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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
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	54
Framing and Shaming: The 2017 Welfare Cheats, Cheat Us All Campaign	46
Introduction: ‘Race’, Learning and Teaching in Social Policy in Higher Education	42
Some Useful Sources	32
The Green Agenda: Why the Provision and Development of Gypsy/Traveller Sites in Scotland is a Health Hazard as Much as an Accommodation Priority	31
Ideas and Policy Response to the COVID-19 Crisis: Evidence from Jakarta, Indonesia	25
Managing Work and Care: Does Employing a Live-in Migrant Care Worker Fill the Gap? The Example of Taiwan	22
Tailored and Seamless: Individualised Budgets and the Dual Forces of Personalisation and Collaboration	21
The Mixed Impact of Care Work on the Finances of Low-income Canadians: Insights from the Canadian Financial Diaries Research Project	19
Ambivalent Internationalisation: Reviewing Literature on the Social Policy Context for International Students in the United Kingdom and Implications for Social Exclusion – CORRIGENDUM	19
Some Useful Sources	18
Homelessness Transitions, Risks, and Prevention Across the Life Course	18
You Are Safe Here: Community Sponsorship Policy and Refugee Integration in the UK	16
People’s Contrasting Attitudes Towards Universal Basic Income in Sweden and South Korea	16
Some Useful Sources	15
Introduction: Mapping the Shifts in Russian and European Welfare Polities	12
Interactions between Child Labour and Schooling: Parental Perceptions in Rural and Urban Ghana	12
Rethinking Knowledge Production in Sociology: A Critical Analysis of the Conceptual, the Methodological and the Institutional	11
Two Scenarios for Sustainable Welfare: A Framework for an Eco-Social Contract	10
Does China Need a Carers’ Policy? A Reflection Based on the Caregiving Experience of Older Carers	9
Extra Care Housing: The Current State of Research and Prospects for the Future	9
Co-creating Value in the Scandinavian Welfare System: Matching Elderly Care in a Major Swedish Municipality	9
Employment Inequalities Among British Minority Ethnic Workers in Health and Social Care at the Time of Covid-19: A Rapid Review of the Literature	9
Fluid Enquiry, Complex Causality, Policy Processes: Making a Difference with Qualitative Longitudinal Research	8
Ambivalent Internationalisation: Reviewing Literature on the Social Policy Context for International Students in the United Kingdom and Implications for Social Exclusion	8

What Is Out There and What Can We Learn? International Evidence on Funding and Delivery of Long-Term Care	8
The Moderating Role of Corruption-Nexus Between Active Labor Market Policies and Unemployment in OECD Countries	8
Comparative Studies of Russian and European Welfare Polities – CORRIGENDUM	7
SPS volume 23 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	7
Austerity, Poverty, and Children’s Services Quality in England: Consequences for Child Welfare and Public Services	7
Understanding Disability Policy Development: Integrating Social Policy Research with the Disability Studies Perspective	7
SPS volume 23 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	7
A Conceptual Framework to Map Responses to Hate Crime, Hate Incidents and Hate Speech: The Case of Australia	7
“I Was Trusted for Once”: Imagining More Humane Income Supports Through the Ontario Basic Income Pilot	7
More than a Free Lunch: A Content Analysis of the Controversies Surrounding Universal Basic Income on Dutch Twitter	7
Informal Care Provision and the Reduction of Economic Activity Among Mid-Life Carers in Great Britain – A Mixed-Methods Approach	7
Do Red-Flagged Clients Exit Social Assistance Earlier than Others? The Case of the Finnish Social Assistance System	7
A Hidden Cost: Estimating the Public Service Cost of Poverty in Ireland	6
Freedom and Gender Equality in EU Family Policy Tools – ERRATUM	6
From Conceptual Gaps to Policy Dialogue: Conceptual Approaches to Disability and Old Age in Ageing Research and Disability Studies	6
Crisis Management, Policy Reform, and Institutions: The Social Policy Response to COVID-19 in Australia	6
Family Intervention Projects as Poverty-Alleviating Measures: Results from a Norwegian Cluster-Randomised Study	6
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	6
The Cross-Regional Impact of Taiwan’s Same-Sex Marriage Legalisation: The Queer Economy of Welfare Mix	6
The Food Bank: A Safety-Net in Place of Welfare Security in Times of Austerity and the Covid-19 Crisis	5
Some Useful Sources	5
The Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Lockdown Policies on Young Fathers: Comparative Insights from the UK and Sweden	5
Introduction: The (Un)Deserving Migrant? Street-Level Bordering Practices and Deservingness in Access to Social Services	5
SPS volume 22 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	5
Understanding the Inflation and Social Policy Nexus	5
The Production of Employment Conditions for Migrant Care Workers: Cross National Perspectives	5
Comparative Studies of Russian and European Welfare Polities	5
Governing Through (An Exclusive) Community: Limitations of State Conceptualisations of ‘the Community’ in Domestic Violence Policies	5
LGBTQ+ Families, Welfare, and Same-sex Marriage Legalisation in Taiwan: A Social Policy Perspective	5
Diversifying the Social Policy Curriculum: A Collaborative Approach	5
Freedom and Gender Equality in EU Family Policy Tools	5
Climate Crisis and Social Protection - From Worker Protection to Post-growth Transformation?	5
The Problems with Troubled Families: Rethinking the Analysis Behind the 120,000 Troubled Families Statistic	5
The Social Practices of Food Bank Volunteer Work	4
SPS volume 22 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	4
‘It Matters How They See You’: ‘Maternal Activation’ As a Strategy to Navigate Contradictory Discourses of Motherhood and Neoliberal Activism in the Welsh Homelessness System	4
Prostitution and Sex Work, Who Counts? Mapping Local Data to Inform Policy and Service Provision	4
Navigating the Australian Welfare System for Those Relying on Emergency and Community Food Assistance	4
Constituting ‘Problems’ through Policies: A WPR Approach of Policies Governing Teenage Pregnancy in France	4
SPS volume 22 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	4
SPS volume 20 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	4
Exploring the Alternatives to the Male-Breadwinner Model – The Implications for Social Policy Study	4
Making a Case for Centring Energy Poverty in Social Policy in Light of the Climate Emergency: A Global Integrative Review	4
Social Policy Development Revisited: The Interplay between Push and Pull Factors in the Indonesian Healthcare Expansion	4
Social Security, Gender and Class: The impacts of the Universal Credit Conditionality Regime on Unpaid Care and Paid Work – CORRIGENDUM	4
Some Useful Sources	4
SPS volume 21 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	4
Social Policy Responses to Rising Inflation in Canada and the United States	4
Sleepwalking into the ‘Post-Racial’: Social Policy and Research-Led Teaching	4
No Place for Old Men? Meeting the Needs of an Ageing Male Prison Population in England and Wales	4