OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Social Work Practice 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
Impersonalisation: the corruption of social care. Competing dimensions, personal perspectives and experiences of care	14
Feeling safe enough to explore as a newly qualified social worker	10
Communication and interpersonal skills in social work	8
Editorial	8
Experiences of a service user advisor to a post-qualifying social work course: a personal account	7
Chinese male survivors of intimate partner violence: living in and transforming stigma	7
Mentalizing and epistemic trust. The work of Peter Fonagy and colleagues at the Anna Freud Centre	6
Critical pedagogy and open dialogue – their parallels and importance for social work practice	5
Thinking the unthinkable: ‘white liberal’ defences against understanding in anti-racist training	5
Reflective practice editorial	5
“Unaccompanied social workers, unaccompanied families”: qualitative research on Italian professionals’ feelings and emotions on working with African refugee families	5
The Empathy Diaries: a memoir	4
Time-limited adolescent psychodynamic psychotherapy. A developmentally focussed psychotherapy for young people	4
From knowledge to the heart: conceptualizing practice wisdom in social work from an Eastern perspective	4
The lived experience of poverty in Ireland: a commentary on the ‘Object Poverty’ exhibition	4
A review on social work and climate change: the need for a transdisciplinary approach	4
The social work team post-COVID: why workers are still in recovery	3
Connection and hope in a post-pandemic world?	3
Towards critical child protection: for a relationship-based and humane practice with children and families	3
Art-based social work experiences in Portugal	3
The acceptability of non-abstinent treatment goals among clinical social workers in the United States	3
Eco-anxiety: A Q method analysis towards eco-anxiety attitudes in the United Arab Emirates	3
Integrating professional identities: an ethnographic study of psychoanalytic child psychotherapy in a children’s social care setting	3
The importance of reflective social work practice in a traumatised country like South Africa	3
Editorial	3

Radical Hope: poverty-aware practice for social work	2
‘Control or support?’ Professional roles and judgements in problem solving in adult social work team conferences	2
An intercultural critical reflection model	2
An investigation of social justice: the values, attitudes, and behaviour of newly qualified South African social workers	2
Editorial	2
The changing face of community work: from radicalism to networking. A European perspective	2
Supervision as a secure base: the role of attachment theory within the emotional and psycho-social landscape of social work supervision	2
Letting go of ‘the way things are done here’: from reflection to disruption in local authority social work	1
Editorial	1
Why group therapy works and how to do it: a guide for health and social care professionals Why group therapy works and how to do it: a guide for health and social care professionals	1
Looking back thinking forward	1
To take, place and refuse accountability: how team members handle tasks and roles in collaboration on school attendance problems	1
Imagined interactions of social workers in social work with families: how and why the practitioners talk to themselves?	1
Development of a culturally safe recovery-oriented mental health practice	1
A systematic review of psychosocial interventions for child soldiers: types, length and main findings	1
The future of social work	1
Intersectionality and relational psychoanalysis. New perspectives on race, gender and sexuality	1
Who thinks about death? A psychoanalytically informed interpretive study of communication about death among nursing home staff	1
Editorial	1
The ‘team’ in child and family social work: exploratory findings from a longitudinal study on factors influencing the retention of child and family social workers in England	1
Current caregiver involvement and contact with biological parents are associated with lower externalizing symptoms of youth in out-of-home child welfare placements	1
Taking it personally: practitioner perspectives on the unfinished business of putting personalisation into practice	1
Organisational culture as a professional care strategy. Public social work in Andalusia (Spain)	1
Exploring the socialization of homeless children in Czechia: sibling relationships	1
Perception of father absence in family assessment and intervention: are they not involved because they don’t want to be?	1
Social work in addiction: opportunities and alliances	1
The role of meeting management in group decision-making: lessons learnt from UK fostering and adoption panels	1
‘Beautifully masked’: hidden tragedies at the heart of Mental Health Act assessments in England	1
Keeping our heads: preserving therapeutic values in a time of change	1
Social workers’ evaluation of ChatGPT for solving ethical dilemmas within the limits of confidentiality	1
Critical psychoanalytic social work. Research and case studies for clinical practice	1
Healing in relationships, the power of equine-assisted mental health interventions	1
The importance of social work in a challenging world	1
Information and communication technologies in the communication between the social worker and the client	1