OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Public Child Welfare is 2. 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
Meeting them where they’re at: service provider perspectives on the needs of extended foster care participants	17
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	15
Information needs of current and prospective foster caregivers: a content analysis of Reddit posts	14
Sexual identity development and sexual well-being: differences between racial/ethnic minority and non-racial/ethnic minority former foster youth	12
STRENGTHS-BASED CASE MANAGEMENT	9
Experiences of perceived support post discharge among foster care alumni: differences among LGBTQ+ youth and youth of color	7
Sinking or swimming: perspectives of the children without placement crisis	6
Diagnostic disparities among maltreated youth in a child protective services agency	6
Supporting the educational success of children in foster care: the educational advocacy program	6
The caseworker as an external locus of hope for LGB youth in foster care	6
Qualitative exploration of child welfare workers’ decision-making experiences and perspectives on fairness	6
Synergistic benefits of inclusive leadership to foster child welfare workers’ job self-efficacy: race matters	5
Exploring Organizational Learning, Risk, and Psychological Safety: Perspectives of Child Welfare Senior Leaders in Canada	5
Comparing population views on state responsibility for children in vulnerable situations – the role of institutional context and socio-demographic characteristics	5
Using a structured decision-making model to inform child welfare practice in Florida: safety versus removal	5
According to their own accounts: former child welfare involved youth recalling their participation in child protective services interviews that occurred at school	5
Exploring the relationships between self-care and well-being outcomes among child welfare professionals	5
Which participation practices can be found in child welfare service records?	4
Service referral decisions for children involved in the child welfare system: modeling the decision-making ecology framework using latent profile analysis	4
The impact of title IV-E training on public child welfare turnover	4
Evaluation of a Brief Foster Parent/ Case Worker Training to Support Relationship Building Skills and Acceptance of LGBTQ+ Youth in Care	4
Disparities in Mental Health Service Referrals in Child Sexual Abuse Cases	4
COVID-19 and resource families: an examination of ongoing impact and disparities	4
“Why is my skin so intimidating to you?”: Exploring social connectivity and racial identity of youth of color with foster care experience	4
The challenge within challenges: a common thread of instability in interorganizational child welfare practice	4

Attention to disability in child protection policies across four liberal welfare regimes	4
A principles-based approach to evaluating family engagement group strategies: Lessons from a IV-E Waiver Demonstration Project	3
Examining the use of foster care during emerging adulthood in the United States	3
Development and validation of a new scale to assess motivations for fostering	3
A propensity score matched pair outcome evaluation of a parenting program for dually involved youth	3
Factors leading to foster care reentry: experiences of housing unstable families	3
Reproductive Justice for young Black women aging out of foster care	3
2022 Article of the Year	3
2020 Article of the Year	3
Emotional abuse, an invisible aspect in Norwegian child welfare documents	3
Safeguarding children with disabilities: a life course perspective	3
Experiences with and perceptions of the child welfare system during the perinatal period of mothers with intellectual and developmental disabilities	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
Identifying the essential competencies for court professionals to promote youth engagement in permanency planning in court hearings	3
Child maltreatment prevention interventions for Latinx immigrant populations: a systematic review	3
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
What’s on your mind? The effects of an attachment-based intervention on residential youth workers’ reflexive functioning	2
Evaluation of the Strong Foundations training for the child welfare supervisor	2
Longitudinal analysis of education training vouchers utilization and post-secondary education enrollment among youth experiencing foster care, 2019–2023	2
Preliminary evaluation of a multicomponent youth development program for siblings separated by foster care: pandemic related impacts to service delivery and youth well-being	2
Kinship Care: Evaluating Policy and Practice	2
Understanding vocational rehabilitation service access among adolescents and young adults in foster care	2
Who are our caregivers? An assessment of the characteristics of foster parents at certain foster parenting milestones across two states	2
Using procedural justice theory to understand public perceptions of child protection	2
Mandatory reporting of child abuse/neglect among substance use counselors	2
Burnout, resilience, and retention of child protection caseworkers	2
A Multiple-Path Model of Workforce Development for Improving the Fidelity of Family Team Conference in the Child Welfare System	2
Maltreatment of children with disabilities in the United States	2
A longitudinal investigation of infants and out-of-home care	2
Transformative lessons learned from COVID-19 to reimagine child welfare work	2
Do online parenting blogs discourage psychological maltreatment and corporal punishment?	2
The socio-technical organization of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in child welfare	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
Analyzing decision-maker’s justifications of care orders for newborn children: equal and individualized treatment	2
Child protection and safety concerns: some evidence from Ghana	2