OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Social Welfare is 1. 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
A journey into the new employment service landscape of responsibilisation: Towards de‐personalisation of the caseworker–jobseeker relationship	25
Issue Information	17
Poverty and public works: Evidence from Hungary	15
Distinguishing characteristics of out‐of‐school adolescents in South Korea: A machine learning approach	14
Self‐initiated moves during the formal eviction process: Findings from Swedish Register Data	13
Precarious welfare‐to‐work transitions in a segmented labour market: Evidence from the Netherlands	12
Chinese older adults' personal–family life balance and its associations with social networks: The moderating role of internet use	11
Challenging scalar fallacy in state‐wide welfare studies: AUKsub‐state comparison of civil society approaches to addressing youth unemployment	11
Cost‐effectiveness of a ‘Housing First’ programme implemented in Spain: An evaluation based on a randomised controlled trial	11
The role of experts in forming family policy under an adversarial subsystem in the Czech Republic	10
Alleviating administrative burden through digitalization and redesign: A laboratory experiment on student financial aid in Germany	10
How culture influences the strengthening of market principles in conservative welfare states: The case of long‐term care policy	9
Intergenerational transmission or local labour market context? A comparative analysis of the formation of work value patterns in 65 European regions	9
The family structural and socioeconomic characteristics of the family well‐being of Hong Kong people	9
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The crumbling pillar: Assessing the impact of housing costs on recent trends in poverty and deprivation in Australia	7
Daily challenges and coping strategies of Chin irregular migrant workers in Malaysia: A qualitative study on health and well‐being	7
Examining coping and acculturative stress as mediators between perceived discrimination and internalising symptoms among African immigrants	7
Hazards of anti‐Blackness in the United States	7
When hidden politics become visible: Administrative burden experiences of older adults and professionals in home care	6
Understanding the oppression of Black girls and women within the global context: Illustrations from Ghana and the United States	6
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Poverty and inequality impact of COVID‐19 pandemic: The case of Mazar‐i‐Sharif, Balkh province, Afghanistan	6
Rights‐based community practice and academic activism in a turbulent world: Putting theory into practice in Israel, Palestine and Jordan By James L.Torczyner, 2021. New York: Routledge, 377 pp., $170	6

An ideology of deserving: A historical analysis of the United States' immigration policies governing forced migration and social welfare	5
Intertwined precariousness and precarity: Disentangling a phenomenon that characterises Spanish youth	5
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Impact evaluation of a new counselling and support programme for unemployed with multiple placement obstacles	5
Multidimensional poverty among different age cohorts in South Korea	5
Effect of financial services access on health services utilisation among rural older adults in Ghana	5
Using a hybrid data collection tool: Analysis of youth labour market trajectories integrating quantitative, qualitative and social network data	4
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Dissenting social work: Critical theory, resistance and pandemicPaul MichaelGarrett, 2021. London and New York: Routledge, 288 pp., ISBN 9780367903701 (Paperback) \| ISBN 9781003024019 (eBook).	4
Integrating familial care and extra‐familial care into a new long‐term care policy for China: Examples from Germany's long‐term care insurance	4
Understanding Iran's welfare regime: The interplay of community, family, market, and state in a religious context	4
Reducing sex work by targeting ‘vulnerable’ sex workers: A post‐structural analysis of policies regulating Danish exit programmes directed at people involved in sex work	4
Bureaucratic sludge: Bureaucratic tasks and procedures leading to experiences of strain	4
Examining the potential impact of universal basic income on labor supply: Focusing on the South Korean models	4
Capping welfare payments for workless families increases employment and economic inactivity: Evidence from the UK's benefit cap	4
Behavioral health literacy: A new construct to improve outcomes among incarcerated individuals	4
Who's minding the children: Gender equity in the first 2 years of the pandemic	4
Editorial	4
Security or autonomy? A comparative analysis of work values and labor market policies in different European welfare states	4
Editorial	4
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De‐gendering parents: Gender inclusion and standardised language in screen‐level bureaucracy	4
Epistemic justice in international social work research: Postcolonial theory and analytic strategies	4
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Intergenerational solidarity in a developing welfare state: The case of South Korea	4
Making sense of reablement within different institutional contexts. Collaborative service ideals in Norwegian and Danish home care	4
The attitudes of young citizens in higher education towards universal basic income in the context of automation—A qualitative study	4
Cultural–legal brokering and gender: A study of refugee‐serving institutions upon resettlement	3
Targeting social welfare for people with severe mental illness: A review of policies in China and a call for further action	3
New configurations of labour insertion processes. The case of secondary technical and vocational education and training students in Chile	3
Success in agenda setting through failure in policymaking: Exploring a new policy venue in the Polish European Semester 2012–2022	3
Sustainability and inequality of Taiwan's National Pension Insurance	3
Toward a livable life: A 21st century agenda for social work Edited by Mark RobertRank, 2020. New York: Oxford University Press, 382 pp., HB. ISBN 978‐0‐190‐69105‐9.	3
“Every day is a disaster”: Climate vulnerabilities and disaster subculture of jjokbang‐chon in Seoul, Korea and its implications for social work	3
Unemployed and then? The role of non‐standard employment in labour market trajectories after unemployment	3
The efficacy and efficiency of public transfer programmes on the poverty of the older population in South Korea	3
Editorial	3
The lived experiences of the welfare state of platform workers: The barriers to accessing social protection in Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom	3
A quartered typology of welfare attitudes: Evidence from the World Values Survey Wave 7	3
Job demands‐control, job support, and depressive symptoms: Unraveling job support's moderating mechanism among social workers in China	3
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Evaluating socio‐economic resilience interventions among out‐of‐school adolescent girls and young women in rural Central Uganda: A quasi‐experimental approach	3
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Social investment agenda setting: A personal note	3
Generosity of old‐age pensions for the self‐employed—A typology of European welfare states	2
It's the middle that matters? Income group coalitions in support of redistributive welfare reform	2
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Revisiting auxiliary social services for persons with disability: The Philippines case	2
Family and work‐related risk factors in children's social–emotional well‐being and parent–educator cooperation in flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care	2

Editorial	2
How large families fare in Germany: Examining child poverty risks and policy solutions	2
Ukraine's poor majority: Exploring the driving factors of subjective poverty	2
The importance of belonging: Interactions between individual and structural risk factors for youth‐disengagement	2
COVID‐19 and support for basic income in Korea	2
State temporary assistance for needy families policies and high school diploma or equivalent attainment among mothers following a nonmarital birth: An event history analysis	2
Three dimensions of long‐term care provision in middle‐income countries—A view across Africa, Latin America and Asia	2
Poor labour market prospects due to intensive caregiving? Childcare and eldercare among welfare recipients in Germany	2
Poverty in Europe: How long‐term poverty developed following the financial crisis and what drives it	2
One ‘welfare recipient’ stereotype or many? Using the stereotype content model to examine the stereotypes of different categories of benefit recipients	2
Administrative burden in older adults: A look at SNAP	2
Unpacking vulnerability among migrant minors in the EU: A case study of vulnerability among migrant minors in Spain	2
Effective local governance assisting vulnerable groups: The case of youth not in employment, education or training (NEETs) in Sweden	2
Welfare state dissatisfaction and support for major welfare reform: Towards means‐tested welfare or a universal basic income?	2
Human rights and social justice in a global perspective: An introduction to international social workSusan C.MappNew York: Oxford University Press, 2021, 465 pp., US$60, ISBN: 9780190059477 (paperback	2
Women's welfare attitudes in South Korea	2
Disability policies in South Africa and Sweden: A critical policy analysis from a social work perspective	2
Who spends more to combat COVID‐19 social risks and why?	2
The perceived fair duration of unemployment benefits for older workers. The role of lifetime achievements in the labour market	2
Loans for welfare benefit recipients: Evidence from the Sample of Integrated Welfare Benefit Biographies (SIG) 2007–2020	2
Improving employability? Individual placement and support for the long‐term unemployed and individuals with developmental disabilities in Finland	2
Beyond the precariat: Trajectories of precarious work and its determinants in South Korea	2
Social workers' recommendations regarding child custody of parents with intellectual developmental disabilities or mental illness	2
Changing attitudes towards government responsibility for social welfare in China between 2004 and 2014: Evidence from three national surveys	2
The rise of artificial intelligence, the fall of human wellbeing?	2
Emotional creaming: Street‐level bureaucrats’ prioritisation of migrant clients ‘likely to succeed’ in labour market integration	1
Issue Information	1
Do individualised projects help integrate the long‐term unemployed and disadvantaged people? Lessons from the Czech Republic	1
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Impact of internal migration on the economic well‐being of local workers and school dropouts among children in Vietnam	1
Editorial	1
Decent old‐age incomes for all? A microdata analysis of poverty among older adults in the Netherlands	1
The role of social transfers in reducing the poverty risk for larger families in the European Union	1
Editorial	1
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Work–family and family–work conflict and negative attitudes toward having children: A multilevel cross‐national analysis	1
Access to social rights under tension: The growing role of third‐party actors in dealing with the administrative burden and its implications	1
Stabilise, balance and adjust—Framing the early years transitions of children whose parents work non‐standard hours	1
Social work in space: Expanding policy and practice into the cosmos	1
Social perceptions and representations of unaccompanied foreign minors on social media	1
Developments in China’s governance of its aging society: Evidence from aging policies between 1982 and 2017	1
Perceived burdens of interacting with public authorities: How does it influence citizens' state‐encounter behavior?	1
Ecosocial work among social welfare professionals in Finland: Key learnings for future practice	1
The prospects of judicial social work for incapacitated older adults: Evidence on how Chinese social workers may contribute	1
A scoping review of barriers to education faced by migrant minors in Türkiye	1
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Dialogues or polemics: Social science expertise and welfare reform in Quebec	1
Special issue of International Journal of Social Welfare: Integrating young people in the labour market, integrating methodologies	1
The role of volunteer guardians as a key actor in providing social protection for unaccompanied minors in Italy	1
Satisfaction with social care in the UK: Assessing the interactive effects of age and ideology	1
From altruism to sociality: A switch in perception	1
Support for an EU‐wide social policy? A country‐comparative analysis of unemployment perceptions	1
From national activation legislation to local practices in Norway—Why the same law gives diverse practices	1
Smaller net or just fewer to catch? Disentangling the causes for the varying sizes of minimum income schemes	1
Winners and losers: Class dynamics and social protection in Pakistan	1
The large family penalty in Italy: Poverty and eligibility to minimum incomes	1
Editorial	1
Careless hospitality: Family reunification in Ireland involving children and young people of international protection background	1
Automation and segmentation: Downgrading employment quality among the former “insiders” of Western European labour markets	1
Better job prospects or an imperative to ‘just work’? A cross‐national study on social investment and women's employment	1
Patterns and determinants of multidimensional poverty and welfare interventions: Towards evidence‐based poverty‐alleviation policies in Hong Kong	1