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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Social responsibility of military organizations: Effects of ethical leadership on the job and life satisfaction of military personnel through perceived military social responsibility	33
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Welfare dynamics of minimum income recipients in Spain: A sequence analysis of employment and activation trajectories	15
Distinguishing characteristics of out‐of‐school adolescents in South Korea: A machine learning approach	14
Chinese older adults' personal–family life balance and its associations with social networks: The moderating role of internet use	13
Issue Information	13
Poverty and public works: Evidence from Hungary	12
A journey into the new employment service landscape of responsibilisation: Towards de‐personalisation of the caseworker–jobseeker relationship	11
Alleviating administrative burden through digitalization and redesign: A laboratory experiment on student financial aid in Germany	11
Challenging scalar fallacy in state‐wide welfare studies: AUKsub‐state comparison of civil society approaches to addressing youth unemployment	11
Precarious welfare‐to‐work transitions in a segmented labour market: Evidence from the Netherlands	10
Self‐initiated moves during the formal eviction process: Findings from Swedish Register Data	10
How culture influences the strengthening of market principles in conservative welfare states: The case of long‐term care policy	9
The family structural and socioeconomic characteristics of the family well‐being of Hong Kong people	9
Cost‐effectiveness of a ‘Housing First’ programme implemented in Spain: An evaluation based on a randomised controlled trial	9
Intergenerational transmission or local labour market context? A comparative analysis of the formation of work value patterns in 65 European regions	8
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Renegotiating deservedness: A Big Qual analysis across eight guaranteed income experiments	7
Daily challenges and coping strategies of Chin irregular migrant workers in Malaysia: A qualitative study on health and well‐being	7
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Understanding the oppression of Black girls and women within the global context: Illustrations from Ghana and the United States	7
The role of experts in forming family policy under an adversarial subsystem in the Czech Republic	7
When hidden politics become visible: Administrative burden experiences of older adults and professionals in home care	7
Issue Information	7
Hazards of anti‐Blackness in the United States	6

The crumbling pillar: Assessing the impact of housing costs on recent trends in poverty and deprivation in Australia	6
Examining coping and acculturative stress as mediators between perceived discrimination and internalising symptoms among African immigrants	6
Poverty and inequality impact of COVID‐19 pandemic: The case of Mazar‐i‐Sharif, Balkh province, Afghanistan	6
Effect of financial services access on health services utilisation among rural older adults in Ghana	5
Impact evaluation of a new counselling and support programme for unemployed with multiple placement obstacles	5
Issue Information	5
Issue Information	5
Epistemic justice in international social work research: Postcolonial theory and analytic strategies	5
Intertwined precariousness and precarity: Disentangling a phenomenon that characterises Spanish youth	5
Socioeconomic barriers and educational pathways of unaccompanied foreign minors in Europe's southern border	5
De‐gendering parents: Gender inclusion and standardised language in screen‐level bureaucracy	5
Integrating familial care and extra‐familial care into a new long‐term care policy for China: Examples from Germany's long‐term care insurance	5
Who's minding the children: Gender equity in the first 2 years of the pandemic	5
Multidimensional poverty among different age cohorts in South Korea	5
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An ideology of deserving: A historical analysis of the United States' immigration policies governing forced migration and social welfare	5
Issue Information	5
Understanding Iran's welfare regime: The interplay of community, family, market, and state in a religious context	5
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
Editorial	4
Using a hybrid data collection tool: Analysis of youth labour market trajectories integrating quantitative, qualitative and social network data	4
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Intergenerational solidarity in a developing welfare state: The case of South Korea	4
Capping welfare payments for workless families increases employment and economic inactivity: Evidence from the UK's benefit cap	4
The attitudes of young citizens in higher education towards universal basic income in the context of automation—A qualitative study	4
What explains the smoking prevalence disparity between Indigenous and non‐Indigenous Australians?	4
Making sense of reablement within different institutional contexts. Collaborative service ideals in Norwegian and Danish home care	4
Behavioral health literacy: A new construct to improve outcomes among incarcerated individuals	4
Examining the potential impact of universal basic income on labor supply: Focusing on the South Korean models	4
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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
Editorial	3
Job demands‐control, job support, and depressive symptoms: Unraveling job support's moderating mechanism among social workers in China	3
Sustainability and inequality of Taiwan's National Pension Insurance	3
The rise of artificial intelligence, the fall of human wellbeing?	3
A quartered typology of welfare attitudes: Evidence from the World Values Survey Wave 7	3
Social workers' recommendations regarding child custody of parents with intellectual developmental disabilities or mental illness	3
Bureaucratic sludge: Bureaucratic tasks and procedures leading to experiences of strain	3
Issue Information	3
Targeting social welfare for people with severe mental illness: A review of policies in China and a call for further action	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
Experiences of older adults and widows with the government allowance programmes in rural Bangladesh	3
Patterns and determinants of multiple welfare programme participation among families with children in Taiwan: Evidence from panel data (2016–2022)	3
Ukraine's poor majority: Exploring the driving factors of subjective poverty	3
“Every day is a disaster”: Climate vulnerabilities and disaster subculture of jjokbang‐chon in Seoul, Korea and its implications for social work	3
Editorial	3
Success in agenda setting through failure in policymaking: Exploring a new policy venue in the Polish European Semester 2012–2022	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
Social investment agenda setting: A personal note	3

Welfare state dissatisfaction and support for major welfare reform: Towards means‐tested welfare or a universal basic income?	3
COVID‐19 and support for basic income in Korea	3
Cultural–legal brokering and gender: A study of refugee‐serving institutions upon resettlement	3
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Editorial	2
Who spends more to combat COVID‐19 social risks and why?	2
Three dimensions of long‐term care provision in middle‐income countries—A view across Africa, Latin America and Asia	2
Poverty in Europe: How long‐term poverty developed following the financial crisis and what drives it	2
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Ecosocial work among social welfare professionals in Finland: Key learnings for future practice	2
The large family penalty in Italy: Poverty and eligibility to minimum incomes	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
How large families fare in Germany: Examining child poverty risks and policy solutions	2
Administrative burden in older adults: A look at SNAP	2
Poor labour market prospects due to intensive caregiving? Childcare and eldercare among welfare recipients in Germany	2
A multidimensional approach to attitudes toward the causes of poverty: A case study of South Korea	2
Women's welfare attitudes in South Korea	2
It's the middle that matters? Income group coalitions in support of redistributive welfare reform	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
Decent old‐age incomes for all? A microdata analysis of poverty among older adults in the Netherlands	2
The role of social transfers in reducing the poverty risk for larger families in the European Union	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
The perceived fair duration of unemployment benefits for older workers. The role of lifetime achievements in the labour market	2
A scoping review of barriers to education faced by migrant minors in Türkiye	2
Latin America's grassroots approach to social innovation: Expanding the international debate	2
The importance of belonging: Interactions between individual and structural risk factors for youth‐disengagement	2
Disability policies in South Africa and Sweden: A critical policy analysis from a social work perspective	2
The prospects of judicial social work for incapacitated older adults: Evidence on how Chinese social workers may contribute	2
Early marriage and employment in Vietnam	2
Generosity of old‐age pensions for the self‐employed—A typology of European welfare states	2
Editorial	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
Special issue of International Journal of Social Welfare: Integrating young people in the labour market, integrating methodologies	1
Uneven care across states: Disparities in Medicaid 1915(c) home and community‐based services waivers for older adults in the United States	1
Special Issue on the Challenges for family and child well‐being in the new era	1
From self‐care to compassion resilience: Extending the model of protective factors for humanitarian practitioners	1
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Satisfaction with social care in the UK: Assessing the interactive effects of age and ideology	1
Impact of internal migration on the economic well‐being of local workers and school dropouts among children in Vietnam	1
Social assistance policies and food insecurity among the elderly in India in 2017–2018	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
Do individualised projects help integrate the long‐term unemployed and disadvantaged people? Lessons from the Czech Republic	1
Editorial	1
Careless hospitality: Family reunification in Ireland involving children and young people of international protection background	1
Fertility anxiety among Chinese women in the context of fertility policy relaxation: A systematic literature review	1
Experience of guilt in court hearings—Comparing rape, assault and fraud cases	1
Work–family and family–work conflict and negative attitudes toward having children: A multilevel cross‐national analysis	1
Exploring how international social workers perceive culturally relevant practices: A case study of Japanese social workers’ experiences in other Asian countries	1
Access to social rights under tension: The growing role of third‐party actors in dealing with the administrative burden and its implications	1
Patterns and determinants of multidimensional poverty and welfare interventions: Towards evidence‐based poverty‐alleviation policies in Hong Kong	1
Examining the contemporary challenges of ‘sub‐state’ welfare development: The case of the nascent ‘rights‐based’ benefits system in Wales	1
Rural social work in the wake of the COVID ‐19 pandemic: Findings from a scoping review	1
From altruism to sociality: A switch in perception	1
Perceived burdens of interacting with public authorities: How does it influence citizens' state‐encounter behavior?	1
Issue Information	1
Issue Information	1
Stabilise, balance and adjust—Framing the early years transitions of children whose parents work non‐standard hours	1
A six‐year longitudinal study of parenting and depressive symptoms among Taiwanese adolescents	1
Long maternal working hours were linked to obesity, underweight and stunting in children under age 5 in China	1
Is Job Guarantee a solution to work precarisation? A normative analysis and an empirical approach for the Uruguayan case	1
Dimensions of controversy: Investigating the structure of public support for universal basic income in the Netherlands	1
Home as a risk environment: Negotiating the boundaries of homes and social relationships in services for people using illicit drugs	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
Support for an EU‐wide social policy? A country‐comparative analysis of unemployment perceptions	1
Dialogues or polemics: Social science expertise and welfare reform in Quebec	1
Winners and losers: Class dynamics and social protection in Pakistan	1
Smaller net or just fewer to catch? Disentangling the causes for the varying sizes of minimum income schemes	1
The role of volunteer guardians as a key actor in providing social protection for unaccompanied minors in Italy	1