OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Policy and Society 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 2021-06-01 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
Linguistic Autonomy in a Monolingual Social Imaginary: Social Work Practitioners’ Sense-making of the Role of Language in Migrant ‘Integration’	11
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
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
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
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: 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
SPS volume 21 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	4
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