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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Using conversation analysis to develop reflective practice in social work	84
Relationality and online interpersonal research: Ethical, methodological and pragmatic extensions	27
Indigenous social work: Knowing, being and doing	19
Oscillations, boundaries and ethical care: Social work practitioner-researcher experiences with qualitative end-of-life care research	19
“It’s my life they are talking about” – On children’s participation in decision-making for secure placement	11
Delivering community-based social work: The role of participatory action research in supporting community harm prevention in rural Cambodia	11
Putting the auto in ethnography: The embodied process of reflexivity on positionality	11
Book Review: Social Work Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: A Methodological Approach for Practice and Research	11
Creating space for dialogue: Exploring what matters for children on St Helena Island through The World Café	10
What's the problem with disaster? Anthropology, social work, and the qualitative slot	10
In this issue …	10
“You come up from the ashes, and you’re like a phoenix.” Survivors of sex trafficking define resilience	10
Speaking the unspeakable: An autoethnography exploring unintended sexism in important personal relationships	9
Timelines, convoy circles, and ecomaps: Positing diagramming as a salient tool for qualitative data collection in research with forced migrants	9
Using vignettes to compare the views of social workers and service-users: Some findings and reflections regarding assessments in child welfare	9
The mighty abstract: An overlooked element of peer review	8
Thematic analysis: A practical guide	8
Exploring the use of focused ethnography in social work research: A scoping review	7
Ara Wairua: Developing and utilising a Māori cultural analysis tool for research	7
Co-producing a social workable matter: Topics and collaborating in social work encounters	7
Exploring Indigenous adoptees’ stories of reconnection after adoption through the lens of the Indigenous connectedness framework	7
Navigating survivorhood? Lived experiences of social support-seeking among LGBTQ survivors of intimate partner violence	7
Book Review: Radical Hope: Poverty-Aware Practice for Social Work	7
Following a thread: A commentary on Jane Gilgun’s transformative intellectual legacy	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	7

In this issue …	7
Thanks to reviewers	6
Book Essay: Time	6
Fragile minds, porous selves: Shining a light on autoethnography of mental illness	6
Research with children in rural China: Reflecting on the process	6
Understanding social justice in a changing sociopolitical context: The perspective of social workers in Hong Kong	6
Professional engagement: A comprehensive understanding of social work intervention for juvenile offenders	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
Reviewer list	5
Book review: Photovoice for social justice: Visual representation in action	5
Governing failed neoliberal subjects: Representations of women’s mental health in Australian mental health policies	5
Sweden’s front-line: an ethnographic approach to understanding child protection decisions	5
Thanks to reviewers	5
In this issue … insights and understandings	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
Creating a family centre by categorising clients in a steering group meeting interaction	5
In this issue…	5
Giving up the ghost: Findings on fathers and social work from a study of pre-birth child protection	5
Victims, perpetrators, scapegoats and Russian dolls: Narrating violence within secure units for adolescents from a staff perspective	5
New York Newsboys: Charles Loring Brace and the Founding of the Children’s Aid Society	5
Collaborative autoethnography as a Tool for Research–Practice partnerships: Facilitating Self and School Transformation	5
‘I just want you to listen’: People who have experienced suicidal ideation/attempts talk about what they want from their crisis teams	5
In this issue…A reader’s positionality	5
Day-break or groundhog day?: Pūao-te-Ata-tū and institutional racism in social service provision in Aotearoa New Zealand	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
Using text-based vignettes in qualitative social work research	4
Clients’ and social workers’ stories about discretion in social work with persons with disabilities	4
Breastfeeding, social work and the rights of infants who have been removed	4
Older adults’ experiences of being at a senior summer camp—A phenomenographic study	4
Navigating the dynamics of trust, rapport and power while conducting social health research with people in prison	4
Experiences, life changes, and support systems of recovered COVID-19 patients from practitioners’ perspectives: A qualitative study	4
Enabling collaboration through co-design: Insights from child protection and domestic and family violence practice	4
Decolonization and qualitative epistemology: Toward reconciliation in the academy	4
Worker collectivity in child welfare: Mobilising action and commitment through team meetings	4
Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research	4
Managing role expectations and emotions in encounters with extremism: Norwegian social workers’ experiences	4
Doing “ethics work” in practice: An analysis of care managers’ collegial discussions concerning reluctant clients	4
A 40 year (contextualized) social work journey	4
Navigating multiple identities in the American workplace: Microaggression and the caribbean diaspora	4
An introduction to conversation analysis in social work research	3
Indigenous community level strengths for the promotion of wellbeing	3
A method worth telling: Using story completion to understand social work responses to discriminatory abuse	3
Towards anti-colonial approaches in social work: Enhancing culturally safe HIV care for Indigenous communities in Manitoba and Saskatchewan	3
The power of relationship-based supervision in supporting social work retention: A case study from long-term ethnographic research in child protection	3
Building research capacity in hospital-based social workers: A participatory action research approach	3
Japanese parents’ experiences supporting their school-aged children’s acculturation to the U.S.	3
Poverty metaphors: An autoethnography in three parts	3
Eliciting third person perspectives in social work case discussions: A device for reflective supervision?	3

Using auto-ethnography to bring visibility to coloniality	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
‘If we weren’t reflecting, we would be like robots’: The case for thinking aloud in social work supervision	3
Traditional wellness therapy	3
“Conscious compassion”: A co-created poetic representation of social workers’ experiences with compassion	3
Thoughts on files	3
The power of the Birkenstocks: Critical social work and the Denzin a/effect	3
Towards a critical decision-making ecology approach for child protection research	3
The power and potential of space and place in family group conferencing: Reimagining the role of the venue in child protection practice	3
Qualitative examination of homecoming experiences among active-duty military fathers during reintegration	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
Audit culture, accountability, and care: A phenomenological anthropology of child welfare	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
Black Deaf feminist methodology: The methodological complexities of conducting research with Black Deaf women using intersectionality and critical race grounded theories	3