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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
A journey into the new employment service landscape of responsibilisation: Towards de‐personalisation of the caseworker–jobseeker relationship	26
Welfare dynamics of minimum income recipients in Spain: A sequence analysis of employment and activation trajectories	16
Issue Information	15
Poverty and public works: Evidence from Hungary	14
Self‐initiated moves during the formal eviction process: Findings from Swedish Register Data	12
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	11
Alleviating administrative burden through digitalization and redesign: A laboratory experiment on student financial aid in Germany	11
Cost‐effectiveness of a ‘Housing First’ programme implemented in Spain: An evaluation based on a randomised controlled trial	11
Chinese older adults' personal–family life balance and its associations with social networks: The moderating role of internet use	10
Distinguishing characteristics of out‐of‐school adolescents in South Korea: A machine learning approach	10
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Social responsibility of military organizations: Effects of ethical leadership on the job and life satisfaction of military personnel through perceived military social responsibility	8
The role of experts in forming family policy under an adversarial subsystem in the Czech Republic	8
Intergenerational transmission or local labour market context? A comparative analysis of the formation of work value patterns in 65 European regions	7
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Examining coping and acculturative stress as mediators between perceived discrimination and internalising symptoms among African immigrants	7
The family structural and socioeconomic characteristics of the family well‐being of Hong Kong people	7
How culture influences the strengthening of market principles in conservative welfare states: The case of long‐term care policy	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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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
Poverty and inequality impact of COVID‐19 pandemic: The case of Mazar‐i‐Sharif, Balkh province, Afghanistan	6
The crumbling pillar: Assessing the impact of housing costs on recent trends in poverty and deprivation in Australia	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	5
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Socioeconomic barriers and educational pathways of unaccompanied foreign minors in Europe's southern border	5
Issue Information	5
Multidimensional poverty among different age cohorts in South Korea	5
Impact evaluation of a new counselling and support programme for unemployed with multiple placement obstacles	5
Understanding the oppression of Black girls and women within the global context: Illustrations from Ghana and the United States	5
Effect of financial services access on health services utilisation among rural older adults in Ghana	5
An ideology of deserving: A historical analysis of the United States' immigration policies governing forced migration and social welfare	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
Capping welfare payments for workless families increases employment and economic inactivity: Evidence from the UK's benefit cap	4
Epistemic justice in international social work research: Postcolonial theory and analytic strategies	4
Dissenting social work: Critical theory, resistance and pandemicPaul MichaelGarrett, 2021. London and New York: Routledge, 288 pp., ISBN 9780367903701 (Paperback) \| ISBN 9781003024019 (eBook).	4
Understanding Iran's welfare regime: The interplay of community, family, market, and state in a religious context	4
Editorial	4
Making sense of reablement within different institutional contexts. Collaborative service ideals in Norwegian and Danish home care	4
Issue Information	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
Examining the potential impact of universal basic income on labor supply: Focusing on the South Korean models	4
Behavioral health literacy: A new construct to improve outcomes among incarcerated individuals	4
The attitudes of young citizens in higher education towards universal basic income in the context of automation—A qualitative study	4
Intergenerational solidarity in a developing welfare state: The case of South Korea	4
Using a hybrid data collection tool: Analysis of youth labour market trajectories integrating quantitative, qualitative and social network data	4
Issue Information	4
De‐gendering parents: Gender inclusion and standardised language in screen‐level bureaucracy	4
Intertwined precariousness and precarity: Disentangling a phenomenon that characterises Spanish youth	4
Who's minding the children: Gender equity in the first 2 years of the pandemic	4
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Targeting social welfare for people with severe mental illness: A review of policies in China and a call for further action	3
Unemployed and then? The role of non‐standard employment in labour market trajectories after unemployment	3
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Social investment agenda setting: A personal note	3
Cultural–legal brokering and gender: A study of refugee‐serving institutions upon resettlement	3
Editorial	3
Success in agenda setting through failure in policymaking: Exploring a new policy venue in the Polish European Semester 2012–2022	3
New configurations of labour insertion processes. The case of secondary technical and vocational education and training students in Chile	3
Bureaucratic sludge: Bureaucratic tasks and procedures leading to experiences of strain	3
Evaluating socio‐economic resilience interventions among out‐of‐school adolescent girls and young women in rural Central Uganda: A quasi‐experimental approach	3
Sustainability and inequality of Taiwan's National Pension Insurance	3
The rise of artificial intelligence, the fall of human wellbeing?	3
Editorial	3
The efficacy and efficiency of public transfer programmes on the poverty of the older population in South Korea	3
Issue Information	3
Job demands‐control, job support, and depressive symptoms: Unraveling job support's moderating mechanism among social workers in China	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
“Every day is a disaster”: Climate vulnerabilities and disaster subculture of jjokbang‐chon in Seoul, Korea and its implications for social work	3
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
Welfare state dissatisfaction and support for major welfare reform: Towards means‐tested welfare or a universal basic income?	2
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The importance of belonging: Interactions between individual and structural risk factors for youth‐disengagement	2
The role of social transfers in reducing the poverty risk for larger families in the European Union	2
Effective local governance assisting vulnerable groups: The case of youth not in employment, education or training (NEETs) in Sweden	2
One ‘welfare recipient’ stereotype or many? Using the stereotype content model to examine the stereotypes of different categories of benefit recipients	2
Three dimensions of long‐term care provision in middle‐income countries—A view across Africa, Latin America and Asia	2
Loans for welfare benefit recipients: Evidence from the Sample of Integrated Welfare Benefit Biographies (SIG) 2007–2020	2
Poverty in Europe: How long‐term poverty developed following the financial crisis and what drives it	2
Administrative burden in older adults: A look at SNAP	2
Generosity of old‐age pensions for the self‐employed—A typology of European welfare states	2
COVID‐19 and support for basic income in Korea	2
Unpacking vulnerability among migrant minors in the EU: A case study of vulnerability among migrant minors in Spain	2
Disability policies in South Africa and Sweden: A critical policy analysis from a social work perspective	2
A scoping review of barriers to education faced by migrant minors in Türkiye	2
Changing attitudes towards government responsibility for social welfare in China between 2004 and 2014: Evidence from three national surveys	2
Poor labour market prospects due to intensive caregiving? Childcare and eldercare among welfare recipients in Germany	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
Who spends more to combat COVID‐19 social risks and why?	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
How large families fare in Germany: Examining child poverty risks and policy solutions	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
A quartered typology of welfare attitudes: Evidence from the World Values Survey Wave 7	2
Ukraine's poor majority: Exploring the driving factors of subjective poverty	2
It's the middle that matters? Income group coalitions in support of redistributive welfare reform	2
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Improving employability? Individual placement and support for the long‐term unemployed and individuals with developmental disabilities in Finland	2
Editorial	2
Editorial	2
Women's welfare attitudes in South Korea	2
The perceived fair duration of unemployment benefits for older workers. The role of lifetime achievements in the labour market	2
From altruism to sociality: A switch in perception	1
Editorial	1
Decent old‐age incomes for all? A microdata analysis of poverty among older adults in the Netherlands	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
Support for an EU‐wide social policy? A country‐comparative analysis of unemployment perceptions	1
Better job prospects or an imperative to ‘just work’? A cross‐national study on social investment and women's employment	1
The role of volunteer guardians as a key actor in providing social protection for unaccompanied minors in Italy	1
Automation and segmentation: Downgrading employment quality among the former “insiders” of Western European labour markets	1
From national activation legislation to local practices in Norway—Why the same law gives diverse practices	1
Emotional creaming: Street‐level bureaucrats’ prioritisation of migrant clients ‘likely to succeed’ in labour market integration	1
Perceived burdens of interacting with public authorities: How does it influence citizens' state‐encounter behavior?	1
Issue Information	1
The large family penalty in Italy: Poverty and eligibility to minimum incomes	1
Do individualised projects help integrate the long‐term unemployed and disadvantaged people? Lessons from the Czech Republic	1
Home as a risk environment: Negotiating the boundaries of homes and social relationships in services for people using illicit drugs	1
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
Patterns and determinants of multidimensional poverty and welfare interventions: Towards evidence‐based poverty‐alleviation policies in Hong Kong	1
Social perceptions and representations of unaccompanied foreign minors on social media	1
Dialogues or polemics: Social science expertise and welfare reform in Quebec	1
Careless hospitality: Family reunification in Ireland involving children and young people of international protection background	1
The prospects of judicial social work for incapacitated older adults: Evidence on how Chinese social workers may contribute	1
Ecosocial work among social welfare professionals in Finland: Key learnings for future practice	1
Social work in space: Expanding policy and practice into the cosmos	1
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Measuring public‐private‐substitution after divorce: Ex‐spouse income and the effect of marital separation on social assistance take‐up	1
Special issue of International Journal of Social Welfare: Integrating young people in the labour market, integrating methodologies	1
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
Issue Information	1
Stabilise, balance and adjust—Framing the early years transitions of children whose parents work non‐standard hours	1
Developments in China’s governance of its aging society: Evidence from aging policies between 1982 and 2017	1