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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Satisfaction with child welfare workers and services: reports from mothers receiving child welfare services	19
Meeting them where they’re at: service provider perspectives on the needs of extended foster care participants	12
STRENGTHS-BASED CASE MANAGEMENT	10
Sexual identity development and sexual well-being: differences between racial/ethnic minority and non-racial/ethnic minority former foster youth	10
Information needs of current and prospective foster caregivers: a content analysis of Reddit posts	9
Qualitative exploration of child welfare workers’ decision-making experiences and perspectives on fairness	8
The caseworker as an external locus of hope for LGB youth in foster care	8
Experiences of perceived support post discharge among foster care alumni: differences among LGBTQ+ youth and youth of color	8
Sinking or swimming: perspectives of the children without placement crisis	8
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
According to their own accounts: former child welfare involved youth recalling their participation in child protective services interviews that occurred at school	7
Supporting the educational success of children in foster care: the educational advocacy program	7
Synergistic benefits of inclusive leadership to foster child welfare workers’ job self-efficacy: race matters	7
“Why is my skin so intimidating to you?”: Exploring social connectivity and racial identity of youth of color with foster care experience	6
Diagnostic disparities among maltreated youth in a child protective services agency	6
Comparing population views on state responsibility for children in vulnerable situations – the role of institutional context and socio-demographic characteristics	6
Using a structured decision-making model to inform child welfare practice in Florida: safety versus removal	6
Which participation practices can be found in child welfare service records?	6
Exploring Organizational Learning, Risk, and Psychological Safety: Perspectives of Child Welfare Senior Leaders in Canada	6
The challenge within challenges: a common thread of instability in interorganizational child welfare practice	5
Exploring the relationships between self-care and well-being outcomes among child welfare professionals	5
Service referral decisions for children involved in the child welfare system: modeling the decision-making ecology framework using latent profile analysis	5
COVID-19 and resource families: an examination of ongoing impact and disparities	5
Identifying the essential competencies for court professionals to promote youth engagement in permanency planning in court hearings	5
Disparities in Mental Health Service Referrals in Child Sexual Abuse Cases	5

The impact of title IV-E training on public child welfare turnover	5
Child maltreatment prevention interventions for Latinx immigrant populations: a systematic review	5
Reproductive Justice for young Black women aging out of foster care	4
Safeguarding children with disabilities: a life course perspective	4
Factors leading to foster care reentry: experiences of housing unstable families	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
A propensity score matched pair outcome evaluation of a parenting program for dually involved youth	3
A balancing act: a qualitative examination of foster parent rights and well-being	3
Bridging justice expectations in child protection: media influence and societal bias	3
Do online parenting blogs discourage psychological maltreatment and corporal punishment?	3
Exploring the colonial contours of child welfare services and their implications for immigrant parents’ participation and trust	3
Longitudinal analysis of education training vouchers utilization and post-secondary education enrollment among youth experiencing foster care, 2019–2023	3
Legal permanency and kinship care: assessing the challenges, meeting the needs	3
Development and validation of a new scale to assess motivations for fostering	3
The ripple effect of relationships: family preservation workers’ insights on what drives effectiveness	3
When forever does not mean forever: perspectives of foster care alumni following legal and relational permanency disruption	3
Evaluation of the Strong Foundations training for the child welfare supervisor	3
Response to violence committed by children at welfare facilities: evidence from Japan	3
Experiences with and perceptions of the child welfare system during the perinatal period of mothers with intellectual and developmental disabilities	3
2022 Article of the Year	3
Examining the use of foster care during emerging adulthood in the United States	3
Stakeholder perspectives on acceptability of implementing a child mental health intervention in child welfare services: a pilot study	3
What’s on your mind? The effects of an attachment-based intervention on residential youth workers’ reflexive functioning	3
Child protection and safety concerns: some evidence from Ghana	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
Examining the roles of rurality and Latine ethnic density on child maltreatment report and substantiation rates among Latine families: A county-level analysis	2
Kinship Care: Evaluating Policy and Practice	2
The socio-technical organization of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in child welfare	2
Transformative lessons learned from COVID-19 to reimagine child welfare work	2
Building trust with children in collaborative processes within in-home child welfare services	2
A longitudinal investigation of infants and out-of-home care	2
Examining the feasibility and acceptability of an online mindfulness-based stress reduction program for frontline child protection social workers in England	2
Analyzing decision-maker’s justifications of care orders for newborn children: equal and individualized treatment	2
Understanding vocational rehabilitation service access among adolescents and young adults in foster care	2
Burnout, resilience, and retention of child protection caseworkers	2
Monitoring and recording child protection in schools: a review of practice	2
Using procedural justice theory to understand public perceptions of child protection	2
An institutional understanding of child Welfare workers’ handling of suspected violence against children in families involved in family law disputes in Sweden	2
Fostering a sense of belonging: The role of family terminology and discourse for individuals involved in non-kinship foster care	2
Improving the policy-making and executive structure of the child welfare system in Iran, a qualitative content analysis study	2
A mixed-methods evaluative study of the life model of residential care for trauma-affected children and youth	2
Maltreatment of children with disabilities in the United States	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
A Multiple-Path Model of Workforce Development for Improving the Fidelity of Family Team Conference in the Child Welfare System	2
Who are our caregivers? An assessment of the characteristics of foster parents at certain foster parenting milestones across two states	2
Long-term foster parenting: grief, loss, love, persistence, and growth in the face of tragedy and trauma	1
Understanding the health and well-being of adults 10-15 years after adoption from the US foster care system	1
Impact of COVID-19 on the educational experiences of youth in foster care: caseworker perspectives	1
An examination of child welfare agency models that serve immigrant children and families	1

Child welfare futures: toward more poverty responsive child welfare services	1
Barriers to the involvement of extended family and fictive kin in the lives of children in foster care	1
Examining the impact of participation in a foster parent support program on child welfare outcomes in Georgia	1
User comments to parents engaging in psychologically maltreating behaviors on TikTok: implication for child protection	1
Perspectives and experiences of preschool teachers in preventing and intervening child abuse and neglect	1
Integrating trauma-informed practices in child welfare: a process study of graduate education	1
The use of mental health services among children in kinship care: an application of Andersen’s Behavioral Model for Health Services Use	1
“Resilience,” as Defined by Foster Youth and Key Stakeholders	1
Children removed for inadequate housing are less likely to be reunified than peers: analysis from AFCARS data	1
Physiological evidence of escalating stress during COVID-19: a longitudinal assessment of child welfare workers	1
Assessing appeals against emergency placements in Norway: A balancing act	1
2021 Article of the Year	1
Children hospitalized for suspected maltreatment in Greece: who, why and what for?	1
Using leisure in foster care to generate advantage	1
Strengths, compliance, or deficits: examining professional viewpoints on the ‘realistic possibility of reunification’ for parents with children in care	1
Economic impact of CarePortal donations in Glynn County, Georgia	1
“Unfortunately what’s right isn’t always what’s best”: Exploring teacher and school staff experiences with mandated reporting	1
Community- and systems-level factors that contribute to foster care entry: Perspectives from child-serving professionals	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
Reinstating Parental Rights That Have Been Terminated: Finding Ways to Restore Legal Connections for Children Who Had Been in Foster Care	1
Exploring metacompetence in child welfare simulation training: toward a holistic model	1
How to protect those who protect: psychosocial risks in child welfare workers during the pandemic	1
Supervision in child welfare: Its importance to investigators and case managers	1
Understanding subgroups of child welfare placement histories in the context of youth behavior and development: a latent class analysis	1
“Siblings must stick together”: Chilean parents’ perspectives on sibling group adoption and post-adoption contact	1
Persistent racial disproportionality in investigated and substantiated child maltreatment reports: Trend analysis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2019–2020)	1
Development of the Family Engagement in Residential Care Measure	1
Independent living skills program use and outcomes of youth in and aging out of foster care in Florida	1
Youth engagement in permanency planning within tribal child welfare systems: a qualitative study of current practice	1
Factors impacting out-of-home placement stability in young children	1
From student engagement to school engagement of students: toward providing the luxury of engagement to youth involved with the child welfare system	1
Examining a decade of Title IV-E outcomes: a scoping review	1
Examining prevalence and predictors of food insecurity for transition-age youth transitioning out of foster care	1
Intersections for justice: conceptualizing justice-centered child welfare practice	1
Foster parents’ encounters with the system: the importance of child welfare workers’ traits in promoting satisfaction with the foster care system	1
The Cuyahoga youth count: one county’s prevalence of and experience data from LGBTQ+ youth in out-of-home placements	1
Mind-mindedness in non-kin foster care: relationships with caregiver-child interactions, caregivers’ parental stress, and children’s psychological adjustment	1
Court-level stakeholders’ reunification decisions and perceived role in parents’ readiness to support early emotional development post-abuse and/or neglect	1