| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Resilience across Cultures | British Journal of Social Work | 2006 | 1,074 |
| 2 | Street-Level Bureaucracy, Social Work and the (Exaggerated) Death of Discretion | British Journal of Social Work | 2004 | 518 |
| 3 | Some considerations on the validity of evidence-based practice in social work | British Journal of Social Work | 2001 | 490 |
| 4 | Bonding, Bridging and Linking: How Social Capital Operated in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina | British Journal of Social Work | 2010 | 419 |
| 5 | Social Factors and Recovery from Mental Health Difficulties: A Review of the Evidence | British Journal of Social Work | 2012 | 389 |
| 6 | Reflexivity, its Meanings and Relevance for Social Work: A Critical Review of the Literature | British Journal of Social Work | 2005 | 324 |
| 7 | What's in a Name: 'Client', 'Patient', 'Customer', 'Consumer', 'Expert by Experience', 'Service User'--What's Next? | British Journal of Social Work | 2009 | 300 |
| 8 | Voices From the Front Line: State Social Workers and New Labour | British Journal of Social Work | 2001 | 290 |
| 9 | Professionals, Managers and Discretion: Critiquing Street-Level Bureaucracy | British Journal of Social Work | 2011 | 285 |
| 10 | Resilience and Burnout in Child Protection Social Work: Individual and Organisational Themes from a Systematic Literature Review | British Journal of Social Work | 2015 | 269 |
| 11 | Statutory Social Workers: Stress, Job Satisfaction, Coping, Social Support and Individual Differences | British Journal of Social Work | 2008 | 263 |
| 12 | Deprofessionalizing Social Work: Anti-Oppressive Practice, Competencies and Postmodernism | British Journal of Social Work | 1996 | 262 |
| 13 | Risk, Advanced Liberalism and Child Welfare: The Need to Rediscover Uncertainty and Ambiguity | British Journal of Social Work | 1998 | 259 |
| 14 | Increasing User Choice or Privatizing Risk? The Antinomies of Personalization | British Journal of Social Work | 2007 | 256 |
| 15 | The Background of Children who enter Local Authority Care | British Journal of Social Work | 1989 | 251 |
| 16 | Changes in the Form of Knowledge in Social Work: From the 'Social' to the 'Informational'? | British Journal of Social Work | 2006 | 242 |
| 17 | Factorial Surveys: Using Vignettes to Study Professional Judgement | British Journal of Social Work | 2005 | 238 |
| 18 | Use of Critical Consciousness in Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice: Disentangling Power Dynamics at Personal and Structural Levels | British Journal of Social Work | 2005 | 229 |
| 19 | Exploring Stress Resilience in Trainee Social Workers: The Role of Emotional and Social Competencies | British Journal of Social Work | 2011 | 213 |
| 20 | When 'Do No Harm' Is Not Enough: The Ethics of Research with Refugees and Other Vulnerable Groups | British Journal of Social Work | 2011 | 205 |
| 21 | Performing 'Initial Assessment': Identifying the Latent Conditions for Error at the Front-Door of Local Authority Children's Services | British Journal of Social Work | 2010 | 200 |
| 22 | Some thoughts on the relationship between theory and practice in and for social work | British Journal of Social Work | 2000 | 197 |
| 23 | The Impact of Audit on Social Work Practice | British Journal of Social Work | 2004 | 197 |
| 24 | Surveillance or Reflection: Professional Supervision in 'the Risk Society' | British Journal of Social Work | 2010 | 185 |
| 25 | The Three Planet Model: Towards an Understanding of Contradictions in Approaches to Women and Children's Safety in Contexts of Domestic Violence | British Journal of Social Work | 2011 | 185 |
| 26 | Revisiting the Knowledge Base of Social Work: A Framework for Practice | British Journal of Social Work | 2008 | 184 |
| 27 | Service users' knowledges and social work theory: conflict or collaboration? | British Journal of Social Work | 2000 | 183 |
| 28 | The Myth of Evidence-Based Practice: Towards Evidence-Informed Practice | British Journal of Social Work | 2011 | 183 |
| 29 | The Sound Of Silence: Listening to What Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking Children Say and Do Not Say | British Journal of Social Work | 2006 | 175 |
| 30 | Risk, Instrumentalism and the Humane Project in Social Work: Identifying the Informal Logics of Risk Management in Children's Statutory Services | British Journal of Social Work | 2010 | 175 |
| 31 | Mental Health and Domestic Violence: 'I Call it Symptoms of Abuse' | British Journal of Social Work | 2003 | 173 |
| 32 | Ageing and Technology: A Review of the Research Literature | British Journal of Social Work | 2009 | 171 |
| 33 | Emotional Intelligence, Emotion and Social Work: Context, Characteristics, Complications and Contribution | British Journal of Social Work | 2006 | 170 |
| 34 | The Descriptive Tyranny of the Common Assessment Framework: Technologies of Categorization and Professional Practice in Child Welfare | British Journal of Social Work | 2009 | 161 |
| 35 | Rethinking Empowerment: A Postmodern Reappraisal for Emancipatory Practice | British Journal of Social Work | 2002 | 158 |
| 36 | ‘I'm So Stressed!’: A Longitudinal Model of Stress, Burnout and Engagement among Social Workers in Child Welfare Settings | British Journal of Social Work | 2016 | 158 |
| 37 | A Marriage Made in Hell: Early Intervention Meets Child Protection | British Journal of Social Work | 2014 | 156 |
| 38 | Rethinking Professional Practice: The contributions of Social Constructionism and the Feminist 'Ethics of Care' | British Journal of Social Work | 2003 | 153 |
| 39 | Critical Realist Grounded Theory: A New Approach for Social Work Research | British Journal of Social Work | 2012 | 153 |
| 40 | Service Users and Practitioners Reunited: The Key Component for Social Work Reform | British Journal of Social Work | 2004 | 151 |
| 41 | There's No Such Thing As Reflection | British Journal of Social Work | 1999 | 149 |
| 42 | Reflective Practice in Contemporary Child-care Social Work: The Role of Containment | British Journal of Social Work | 2005 | 148 |
| 43 | Beyond Social Constructionism: Critical Realism and Social Work | British Journal of Social Work | 2001 | 145 |
| 44 | Social Work at the Crossroads | British Journal of Social Work | 2001 | 143 |
| 45 | Scientific Management, Bureau-Professionalism, New Managerialism: The Labour Process of State Social Work | British Journal of Social Work | 1998 | 142 |
| 46 | Virtue Ethics and Social Work: Being Lucky, Realistic, and not Doing ones Duty | British Journal of Social Work | 2002 | 139 |
| 47 | Learning to Reduce Risk in Child Protection | British Journal of Social Work | 2010 | 139 |
| 48 | Why Are They Leaving? Factors Affecting Intention to Leave among Social Workers in Child Welfare | British Journal of Social Work | 2006 | 137 |
| 49 | An Unacceptable Role for Social Work: Implementing Immigration Policy | British Journal of Social Work | 2004 | 135 |
| 50 | Child Protection Practitioners and Decision-Making Tools: Observations and Reflections from the Front Line | British Journal of Social Work | 2010 | 135 |
