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

Article	Citations
Impersonalisation: the corruption of social care. Competing dimensions, personal perspectives and experiences of care	12
Feeling safe enough to explore as a newly qualified social worker	10
Editorial	8
Communication and interpersonal skills in social work	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	6
Reflective practice editorial	5
Critical pedagogy and open dialogue – their parallels and importance for social work practice	5
“Unaccompanied social workers, unaccompanied families”: qualitative research on Italian professionals’ feelings and emotions on working with African refugee families	5
Mentalizing and epistemic trust. The work of Peter Fonagy and colleagues at the Anna Freud Centre	5
The Empathy Diaries: a memoir	4
Integrating professional identities: an ethnographic study of psychoanalytic child psychotherapy in a children’s social care setting	4
A review on social work and climate change: the need for a transdisciplinary approach	4
The lived experience of poverty in Ireland: a commentary on the ‘Object Poverty’ exhibition	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
Working in complex contexts; mother social workers and the mothers they meet	4
The social work team post-COVID: why workers are still in recovery	3
Healing and Resilience after Trauma (HaRT) Yoga: programming with survivors of human trafficking in Uganda	3
Art-based social work experiences in Portugal	3
The importance of reflective social work practice in a traumatised country like South Africa	3
The acceptability of non-abstinent treatment goals among clinical social workers in the United States	3
Connection and hope in a post-pandemic world?	2
Towards critical child protection: for a relationship-based and humane practice with children and families	2
‘Control or support?’ Professional roles and judgements in problem solving in adult social work team conferences	2

Eco-anxiety: A Q method analysis towards eco-anxiety attitudes in the United Arab Emirates	2
An investigation of social justice: the values, attitudes, and behaviour of newly qualified South African social workers	2
Supervision as a secure base: the role of attachment theory within the emotional and psycho-social landscape of social work supervision	2
Editorial	2
Editorial	2
An intercultural critical reflection model	2
Social workers’ evaluation of ChatGPT for solving ethical dilemmas within the limits of confidentiality	1
Information and communication technologies in the communication between the social worker and the client	1
Social work in addiction: opportunities and alliances	1
‘Beautifully masked’: hidden tragedies at the heart of Mental Health Act assessments in England	1
Radical Hope: poverty-aware practice for social work	1
The role of meeting management in group decision-making: lessons learnt from UK fostering and adoption panels	1
To take, place and refuse accountability: how team members handle tasks and roles in collaboration on school attendance problems	1
Critical psychoanalytic social work. Research and case studies for clinical practice	1
Exploring the socialization of homeless children in Czechia: sibling relationships	1
Organisational culture as a professional care strategy. Public social work in Andalusia (Spain)	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
The changing face of community work: from radicalism to networking. A European perspective	1
Editorial	1
Looking back thinking forward	1
Older people’s strategies for meaningful social interactions in the context of eldercare services	1
Imagined interactions of social workers in social work with families: how and why the practitioners talk to themselves?	1
The importance of social work in a challenging world	1
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
Perception of father absence in family assessment and intervention: are they not involved because they don’t want to be?	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
Development of a culturally safe recovery-oriented mental health practice	1