OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Qualitative Social Work is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Relationality and online interpersonal research: Ethical, methodological and pragmatic extensions	32
Oscillations, boundaries and ethical care: Social work practitioner-researcher experiences with qualitative end-of-life care research	21
Using conversation analysis to develop reflective practice in social work	13
Indigenous social work: Knowing, being and doing	12
Delivering community-based social work: The role of participatory action research in supporting community harm prevention in rural Cambodia	11
Book Review: Social Work Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: A Methodological Approach for Practice and Research	11
“It’s my life they are talking about” – On children’s participation in decision-making for secure placement	11
Putting the auto in ethnography: The embodied process of reflexivity on positionality	11
What's the problem with disaster? Anthropology, social work, and the qualitative slot	10
“You come up from the ashes, and you’re like a phoenix.” Survivors of sex trafficking define resilience	10
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	10
Creating space for dialogue: Exploring what matters for children on St Helena Island through The World Café	10
Speaking the unspeakable: An autoethnography exploring unintended sexism in important personal relationships	9
In this issue …	9
Thematic analysis: A practical guide	8
The mighty abstract: An overlooked element of peer review	8
Timelines, convoy circles, and ecomaps: Positing diagramming as a salient tool for qualitative data collection in research with forced migrants	8
Exploring Indigenous adoptees’ stories of reconnection after adoption through the lens of the Indigenous connectedness framework	7
Co-producing a social workable matter: Topics and collaborating in social work encounters	7
Following a thread: A commentary on Jane Gilgun’s transformative intellectual legacy	7
Exploring the use of focused ethnography in social work research: A scoping review	7
Fragile minds, porous selves: Shining a light on autoethnography of mental illness	7
Ara Wairua: Developing and utilising a Māori cultural analysis tool for research	7
In this issue …	7
Book Review: Radical Hope: Poverty-Aware Practice for Social Work	7

Using vignettes to compare the views of social workers and service-users: Some findings and reflections regarding assessments in child welfare	7
“Some days it’s like she has died.” A qualitative exploration of first mothers’ utilisation of artefacts associated with now-adopted children in coping with grief and loss	6
Professional engagement: A comprehensive understanding of social work intervention for juvenile offenders	6
Book Essay: Time	6
Reviewer list	6
Navigating survivorhood? Lived experiences of social support-seeking among LGBTQ survivors of intimate partner violence	6
Thanks to reviewers	6
New York Newsboys: Charles Loring Brace and the Founding of the Children’s Aid Society	6
Reflections on social work education during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of faculty members and lessons moving forward	6
“The trauma of system failure:” The Interactional Process affecting MSW intern trauma exposure response	6
Understanding social justice in a changing sociopolitical context: The perspective of social workers in Hong Kong	6
Victims, perpetrators, scapegoats and Russian dolls: Narrating violence within secure units for adolescents from a staff perspective	6
Governing failed neoliberal subjects: Representations of women’s mental health in Australian mental health policies	5
Collaborative autoethnography as a Tool for Research–Practice partnerships: Facilitating Self and School Transformation	5
In this issue…A reader’s positionality	5
Between plans and realities: Reflecting on experiences of participatory research in archiving residential Children’s homes in Scotland and Germany	5
In this issue	5
Thanks to reviewers	5
Book review: Photovoice for social justice: Visual representation in action	5
In this issue…	5
Creating a family centre by categorising clients in a steering group meeting interaction	5
A 40 year (contextualized) social work journey	4
Qualitative examination of homecoming experiences among active-duty military fathers during reintegration	4
Towards a critical decision-making ecology approach for child protection research	4
Navigating multiple identities in the American workplace: Microaggression and the caribbean diaspora	4
‘I just want you to listen’: People who have experienced suicidal ideation/attempts talk about what they want from their crisis teams	4
Sweden’s front-line: an ethnographic approach to understanding child protection decisions	4
Navigating the dynamics of trust, rapport and power while conducting social health research with people in prison	4
Breastfeeding, social work and the rights of infants who have been removed	4
Using auto-ethnography to bring visibility to coloniality	4
Clients’ and social workers’ stories about discretion in social work with persons with disabilities	4
The power of the Birkenstocks: Critical social work and the Denzin a/effect	4
‘Look out you rock’n’rollers, pretty soon now you’re gonna get older’: A unique study of ‘Boys to Men’ over half a century	4
Worker collectivity in child welfare: Mobilising action and commitment through team meetings	4
Managing role expectations and emotions in encounters with extremism: Norwegian social workers’ experiences	4
Using text-based vignettes in qualitative social work research	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
Indigenous community level strengths for the promotion of wellbeing	4
Enabling collaboration through co-design: Insights from child protection and domestic and family violence practice	4
Experiences, life changes, and support systems of recovered COVID-19 patients from practitioners’ perspectives: A qualitative study	4
Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research	4
Day-break or groundhog day?: Pūao-te-Ata-tū and institutional racism in social service provision in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Older adults’ experiences of being at a senior summer camp—A phenomenographic study	4
Decolonization and qualitative epistemology: Toward reconciliation in the academy	4