OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Social Welfare 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
Practising professionalism in activation work: Developing and testing a questionnaire	19
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	16
Challenging scalar fallacy in state‐wide welfare studies: AUKsub‐state comparison of civil society approaches to addressing youth unemployment	13
Improving employability? Individual placement and support for the long‐term unemployed and individuals with developmental disabilities in Finland	12
Chinese older adults' personal–family life balance and its associations with social networks: The moderating role of internet use	11
Editorial	10
Issue Information	10
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	10
Issue Information	9
Self‐initiated moves during the formal eviction process: Findings from Swedish Register Data	9
Intergenerational solidarity in a developing welfare state: The case of South Korea	8
Work–family and family–work conflict and negative attitudes toward having children: A multilevel cross‐national analysis	8
Bureaucratic sludge: Bureaucratic tasks and procedures leading to experiences of strain	7
Home as a risk environment: Negotiating the boundaries of homes and social relationships in services for people using illicit drugs	6
Alleviating administrative burden through digitalization and redesign: A laboratory experiment on student financial aid in Germany	6
Family policies, social norms and marital fertility decisions: A quasi‐experimental study	6
Editorial	6
Poverty and public works: Evidence from Hungary	6
Making sense of reablement within different institutional contexts. Collaborative service ideals in Norwegian and Danish home care	5
Revisiting auxiliary social services for persons with disability: The Philippines case	5
Measuring public‐private‐substitution after divorce: Ex‐spouse income and the effect of marital separation on social assistance take‐up	5
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Who spends more to combat COVID‐19 social risks and why?	4
Special issue of International Journal of Social Welfare: Integrating young people in the labour market, integrating methodologies	4
One ‘welfare recipient’ stereotype or many? Using the stereotype content model to examine the stereotypes of different categories of benefit recipients	4

Cost‐effectiveness of a ‘Housing First’ programme implemented in Spain: An evaluation based on a randomised controlled trial	4
The perceived fair duration of unemployment benefits for older workers. The role of lifetime achievements in the labour market	4
Poor labour market prospects due to intensive caregiving? Childcare and eldercare among welfare recipients in Germany	4
The role of social transfers in mitigating families with children from the economic impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
From welfare to work: The health and material well‐being effects of long‐term employment subsidies in Germany	4
Satisfaction with social care in the UK: Assessing the interactive effects of age and ideology	4
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Distinguishing characteristics of out‐of‐school adolescents in South Korea: A machine learning approach	3
Precarious welfare‐to‐work transitions in a segmented labour market: Evidence from the Netherlands	3
Long maternal working hours were linked to obesity, underweight and stunting in children under age 5 in China	3
How culture influences the strengthening of market principles in conservative welfare states: The case of long‐term care policy	3
The role of experts in forming family policy under an adversarial subsystem in the Czech Republic	3
Dimensions of controversy: Investigating the structure of public support for universal basic income in the Netherlands	3
Three dimensions of long‐term care provision in middle‐income countries—A view across Africa, Latin America and Asia	3
Large and/or single‐parent families: Public attitudes towards pronatalist and anti‐poverty family policies in Hungary	3
Role conflict, role ambiguity, and depressive symptoms: The moderating effects of job autonomy among social workers in China	3
The prospects of judicial social work for incapacitated older adults: Evidence on how Chinese social workers may contribute	3
Evaluating socio‐economic resilience interventions among out‐of‐school adolescent girls and young women in rural Central Uganda: A quasi‐experimental approach	3
A six‐year longitudinal study of parenting and depressive symptoms among Taiwanese adolescents	3
Psychophysical burden and lack of support: Reasons for care workers’ intentions to leave their work in the Nordic countries	3
Effective local governance assisting vulnerable groups: The case of youth not in employment, education or training (NEETs) in Sweden	3
From self‐care to compassion resilience: Extending the model of protective factors for humanitarian practitioners	3
Associations between HIV stigma and social support for people living with HIV in Hyderabad, India	3
The impact of tax reforms on human development index: Literature review approach	3
Do childcare policies and schedule control enhance variable time workers' work–life balance? A gender analysis across European countries	3
A behavioural livelihoods approach to address psychosocial constraints to empowerment	3
Special Issue on the Challenges for family and child well‐being in the new era	3
A journey into the new employment service landscape of responsibilisation: Towards de‐personalisation of the caseworker–jobseeker relationship	3
Security or autonomy? A comparative analysis of work values and labor market policies in different European welfare states	3
Editorial	2
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‘Radical Hope’ offers Poverty‐Aware Practice beyond social work	2
Do cash transfer programs have different effects on children based on household disability status? Evidence from Malawi and Zambia	2
Large families and poverty in Austria: What explains their disproportionate risk of experiencing income poverty?	2
Shared residence and social security policy: A comparative analysis from 13 countries	2
Welfare conditionality in Latin America's conditional cash transfers: Models and trends	2
Comparison of intergenerational income mobility in South Korea and the United States: Period changes between 1980‒1995 and 1996‒2015	2
Editorial	2
New configurations of labour insertion processes. The case of secondary technical and vocational education and training students in Chile	2
Putting experts in their place: Achieving policy impact as an outsider‐academic in civil service reforms in Slovakia	2
Targeting social welfare for people with severe mental illness: A review of policies in China and a call for further action	2
The impact of labor market reforms on firm training for nonregular and regular workers	2
Generosity's double‐edged sword: Unmasking the impact of raised social assistance rates in Norway	2
Exploring care leavers' agency in achieving entry into the world of work: A cross‐national study in six countries	2
Editorial	2
Issue Information	2
Exploring how international social workers perceive culturally relevant practices: A case study of Japanese social workers’ experiences in other Asian countries	2
A scoping review of parental migration and left‐behind children's well‐being in China	2
The family structural and socioeconomic characteristics of the family well‐being of Hong Kong people	2

The role of social transfers in reducing the poverty risk for larger families in the European Union	2
The large family penalty in Italy: Poverty and eligibility to minimum incomes	2
Social safety net features in East Asia: A comparative analysis using the model family approach	2
Ecosocial work among social welfare professionals in Finland: Key learnings for future practice	2