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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Applying the Nurtured Heart Approach® to resource parenting: a mixed methods approach	14
STRENGTHS-BASED CASE MANAGEMENT	13
Meeting them where they’re at: service provider perspectives on the needs of extended foster care participants	10
Experiences of perceived support post discharge among foster care alumni: differences among LGBTQ+ youth and youth of color	10
Sexual identity development and sexual well-being: differences between racial/ethnic minority and non-racial/ethnic minority former foster youth	10
County variations in child maltreatment risk and service responses during and post the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study	10
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	10
Satisfaction with child welfare workers and services: reports from mothers receiving child welfare services	9
Patience and protocol: Advice to newly hired child welfare workers from experienced colleagues regarding challenging cases	8
The caseworker as an external locus of hope for LGB youth in foster care	8
Sinking or swimming: perspectives of the children without placement crisis	8
Rebalancing prevention and protection services: a policy shock analysis of Finland’s child welfare reform	7
The invisible side of child protection: infant abandonment from the mothers’ perspective	7
Youth in transition: an exploratory comparative analysis of outcomes for youth placed in kinship and non-kinship foster homes	6
Supporting the educational success of children in foster care: the educational advocacy program	6
Qualitative exploration of child welfare workers’ decision-making experiences and perspectives on fairness	6
According to their own accounts: former child welfare involved youth recalling their participation in child protective services interviews that occurred at school	5
“Why is my skin so intimidating to you?”: Exploring social connectivity and racial identity of youth of color with foster care experience	5
Using a structured decision-making model to inform child welfare practice in Florida: safety versus removal	5
COVID-19 and resource families: an examination of ongoing impact and disparities	5
A review of the literature on capacity building service strategies in child welfare	5
Synergistic benefits of inclusive leadership to foster child welfare workers’ job self-efficacy: race matters	5
Exploring the relationships between self-care and well-being outcomes among child welfare professionals	5
Diagnostic disparities among maltreated youth in a child protective services agency	5
The impact of title IV-E training on public child welfare turnover	5

Reproductive Justice for young Black women aging out of foster care	5
Exploring Organizational Learning, Risk, and Psychological Safety: Perspectives of Child Welfare Senior Leaders in Canada	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
Service referral decisions for children involved in the child welfare system: modeling the decision-making ecology framework using latent profile analysis	5
Disparities in Mental Health Service Referrals in Child Sexual Abuse Cases	5
Evidence for expanding policy: the connection between community adversity and foster care entry	4
Child maltreatment prevention interventions for Latinx immigrant populations: a systematic review	4
Attention to disability in child protection policies across four liberal welfare regimes	4
Safeguarding children with disabilities: a life course perspective	4
Emotional abuse, an invisible aspect in Norwegian child welfare documents	4
Bridging justice expectations in child protection: media influence and societal bias	3
Examining the use of foster care during emerging adulthood in the United States	3
Collection and maintenance of vital child records in the foster care system	3
A balancing act: a qualitative examination of foster parent rights and well-being	3
The cyclical effect of secondary traumatic stress and burnout among child welfare professionals	3
2022 Article of the Year	3
Factors leading to foster care reentry: experiences of housing unstable families	3
A propensity score matched pair outcome evaluation of a parenting program for dually involved youth	3
Experiences with and perceptions of the child welfare system during the perinatal period of mothers with intellectual and developmental disabilities	3
The ripple effect of relationships: family preservation workers’ insights on what drives effectiveness	3
Development and validation of a new scale to assess motivations for fostering	3
Identifying the essential competencies for court professionals to promote youth engagement in permanency planning in court hearings	3
Legal permanency and kinship care: assessing the challenges, meeting the needs	3
Exploring the colonial contours of child welfare services and their implications for immigrant parents’ participation and trust	2
When forever does not mean forever: perspectives of foster care alumni following legal and relational permanency disruption	2
Monitoring and recording child protection in schools: a review of practice	2
Framing mothers, shaping policy: media portrayals of African American women accused of filicide and implications for child welfare practice	2
Integrating trauma-informed practices in child welfare: a process study of graduate education	2
Examining the feasibility and acceptability of an online mindfulness-based stress reduction program for frontline child protection social workers in England	2
Factors impacting out-of-home placement stability in young children	2
Child protection and safety concerns: some evidence from Ghana	2
Analyzing decision-maker’s justifications of care orders for newborn children: equal and individualized treatment	2
A Multiple-Path Model of Workforce Development for Improving the Fidelity of Family Team Conference in the Child Welfare System	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
Stakeholder perspectives on acceptability of implementing a child mental health intervention in child welfare services: a pilot study	2
An institutional understanding of child Welfare workers’ handling of suspected violence against children in families involved in family law disputes in Sweden	2
Building trust with children in collaborative processes within in-home child welfare services	2
Leveraging continuous quality improvement in technical assistance (TA): a case study of a national TA center supporting child welfare agencies	2
A mixed-methods evaluative study of the life model of residential care for trauma-affected children and youth	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
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
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
Transformative lessons learned from COVID-19 to reimagine child welfare work	2
Using procedural justice theory to understand public perceptions of child protection	2
Do online parenting blogs discourage psychological maltreatment and corporal punishment?	2
Response to violence committed by children at welfare facilities: evidence from Japan	2
The socio-technical organization of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in child welfare	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 prevalence and predictors of food insecurity for transition-age youth transitioning out of foster care	2
Reinstating Parental Rights That Have Been Terminated: Finding Ways to Restore Legal Connections for Children Who Had Been in Foster Care	2
Kinship Care: Evaluating Policy and Practice	2
Maltreatment of children with disabilities in the United States	2
Burnout, resilience, and retention of child protection caseworkers	2
What’s on your mind? The effects of an attachment-based intervention on residential youth workers’ reflexive functioning	2