OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Social Work is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Datenschutz in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe. Praxishandbuch für die sozialpädagogische Arbeit	29
Radical hope: poverty-aware practice for social work	28
Call for Papers	27
A tale of two cases – investigating reasoning in similar cases with different outcomes	24
Programme evaluation: A primer for effectiveness, quality, and value	15
Travelling meanings: accountability practices and standardised instruments at a child protection service in the Netherlands	15
Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures	14
Gendered alignment and place-making: adolescents shaping social space in stigmatised neighbourhoods	14
Social workers’ policy practice in Italy. Exploring different professional strategies for changing policies and organisations	14
The role of child protection managers during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Challenges, priorities, new knowledge and skills	13
Resonating relationships: an interview study with participants in an individual placement and support programme in Denmark	13
COVID-19 and risk: policy making in a global pandemicCOVID-19 and risk: policy making in a global pandemic, by Andy Alaszewski, Bristol, Policy Press, 2021, 160 pp., ISBN 978-1-4473-6202-9 (ePDF), 978	12
Harm, safety and belonging: exploring ‘contextual safeguarding’ with refugee youth in Europe	12
Mechanisms that impact the experience and sustainability of the professional identity of social workers	12
Support to ‘non-clients’: care managers’ role in direct and indirect carer support	12
Participation at the margins – participation practices from the viewpoint of young people in residential care	11
Editorial	11
When judgment varies: the potential of AI to reduce noise in social work assessments	10
Influence of street outreach work on the lives of marginalised people	10
Sports programmes for the social reintegration of (formerly) incarcerated people: a multi-stakeholder analysis	10
Diminishing their voice through choice? How ‘self-placing’ in out-of-home care affects children and young people’s participation in decision-making	10
Domestic violence professionals in Portuguese shelters: navigating challenges amidst the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Voices from the silent cradles. Life histories of Romania’s looked-after children	9
Advocacy and legal aid for homeless people. Challenges and insights from a study of voluntary organisation in Italy	9
Participation in practice in child welfare: processes, benefits and challenges	9

Constructing a client category of the experience of buying sex: an explorative study of how sexuality and masculinity construct the client category of men who buy sex within social work in Sweden	9
Participation of youth in group social intervention programmes in Madrid. A qualitative study focused on participants’ experiences	8
Digital communication and child participation in child welfare services: a scoping review of potentials and challenges	8
Teaching social work	8
‘Is it a positive or a negative?’ Children’s participation in discharge of care order proceedings	7
Social sustainability: what implications for social work?	7
Participatory planning and individualisation in personal social services: a case study from the Czech republic	7
Adolescents in therapeutic residential care: treatment needs and characteristics	7
Informal networks in child protection assessments: between policy and practice	7
Anger as a facilitator for transformative social work with and for people with intellectual disabilities: a theoretical contribution	7
Mentoring for social inclusion: a call for social work to engage with an emerging model of social intervention	7
Exploring theoretical resources for social work from the global south: Latin American critical theory	7
Editorial	6
A cluster analysis of the family dynamics in a family prevention programme for adolescents from vulnerable families	6
What is in a failure: a descriptive study about conceptions of failures within social services	6
To speak or not to speak. The responses of social workers and volunteers to adverse conditions in supporting refugees	6
Editorial	6
Discursively constructing youth at risk: street-level professionals’ blending of othering and de-othering	6
Ready and steady? – A cross-sectional study of Norwegian social workers’ resilience and job satisfaction during COVID-19	6
On the reconstruction of family life and ‘institutional forms of parentification': unaccompanied minors’ experiences with family reunification in Belgium and Norway	6
Social work research using arts-based methods	6
Revealing the freedom of movement of youngsters in residential youth care: towards the creation of a socio-spatial citizenship climate	6
Mental health and quality of life among Norwegian child welfare service workers	6
What prevents people from becoming foster carers?	6
The origins of social care and social work: creating a global future	5
Child welfare workers’ understanding of gender, sexual orientation and sexual health in assessments of youths with a problematic substance use	5
Understanding professionalism through the lens of newly qualified social workers	5
Single Moms, absent Dads: neglecting fathers and burdening mothers in social work practice with separated families	5
Rural social work: practices and organisation. A case study in Andalusia (Spain)	5
Soziale Arbeit in guter Gesellschaft	5
Diverging and converging perceptions in legitimising policy advocacy: social work advocates and policymakers at the local level	5
Child protection and rights in India: COVID-19 experiences and contemporary challenges	5
‘I have the strength and the Faith’ — adaptation of Ukrainian refugee parents in Estonia after fleeing the war	5
The untold stories of resilience, reworking and resistance of ageing non-European migrant women	5
A hybrid job center. Composite client experiences with employment services between enforcement and care	5
“Social Space: Creating Condizioni – Milieus – Territorio – Landscapes”	5
Contested legacies: critical perspectives on postwar modern housing	5
Cultural well-being and social work: conceptual understandings and their application to music-based interventions for older people Kulturelles Wohlbefinden und Soziale Arbeit: Konzeptionelle Ansätze u	5
Collective permanent supportive housing for older adults with homelessness and substance use: enabling environments and risk environments	5
A call for ecosocial community work: challenges and possibilities for ecosocial work in local neighbourhoods in Sweden	5
Understanding social work professionalism through organisational lens: a study of social workers in Sweden	4
Well-being at work factors perceived by social work professionals during COVID-19: reflections for the generation of Healthy Organisations	4
Allowing time to piece the puzzle together: experiences of Norwegian service providers in supporting the empowerment of refugees with limited formal education	4
Social well-being, development, and multiple modernities in Asia	4
Commoning by zoning? Social work’s involvement in urban spatial conflicts	4
Social work and the environment	4
Editorial	4
‘Exploring Heteronormativity’: a teaching programme to develop experience-based knowledge of the reproduction of power asymmetries	4
Mobilizing moral outrage: agonistic social work through coalition-building practices	4
The meaning of social cohesion in preventive family support: a practitioners’ perspective	4

Bridging theory and practice in child welfare education: preparing students for practice	4
Eco-social work: Politica e lavoro sociale nella crisi ecologica (Strumenti per il servizio sociale)	4
Life after Covid-19: the other side of the crisis	4
Activation policy and discretion in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) – introducing a multi-layered explanatory model	4
Social work and social control. ‘Supportive control’ as a key feature of social work practice	4
Navigating multiple displacements: encounters and emplacement practices at municipal service centres in marginalised communities in Sweden	4
Invisible children and young people in Child Protection Services	4
The use of independent foster care agencies by Swedish local authorities: Do structural factors matter?	3
Delivering trauma-informed outreach to women involved in street-based prostitution: enablers and barriers	3
Individual placement and support in the Scandinavian countries: a scoping review of providers’ perspectives on implementation and integration in cross-sectoral settings	3
Competence and professionalisation among return-to-work coordinators in Sweden: comparisons by original profession	3
Political ideology and social work	3
No choice? Hiring agency social workers in the Swedish personal social services	3
Not trustworthy. African parents’ perspectives on Norwegian child protection care measures	3
Waiting for welfare: experiences of street traders from Delhi, India	3
When the outside penetrates the inside: the relationship between Palestinian Israeli and Jewish Israeli social workers in mixed cities during the events of May 2021	3
Paraprofession and profession: significant relationship in the process of professionalisation of social work in the Czech Republic	3
Dilemmas faced by social workers while working with Ethiopian families in Israel: A qualitative research study	3
Evidence and evidence gaps in assessments and interventions in areas related to social work research and practice – an overview of four evidence maps	3
Help and support for bereaved persons who use drugs: a qualitative study	3
Working with pupils who use alcohol and drugs: emotional labour and crime prevention of Swedish high school staff members	3
Language disordant social work in a multilingual word	3
Le travail social en Europe: entre passé, présent et avenir	3
Social work as ‘pest’ or agent of positive change: the accommodating and transformative aspects of resilience in the discursive stances of (future) Czech social workers	3
‘Building a new society in the shell of the old’: the power of prefigurative politics for social work	3
Independent experts in care order proceedings: a scoping review	3
Cripping the academy: Disability, access, and accountability in the light of crip spacetime	3
Embedding sustainability in local welfare systems: bottom-up contributions from social workers and care professionals in public and third sector organisations	3
Admission of an older person into a care home in Europe: exploring the dimensions of a ‘Healthy Transition’ and the potential role of social work	3
Who would never grant them equal rights? A comparative analysis of welfare chauvinism in Central and Eastern Europe	3
African immigrants in Sweden experiencing the threat of forced child removal	3
Between reflection and function: the dual study programme as a symptom of the structural transformation of social work	3
Voices from the frontline: practicing school social work in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Collaborative mental health treatment: current practices among mental health providers in Norway	3
Under pressure: a critical scoping review of scales and instruments used in work with people in over-indebtedness	3
Unfolding the ‘grey scene’: exploring the intersection of work and home during post-COVID remote social work	3
Adoption from care, the reunification principle and consensual placements: the political promotion of a controversial child protection measure in Sweden	3
Individual and organisational resilience in social services	3
A dialogue with Wonderhill: social work, place-making and creating spaces for new meanings	3
Confronting and managing ethical dilemmas in social work using ChatGPT	3
The philosophy of liberation and social work: a short essay in memory of Enrico Dussel (1934–2023)	3