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

Article	Citations
Impersonalisation: the corruption of social care. Competing dimensions, personal perspectives and experiences of care	18
Feeling safe enough to explore as a newly qualified social worker	12
Editorial	11
Mentalizing and epistemic trust. The work of Peter Fonagy and colleagues at the Anna Freud Centre	8
From discomfort to accountability: exploring an ethical relational approach to teaching anti-racism and decolonisation in a Canadian introductory social work classroom	8
Reflective practice editorial	7
“Unaccompanied social workers, unaccompanied families”: qualitative research on Italian professionals’ feelings and emotions on working with African refugee families	7
Experiences of a service user advisor to a post-qualifying social work course: a personal account	7
Thinking the unthinkable: ‘white liberal’ defences against understanding in anti-racist training	6
Critical pedagogy and open dialogue – their parallels and importance for social work practice	6
Chinese male survivors of intimate partner violence: living in and transforming stigma	5
From knowledge to the heart: conceptualizing practice wisdom in social work from an Eastern perspective	5
A review on social work and climate change: the need for a transdisciplinary approach	5
Sensuous knowledge: a black feminist approach for everyone	4
Art-based social work experiences in Portugal	4
The Empathy Diaries: a memoir	4
Integrating professional identities: an ethnographic study of psychoanalytic child psychotherapy in a children’s social care setting	4
The lived experience of poverty in Ireland: a commentary on the ‘Object Poverty’ exhibition	4
The acceptability of non-abstinent treatment goals among clinical social workers in the United States	4
Editorial	3
Supervision as a secure base: the role of attachment theory within the emotional and psycho-social landscape of social work supervision	3
Editorial	3
The importance of reflective social work practice in a traumatised country like South Africa	3
Towards critical child protection: for a relationship-based and humane practice with children and families	3
Connection and hope in a post-pandemic world?	3

The social work team post-COVID: why workers are still in recovery	3
An intercultural critical reflection model	2
The changing face of community work: from radicalism to networking. A European perspective	2
Radical Hope: poverty-aware practice for social work	2
The role of meeting management in group decision-making: lessons learnt from UK fostering and adoption panels	2
Inequality and social work	2
Green Social Work and climate resilience: analysing the psychosocial impacts of climate change on smallholder farmers in rural Tamil Nadu	2
‘Control or support?’ Professional roles and judgements in problem solving in adult social work team conferences	2
Follow the leader: anxiety, managerialism and basic assumption dependency in children and family social work decision-making	2
Editorial	2
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	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
‘Beautifully masked’: hidden tragedies at the heart of Mental Health Act assessments in England	2
Keeping our heads: preserving therapeutic values in a time of change	2
Improving communication in mental health settings: Evidence-based recommendations from practitioner-led research	1
Women and migratory processes in La Rioja (Spain). Narratives based on experience and Social Work	1
A qualitative exploration of recognition and judgement in social work practice with street children in Ghana	1
Social workers’ evaluation of ChatGPT for solving ethical dilemmas within the limits of confidentiality	1
Development of a culturally safe recovery-oriented mental health practice	1
Effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions to reduce stress among social workers- a meta-analysis	1
The future of social work	1
Letting go of ‘the way things are done here’: from reflection to disruption in local authority social work	1
Containment as a lived experience	1
Social workers’ experience with the concept of empowerment: voices from the disability field	1
What do child protection social workers consider to be the systemic factors driving workforce instability within the English child protection system, and what are the implications for the UK Governmen	1
Transcendental tales? An auto-ethnographic exploration of the coloniality of secularism: some reflections for social work education	1
Subverting, challenging and working within bureaucratic and managerialist systems: strategies for upholding relationship-based social work practice	1
A systematic review of psychosocial interventions for child soldiers: types, length and main findings	1
Organisational culture as a professional care strategy. Public social work in Andalusia (Spain)	1
Perception of father absence in family assessment and intervention: are they not involved because they don’t want to be?	1
Social dreaming as a method for exploring the unthought known behind decolonisation in higher education	1
Looking back thinking forward	1
Critical psychoanalytic social work. Research and case studies for clinical practice	1
Finding a way to the child: selected clinical papers 1983–2021	1
Enhancing relationship-based practice in the homeless sector by applying Hall’s representation theory (1997) and peer reviewed research	1
Healing in relationships, the power of equine-assisted mental health interventions	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
To take, place and refuse accountability: how team members handle tasks and roles in collaboration on school attendance problems	1
The importance of social work in a challenging world	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
Exploring the socialization of homeless children in Czechia: sibling relationships	1
Taking it personally: practitioner perspectives on the unfinished business of putting personalisation into practice	1