OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Social Work is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of neurobiological sciences on family placement policy and practice	43
Strategic leadership and management in nonprofit organisations – theory and practice, 2nd edition	23
Global youth unemployment: history, governance and policy	18
European social work after 1989: east-west exchanges between universal principles and cultural sensitivity	17
Writing skills for social work students	16
Integration from the perspective of young women who came to Sweden as unaccompanied asylum-seeking girls from Afghanistan. An interpretative phenomenological analysis	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
Social work research from a gender perspective into intimate partner violence against older women in Spain	13
Exploring welfare bricolage in Europe’s superdiverse neighbourhoods	12
‘The only thing I do is coordination’: on the voluntarisation of social work in the Netherlands	11
Dilemmas and conflicting pressures in social work practice	11
A tale of two cases – investigating reasoning in similar cases with different outcomes	11
Radical hope: poverty-aware practice for social work	11
Communication and interviewing skills for practice in social work, counseling and the health professions	11
Editorial: waiting in and for the welfare state	11
‘What’s important to me is to get people moving.’ Fostering social resilience in people with severe debt problems	11
New philanthropy, social impact and social work: insights from the Italian case	10
Between othering and recognition: in search of transformative practice at the street level	9
Forschungsethik in der Sozialen Arbeit. Prinzipien und Erfahrungen (Theorie, Forschung und Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit, Band 23)	9
Call for Papers	8
How to Stop Fascism: History – Ideology – Resistance	8
Ageism and attitudes towards older people in the field of social work. A systematic review of operational definitions	7
Community practice as street-level bureaucracy: community views and discretionary patterns	7
Waiting for what? Hope and endurance in situations of uncertainty for asylum-seekers in Greece	7
Independent experts in care order proceedings: a scoping review	7

‘Educating for peace’: conflict, division and social work education in Cyprus	7
The meaning of social cohesion in preventive family support: a practitioners’ perspective	6
Datenschutz in der Pflege. Sicher und pragmatisch umsetzen nach DSGVO	6
Contact with parents from childhood to adulthood – a longitudinal study of children in kinship care and non-kinship care	6
Latino gangs in Spain: from the Latin Kings & Queens to the Dominican don’t play	6
Offene Kinder- und Jugendarbeit in Corona-Zeiten aus Sicht von Fachkräften. Eine empirische Studie zur Situation von Einrichtungen in Hamburg	6
Policymakers on social cohesion: contradictory expectations for child and family social work	6
Social exclusion in a post-industrial city: towards a critical urban social work perspective	6
Intercultural mediation and the state’s surveillance of motherhood: contradictions disclosing coloniality of relationships, racialisation, and emotional control	6
Restricting family life - an examination of citizens’ views on state interventions and parental freedom in eight European countries	6
‘I’m actually your worst nightmare’: intergenerational dialogues of social workers in search of the political	6
The meaning of care: how relationships can strengthen the wellbeing and participation of young people in residential care	6
Home and family in alternative care – how Finnish legislation creates opportunities for belonging	5
The bridging role of social work: the quest towards installing a structural approach within primary health care	5
Social workers in politics–a qualitative analysis of factors influencing social workers’ decision to run for political office	5
The challenges of combining ‘knowing-that’ and ‘knowing-how’ in social work education and professional practice in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration	5
Waiting in the welfare lines. Exploring everyday racism as waiting in the migration and unemployment complexes in England and Sweden	5
Utilized discretion: a vignette study of social assistance assessments in Sweden	5
An anti-oppressive approach to social work practice with transgender youth and young adults experiencing homelessness	5
Gendered alignment and place-making: adolescents shaping social space in stigmatised neighbourhoods	5
Enabling positive framings of stigmatised settings: a neglected responsibility for social work	5
Automated decision-making, discretion and public values: a case study of two municipalities and their case management of social assistance	5
Social workers’ risk assessment in child protection: the problem of disagreement and a lack of a precise language about risk	5
Navigating multiple displacements: encounters and emplacement practices at municipal service centres in marginalised communities in Sweden	5
Excluded voices in inclusive child and youth welfare services	5
Social work development in the Arab indigenous minority society in Israel at the turn of the millennium (1996-2006)	5
Identifying and responding to domestic abuse in the older population: key challenges and complexities	5
Waiting for and in gender-confirming healthcare in Sweden: An analysis of young trans people’s experiences	5
Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures	4
‘People are responsible for their own individual actions’: dominant ideologies within the Neoliberal Institutionalised Social Work Order	4
Social Work Practice with Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation	4
Children’s routes to participation in support groups: motives, barriers, and benefits from children’s and parent’s perspectives	4
Datenschutz in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe. Praxishandbuch für die sozialpädagogische Arbeit	4
Time for and timing in social work with vulnerable families: responding to needs in neoliberal times	4
Travelling meanings: accountability practices and standardised instruments at a child protection service in the Netherlands	4
Waiting for housing: municipal practices of mobility control	4
Work conditions and burnout: an exploratory study among Hungarian workers in family and child welfare, child protection and pedagogical professional services	4
Studying in challenging times – a longitudinal study on social work students’ situations during the Covid-19 pandemic	4
Decision support and algorithmic support: the construction of algorithms and professional discretion in social work	4
Resonating relationships: an interview study with participants in an individual placement and support programme in Denmark	4
Social work leadership and management. Current approaches and concepts for social and human service organisations	4
Help and support for bereaved persons who use drugs: a qualitative study	4
‘With a little social support … ’: assessing the moderating effect of social support on risk factors and mental well-being among youth	4
‘Because otherwise she’s not doing her job – if she doesn’t listen’: children’s and parents’ views on participation in the assessment process according to the Swedish Disability Act	4
The impact of social support on emotional exhaustion and workplace bullying in social workers	4
Diminishing their voice through choice? How ‘self-placing’ in out-of-home care affects children and young people’s participation in decision-making	4
Care and support for older people with intellectual disabilities beyond the pursuit of ageing ‘in place’: towards constructing a space to be(long)	4
Ageing and Covid-19. Making sense of a disrupted world	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
Ambivalence in activation encounters	4

How social workers face ethical dilemmas? Strategies of resolution and associated variables	3
Editorial	3
The role of financial support in preventing the need for child protection services: a mixed method study on the effects and pathways of additional income support	3
Editorial	3
Child and youth welfare and the climate crisis – conceptual enlargements from eco-social work and socio-spatial approaches	3
How children and young people understand and experience individual participation in social services for children and young people: a synthesis of qualitative studies	3
Building community and family resilience: Research, policy, and program (Emerging issues in family and individual resilience (EIIFR) series)	3
Outcomes in adulthood among former child welfare services recipients: findings from a Norwegian registry study covering two decades	3
Professional understandings of men’s violence against women	3
Österreichisches Jahrbuch für Soziale Arbeit: Annual review of social work and social pedagogy in Austria	3
Critical social psychology of social class	3
Promoting financial capability within the field of social work practice among families with children: a systematic review	3
The proportion and utilisation of formal kinship and network care in Norway and Denmark: a comparative study	3
Social work education in Europe, traditions, and transformations	3
L’Accompagnement social et la mort	3
Europäische Gesellschaften zwischen Kohäsion und Spaltung: Rolle, Herausforderungen und Perspektiven sozialer Arbeit (Series: Theorie, Forschung und Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit, volume 25)	3
Implementing attachment and biobehavioral catch-up in Norway: experiences from CWS parents, clinicians and leaders	3
Participation at the margins – participation practices from the viewpoint of young people in residential care	3
Refraining from rights and giving in to personalised control: young unemployed peoples’ experiences and perceptions of public and third sector support in the UK and Norway	3
Editorial: why the COVID-19 pandemic calls for a children’s right reflex	3
Influences of the far right on social work in Germany: systematic attacks and daily shifts	3
Group decision-making theories for child and family social work	3
Solving global problems through local solutions: a transcontinental dialogue between Asia and Europe (Guest Editorial)	2
Editorial	2
Temporal dispossession through migration bureaucracy: on waiting within the asylum process in Sweden	2
Discretion for whom? Local policies and the agency problem between politicians and care managers in Swedish social service	2
Influence of street outreach work on the lives of marginalised people	2
Democratic participation in residential youth care – A matter of structure or relations?	2
The complexity of constructing empowerment measuring instruments: a delphi study*	2
Facilitators and barriers for implementation of community-based mental health interventions in Western and Eastern Europe - a systematic literature review	2
Practicing social work in deprived communities. Competencies, methods, and techniques	2
Social glocalisation and education. Social work, health sciences, and practical theology perspectives on change	2
A qualitative study of youth and child participation in Norwegian specialist child welfare services support measures: dilemmas, ideals, and outcomes	2
Social work and its methods not only in the context of direct work with seniors living with dementia	2
Construction of discretion-related characters in social work with persons with disabilities in Finland	2
Embedding sustainability in local welfare systems: bottom-up contributions from social workers and care professionals in public and third sector organisations	2
Rights-based social work as a practice. The role of child welfare social work in the repatriations of Finnish children from the camps in north-eastern Syria	2
Perspectives on transitions in refugee education: ruptures, passages, and re-orientations	2
Voices from the frontline: practicing school social work in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
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	2
Social workers’ experiential accounts of complex intervention development for youth and families in practice settings	2
Exploring mediation through creativity: ethnography, theatre and cinema with Maghrebi unaccompanied migrant youth in Barcelona	2
Who would never grant them equal rights? A comparative analysis of welfare chauvinism in Central and Eastern Europe	2
Hospital social workers’ contributions to increasing health literacy among parents of acutely and critically ill children	2
Editorial: Scopes and limits for mediation with young people. Lessons learnt and proposals for social workers	2
Contested and unheard voices within the asylum framework – participation challenges of unaccompanied minors in Germany and Norway	2
African immigrants in Sweden experiencing the threat of forced child removal	2
Editorial	2
The challenge of controlling COVID-19. Public health and social care policy in England during the first wave	2