homelessness and Housing Instability Among Care Leavers in Australia: Exploring Housing Pathways and Best Practice Housing Models	2
Work incentives in Australia: The distribution of effective marginal tax rates for working‐age Australians in 2023	1
Addressing employment barriers for humanitarian migrants: Perspectives from settlement services	1
Researching effective practices to reduce youth homelessness and disadvantage from a young person's perspective: A systematic review	1
Linguistic diversity and emergency health alerts: A systematic critical review	1
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Implementing the HEALing Matters program in residential out‐of‐home care: Evaluation of carers' commitment to promoting healthy lifestyle behaviours	1
Hub and Spokes in Intellectual Disability Mental Health Support	1
Profiling racial prejudice during COVID‐19: Who exhibits anti‐Asian sentiment in Australia and the United States?	1
Intergenerational financial assistance with home ownership: Considering the potential for financial elder abuse	1
Responsibility for homelessness: Lived experience perspectives and their alignment with neoliberal discourse	1
Your money or your life? Public support for health initiatives during the COVID‐19 pandemic	1
Exploring the impacts of the COVID‐19 crisis for the employment prospects of refugees and people seeking asylum in Australia	1
Introducing Indigenist Critical Policy Analysis: A rights‐based approach to analysing public policies and processes	1
Health behaviours and affective states of partners of fly‐in fly‐out workers: A daily diary study	1
Opportunities in Middle Childhood: Multiple System Involvement During Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence in Northern Territory, Australia	1
The Right to Cultural Connection for Children in Out‐of‐Home Care: Does Australian Policy and Practice Adequately Support Cultural Identity for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children?	1
Understanding the experiences of stigma in relation to social support among an Australian community cohort of people living with epilepsy	1
Child, parent and contextual factors associated with child protection system involvement and child maltreatment in the family: A rapid evidence review	1
Statistics and stereotypes: The taxed and the taxed‐not	1
Mothers and sportsmen: The gendered and racialised nature of role model selection for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander youths	1
AJSI Transitions From Out‐Of‐Home Care Special Issue Editorial by Philip Mendes, Lynne McPherson, Jemma Venables, Steven Roche and Jenna Bollinger	1
‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters	1
The Physical and Mental Health of Mothers of Aboriginal Children in Out‐of‐Home Care in Western Australia	1
Issue Information	1
How has the media framed the introduction of the supervised injecting room in Victoria? A comparison of editorials of The Age and Herald Sun 2017–2022	1
Housing the homeless: How revisiting the 1940s assists the struggle	1
‘I Don't Think I Would've Survived Without Having a Constant Support System’: Independent Living Skills Acquisition During the Transition From Care in Western Australia	1
Socioeconomic consequences of the COVID‐19 pandemic for people who use drugs	1
NDIS partnership working? Paradoxes, contested spaces and aspirations of disability leaders, family carers and disability services	1
On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia	1
Social Determinants of Health and Health‐Related Quality of Life: The Potential Mediating Role of Social Activities, Access to Medical Services, and Access to Social Services	1
“That grey area where no one can help”: The experience of younger people avoiding or leaving residential aged care who are not NDIS participants	1
What do we know about the experiences of belonging for [Black] Africans in Australia? A systematic scoping review	1
The Intersection of HIV and Migration: Conceptualising Quality of Life Among Asian‐Born Men Who Have Sex With Men Living With HIV in Australia	1
Issue Information	1
Issue Information	1
Guest editors' introduction to special issue on corporal punishment of children in Australia	1
Cultural care and Aboriginal land rights in New South Wales	1
Intermittent urgency and states of deferral—Or, how many houses for a mine?	1
Supporting the Recovery of NDIS Participants With Psychosocial Disability: A Narrative Literature Review	1
Supports desired by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males in fatherhood: Focussing on the social and cultural determinates of health and well‐being	1
Integrity Versus Ideology in Automated Assessment: The Jobseeker Snapshot	1
When good intentions are not enough: Professionals’ perceptions of the South Australian communication partner scheme	1
The “good refugee” ideal: How discourses of deservingness permeate Australia's refugee and asylum seeker narratives	1
“The most significant child welfare reform in a generation”: An examination of the strategies used by the Home Stretch campaign	1
A population‐based study of homelessness, antisocial behaviour and violence victimisation among young adults in Victoria, Australia	1
Supported residential services as a type of “total institution”: Implications for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)	1
The normalisation of sexual violence revictimisation in regional and rural areas: Our failure to respond	1
Participatory Policy Development: Reflections on Designing the Strong Roots for Our Futures Program in Victoria	1
Relationships and Identity: An Ethnographic Study With Young People in South‐East Queensland Who Had Left Out‐Of‐Home Care	1
Progressing children’s rights and participation: Utilising rights‐informed resources to guide policy and practice	1
Perspectives on the ongoing impact of compulsory income management in the Northern Territory	1
Varieties of digitalisation? A comparison of employment services digitalisation in the UK and Australia	1