OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Public Child Welfare 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
Experiences of perceived support post discharge among foster care alumni: differences among LGBTQ+ youth and youth of color	19
Satisfaction with child welfare workers and services: reports from mothers receiving child welfare services	10
Meeting them where they’re at: service provider perspectives on the needs of extended foster care participants	9
Sexual identity development and sexual well-being: differences between racial/ethnic minority and non-racial/ethnic minority former foster youth	9
Understanding the roles and challenges of child protection employees in out-of-home care arrangements for children of minority and immigrant backgrounds in Rogaland, Norway	8
STRENGTHS-BASED CASE MANAGEMENT	8
Information needs of current and prospective foster caregivers: a content analysis of Reddit posts	8
Supporting the educational success of children in foster care: the educational advocacy program	7
The caseworker as an external locus of hope for LGB youth in foster care	7
Qualitative exploration of child welfare workers’ decision-making experiences and perspectives on fairness	7
Sinking or swimming: perspectives of the children without placement crisis	7
Synergistic benefits of inclusive leadership to foster child welfare workers’ job self-efficacy: race matters	6
Exploring the relationships between self-care and well-being outcomes among child welfare professionals	6
Exploring Organizational Learning, Risk, and Psychological Safety: Perspectives of Child Welfare Senior Leaders in Canada	6
According to their own accounts: former child welfare involved youth recalling their participation in child protective services interviews that occurred at school	6
Using a structured decision-making model to inform child welfare practice in Florida: safety versus removal	6
Comparing population views on state responsibility for children in vulnerable situations – the role of institutional context and socio-demographic characteristics	6
Diagnostic disparities among maltreated youth in a child protective services agency	6
Evaluation of a Brief Foster Parent/ Case Worker Training to Support Relationship Building Skills and Acceptance of LGBTQ+ Youth in Care	6
COVID-19 and resource families: an examination of ongoing impact and disparities	5
Which participation practices can be found in child welfare service records?	5
The challenge within challenges: a common thread of instability in interorganizational child welfare practice	5
“Why is my skin so intimidating to you?”: Exploring social connectivity and racial identity of youth of color with foster care experience	5
The impact of title IV-E training on public child welfare turnover	5
Disparities in Mental Health Service Referrals in Child Sexual Abuse Cases	5

Child maltreatment prevention interventions for Latinx immigrant populations: a systematic review	4
Factors leading to foster care reentry: experiences of housing unstable families	4
Service referral decisions for children involved in the child welfare system: modeling the decision-making ecology framework using latent profile analysis	4
Identifying the essential competencies for court professionals to promote youth engagement in permanency planning in court hearings	4
Emotional abuse, an invisible aspect in Norwegian child welfare documents	4
Attention to disability in child protection policies across four liberal welfare regimes	4
Safeguarding children with disabilities: a life course perspective	4
2022 Article of the Year	3
Experiences with and perceptions of the child welfare system during the perinatal period of mothers with intellectual and developmental disabilities	3
A propensity score matched pair outcome evaluation of a parenting program for dually involved youth	3
When forever does not mean forever: perspectives of foster care alumni following legal and relational permanency disruption	3
Examining the use of foster care during emerging adulthood in the United States	3
Reproductive Justice for young Black women aging out of foster care	3
Development and validation of a new scale to assess motivations for fostering	3
Bridging justice expectations in child protection: media influence and societal bias	3
Response to violence committed by children at welfare facilities: evidence from Japan	3
A balancing act: a qualitative examination of foster parent rights and well-being	3
Legal permanency and kinship care: assessing the challenges, meeting the needs	3
The ripple effect of relationships: family preservation workers’ insights on what drives effectiveness	3
An institutional understanding of child Welfare workers’ handling of suspected violence against children in families involved in family law disputes in Sweden	2
Exploring the colonial contours of child welfare services and their implications for immigrant parents’ participation and trust	2
Stakeholder perspectives on acceptability of implementing a child mental health intervention in child welfare services: a pilot study	2
How do academic and career services affect employment, education, and disability benefit receipt in the transition to adulthood for youth with disabilities who have aged out of foster care?	2
Burnout, resilience, and retention of child protection caseworkers	2
Building trust with children in collaborative processes within in-home child welfare services	2
Fostering a sense of belonging: The role of family terminology and discourse for individuals involved in non-kinship foster care	2
Who are our caregivers? An assessment of the characteristics of foster parents at certain foster parenting milestones across two states	2
Transformative lessons learned from COVID-19 to reimagine child welfare work	2
Evaluation of the Strong Foundations training for the child welfare supervisor	2
A Multiple-Path Model of Workforce Development for Improving the Fidelity of Family Team Conference in the Child Welfare System	2
Child protection and safety concerns: some evidence from Ghana	2
Understanding vocational rehabilitation service access among adolescents and young adults in foster care	2
Maltreatment of children with disabilities in the United States	2
Analyzing decision-maker’s justifications of care orders for newborn children: equal and individualized treatment	2
Using procedural justice theory to understand public perceptions of child protection	2
Longitudinal analysis of education training vouchers utilization and post-secondary education enrollment among youth experiencing foster care, 2019–2023	2
Do online parenting blogs discourage psychological maltreatment and corporal punishment?	2
What’s on your mind? The effects of an attachment-based intervention on residential youth workers’ reflexive functioning	2
The socio-technical organization of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in child welfare	2
A longitudinal investigation of infants and out-of-home care	2
“My heart is in the right place, but I don’t feel the court’s heart is beating”: perspectives on feeling valued from multiple nonprofessional stakeholders in child welfare court	2
Monitoring and recording child protection in schools: a review of practice	2
Community- and systems-level factors that contribute to foster care entry: Perspectives from child-serving professionals	1
Economic impact of CarePortal donations in Glynn County, Georgia	1
Persistent racial disproportionality in investigated and substantiated child maltreatment reports: Trend analysis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2019–2020)	1
Youth engagement in permanency planning within tribal child welfare systems: a qualitative study of current practice	1
User comments to parents engaging in psychologically maltreating behaviors on TikTok: implication for child protection	1
An examination of child welfare agency models that serve immigrant children and families	1
“Unfortunately what’s right isn’t always what’s best”: Exploring teacher and school staff experiences with mandated reporting	1
Differences in developmental problems between victims of different types of child maltreatment	1

Inviting Plain Mennonite and Amish families to provide foster care for children	1
A mixed-methods evaluative study of the life model of residential care for trauma-affected children and youth	1
Development and Application of a Self-Report Measure for Measuring Change During Simulation Training in Child Protection	1
Kinship Care: Evaluating Policy and Practice	1
How to protect those who protect: psychosocial risks in child welfare workers during the pandemic	1
Long-term foster parenting: grief, loss, love, persistence, and growth in the face of tragedy and trauma	1
Foster parents’ encounters with the system: the importance of child welfare workers’ traits in promoting satisfaction with the foster care system	1
Independent living skills program use and outcomes of youth in and aging out of foster care in Florida	1
Impact of COVID-19 on the educational experiences of youth in foster care: caseworker perspectives	1
“Resilience,” as Defined by Foster Youth and Key Stakeholders	1
Understanding subgroups of child welfare placement histories in the context of youth behavior and development: a latent class analysis	1
Examining the feasibility and acceptability of an online mindfulness-based stress reduction program for frontline child protection social workers in England	1
Mind-mindedness in non-kin foster care: relationships with caregiver-child interactions, caregivers’ parental stress, and children’s psychological adjustment	1
From student engagement to school engagement of students: toward providing the luxury of engagement to youth involved with the child welfare system	1
Integrating trauma-informed practices in child welfare: a process study of graduate education	1
Intersections for justice: conceptualizing justice-centered child welfare practice	1
Improving the policy-making and executive structure of the child welfare system in Iran, a qualitative content analysis study	1
Exploring metacompetence in child welfare simulation training: toward a holistic model	1
2021 Article of the Year	1
Physiological evidence of escalating stress during COVID-19: a longitudinal assessment of child welfare workers	1
Using leisure in foster care to generate advantage	1
Assessing appeals against emergency placements in Norway: A balancing act	1
Child welfare futures: toward more poverty responsive child welfare services	1
Examining the impact of participation in a foster parent support program on child welfare outcomes in Georgia	1
Children hospitalized for suspected maltreatment in Greece: who, why and what for?	1
Examining prevalence and predictors of food insecurity for transition-age youth transitioning out of foster care	1
Navigating the context of uncertainty in child protection practice	1
Perspectives and experiences of preschool teachers in preventing and intervening child abuse and neglect	1
Reinstating Parental Rights That Have Been Terminated: Finding Ways to Restore Legal Connections for Children Who Had Been in Foster Care	1
Children removed for inadequate housing are less likely to be reunified than peers: analysis from AFCARS data	1
Examining the roles of rurality and Latine ethnic density on child maltreatment report and substantiation rates among Latine families: A county-level analysis	1
Strengths, compliance, or deficits: examining professional viewpoints on the ‘realistic possibility of reunification’ for parents with children in care	1
Examining a decade of Title IV-E outcomes: a scoping review	1
The Cuyahoga youth count: one county’s prevalence of and experience data from LGBTQ+ youth in out-of-home placements	1
The use of mental health services among children in kinship care: an application of Andersen’s Behavioral Model for Health Services Use	1