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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Family Intervention Projects as Poverty-Alleviating Measures: Results from a Norwegian Cluster-Randomised Study	57
What Is Out There and What Can We Learn? International Evidence on Funding and Delivery of Long-Term Care	51
The Mixed Impact of Care Work on the Finances of Low-income Canadians: Insights from the Canadian Financial Diaries Research Project	37
Extra Care Housing: The Current State of Research and Prospects for the Future	36
SPS volume 21 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	28
SPS volume 22 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	23
SPS volume 20 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	23
Social Spending and Income Inequality in Latin America. A Panel Data Approach	23
SPS volume 22 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	21
Beyond the Work Society? Social Policy and the Reduction of Working Time	20
Navigating the Australian Welfare System for Those Relying on Emergency and Community Food Assistance	20
Prostitution and Sex Work, Who Counts? Mapping Local Data to Inform Policy and Service Provision	20
Predicting Unpaid Care Work in India Using Random Forest: An Analysis of Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors	18
Incentives and Deterrents to the Supply of Long-term Care for the Elderly in England: Evidence and Experience in Two Local Authorities	17
The Social Practices of Food Bank Volunteer Work	15
Climate Crisis and Social Protection - From Worker Protection to Post-growth Transformation?	14
Covid-19 and the Crisis in Social Care: Exploring the Experiences of Disabled People in the Pandemic	13
Meeting Marginal Demands in New Welfare Governance? China’s Contracting of Welfare Services in the Sectors of Disability and HIV/AIDS	12
List of Referees for 2023	12
Linguistic Autonomy in a Monolingual Social Imaginary: Social Work Practitioners’ Sense-making of the Role of Language in Migrant ‘Integration’	11
Some Useful Sources	11
“I’m Not Worthless, I Do Help Society”: Exploring the Lived Experience of Community Placement in Activation Schemes	11
Defamilisation, Familisation, Debates on Same Sex Marriage Issues in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan – An Introduction	10
Social Policy Without Growth: Moving Towards Sustainable Welfare States	9
Taxation and Intergenerational Fairness: Exploring the Role of Inheritance Taxes with a Focus on Ireland	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
Defamilisation, Familisation, and LGBTQ+ Studies	9
SPS volume 23 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	9
Workplace Factors Associated with Employment of Refugees – Evidence from a Survey Among Danish Employers	9
Principles of Success: Facilitating Sustainable Transformation through a Progressive Relational Pedagogy	8
Investment Decisions on Physical Activity Promotion: A Locality Case Study in Complex Public Health Policy Making	8
Does Performance Matter? The Influence of Attitudes Towards Welfare State Performance on Voting for Rightwing and Leftwing Populist Parties	8
SPS volume 21 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	8
Colonial Aphasia and the Circuits of Whiteness in Inclusive and Anti-Racist Youth Social Policy	8
Not Free at All: Home Care User Fees in a Nordic Care System	8
Unequal and Gendered: Assessing the Impacts of Austerity Cuts on Public Service Users	7
Varieties of Just Transition? Eco-Social Policy Approaches at the International Level	7
Disability and Regulatory Approaches to Employer Engagement: Cross-National Challenges in Bridging the Gap between Motivation and Hiring Practice	7
Child Support in Shared Care Cases: Do Child Support Policies in Thirteen Countries Reflect Family Policy Models?	7
Financial Exclusion in the UK: Evidence on Ethnicity	7
An Ontology of Social and Economic Reproduction: Modern Slavery, Housing, and Critical Realism	7
Breaking Up Is Risky Business: Personalisation and Collaboration in a Marketised Disability Sector	7
The Conditionality of Trusting Caseworkers in the Social Services Sector – Insights from Germany and Denmark	7
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
Ambivalent Internationalisation: Reviewing Literature on the Social Policy Context for International Students in the United Kingdom and Implications for Social Exclusion – CORRIGENDUM	6
Introduction: ‘Race’, Learning and Teaching in Social Policy in Higher Education	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
Understanding the Inflation and Social Policy Nexus	6
SPS volume 21 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	6
The Same Storm, but Different Boats: Unpicking the ‘Housing Crisis’	6
Do Red-Flagged Clients Exit Social Assistance Earlier than Others? The Case of the Finnish Social Assistance System	6
The Cross-Regional Impact of Taiwan’s Same-Sex Marriage Legalisation: The Queer Economy of Welfare Mix	6
More than Money? Job Quality and Food Insecurity among Employed Lone Mother Households in the United States	5
When Can Government Paternalist Interventions Be Justified? Welfare-to-Work and Interference Intentions	5
Constituting ‘Problems’ through Policies: A WPR Approach of Policies Governing Teenage Pregnancy in France	5
The Importance of Financial and Pension Literacy in Closing the Financial Advice Gap in the U.K.	5
Redistribution and the Tax System: A Social Policy Perspective	5
A Multi-Dimensional View of Stigma Experienced by Lone Parents in Irish Homeless and Employment Services	5
Enabling Participation Income for an Eco-Social State	5
People’s Contrasting Attitudes Towards Universal Basic Income in Sweden and South Korea	5
Social Security, Gender and Class: The impacts of the Universal Credit Conditionality Regime on Unpaid Care and Paid Work – CORRIGENDUM	5
The Problems with Troubled Families: Rethinking the Analysis Behind the 120,000 Troubled Families Statistic	4
Children as Linguistic Rights Holders in the Swedish Welfare System	4
Introduction: Personalisation and Collaboration: Dual Tensions in Individualised Funding Policy for Older and Disabled Persons	4
Government Contracting Services to Social Organisations in China: A Review of Research for Future Enquiry	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
What Can Welfare Stigma Do?	4
SPS volume 21 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	4
Social Policy Responses to Covid-19 in the Global South: Evidence from 36 Countries	4
Governing the Family through Parental Responsibilisation and Professionalisation: An Analysis of the State ‘Family Education’ Discourses in Contemporary China	4
Transnational Private Actors Shaping the Policy and Practice of Child Institutionalisation	4
Introduction: Towards a Sustainable Welfare State	4

Vulnerability and Critical Human Security in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond in the UK and South Korea	4
Explore the Mutual Benefits of Studying the Rights of Sexual Minority People in Hong Kong Confucianism	4
SPS volume 20 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
Efficiency of the Long-Term Care Sector in Poland based on an Activities of Daily Living evaluation	4