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

Article	Citations
Family Intervention Projects as Poverty-Alleviating Measures: Results from a Norwegian Cluster-Randomised Study	55
What Is Out There and What Can We Learn? International Evidence on Funding and Delivery of Long-Term Care	49
Extra Care Housing: The Current State of Research and Prospects for the Future	37
The Mixed Impact of Care Work on the Finances of Low-income Canadians: Insights from the Canadian Financial Diaries Research Project	36
SPS volume 21 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	27
SPS volume 20 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	23
SPS volume 22 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	22
Social Spending and Income Inequality in Latin America. A Panel Data Approach	21
SPS volume 22 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	20
Beyond the Work Society? Social Policy and the Reduction of Working Time	19
Navigating the Australian Welfare System for Those Relying on Emergency and Community Food Assistance	19
Prostitution and Sex Work, Who Counts? Mapping Local Data to Inform Policy and Service Provision	18
Climate Crisis and Social Protection - From Worker Protection to Post-growth Transformation?	17
Covid-19 and the Crisis in Social Care: Exploring the Experiences of Disabled People in the Pandemic	16
Predicting Unpaid Care Work in India Using Random Forest: An Analysis of Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors	15
Incentives and Deterrents to the Supply of Long-term Care for the Elderly in England: Evidence and Experience in Two Local Authorities	13
The Social Practices of Food Bank Volunteer Work	12
Meeting Marginal Demands in New Welfare Governance? China’s Contracting of Welfare Services in the Sectors of Disability and HIV/AIDS	11
Some Useful Sources	11
“I’m Not Worthless, I Do Help Society”: Exploring the Lived Experience of Community Placement in Activation Schemes	11
List of Referees for 2023	11
Linguistic Autonomy in a Monolingual Social Imaginary: Social Work Practitioners’ Sense-making of the Role of Language in Migrant ‘Integration’	11
Defamilisation, Familisation, Debates on Same Sex Marriage Issues in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan – An Introduction	10
Defamilisation, Familisation, and LGBTQ+ Studies	9
SPS volume 23 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	9

Not Free at All: Home Care User Fees in a Nordic Care System	9
Workplace Factors Associated with Employment of Refugees – Evidence from a Survey Among Danish Employers	9
Social Policy Without Growth: Moving Towards Sustainable Welfare States	9
Analysing Co-creation and Co-production Initiatives for the Development of Age-friendly Strategies: Learning from the Three Capital Cities in the Basque Autonomous Region	9
SPS volume 23 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	9
Principles of Success: Facilitating Sustainable Transformation through a Progressive Relational Pedagogy	8
SPS volume 21 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	8
Does Performance Matter? The Influence of Attitudes Towards Welfare State Performance on Voting for Rightwing and Leftwing Populist Parties	8
Colonial Aphasia and the Circuits of Whiteness in Inclusive and Anti-Racist Youth Social Policy	8
Taxation and Intergenerational Fairness: Exploring the Role of Inheritance Taxes with a Focus on Ireland	8
The Conditionality of Trusting Caseworkers in the Social Services Sector – Insights from Germany and Denmark	7
Breaking Up Is Risky Business: Personalisation and Collaboration in a Marketised Disability Sector	7
Child Support in Shared Care Cases: Do Child Support Policies in Thirteen Countries Reflect Family Policy Models?	7
Varieties of Just Transition? Eco-Social Policy Approaches at the International Level	7
An Ontology of Social and Economic Reproduction: Modern Slavery, Housing, and Critical Realism	7
Unequal and Gendered: Assessing the Impacts of Austerity Cuts on Public Service Users	7
Investment Decisions on Physical Activity Promotion: A Locality Case Study in Complex Public Health Policy Making	7
Financial Exclusion in the UK: Evidence on Ethnicity	7
Disability and Regulatory Approaches to Employer Engagement: Cross-National Challenges in Bridging the Gap between Motivation and Hiring Practice	7
Ambivalent Internationalisation: Reviewing Literature on the Social Policy Context for International Students in the United Kingdom and Implications for Social Exclusion – CORRIGENDUM	6
Editors’ Notes: Towards the Centenary of the ‘Beveridge Report’: A Debate on the Welfare State for the Next Twenty Years	6
The Entrepreneurial Welfare Mix: The Case of Community-Based Old Age Services in China	6
The Cross-Regional Impact of Taiwan’s Same-Sex Marriage Legalisation: The Queer Economy of Welfare Mix	6
Understanding the Inflation and Social Policy Nexus	6
Case Study: Enhancing the Learning Experiences of BAME Students at a University: The University Role	6
Reconceptualising Youth Poverty through the Lens of Precarious Employment during the Pandemic: The Case of Creative Industry	6
Do Red-Flagged Clients Exit Social Assistance Earlier than Others? The Case of the Finnish Social Assistance System	6
Redistribution and the Tax System: A Social Policy Perspective	6
SPS volume 21 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	6
The Same Storm, but Different Boats: Unpicking the ‘Housing Crisis’	6
Introduction: ‘Race’, Learning and Teaching in Social Policy in Higher Education	6
People’s Contrasting Attitudes Towards Universal Basic Income in Sweden and South Korea	6
Introduction: The (Un)Deserving Migrant? Street-Level Bordering Practices and Deservingness in Access to Social Services	5
Vulnerability and Critical Human Security in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond in the UK and South Korea	5
Constituting ‘Problems’ through Policies: A WPR Approach of Policies Governing Teenage Pregnancy in France	5
A Multi-Dimensional View of Stigma Experienced by Lone Parents in Irish Homeless and Employment Services	5
The Problems with Troubled Families: Rethinking the Analysis Behind the 120,000 Troubled Families Statistic	5
Enabling Participation Income for an Eco-Social State	5
When Can Government Paternalist Interventions Be Justified? Welfare-to-Work and Interference Intentions	5
Social Security, Gender and Class: The impacts of the Universal Credit Conditionality Regime on Unpaid Care and Paid Work – CORRIGENDUM	5
Introduction: Towards a Sustainable Welfare State	5
Children as Linguistic Rights Holders in the Swedish Welfare System	4
The Importance of Financial and Pension Literacy in Closing the Financial Advice Gap in the U.K.	4
Transnational Private Actors Shaping the Policy and Practice of Child Institutionalisation	4
Constructions of Unemployed Individuals in German Parliamentary Debates on Active Labour Market Policy Reforms: A Comparative Analysis of 2003 and 2016	4
Introduction: Personalisation and Collaboration: Dual Tensions in Individualised Funding Policy for Older and Disabled Persons	4
Governing the Family through Parental Responsibilisation and Professionalisation: An Analysis of the State ‘Family Education’ Discourses in Contemporary China	4
Welfare Reform and Housing Insecurity: The Impact of Universal Credit Rollout on Demand for Rent Arrears and Homelessness Advice from Citizens Advice in England	4
SPS volume 20 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
Qualitative Longitudinal Research: From Monochrome to Technicolour	4

Social Policy Responses to Covid-19 in the Global South: Evidence from 36 Countries	4
More than Money? Job Quality and Food Insecurity among Employed Lone Mother Households in the United States	4
Explore the Mutual Benefits of Studying the Rights of Sexual Minority People in Hong Kong Confucianism	4
What Can Welfare Stigma Do?	4
Government Contracting Services to Social Organisations in China: A Review of Research for Future Enquiry	4
Efficiency of the Long-Term Care Sector in Poland based on an Activities of Daily Living evaluation	4
SPS volume 21 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	4
Conceptualising the Relationship Between Formal and Informal Social Protection	3
Security, Social Policy, Agency and Work of the Courts in Relation to Ukrainian Internally Displaced Persons	3
Some Useful Sources – CORRIGENDUM	3
Risk Governance, State Capacity, and Critical Human Security: Evolution of Risk Governance in Response to Systemic Risk in the UK and South Korea	3
Coping with Gendered Welfare Stigma: Exploring Everyday Accounts of Stigma and Resistance Strategies among Mothers Who Claim Social Security Benefits	3
Equality and Devolution in the United Kingdom: A Story in Three Acts and a Sequel	3
The Practical Politics of Doughnut Economics and Climate Crisis	3
Silent Elements of Policy Change: Inflation and Uprating Mechanisms in the Low Countries	3
When Job Search is Deemed Insufficient: Experiences of Unemployed People Disbarred Following Compliancy Monitoring	3
Poverty by Design: The Role of Charity and the Cultivated Ethical Citizen	3
How Have the Nordic Welfare States Responded to the Unexpected Increase in Inflation?	3
Mapping Shifts in Russian and European Welfare Polities: Explaining Policy Responses to Shared New Social Risks	3
Administrative Literacy in the Digital Welfare State: Migrants Navigating Access to Public Services in Finland	3
Some Useful Sources	3
Trying to Reverse Demographic Decline: Pro-Natalist and Family Policies in Russia, Poland and Hungary	3
List of Referees for 2022	3
Determinants of Public Support for Eco-Social Policies: A Comparative Theoretical Framework	3
Addressing Water Poverty Under Climate Crisis: Implications for Social Policy	3
Introduction: Policies and Practices Shaping Long-Term Care: Between an Inclusivity Ethos and Service Delivery Realities	3
Informal Care Provision and the Reduction of Economic Activity Among Mid-Life Carers in Great Britain – A Mixed-Methods Approach – ERRATUM	3
SPS volume 22 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	3
Colonial Disparities in Higher Education: Explaining Racial Inequality for Māori Youth in Aotearoa New Zealand	3
Contracting Out Social Services in China’s Three First-Tier Cities: Exploring ‘Variation’ through the Eyes of NGO Practitioners	3
Some Useful Sources	2
Some Useful Sources	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
The Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Lockdown Policies on Young Fathers: Comparative Insights from the UK and Sweden	2
Diversifying the Social Policy Curriculum: A Collaborative Approach	2
Co-creating Value in the Scandinavian Welfare System: Matching Elderly Care in a Major Swedish Municipality	2
Crisis Management, Policy Reform, and Institutions: The Social Policy Response to COVID-19 in Australia	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
Exploring the Alternatives to the Male-Breadwinner Model – The Implications for Social Policy Study	2
Cracking the Nest Egg: Comparing Pension Politics in Post-Communist Russia and Hungary – ERRATUM	2
A Hidden Cost: Estimating the Public Service Cost of Poverty in Ireland	2
Ambivalent Internationalisation: Reviewing Literature on the Social Policy Context for International Students in the United Kingdom and Implications for Social Exclusion	2
The Food Bank: A Safety-Net in Place of Welfare Security in Times of Austerity and the Covid-19 Crisis	2
SPS volume 22 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	2
Responding to Complexity in the Context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme	2
Case Study: Decolonising the Curriculum – An Exemplification	2
Small Moments and Turning Points for Long-term Poor Families in Norway: The Lived Experience of Having a Family Coordinator	1
Passing Stigma: Negotiations of Welfare Categories as Street Level Governmentality	1
The ‘Means Available to Relieve Suffering’: Translating Medical Assistance in Dying Safeguards in Canadian Policy and Practice	1
Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals Asset-based Welfare and Housing in Great Britain	1
SPS volume 23 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Chinese and Australian Neoliberal Policy Responses to Risks in Social Service Purchasing	1
Administrative Literacy in the Digital Welfare State: Migrants Navigating Access to Public Services in Finland – ERRATUM	1
Autonomy and the Governance of ‘Ageing in Place’	1
Are Young English People’s Attitudes Towards Employment Indicative of Whether They Have Spent a Large Proportion of Their Adult Lives Unemployed?	1
Prostitution and Sex Work, Who Counts? Mapping Local Data to Inform Policy and Service Provision – CORRIGENDUM	1
SPS volume 21 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	1
Income Support in an Eco-Social State: The Case for Participation Income	1
SPS volume 20 issue 3 Cover and Back 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
SPS volume 23 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	1
Social Policy Responses to Rising Inflation in Southern Europe	1
Northern Ireland Childcare Strategy: A Work in Progress?	1
Enough is Enough: De-colonise, Diversify and De-construct the Curriculum	1
Introduction: Social Policy and the Climate Crisis	1
SPS volume 23 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
SPS volume 22 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
Business Structures, Stereotypes and Knowledge of Discrimination: Understanding Employers’ Support to Paid Family Leave in Hong Kong	1
Intra-Crisis Lesson-Drawing in Real-Time: The Pandemic Lessons Available in the UK Media during the First Months of COVID-19	1
Limits to Transformational Potential: Analysing Entitlement and Agency within a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in the Philippines	1
How Does Automation Risk Shape Social Policy Preference? Employment Insecurity and Policy Feedback Effect in China	1
Taxation and Social Need: Lessons from the Short-Lived UK Health and Social Care Levy	1
NGOs and the Promotion of the Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Girls and Young Women with Disabilities in Zimbabwe	1
Leveraging Policy Capabilities in Russia and Finland during the Pandemic	1
Conceptualising socially inclusive environmental policy: a just transition to Net Zero	1