OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Qualitative Social Work is 3. 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
‘I’m going to take my power back and do whatever I can’: The self-efficacy of survivors of intimate partner strangulation and their engagement in research interviews	70
Body mapping as a site to negotiate eating struggles and food insecurity for street-involved and homeless youth	21
Older immigrant Latino gay men and childhood sexual abuse: Findings from the Palabras Fuertes project	17
Jane Fenton, Social work for lazy radicals: Relationship building, critical thinking and courage in practice	17
Experiences of secure transport in outdoor behavioral healthcare: A narrative inquiry	11
Delivering community-based social work: The role of participatory action research in supporting community harm prevention in rural Cambodia	11
What it means to be human, what it means to be hurt, and what it means to thrive	11
Book review: Breaking apart intimate partner violence and abuse	10
Temporary stays with housed family and friends among older adults experiencing homelessness: Qualitative findings from the HOPE HOME study	9
What does it mean to ‘start where the person is at’?: Reflections on personhood in social work	9
Understanding the mental health needs of mothers who have had children removed through the family court: A call for action	9
Social work and the idea of object	8
Relationality and online interpersonal research: Ethical, methodological and pragmatic extensions	8
Book review: Photovoice for social justice: Visual representation in action	7
Using the talking album to elicit the views of young children in foster care regarding a reading intervention	7
Using conversation analysis to develop reflective practice in social work	7
Giving up the ghost: Findings on fathers and social work from a study of pre-birth child protection	7
“The pain is real”: A [modified] photovoice exploration of disability, chronic pain, and chronic illness (in)visibility	7
Talking about family with children in care proceedings: Constructions of “family” in an analysis of spokespersons’ accounts	7
Enhancing child safety and well-being in the northern territory: Bridging gaps in support services and strengthening community engagement	7
From critical reflection to critical professional practice: Addressing the tensions between critical and hegemonic perspectives	7
“To be faithful to ourselves, we pay a price”: Jane F. Gilgun’s journey as a feminist qualitative social work practice researcher	7
Book Review: How to write a phenomenological dissertation: A step-by-step guide	7
Experiences of parents of autistic children who adopted a cat	6
Oscillations, boundaries and ethical care: Social work practitioner-researcher experiences with qualitative end-of-life care research	6

Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine	6
Being, becoming, belonging: Negotiating temporality, memory and identity in life story conversations with care-experienced children and young people	6
Collaborative autoethnography as a Tool for Research–Practice partnerships: Facilitating Self and School Transformation	6
“Conscious compassion”: A co-created poetic representation of social workers’ experiences with compassion	6
Persuasion in practice: Managing diverging stances in needs assessment meetings with older couples living with dementia	6
“It’s my life they are talking about” – On children’s participation in decision-making for secure placement	6
In this issue… Qualitative insights advancing inclusion and understanding	6
In this issue…Onward!	5
Domestic violence and abuse across the life course: Considerations for practice and research	5
Book Review: Social Work Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: A Methodological Approach for Practice and Research	5
‘A home to dream love into’ – An autoethnographic analysis of mothering with mental illness	5
In this issue	5
‘Like the boy who cried wolf’: The tensions of hospitality and role of deconstruction in dyadic discursive therapy interactions with children and their caregivers	5
Black Deaf feminist methodology: The methodological complexities of conducting research with Black Deaf women using intersectionality and critical race grounded theories	5
Latinx immigrants raising children in the land of the free: Parenting in the context of persecution and fear	5
In this issue … insights and understandings	5
Connecting in resettlement: An examination of social support among Congolese women in the United States	5
In this issue	5
Thinking boxes, behavioural boys and the politics of love: ‘Doing’ post-qualitative social work research	5
Reviewer list	5
Assessing deaf parents in safeguarding and child protection processes: Deaf experts’ experience of routine social work practice	5
Late colonial social work practice	5
Now you see them, now you don’t: Professional recognition of specialist professionals working with Deaf British Sign Language parents in child safeguarding	5
Thoughts on files	5
Indigenous social work: Knowing, being and doing	5
Stories of building friendships during long-term recovery from problematic substance use	5
A useful, clever bloke?	5
Traditional wellness therapy	4
Examining the role of lived experience consultants in an Australian research study on the educational experiences of children and young people in out-of-home care	4
Worker collectivity in child welfare: Mobilising action and commitment through team meetings	4
Situated knowledge-making in dynamic collaboration: A reflexive case study of social work practice research in mainland China	4
Day-break or groundhog day?: Pūao-te-Ata-tū and institutional racism in social service provision in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Putting the auto in ethnography: The embodied process of reflexivity on positionality	4
Arts-based research with immigrant and racialized older adults: A scoping review	4
Participatory research with women in the perinatal period: Considerations for reflexive, community-oriented and power-sensitive research practices	4
The value of sourcing social work journals for critical discourse analysis	4
The voices of Japanese and U.S. elementary-school aged children with disabilities: Navigating stigmatization within peer groups	4
Reflections on the thoughts of Norman Denzin: His connections to the once and future social work qualitative research	4
Somali parenting in Western contexts: Acculturative stressors and family strengths	4
In this issue… exploring identities, methodologies, and lived experiences in social work practice	4
Older adults’ experiences of being at a senior summer camp—A phenomenographic study	4
Moving on: Reflections on time well spent	3
Thanks to reviewers	3
Needs of Children With Incarcerated Parents in Their Own Voice	3
The power of relationship-based supervision in supporting social work retention: A case study from long-term ethnographic research in child protection	3
Creating space for dialogue: Exploring what matters for children on St Helena Island through The World Café	3
Participatory research in a pandemic: The impact of Covid-19 on co-designing research with autistic people	3
Messiness in international qualitative interviewing: What I did, what I didn’t do, and a little bit about why	3
Children’s agency when experiencing family-related adversities: The negotiation of closeness and distance in children’s personal narratives	3
Sweden’s front-line: an ethnographic approach to understanding child protection decisions	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
Navigating the dynamics of trust, rapport and power while conducting social health research with people in prison	3
‘I just want you to listen’: People who have experienced suicidal ideation/attempts talk about what they want from their crisis teams	3
Creating a family centre by categorising clients in a steering group meeting interaction	3
The struggle for social work professional identity in contemporary Zimbabwe: A study on abuse of the social work title	3
What's the problem with disaster? Anthropology, social work, and the qualitative slot	3
In this issue …	3
Building research capacity in hospital-based social workers: A participatory action research approach	3
Book Review: How Social Workers Assess and Manage Risk and Uncertainty	3
In this issue…with a note on context	3
Speaking the unspeakable: An autoethnography exploring unintended sexism in important personal relationships	3
Learning self-compassion through social connection at work: The experiences of healthcare professionals in a 6-week intervention	3
Honouring the artistry in qualitative social work research	3
Timelines, convoy circles, and ecomaps: Positing diagramming as a salient tool for qualitative data collection in research with forced migrants	3
Using vignettes to compare the views of social workers and service-users: Some findings and reflections regarding assessments in child welfare	3
“Do I understand you right then?”: (re)formulations of users’ initial problem descriptions in social services’ online chat	3
“You come up from the ashes, and you’re like a phoenix.” Survivors of sex trafficking define resilience	3