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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Datenschutz in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe. Praxishandbuch für die sozialpädagogische Arbeit	21
Writing skills for social work students	19
Radical hope: poverty-aware practice for social work	18
Call for Papers	17
Travelling meanings: accountability practices and standardised instruments at a child protection service in the Netherlands	17
Gendered alignment and place-making: adolescents shaping social space in stigmatised neighbourhoods	17
The role of child protection managers during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Challenges, priorities, new knowledge and skills	16
Social workers’ policy practice in Italy. Exploring different professional strategies for changing policies and organisations	15
Mechanisms that impact the experience and sustainability of the professional identity of social workers	14
Policymakers on social cohesion: contradictory expectations for child and family social work	14
‘The only thing I do is coordination’: on the voluntarisation of social work in the Netherlands	14
A tale of two cases – investigating reasoning in similar cases with different outcomes	13
Diminishing their voice through choice? How ‘self-placing’ in out-of-home care affects children and young people’s participation in decision-making	12
Resonating relationships: an interview study with participants in an individual placement and support programme in Denmark	12
Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures	12
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
Programme evaluation: A primer for effectiveness, quality, and value	12
Group decision-making theories for child and family social work	11
Harm, safety and belonging: exploring ‘contextual safeguarding’ with refugee youth in Europe	10
Hospital social workers’ contributions to increasing health literacy among parents of acutely and critically ill children	10
Support to ‘non-clients’: care managers’ role in direct and indirect carer support	9
Domestic violence professionals in Portuguese shelters: navigating challenges amidst the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Editorial	9
Participation at the margins – participation practices from the viewpoint of young people in residential care	9
Balancing the line — the relation between waiting and activity among people in need of food in Sweden	8

Positive parenting, family resilience, and child participation in family reunification: good professional practices	8
Participation of youth in group social intervention programmes in Madrid. A qualitative study focused on participants’ experiences	8
Influence of street outreach work on the lives of marginalised people	8
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	7
The migration of social workers to and from the United Kingdom: a comparative perspective	7
Exploring theoretical resources for social work from the global south: Latin American critical theory	7
Digital communication and child participation in child welfare services: a scoping review of potentials and challenges	7
Voices from the silent cradles. Life histories of Romania’s looked-after children	7
Teaching social work	7
‘Is it a positive or a negative?’ Children’s participation in discharge of care order proceedings	7
Advocacy and legal aid for homeless people. Challenges and insights from a study of voluntary organisation in Italy	7
Participation in practice in child welfare: processes, benefits and challenges	7
Adolescents in therapeutic residential care: treatment needs and characteristics	7
Are they waiting for the welfare state or Godot? Reflections from people who lost their jobs or incomes during Covid-19 pandemic in Turkey	6
A cluster analysis of the family dynamics in a family prevention programme for adolescents from vulnerable families	6
Discursively constructing youth at risk: street-level professionals’ blending of othering and de-othering	6
Editorial	6
Mental health and quality of life among Norwegian child welfare service workers	6
Social workers’ navigation between repression and social support for men purchasing sex	6
Ready and steady? – A cross-sectional study of Norwegian social workers’ resilience and job satisfaction during COVID-19	6
Mentoring for social inclusion: a call for social work to engage with an emerging model of social intervention	6
Editorial	6
“Social Space: Creating Condizioni – Milieus – Territorio – Landscapes”	6
Social work research using arts-based methods	6
On the reconstruction of family life and ‘institutional forms of parentification': unaccompanied minors’ experiences with family reunification in Belgium and Norway	6
Social sustainability: what implications for social work?	6
Revealing the freedom of movement of youngsters in residential youth care: towards the creation of a socio-spatial citizenship climate	6
Child welfare workers’ understanding of gender, sexual orientation and sexual health in assessments of youths with a problematic substance use	5
The politics and economics of Brexit	5
The untold stories of resilience, reworking and resistance of ageing non-European migrant women	5
What prevents people from becoming foster carers?	5
When opinions differ: the development of a reflection tool for youth professionals to support shared decision-making with parents	5
Perceptions of participation: how nursing home staff and managers perceive and strive for participation of older residents	5
Child protection and rights in India: COVID-19 experiences and contemporary challenges	5
Understanding professionalism through the lens of newly qualified social workers	5
The origins of social care and social work: creating a global future	5
A call for ecosocial community work: challenges and possibilities for ecosocial work in local neighbourhoods in Sweden	5
Collective permanent supportive housing for older adults with homelessness and substance use: enabling environments and risk environments	5
Social work in a superdiverse society: an exploration of cooperation in professional practice	5
Single Moms, absent Dads: neglecting fathers and burdening mothers in social work practice with separated families	5
What is in a failure: a descriptive study about conceptions of failures within social services	5
Understanding social work professionalism through organisational lens: a study of social workers in Sweden	5
A hybrid job center. Composite client experiences with employment services between enforcement and care	5
Rural social work: practices and organisation. A case study in Andalusia (Spain)	5
‘I have the strength and the Faith’ — adaptation of Ukrainian refugee parents in Estonia after fleeing the war	5
Soziale Arbeit in guter Gesellschaft	5
L’Accompagnement social et la mort	4
Invisible children and young people in Child Protection Services	4
Strategic leadership and management in nonprofit organisations – theory and practice, 2nd edition	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
Navigating multiple displacements: encounters and emplacement practices at municipal service centres in marginalised communities in Sweden	4
Help and support for bereaved persons who use drugs: a qualitative study	4
Evidence and evidence gaps in assessments and interventions in areas related to social work research and practice – an overview of four evidence maps	4
Independent experts in care order proceedings: a scoping review	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
Editorial	4
‘Exploring Heteronormativity’: a teaching programme to develop experience-based knowledge of the reproduction of power asymmetries	4
Ambivalence in activation encounters	4
Critical social psychology of social class	4
‘Theatre has made me look people in the eye’: achievements and challenges of applied theatre in social work	4
An anti-oppressive approach to social work practice with transgender youth and young adults experiencing homelessness	4
The meaning of social cohesion in preventive family support: a practitioners’ perspective	4
Activation policy and discretion in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) – introducing a multi-layered explanatory model	4
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	4
The bridging role of social work: the quest towards installing a structural approach within primary health care	4
Commoning by zoning? Social work’s involvement in urban spatial conflicts	4
Collaborative mental health treatment: current practices among mental health providers in Norway	3
Adoption from care, the reunification principle and consensual placements: the political promotion of a controversial child protection measure in Sweden	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
Language disordant social work in a multilingual word	3
Editorial	3
Who would never grant them equal rights? A comparative analysis of welfare chauvinism in Central and Eastern Europe	3
Voices from the frontline: practicing school social work in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
The use of independent foster care agencies by Swedish local authorities: Do structural factors matter?	3
Hitting the road together: how do care workers develop pedagogical praxis in relation to a positive living climate in residential youth care?	3
A mosaic of solidarity – Exploring religion-based solidarity initiatives in Flanders (Belgium)	3
Isomorphism between refugee families and social workers: a socio-spatial and temporal perspective on social work in asylum centres in Belgium	3
Competence and professionalisation among return-to-work coordinators in Sweden: comparisons by original profession	3
Working with pupils who use alcohol and drugs: emotional labour and crime prevention of Swedish high school staff members	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
Narratives of social work practice and education in Sweden	3
Confronting and managing ethical dilemmas in social work using ChatGPT	3
Embedding sustainability in local welfare systems: bottom-up contributions from social workers and care professionals in public and third sector organisations	3
Waiting for welfare: experiences of street traders from Delhi, India	3
Political ideology and social work	3
People processing in the Swedish child welfare system: services to whom, on what grounds and what type?	3
Notice of duplicate publication: Social work: past, present and future	3
The father absence-mother blame paradigm in child protection social work: an Italian feminist single case study	3
Unfolding the ‘grey scene’: exploring the intersection of work and home during post-COVID remote social work	3
Dilemmas faced by social workers while working with Ethiopian families in Israel: A qualitative research study	3
The philosophy of liberation and social work: a short essay in memory of Enrico Dussel (1934–2023)	3
A dialogue with Wonderhill: social work, place-making and creating spaces for new meanings	3
Delivering trauma-informed outreach to women involved in street-based prostitution: enablers and barriers	3
African immigrants in Sweden experiencing the threat of forced child removal	3
Not trustworthy. African parents’ perspectives on Norwegian child protection care measures	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
No choice? Hiring agency social workers in the Swedish personal social services	3
Stress, sense of meaningful work, and well-Being among social workers during Covid-19	3