OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Qualitative Social Work 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
Indigenous social work: Knowing, being and doing	42
Book Review: Social Work Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: A Methodological Approach for Practice and Research	22
Relationality and online interpersonal research: Ethical, methodological and pragmatic extensions	15
Delivering community-based social work: The role of participatory action research in supporting community harm prevention in rural Cambodia	12
Using conversation analysis to develop reflective practice in social work	12
Drawing out the relationship: An art-informed study of collaboration between social workers and other professionals in the child protection multi-disciplinary process	12
Book Review: Broken: Women’s stories of intimate and institutional harm and repair LaranceLisa Young. Broken: Women’s Stories of Intimate and Institutional Harm and Repair. Oakland, CA: University of	12
Putting the auto in ethnography: The embodied process of reflexivity on positionality	12
Speaking the unspeakable: An autoethnography exploring unintended sexism in important personal relationships	11
Thematic analysis: A practical guide	11
Timelines, convoy circles, and ecomaps: Positing diagramming as a salient tool for qualitative data collection in research with forced migrants	11
In this issue …	10
Creating space for dialogue: Exploring what matters for children on St Helena Island through The World Café	8
The mighty abstract: An overlooked element of peer review	8
Exploring Indigenous adoptees’ stories of reconnection after adoption through the lens of the Indigenous connectedness framework	8
Using vignettes to compare the views of social workers and service-users: Some findings and reflections regarding assessments in child welfare	8
Following a thread: A commentary on Jane Gilgun’s transformative intellectual legacy	8
“You come up from the ashes, and you’re like a phoenix.” Survivors of sex trafficking define resilience	8
Ara Wairua: Developing and utilising a Māori cultural analysis tool for research	8
In this issue …	7
Navigating survivorhood? Lived experiences of social support-seeking among LGBTQ survivors of intimate partner violence	7
Book Essay: Time	7
Exploring the use of focused ethnography in social work research: A scoping review	7
Co-producing a social workable matter: Topics and collaborating in social work encounters	7
A dialogical talk about power and partnership in participatory action research in social work	7

Reflections on social work education during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of faculty members and lessons moving forward	7
Book Review: Radical Hope: Poverty-Aware Practice for Social Work	7
“The trauma of system failure:” The Interactional Process affecting MSW intern trauma exposure response	7
Reviewer list	7
Professional engagement: A comprehensive understanding of social work intervention for juvenile offenders	7
Understanding social justice in a changing sociopolitical context: The perspective of social workers in Hong Kong	6
Book review: Photovoice for social justice: Visual representation in action	6
In this issue	6
Governing failed neoliberal subjects: Representations of women’s mental health in Australian mental health policies	6
Collaborative autoethnography as a Tool for Research–Practice partnerships: Facilitating Self and School Transformation	6
New York Newsboys: Charles Loring Brace and the Founding of the Children’s Aid Society	6
Between plans and realities: Reflecting on experiences of participatory research in archiving residential Children’s homes in Scotland and Germany	6
Creating a family centre by categorising clients in a steering group meeting interaction	6
In this issue…	5
Day-break or groundhog day?: Pūao-te-Ata-tū and institutional racism in social service provision in Aotearoa New Zealand	5
Breastfeeding, social work and the rights of infants who have been removed	5
Worker collectivity in child welfare: Mobilising action and commitment through team meetings	5
Thanks to reviewers	5
Sweden’s front-line: an ethnographic approach to understanding child protection decisions	5
‘I just want you to listen’: People who have experienced suicidal ideation/attempts talk about what they want from their crisis teams	5
Experiences, life changes, and support systems of recovered COVID-19 patients from practitioners’ perspectives: A qualitative study	5
In this issue…A reader’s positionality	5
Navigating the dynamics of trust, rapport and power while conducting social health research with people in prison	5
Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research	5
Navigating multiple identities in the American workplace: Microaggression and the caribbean diaspora	5
Enabling collaboration through co-design: Insights from child protection and domestic and family violence practice	4
Musings on a poetic puzzlement: Norman K. Denzin and T.S. Eliot	4
Indigenous community level strengths for the promotion of wellbeing	4
Decolonization and qualitative epistemology: Toward reconciliation in the academy	4
Using text-based vignettes in qualitative social work research	4
A 40 year (contextualized) social work journey	4
Qualitative examination of homecoming experiences among active-duty military fathers during reintegration	4
Doing “ethics work” in practice: An analysis of care managers’ collegial discussions concerning reluctant clients	4
Eliciting third person perspectives in social work case discussions: A device for reflective supervision?	4
Clients’ and social workers’ stories about discretion in social work with persons with disabilities	4
Children’s agency when experiencing family-related adversities: The negotiation of closeness and distance in children’s personal narratives	3
Giving voice by doing with not doing through: Collaborating with tactile sign language interpreters in interpretative phenomenological analysis research involving older deafblind people	3
Te Wāhi Whangai methodology: A nurturing space for storytelling, achievement and research	3
Towards anti-colonial approaches in social work: Enhancing culturally safe HIV care for Indigenous communities in Manitoba and Saskatchewan	3
Poverty metaphors: An autoethnography in three parts	3
A method worth telling: Using story completion to understand social work responses to discriminatory abuse	3
The power of the Birkenstocks: Critical social work and the Denzin a/effect	3
“Conscious compassion”: A co-created poetic representation of social workers’ experiences with compassion	3
Learning self-compassion through social connection at work: The experiences of healthcare professionals in a 6-week intervention	3
Age logics in social work: The case of harm reduction for people over the age of 50 with long-term substance use problems residing in wet eldercare facilities in Sweden	3
“The doctors have more questions for us”: Geographic differences in healthcare access and health literacy among transgender and nonbinary communities	3
Innovative technology-enhanced social work service during COVID-19: How ‘Garden on the Balcony’ promoted resilience, community bonds and a green lifestyle	3
COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and Indigenous knowledges informing the future of social work	3
An introduction to conversation analysis in social work research	3
Now you see them, now you don’t: Professional recognition of specialist professionals working with Deaf British Sign Language parents in child safeguarding	3

Meanings and expressions of co-responsibility: A small qualitative study based on the reflections from Chilean social workers involved in public-private child welfare	3
The power of relationship-based supervision in supporting social work retention: A case study from long-term ethnographic research in child protection	3
Student stories of resilience after campus sexual assault	3
Black Deaf feminist methodology: The methodological complexities of conducting research with Black Deaf women using intersectionality and critical race grounded theories	3
‘If we weren’t reflecting, we would be like robots’: The case for thinking aloud in social work supervision	3
The power and potential of space and place in family group conferencing: Reimagining the role of the venue in child protection practice	3
In this issue… ethics, lived experience, and practice innovations in social work	3
Traditional wellness therapy	3
Japanese parents’ experiences supporting their school-aged children’s acculturation to the U.S.	3
Geographic interviews: A qualitative geographic information systems (QGIS) method for understanding person-in-environment	2
Jane the evangelist versus fire-breathing dragons: Dueling discourses on sexuality, a tribute to the work of Norman K. Denzin	2
In this issue…	2
Strengthening the relationships between different parties: Boundary-spanning competencies in hospital social work	2
Stress and trauma among police officers: Implications for social work research and practice	2
“You have to continue doing the work”: Black women essential workers coping amidst the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racism	2
Experiences of baby removal prevention: A collective case study of mothers and community-based workers	2
Late colonial social work practice	2
Using the talking album to elicit the views of young children in foster care regarding a reading intervention	2
Whiteness in our understanding of culture: A critical discourse analysis of the cultural responsivity practice frameworks in child protection	2
In this issue…	2
‘It was kinda like D.I.Y closure’. Using Photovoice to capture the experiences of final year social work students graduating amidst the pandemic	2
(How) are decisions made in child and family social work supervisions?	2
Career interview	2
“I Don’t Know What World I Live in Anymore”: Social work student narratives of the COVID-19 pandemic	2
In this issue	2
Understanding the mental health needs of mothers who have had children removed through the family court: A call for action	2
Talking about family with children in care proceedings: Constructions of “family” in an analysis of spokespersons’ accounts	2
Recognising child protection social workers’ shifting professional identity after becoming a parent: An insider perspective	2
‘I know how it sounds on paper’ risk talk, the use of documents and epistemic justice in child protection assessment home visits	2
Nowhere to turn: A Black feminist autoethnography of interpersonal violence	2
Contributing to indigenous social work practice in Africa: A look at the cultural conceptualisations of social problems in Ghana	2
Using theory – To predict outcomes, describe, analyse or interpret? A framework for analysing the use of theories	2
Meanings of parenting and dis/ability for mothers and fathers with intellectual disabilities in the context of social work in Austria: Potentials of deconstruction for shifts in meaning	2
Assessing deaf parents in safeguarding and child protection processes: Deaf experts’ experience of routine social work practice	2
An Indigenous scholar’s journey towards decolonizing social work	2
Body mapping as a site to negotiate eating struggles and food insecurity for street-involved and homeless youth	2
Book Review: How to write a phenomenological dissertation: A step-by-step guide	2
Engaging youth as co-researchers in virtual qualitative mental health research: Practical guidelines and recommendations	1
Needs of Children With Incarcerated Parents in Their Own Voice	1
Book Review: How Social Workers Assess and Manage Risk and Uncertainty	1
Performance ethnography as a method for the critical investigation of direct social work practice	1
Rethinking comorbidity: A case study of syndemic risk, eating disorders, and suicidal behaviors in adolescent girls of color	1
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine	1
Social work and the idea of object	1
Norman Denzin and autoethnography	1
Navigating uncertainty	1
Mental health struggles of social work students: Distress, stigma, and perseverance	1
What do young women want? Using a qualitative survey to explore the potential for feminist-informed mental health peer support	1
Interpretative phenomenological analysis and social work: Hailing its development in the field	1
Rethinking qualitative social work: From Latin American reconceptualization to a Denzinian-inspired approach	1
The AltaVoces project: A digital narrative approach to anti-oppressive social work research with Latino youth	1
Arts-based research with immigrant and racialized older adults: A scoping review	1
The body as a site of knowledge: Tacit and embodied narratives of child sexual abuse	1
Enhancing child safety and well-being in the northern territory: Bridging gaps in support services and strengthening community engagement	1
Still waters run deep: The invisible life of working mothers with disabilities in Lithuania	1
People with disabilities’ envisions of structural disability social work in the hoped-for future	1
Being, becoming, belonging: Negotiating temporality, memory and identity in life story conversations with care-experienced children and young people	1
‘Like the boy who cried wolf’: The tensions of hospitality and role of deconstruction in dyadic discursive therapy interactions with children and their caregivers	1
What does it mean to ‘start where the person is at’?: Reflections on personhood in social work	1
In this issue…	1
Member checking: A brief metalogue of a career interview	1
‘I like checking in on myself’: Control group experiences in a strengths-based addiction recovery study, with implications for self-monitoring and measurement reactivity	1
“He went from being a monster to a person:” Using narrative analysis to explore how victim-offender dialogue (VOD) participants transform through the VOD process	1
Embodying place: Embodied geographic methods as a method-in-development	1
The value of sourcing social work journals for critical discourse analysis	1
Participatory research with women in the perinatal period: Considerations for reflexive, community-oriented and power-sensitive research practices	1
Navigating grief and pregnancy loss through online story telling	1
How conversations can empower and involve: Building the evidence for Approved Mental Health Professionals’ communicative practices	1
“To be faithful to ourselves, we pay a price”: Jane F. Gilgun’s journey as a feminist qualitative social work practice researcher	1
In this issue…Onward!	1
‘They would rather not have known and me kept my mouth shut’: The role of neutralisation in responding to the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse	1
In this issue …	1
Shuggie Bain	1
Making excuses and making sense: The role and nuances of active listening in eliciting and managing accounts of sexual violations	1
A journey towards resurgence: Reflections from a graduate of the master of social work based in Indigenous knowledges program	1
In this issue …	1