OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Policy and Society 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
Extra Care Housing: The Current State of Research and Prospects for the Future	42
SPS volume 24 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	28
Family Intervention Projects as Poverty-Alleviating Measures: Results from a Norwegian Cluster-Randomised Study	26
The Mixed Impact of Care Work on the Finances of Low-income Canadians: Insights from the Canadian Financial Diaries Research Project	25
SPS volume 21 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	22
Predicting Unpaid Care Work in India Using Random Forest: An Analysis of Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors	21
SPS volume 22 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	19
SPS volume 22 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	19
Beyond the Work Society? Social Policy and the Reduction of Working Time	17
Prostitution and Sex Work, Who Counts? Mapping Local Data to Inform Policy and Service Provision	15
Climate Crisis and Social Protection - From Worker Protection to Post-growth Transformation?	15
Covid-19 and the Crisis in Social Care: Exploring the Experiences of Disabled People in the Pandemic	15
The Social Practices of Food Bank Volunteer Work	14
Social Spending and Income Inequality in Latin America. A Panel Data Approach	13
List of Referees for 2023	12
Navigating the Australian Welfare System for Those Relying on Emergency and Community Food Assistance	12
“I’m Not Worthless, I Do Help Society”: Exploring the Lived Experience of Community Placement in Activation Schemes	11
Navigating the Contradictory Politics of being a Marginalised Migrant during Covid-19	11
Some Useful Sources	11
SPS volume 23 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	10
A Scoping Review on the Conceptualisation of Employer Engagement in the Employment of Vulnerable Workers: An Interdisciplinary Perspective	9
Taxation, Environmental Sustainability, and Distributive Outcomes: Balancing Behavioural Change and Fairness	9
Meeting Marginal Demands in New Welfare Governance? China’s Contracting of Welfare Services in the Sectors of Disability and HIV/AIDS	9
Linguistic Autonomy in a Monolingual Social Imaginary: Social Work Practitioners’ Sense-making of the Role of Language in Migrant ‘Integration’	9
Defamilisation, Familisation, Debates on Same Sex Marriage Issues in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan – An Introduction	9

SPS volume 23 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	8
Defamilisation, Familisation, and LGBTQ+ Studies	8
Colonial Aphasia and the Circuits of Whiteness in Inclusive and Anti-Racist Youth Social Policy	7
Does Performance Matter? The Influence of Attitudes Towards Welfare State Performance on Voting for Rightwing and Leftwing Populist Parties	7
The Conditionality of Trusting Caseworkers in the Social Services Sector – Insights from Germany and Denmark	7
SPS volume 21 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	7
Not Free at All: Home Care User Fees in a Nordic Care System	7
Taxation and Intergenerational Fairness: Exploring the Role of Inheritance Taxes with a Focus on Ireland	7
An Ontology of Social and Economic Reproduction: Modern Slavery, Housing, and Critical Realism	7
Workplace Factors Associated with Employment of Refugees – Evidence from a Survey Among Danish Employers	7
The Supply Side of Personalisation in Disability Policies in the Welfare Service System	7
Unequal and Gendered: Assessing the Impacts of Austerity Cuts on Public Service Users	7
Financial Exclusion in the UK: Evidence on Ethnicity	7
Breaking Up Is Risky Business: Personalisation and Collaboration in a Marketised Disability Sector	6
“They’re Not Thinking on the Same Side We Are”: Street-Level Activation of Parents under Universal Credit	6
Disability and Regulatory Approaches to Employer Engagement: Cross-National Challenges in Bridging the Gap between Motivation and Hiring Practice	6
SPS volume 21 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	6
Editors’ Notes: Towards the Centenary of the ‘Beveridge Report’: A Debate on the Welfare State for the Next Twenty Years	6
Varieties of Just Transition? Eco-Social Policy Approaches at the International Level	6
The Same Storm, but Different Boats: Unpicking the ‘Housing Crisis’	6
Understanding the Inflation and Social Policy Nexus	5
The Entrepreneurial Welfare Mix: The Case of Community-Based Old Age Services in China	5
The Cross-Regional Impact of Taiwan’s Same-Sex Marriage Legalisation: The Queer Economy of Welfare Mix	5
Ambivalent Internationalisation: Reviewing Literature on the Social Policy Context for International Students in the United Kingdom and Implications for Social Exclusion – CORRIGENDUM	5
Do Red-Flagged Clients Exit Social Assistance Earlier than Others? The Case of the Finnish Social Assistance System	5
Reconceptualising Youth Poverty through the Lens of Precarious Employment during the Pandemic: The Case of Creative Industry	5
The Problems with Troubled Families: Rethinking the Analysis Behind the 120,000 Troubled Families Statistic	4
More than Money? Job Quality and Food Insecurity among Employed Lone Mother Households in the United States	4
Introduction to Themed Section – Trust and Distrust in Social Welfare: The Perspective of Users	4
A Multi-Dimensional View of Stigma Experienced by Lone Parents in Irish Homeless and Employment Services	4
When Can Government Paternalist Interventions Be Justified? Welfare-to-Work and Interference Intentions	4
Enabling Participation Income for an Eco-Social State	4
Redistribution and the Tax System: A Social Policy Perspective	4
SPS volume 24 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	4
The Importance of Financial and Pension Literacy in Closing the Financial Advice Gap in the U.K.	4
SPS volume 24 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	4
Introduction: Towards a Sustainable Welfare State	4
People’s Contrasting Attitudes Towards Universal Basic Income in Sweden and South Korea	4
Social Security, Gender and Class: The impacts of the Universal Credit Conditionality Regime on Unpaid Care and Paid Work – CORRIGENDUM	4
Social Policy Responses to Covid-19 in the Global South: Evidence from 36 Countries	3
SPS volume 21 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
Explore the Mutual Benefits of Studying the Rights of Sexual Minority People in Hong Kong Confucianism	3
Government Contracting Services to Social Organisations in China: A Review of Research for Future Enquiry	3
The Role of Bureaucratic Procedures and ‘Caring Professionals’ in Fostering User Trust: Evidence from Serbia and the Czech Republic	3
Constructions of Unemployed Individuals in German Parliamentary Debates on Active Labour Market Policy Reforms: A Comparative Analysis of 2003 and 2016	3
Critical Human Security, State Capacity, and Policy Challenges in a Post-Covid-19 World: South Korea and the UK	3
Children as Linguistic Rights Holders in the Swedish Welfare System	3
Introduction: Personalisation and Collaboration: Dual Tensions in Individualised Funding Policy for Older and Disabled Persons	3
Efficiency of the Long-Term Care Sector in Poland based on an Activities of Daily Living evaluation	3
Welfare Users’ Perceptions of Distributive Justice and Trust When Facing Institutional Enigma	3

Governing the Family through Parental Responsibilisation and Professionalisation: An Analysis of the State ‘Family Education’ Discourses in Contemporary China	3
Vulnerability and Critical Human Security in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond in the UK and South Korea	3
Welfare Reform and Housing Insecurity: The Impact of Universal Credit Rollout on Demand for Rent Arrears and Homelessness Advice from Citizens Advice in England	3
What Can Welfare Stigma Do?	3
Transnational Private Actors Shaping the Policy and Practice of Child Institutionalisation	3
The Practical Politics of Doughnut Economics and Climate Crisis	3
Coping with Gendered Welfare Stigma: Exploring Everyday Accounts of Stigma and Resistance Strategies among Mothers Who Claim Social Security Benefits	2
A Hidden Cost: Estimating the Public Service Cost of Poverty in Ireland	2
Conceptualising Linguistic Disadvantage in the Context of Diversifying Welfare Institutions	2
Risk Governance, State Capacity, and Critical Human Security: Evolution of Risk Governance in Response to Systemic Risk in the UK and South Korea	2
SPS volume 22 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	2
Accessing early childcare: A study of administrative barriers in France	2
Administrative Literacy in the Digital Welfare State: Migrants Navigating Access to Public Services in Finland	2
Security, Social Policy, Agency and Work of the Courts in Relation to Ukrainian Internally Displaced Persons	2
Conceptualising the Relationship Between Formal and Informal Social Protection	2
Silent Elements of Policy Change: Inflation and Uprating Mechanisms in the Low Countries	2
SPS volume 22 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	2
Co-creating Value in the Scandinavian Welfare System: Matching Elderly Care in a Major Swedish Municipality	2
Mapping Shifts in Russian and European Welfare Polities: Explaining Policy Responses to Shared New Social Risks	2
How Have the Nordic Welfare States Responded to the Unexpected Increase in Inflation?	2
The Food Bank: A Safety-Net in Place of Welfare Security in Times of Austerity and the Covid-19 Crisis	2
Housing and Papering Over the Cracks of the Welfare State: Exploring the Role and Impact of Technology as Part of Housing Service Provision in an Era of Multi-level Precarity	2
Some Useful Sources	2
Some Useful Sources – CORRIGENDUM	2
Contracting Out Social Services in China’s Three First-Tier Cities: Exploring ‘Variation’ through the Eyes of NGO Practitioners	2
When Job Search is Deemed Insufficient: Experiences of Unemployed People Disbarred Following Compliancy Monitoring	2
Some Useful Sources	2
Informal Care Provision and the Reduction of Economic Activity Among Mid-Life Carers in Great Britain – A Mixed-Methods Approach – ERRATUM	2
Some Useful Sources	2
Introduction: Policies and Practices Shaping Long-Term Care: Between an Inclusivity Ethos and Service Delivery Realities	2
Ambivalent Internationalisation: Reviewing Literature on the Social Policy Context for International Students in the United Kingdom and Implications for Social Exclusion	2
Austerity, Ageism, and the Rhetoric of Self-reliance: The Policy Drivers and Socio-cultural Attitudes Contributing to the Loneliness Experienced by Older Residents in an Underprivileged Community in S	2
Addressing Water Poverty Under Climate Crisis: Implications for Social Policy	2
List of Referees for 2022	2
Trying to Reverse Demographic Decline: Pro-Natalist and Family Policies in Russia, Poland and Hungary	2
Responding to Complexity in the Context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme	1
Autonomy and the Governance of ‘Ageing in Place’	1
The ‘Means Available to Relieve Suffering’: Translating Medical Assistance in Dying Safeguards in Canadian Policy and Practice	1
Progressing Towards a Freer Market in Australian Residential Aged Care	1
Leveraging Policy Capabilities in Russia and Finland during the Pandemic	1
SPS volume 23 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
Are Young English People’s Attitudes Towards Employment Indicative of Whether They Have Spent a Large Proportion of Their Adult Lives Unemployed?	1
Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals Asset-based Welfare and Housing in Great Britain	1
How Does Automation Risk Shape Social Policy Preference? Employment Insecurity and Policy Feedback Effect in China	1
Administrative Literacy in the Digital Welfare State: Migrants Navigating Access to Public Services in Finland – ERRATUM	1
Northern Ireland Childcare Strategy: A Work in Progress?	1
Exploring the Alternatives to the Male-Breadwinner Model – The Implications for Social Policy Study	1
Limits to Transformational Potential: Analysing Entitlement and Agency within a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in the Philippines	1
Framing and Shaming: The 2017 Welfare Cheats, Cheat Us All Campaign	1
SPS volume 22 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
Conceptualising socially inclusive environmental policy: a just transition to Net Zero	1
SPS volume 21 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	1
Business Structures, Stereotypes and Knowledge of Discrimination: Understanding Employers’ Support to Paid Family Leave in Hong Kong	1
SPS volume 23 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	1
Taxation and Social Need: Lessons from the Short-Lived UK Health and Social Care Levy	1
The Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Lockdown Policies on Young Fathers: Comparative Insights from the UK and Sweden	1
Cracking the Nest Egg: Comparing Pension Politics in Post-Communist Russia and Hungary – ERRATUM	1
NGOs and the Promotion of the Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Girls and Young Women with Disabilities in Zimbabwe	1
Institutional Dimension of Burnout in Governmental Psychosocial and Community Programmes: Gaps between Intervening Conditions, Consequences, and Guidelines for Improvement	1
Prostitution and Sex Work, Who Counts? Mapping Local Data to Inform Policy and Service Provision – CORRIGENDUM	1
Introduction: Social Policy and the Climate Crisis	1
Some Useful Sources	1
Passing Stigma: Negotiations of Welfare Categories as Street Level Governmentality	1
Chinese and Australian Neoliberal Policy Responses to Risks in Social Service Purchasing	1
Small Moments and Turning Points for Long-term Poor Families in Norway: The Lived Experience of Having a Family Coordinator	1
SPS volume 23 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
‘They Made an Excellent Start…but After a While, It Started to Die Out’, Tensions in Combining Personalisation and Integration in English Adult Social Care	1
Social Policy Responses to Rising Inflation in Southern Europe	1