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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Corona crisis and the erosion of ‘the social’ – giving a decisive voice to the social professions	28
The social worker-client relationship in the digital era: a configurative literature review	20
The covid-19 pandemic and care homes for older people in Europe - deaths, damage and violations of human rights	17
Social workers use of knowledge in an evidence-based framework: a mixed methods study	17
‘Perhaps I should be working with potted plants or standing at the fish counter instead?’: newly educated social workers’ reflections on their first years in practice	16
Social work with refugee and displaced populations in Europe: (dis)continuities, dilemmas, developments	15
Burnout in Health Social Work: an international systematic review (2000–2020)	14
Using risk factor statistics in decision-making: prospects and challenges	14
Dilemmas and conflicting pressures in social work practice	12
Integrated care for individuals with mental illness and substance abuse – the example of the coordinated individual plan in Sweden	11
Supervision in child protection: a space and place for reflection or an excruciating marathon of compliance?	10
Practitioner perspectives on the implementation of an electronic information system to enforce practice standards in England	10
The importance of relationships in the encounter between NAV staff and young, vulnerable users. An action research study	9
The dignity circle: how to promote dignity in social work practice and policy?	9
Using intuition in social work decision making	9
Social workers in politics–a qualitative analysis of factors influencing social workers’ decision to run for political office	9
The meaning of professionalism in activation work: frontline managers’ perspectives	8
Transformative practice: social work practice with vulnerable young people	8
Social work during the Covid-19 pandemic: staying close while maintaining social distancing	8
Resilience of child protection social workers: a scoping review	8
Collaborative research and development: a typology of linkages between researchers and practitioners	8
Exploring populations view on thresholds and reasons for child protection intervention – comparing England, Norway, Poland and Romania	7
How congruent is person-centred practice with labour activation policy? Person-centred approach to vocational interventions on immigrant jobseekers in Norway	7
Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures	7
‘But what are we doing to that baby?’ Attachment, psy-Speak and designed order in social work	7

The encounter between professional and cultural values of social workers in the Arab sector in Israel: dilemmas, difficulties and challenges	7
The impact of social support on emotional exhaustion and workplace bullying in social workers	7
Three caregiver profiles: who are they, what do they do, and who are their co-carers?	7
Professionals’ tinkering with standardised tools: dynamics involving actors and tools in child welfare practices	7
Implementing the Individual Placement and Support approach in institutional settings for employment and mental health services – perceptions and challenges from a case study in Denmark	7
Preparing students for social work practice in contemporary societies: insights from a transnational research network	6
Refugee ‘crisis’ and social services in Greece: social workers’ profile and working conditions	6
Politicisation processes in everyday practice with refugees: the experiences of Israeli and German social workers	6
The use of Electronic Information Systems in social work. A scoping review of the empirical articles published between 2000 and 2019	6
Should we take their children? Caseworkers’ negotiations of ‘good enough’ care for children living with high-conflict parents	6
The challenges of combining ‘knowing-that’ and ‘knowing-how’ in social work education and professional practice in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration	6
Coordinated individual care planning and shared decision making: staff perspectives within the comorbidity field of practice	6
The struggle over the character of social services: conceptualising hybridity and power	6
Marginalised groups protest against social welfare and public health: conceptualising the challenge for social workers	5
Conceptualizing critical practice in social work: an integration of recognition and redistribution	5
Strengthening the working alliance between social workers and parents living in households with low income	5
Temporal dispossession through migration bureaucracy: on waiting within the asylum process in Sweden	5
Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) among young people in secure state care and their non-incarcerated peers – a qualitative, descriptive and comparative study	5
The double-edged sword – abused women’s experiences of digital technology	5
Perceptions of participation: how nursing home staff and managers perceive and strive for participation of older residents	5
The personal is political: reframing individual acts of kindness as social solidarity in social work practice	5
‘People are responsible for their own individual actions’: dominant ideologies within the Neoliberal Institutionalised Social Work Order	5
Trust and Power in the Space Between Visibility and Invisibility. Exploring Digital and Social Media Practices in Norwegian Child Welfare Services	5
Transformative change in social service delivery and social work practice in Latvia during the COVID-19 pandemic	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
Community work and citizen activism as a response to the crisis in Spain: gender, poverty and social exclusion	5
Decision support and algorithmic support: the construction of algorithms and professional discretion in social work	5
Stress, sense of meaningful work, and well-Being among social workers during Covid-19	4
Outcomes in adulthood among former child welfare services recipients: findings from a Norwegian registry study covering two decades	4
Social work and the Roma community: elements to improve current practices	4
The unfinished democratisation of family service systems: parental consent and children’s viewpoints on receiving support in child and family welfare in Sweden	4
What matters while assessing quality of social services? Stakeholders’ perspective in Czechia	4
Loïc Wacquant, the concept of the ‘centaur state' and social work: the case of the Czech Republic	4
Dedication to work: social workers in a Norwegian activation work context	4
‘Easy ride or born to be wild'? The travelling of evidence-based social work to Sweden	4
Constructions of childhood: the assessment of respite care for children with disabilities in Sweden	4
‘You get a completely different feeling’ – an empirical exploration of emotions and their functions in digital frontline work	4
Gender and ethnicity in social assistance assessments of single applicants with substance abuse problems	4
Waiting for housing: municipal practices of mobility control	4
Moving forward, waiting or standing still? Service users’ experiences from a Norwegian labour activation programme	4
Is there a shared social work signature pedagogy cross-nationally? Using a case study methodology to explore signature pedagogy in England, Israel, Finland, Spain and Sweden	4
From silence to recognition: Swedish social services and the handling of honor-based violence	4
Working conditions, health and exhaustion among social workers in Germany	4
Perspectives on organizational structure and social services’ work with clients – a narrative review of 25 years research on social services	4
Social justice, first? The policy action of South European social workers’ professional organisations in the shadow of austerity	4
Enhancing reflectivity in social, care and health professionals – identifying students’ abilities and needs	4
Between othering and recognition: in search of transformative practice at the street level	4
Child-researcher relationships in child protection research. An integrative review	4
Agency in waiting? Everyday tactics of asylum seekers and refugees in Glasgow	4
Factors affecting user participation for nursing home residents with dementia: a critical interpretive synthesis	4

‘In the end you’re no longer the kid from the children’s home, you‘re just yourself’: Resilience in care leavers over 25	4
Social workers’ navigation between repression and social support for men purchasing sex	3
A scoping review of research on coordinated pathways towards employment for youth in vulnerable life situations	3
Professional caring in affective services: the ambivalence of emotional nurture in practice	3
Health social workers and research knowledge utilisation – a Swedish survey study	3
Waiting in the welfare lines. Exploring everyday racism as waiting in the migration and unemployment complexes in England and Sweden	3
Experiences of family caregivers with day-care centers for elders in Southern China: a qualitative study	3
Waiting for what? Hope and endurance in situations of uncertainty for asylum-seekers in Greece	3
‘Informed consent’ in consensual child welfare: some reflections on its controversial nature	3
Perceptions of intimacy and integrity in formal home care	3
Academic self-efficacy and future work skills in unaccompanied foreign minors: structural equation analysis according to residence time	3
Ukrainian refugees’ reception in Swedish sports clubs: ‘deservingness’ and ‘promising victimhood’	3
German social workers as professional politicians: career paths and social advocacy	3
Examining self-care practice frequency among social workers: an international comparison	3
When your source of livelihood also becomes the source of your discomfort: the perception of work–family conflict among child welfare workers	3
Structural disavowal and personal inundation of responsibility – a local perspective on pressure on mental health front-line professionalsStrukturell ansvarsfraskrivelse og individuell ansvarsoversvøm	3
Smooth sailing with the occasional ‘culture shock’: the experiences of Romanian social workers in England	3
Enabling positive framings of stigmatised settings: a neglected responsibility for social work	3
Into the swampy lowlands. Evaluating family group conferences	3
Smart welfare and slow digital poverty: the new face of social work	3
Prerequisites for empowerment: a study of procurement documents for the provision of care in Swedish nursing homes	3
‘They should cook borsch, chop wood … ’: contemporary images of social work in the context of welfare policy reforms in Russia’s print media	3
Social work research and human rights: where do we go from here?	3
Competence and professionalisation among return-to-work coordinators in Sweden: comparisons by original profession	3
Therapeutic content in Swedish residential care for children and youth – managers choices and the reasoning behind	3
Personal, professional and political: minority social workers as policy actors	3
Policymakers on social cohesion: contradictory expectations for child and family social work	3
Ambivalence in activation encounters	3
The potential for civic and political engagement practice in social work as a means of achieving greater rights and justice for marginalised youth	3
Collectivity in waiting: transnational experiences in Swedish family reunification	3
The relevance of practice development for professionalisation of social work	3
The child perspective within family intervention projects: a cluster-randomised study with a mixed methods design	3
Child, parent or family? Applying a systemic lens to the conceptualisations of Family Support in Europe	3