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

Article	Citations
Enabling positive framings of stigmatised settings: a neglected responsibility for social work	45
Datenschutz in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe. Praxishandbuch für die sozialpädagogische Arbeit	23
Writing skills for social work students	21
Radical hope: poverty-aware practice for social work	20
Call for Papers	17
Travelling meanings: accountability practices and standardised instruments at a child protection service in the Netherlands	16
The impact of neurobiological sciences on family placement policy and practice	16
The role of child protection managers during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Challenges, priorities, new knowledge and skills	15
Gendered alignment and place-making: adolescents shaping social space in stigmatised neighbourhoods	15
Resonating relationships: an interview study with participants in an individual placement and support programme in Denmark	13
Policymakers on social cohesion: contradictory expectations for child and family social work	12
‘The only thing I do is coordination’: on the voluntarisation of social work in the Netherlands	12
A tale of two cases – investigating reasoning in similar cases with different outcomes	12
Programme evaluation: A primer for effectiveness, quality, and value	11
The challenges of combining ‘knowing-that’ and ‘knowing-how’ in social work education and professional practice in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration	11
Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures	11
Editorial	10
Balancing the line — the relation between waiting and activity among people in need of food in Sweden	10
Mechanisms that impact the experience and sustainability of the professional identity of social workers	10
Support to ‘non-clients’: care managers’ role in direct and indirect carer support	10
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	10
Participation at the margins – participation practices from the viewpoint of young people in residential care	9
Positive parenting, family resilience, and child participation in family reunification: good professional practices	9
Domestic violence professionals in Portuguese shelters: navigating challenges amidst the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Hospital social workers’ contributions to increasing health literacy among parents of acutely and critically ill children	8

Diminishing their voice through choice? How ‘self-placing’ in out-of-home care affects children and young people’s participation in decision-making	8
Group decision-making theories for child and family social work	8
Influence of street outreach work on the lives of marginalised people	8
Participation in practice in child welfare: processes, benefits and challenges	7
Voices from the silent cradles. Life histories of Romania’s looked-after children	7
Participation of youth in group social intervention programmes in Madrid. A qualitative study focused on participants’ experiences	7
Digital communication and child participation in child welfare services: a scoping review of potentials and challenges	7
Advocacy and legal aid for homeless people. Challenges and insights from a study of voluntary organisation in Italy	7
Mentoring for social inclusion: a call for social work to engage with an emerging model of social intervention	7
The migration of social workers to and from the United Kingdom: a comparative perspective	7
Social sustainability: what implications for social work?	7
Revealing the freedom of movement of youngsters in residential youth care: towards the creation of a socio-spatial citizenship climate	6
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	6
Exploring theoretical resources for social work from the global south: Latin American critical theory	6
Ready and steady? – A cross-sectional study of Norwegian social workers’ resilience and job satisfaction during COVID-19	6
Adolescents in therapeutic residential care: treatment needs and characteristics	6
‘Is it a positive or a negative?’ Children’s participation in discharge of care order proceedings	6
Editorial	6
Editorial	6
Teaching social work	6
Humanities at the crossroads: reflections on theory, culture and resistance	6
Mental health and quality of life among Norwegian child welfare service workers	5
What prevents people from becoming foster carers?	5
Are they waiting for the welfare state or Godot? Reflections from people who lost their jobs or incomes during Covid-19 pandemic in Turkey	5
“Social Space: Creating Condizioni – Milieus – Territorio – Landscapes”	5
When opinions differ: the development of a reflection tool for youth professionals to support shared decision-making with parents	5
Cultural well-being and social work: conceptual understandings and their application to music-based interventions for older people	5
The politics and economics of Brexit	5
Discursively constructing youth at risk: street-level professionals’ blending of othering and de-othering	5
On the reconstruction of family life and ‘institutional forms of parentification': unaccompanied minors’ experiences with family reunification in Belgium and Norway	5
Social work research using arts-based methods	5
‘I have the strength and the Faith’ — adaptation of Ukrainian refugee parents in Estonia after fleeing the war	5
Perceptions of participation: how nursing home staff and managers perceive and strive for participation of older residents	5
Providing help or restrictions? Frontline workers’ understandings of behavioural conditionality for health-related social insurance and social assistance benefit in a joined-up governance context	5
What is in a failure: a descriptive study about conceptions of failures within social services	5
Social workers’ navigation between repression and social support for men purchasing sex	5
A cluster analysis of the family dynamics in a family prevention programme for adolescents from vulnerable families	5
The origins of social care and social work: creating a global future	5
Child protection and rights in India: COVID-19 experiences and contemporary challenges	5
Child welfare workers’ understanding of gender, sexual orientation and sexual health in assessments of youths with a problematic substance use	5
Independent experts in care order proceedings: a scoping review	4
The social worker-client relationship in the digital era: a configurative literature review	4
Allowing time to piece the puzzle together: experiences of Norwegian service providers in supporting the empowerment of refugees with limited formal education	4
Activation policy and discretion in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) – introducing a multi-layered explanatory model	4
A hybrid job center. Composite client experiences with employment services between enforcement and care	4
Rural social work: practices and organisation. A case study in Andalusia (Spain)	4
Eco-social work: Politica e lavoro sociale nella crisi ecologica (Strumenti per il servizio sociale)	4
Conceptualizing critical practice in social work: an integration of recognition and redistribution	4
Social workers’ risk assessment in child protection: the problem of disagreement and a lack of a precise language about risk	4
Navigating multiple displacements: encounters and emplacement practices at municipal service centres in marginalised communities in Sweden	4

Life after Covid-19: the other side of the crisis	4
Well-being at work factors perceived by social work professionals during COVID-19: reflections for the generation of Healthy Organisations	4
A call for ecosocial community work: challenges and possibilities for ecosocial work in local neighbourhoods in Sweden	4
The untold stories of resilience, reworking and resistance of ageing non-European migrant women	4
Transformative change in social service delivery and social work practice in Latvia during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
The bridging role of social work: the quest towards installing a structural approach within primary health care	4
Integration from the perspective of young women who came to Sweden as unaccompanied asylum-seeking girls from Afghanistan. An interpretative phenomenological analysis	4
Commoning by zoning? Social work’s involvement in urban spatial conflicts	4
Strategic leadership and management in nonprofit organisations – theory and practice, 2nd edition	4
Editorial	4
The meaning of social cohesion in preventive family support: a practitioners’ perspective	4
Social work in a superdiverse society: an exploration of cooperation in professional practice	4
The child perspective within family intervention projects: a cluster-randomised study with a mixed methods design	4
Single Moms, absent Dads: neglecting fathers and burdening mothers in social work practice with separated families	4
‘Exploring Heteronormativity’: a teaching programme to develop experience-based knowledge of the reproduction of power asymmetries	4
An anti-oppressive approach to social work practice with transgender youth and young adults experiencing homelessness	4
Unfolding the ‘grey scene’: exploring the intersection of work and home during post-COVID remote social work	3
Invisible children and young people in Child Protection Services	3
Collaborative mental health treatment: current practices among mental health providers in Norway	3
Confronting and managing ethical dilemmas in social work using ChatGPT	3
Teaching disability using problem-based learning in the international context: utility for social work	3
African immigrants in Sweden experiencing the threat of forced child removal	3
Editorial	3
Ambivalence in activation encounters	3
The philosophy of liberation and social work: a short essay in memory of Enrico Dussel (1934–2023)	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
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
The father absence-mother blame paradigm in child protection social work: an Italian feminist single case study	3
Narratives of social work practice and education in Sweden	3
Embedding sustainability in local welfare systems: bottom-up contributions from social workers and care professionals in public and third sector organisations	3
‘Theatre has made me look people in the eye’: achievements and challenges of applied theatre in social work	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
Delivering trauma-informed outreach to women involved in street-based prostitution: enablers and barriers	3
Help and support for bereaved persons who use drugs: a qualitative study	3
Waiting for welfare: experiences of street traders from Delhi, India	3
Not trustworthy. African parents’ perspectives on Norwegian child protection care measures	3
Competence and professionalisation among return-to-work coordinators in Sweden: comparisons by original profession	3
Language disordant social work in a multilingual word	3
Dilemmas faced by social workers while working with Ethiopian families in Israel: A qualitative research study	3
Political ideology and social work	3
The use of independent foster care agencies by Swedish local authorities: Do structural factors matter?	3
Voices from the frontline: practicing school social work in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Critical social psychology of social class	3
L’Accompagnement social et la mort	3
Who would never grant them equal rights? A comparative analysis of welfare chauvinism in Central and Eastern Europe	3
A scoping review of research on coordinated pathways towards employment for youth in vulnerable life situations	3
Working with pupils who use alcohol and drugs: emotional labour and crime prevention of Swedish high school staff members	3
Adoption from care, the reunification principle and consensual placements: the political promotion of a controversial child protection measure in Sweden	3
Stress, sense of meaningful work, and well-Being among social workers during Covid-19	3