OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Social Work 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Working conditions and wellbeing in UK social workers	22
Black social workers: Identity, racism, invisibility/hypervisibility at work	15
The tension between managerial and critical professional discourses in social work	12
Secondary traumatic stress and vicarious post-traumatic growth among social workers who have worked with abused children	12
The Impact of COVID-19 on Social Workers: An Assessment of Peritraumatic Distress	12
Social work involvement in the COVID-19 response in China: Interdisciplinary remote networking	11
Social workers’ constructions of child risk and protection in the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community	11
Barriers to knowledge acquisition and utilisation in child welfare decisions: A qualitative study	10
Social service providers under COVID-19 duress: adaptation, burnout, and resilience	9
The impact of COVID-19 quarantine measures on the mental health of families	9
Impact of organisational practices on the relationships between young people with disabilities and paid social support workers	9
Psychological distress among social workers	8
Social work, emotion management and the transformation of the welfare state	8
Third place theory and social work: Considering collapsed places	7
Working conditions and well-being in UK social care and social work during COVID-19	7
Social work in sport: Playmakers in the athletic arena	7
Experiences of adult social work addressing self-neglect during the Covid-19 pandemic	7
Interrogating settler social work with indigenous persons in Canada	7
Loneliness, older people and a proposed social work response	7
Establishing core competencies, opportunities, roles and expertise for oncology social work	6
Empowerment theory and prison-based dog training programs	6
Evidence-based practice in social work: Who are the critics?	6
Overcoming non-take-up of rights: A realist evaluation of Integrated Rights-Practices	6
Societies’ hostility, anger and mistrust towards Migrants: A vicious circle	6
Public trust of social workers in Sweden: A repeated cross-sectional study	5

Involvement of parents of children with ADHD in schools: Implications for social work practice	5
Transnational social work: Challenging and crossing borders and boundaries	5
Challenges faced by informal caregivers of patients in a Nigerian hospital and implications for social work	5
Decision-making in foster care: A view on the dynamic and collective nature of the process	5
The impact of adolescent parentification on family relationship and civic engagement	5
Social workers and refugee service users (re)constructing their relationships in a hostile political climate	5
Social work and technology: Text mining three decades of scholarly literature (1985–2018)	5
Professional identity construction among social work agencies	5
Social workers’ construction of cultural competence in polarized cities	4
Service user violence against social workers in Italy: Prevalence and characteristics of the phenomenon	4
Social workers’ experiences in integrated health care during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Child protection investigations by private consultants or municipally employed social workers: What are the differences for children?	4
Using the capability approach in social work with unaccompanied young adult refugees	4
Luhmann's theory of psychic systems and communication in social work practice	4
Building knowledge for policy and practice based on service user and carer experiences: A case study of Scottish adult safeguarding research	4
Navigating helping relationships amidst heavy workloads: An institutional ethnography of social workers’ accounts	4
Beyond medicalized approaches to violence and trauma: Empowering social work practice	4
The effects of social, familial, and economic stress on social workers working with disabled individuals	4
Remembering love: Memory work of orphaned children in the Philippine drug war	4
Social workers’ use of critical reflection	4
Supporting social work field instructors: Empowerment as a strategy for preventing burnout	4
Social work indigenization in Mainland China: Towards a state-led decolonizing framework	4
The voices of parents and children in foster care	4
Social workers as state and citizen-agents. How social workers in a German, Dutch and Flemish public welfare organisation manage this dual responsibility in practice	4
Differences between adolescents in secure residential care and non-residential educational facilities	3
The influence of work-family conflict on social worker job satisfaction	3
Dimensions of social rehabilitation: A qualitative interpretive meta-synthesis	3
Israeli-Palestinian social work encounters	3
Once arrived: A qualitative study of refugees and service providers in the first six months of resettlement	3
Foster parent perspectives on necessary supports for youth and their families departing foster care	3
Mental health among the Hmong population in the U.S.: A systematic review of the influence of cultural and social factors	3
Choice, control and person-centredness in day centres for older people	3
An intersectional theoretical framework for exploring racialized older immigrant women’s subjectivities	3
Social workers’ views about children’s and parents’ competence in child protection decision-making	3
Core competencies in disaster management for social workers in China: A modified e-Delphi study	3
Child-focused practice in social services for adults in Norway	3
A multitheoretical perspective for addressing domestic and family violence: Supporting fathers to parent without harm	3
Unaccompanied minors’ needs and the child welfare response	3
A systematic review of technology-mediated social work practice: Benefits, uncertainties, and future directions	3
Effectiveness of empathy enhancement programs for social workers working with older adults: A quasi-experimental study	3
The social worker in community mental health teams: Findings from a national survey	3
Interprofessional dynamics that promote client empowerment in mental health practice: A social work perspective	3
Work-life balance, social support, and burnout: A quantitative study of social workers	2
A Fisher-eye lens on social work reform	2
Interrogating culture: Anthropology, social work, and the concept trade	2
Do implementation contexts for the Positive Parenting Program improve child and parental well-being?	2
Validating a model for indicating the professionalisation of social work in China	2
Perspectives of caregivers with child welfare involvement in a supportive housing program	2
The myth of spirituality	2
Indigenous mothers’ experiences of power and control in child welfare: Families being heard	2

Predictors of job burnout among fieldwork supervisors of social work students	2
Being a social worker in the unrecognized villages in Israel	2
A systematic review of parenting interventions used by social workers to support vulnerable children	2
Parenting in migration: Critical aspects and challenges of “doing family” of refugee families and social workers	2
Public perception of social workers as a source for providing help during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Vulnerability among older people ageing with deafblindness	2
Exploring empowerment of participants and peer workers in a self- managed homeless shelter	2
A Review of participant, agency, and community outcomes of non-familial intergenerational programs	2
Paradoxes, contradictions, and dilemmas: Reflections on the contours of a pandemic and its implications for social work education	2
Paper trails: Using letter writing to understand social isolation and poverty in a rural community	2
Parents with intellectual disability and their reflections about relationships and support	2
The attitudes of Vietnamese social work practitioners toward sexual minorities	2
A qualitative interpretive meta-synthesis of social workers’ experience in end-of-life care	2
Examining the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on social work in health care	2
Advances in social work practice: Understanding uncertainty and unpredictability of complex non-linear situations	2
The association among neighborhood mutual support, well-being, and social work	2