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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Datenschutz in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe. Praxishandbuch für die sozialpädagogische Arbeit	49
Writing skills for social work students	24
Radical hope: poverty-aware practice for social work	22
Call for Papers	19
Travelling meanings: accountability practices and standardised instruments at a child protection service in the Netherlands	17
Social workers’ policy practice in Italy. Exploring different professional strategies for changing policies and organisations	17
Gendered alignment and place-making: adolescents shaping social space in stigmatised neighbourhoods	17
‘The only thing I do is coordination’: on the voluntarisation of social work in the Netherlands	15
A tale of two cases – investigating reasoning in similar cases with different outcomes	13
Programme evaluation: A primer for effectiveness, quality, and value	12
Resonating relationships: an interview study with participants in an individual placement and support programme in Denmark	12
The challenges of combining ‘knowing-that’ and ‘knowing-how’ in social work education and professional practice in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration	12
Policymakers on social cohesion: contradictory expectations for child and family social work	12
Mechanisms that impact the experience and sustainability of the professional identity of social workers	12
Editorial	11
Support to ‘non-clients’: care managers’ role in direct and indirect carer support	11
The role of child protection managers during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Challenges, priorities, new knowledge and skills	11
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	11
Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures	11
Domestic violence professionals in Portuguese shelters: navigating challenges amidst the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Balancing the line — the relation between waiting and activity among people in need of food in Sweden	10
Positive parenting, family resilience, and child participation in family reunification: good professional practices	10
Hospital social workers’ contributions to increasing health literacy among parents of acutely and critically ill children	9
Influence of street outreach work on the lives of marginalised people	9
Group decision-making theories for child and family social work	9

Advocacy and legal aid for homeless people. Challenges and insights from a study of voluntary organisation in Italy	8
Voices from the silent cradles. Life histories of Romania’s looked-after children	8
Participation at the margins – participation practices from the viewpoint of young people in residential care	8
The migration of social workers to and from the United Kingdom: a comparative perspective	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
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
Social sustainability: what implications for social work?	7
Participation in practice in child welfare: processes, benefits and challenges	7
Mentoring for social inclusion: a call for social work to engage with an emerging model of social intervention	7
Teaching social work	7
Adolescents in therapeutic residential care: treatment needs and characteristics	7
Participation of youth in group social intervention programmes in Madrid. A qualitative study focused on participants’ experiences	7
Exploring theoretical resources for social work from the global south: Latin American critical theory	7
‘Is it a positive or a negative?’ Children’s participation in discharge of care order proceedings	7
Digital communication and child participation in child welfare services: a scoping review of potentials and challenges	6
Ready and steady? – A cross-sectional study of Norwegian social workers’ resilience and job satisfaction during COVID-19	6
Mental health and quality of life among Norwegian child welfare service workers	6
Discursively constructing youth at risk: street-level professionals’ blending of othering and de-othering	6
Editorial	6
Humanities at the crossroads: reflections on theory, culture and resistance	6
What is in a failure: a descriptive study about conceptions of failures within social services	6
Revealing the freedom of movement of youngsters in residential youth care: towards the creation of a socio-spatial citizenship climate	6
Editorial	6
“Social Space: Creating Condizioni – Milieus – Territorio – Landscapes”	6
What prevents people from becoming foster carers?	6
Child welfare workers’ understanding of gender, sexual orientation and sexual health in assessments of youths with a problematic substance use	5
Rural social work: practices and organisation. A case study in Andalusia (Spain)	5
The origins of social care and social work: creating a global future	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
The politics and economics of Brexit	5
When opinions differ: the development of a reflection tool for youth professionals to support shared decision-making with parents	5
Soziale Arbeit in guter Gesellschaft	5
Understanding social work professionalism through organisational lens: a study of social workers in Sweden	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
Cultural well-being and social work: conceptual understandings and their application to music-based interventions for older people	5
The untold stories of resilience, reworking and resistance of ageing non-European migrant women	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 child perspective within family intervention projects: a cluster-randomised study with a mixed methods design	5
Child protection and rights in India: COVID-19 experiences and contemporary challenges	4
Single Moms, absent Dads: neglecting fathers and burdening mothers in social work practice with separated families	4
Conceptualizing critical practice in social work: an integration of recognition and redistribution	4
The bridging role of social work: the quest towards installing a structural approach within primary health care	4
African immigrants in Sweden experiencing the threat of forced child removal	4
L’Accompagnement social et la mort	4
Help and support for bereaved persons who use drugs: a qualitative study	4
Commoning by zoning? Social work’s involvement in urban spatial conflicts	4
Editorial	4

Eco-social work: Politica e lavoro sociale nella crisi ecologica (Strumenti per il servizio sociale)	4
Allowing time to piece the puzzle together: experiences of Norwegian service providers in supporting the empowerment of refugees with limited formal education	4
A hybrid job center. Composite client experiences with employment services between enforcement and care	4
Activation policy and discretion in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) – introducing a multi-layered explanatory model	4
Navigating multiple displacements: encounters and emplacement practices at municipal service centres in marginalised communities in Sweden	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
An anti-oppressive approach to social work practice with transgender youth and young adults experiencing homelessness	4
Invisible children and young people in Child Protection Services	4
The meaning of social cohesion in preventive family support: a practitioners’ perspective	4
Well-being at work factors perceived by social work professionals during COVID-19: reflections for the generation of Healthy Organisations	4
Transformative change in social service delivery and social work practice in Latvia during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Perceptions of participation: how nursing home staff and managers perceive and strive for participation of older residents	4
A call for ecosocial community work: challenges and possibilities for ecosocial work in local neighbourhoods in Sweden	4
Social work in a superdiverse society: an exploration of cooperation in professional practice	4
The social worker-client relationship in the digital era: a configurative literature review	4
Strategic leadership and management in nonprofit organisations – theory and practice, 2nd edition	4
Delivering trauma-informed outreach to women involved in street-based prostitution: enablers and barriers	4
Critical social psychology of social class	4
Ambivalence in activation encounters	4
Independent experts in care order proceedings: a scoping review	4
‘Exploring Heteronormativity’: a teaching programme to develop experience-based knowledge of the reproduction of power asymmetries	4
Life after Covid-19: the other side of the crisis	4
Teaching disability using problem-based learning in the international context: utility for social work	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
A scoping review of research on coordinated pathways towards employment for youth in vulnerable life situations	3
Dilemmas faced by social workers while working with Ethiopian families in Israel: A qualitative research study	3
Adoption from care, the reunification principle and consensual placements: the political promotion of a controversial child protection measure in Sweden	3
Unfolding the ‘grey scene’: exploring the intersection of work and home during post-COVID remote social work	3
Collaborative mental health treatment: current practices among mental health providers in Norway	3
The use of independent foster care agencies by Swedish local authorities: Do structural factors matter?	3
Who would never grant them equal rights? A comparative analysis of welfare chauvinism in Central and Eastern Europe	3
The philosophy of liberation and social work: a short essay in memory of Enrico Dussel (1934–2023)	3
Voices from the frontline: practicing school social work in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic	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
Political ideology and social work	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
Stress, sense of meaningful work, and well-Being among social workers during Covid-19	3
Confronting and managing ethical dilemmas in social work using ChatGPT	3
‘Theatre has made me look people in the eye’: achievements and challenges of applied theatre in social work	3
Editorial	3
Narratives of social work practice and education in Sweden	3
The father absence-mother blame paradigm in child protection social work: an Italian feminist single case study	3
Not trustworthy. African parents’ perspectives on Norwegian child protection care measures	3
Language disordant social work in a multilingual word	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