| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The concept of critical reflection: promises and contradictions | European Journal of Social Work | 2009 | 180 |
| 2 | Child protection systems within the Danish, Finnish and Norwegian welfare states—time for a child centric approach? | European Journal of Social Work | 2014 | 106 |
| 3 | Recovery capital: what enables a sustainable recovery from mental health difficulties? | European Journal of Social Work | 2013 | 98 |
| 4 | Beyond talking – children's participation in Norwegian care and protection cases | European Journal of Social Work | 2009 | 88 |
| 5 | Standardisation—the end of professional discretion? | European Journal of Social Work | 2016 | 87 |
| 6 | Service users and carers’ involvement in social work education: lessons from an English case study | European Journal of Social Work | 2009 | 83 |
| 7 | Citizenship on the margins: Citizenship, social work and social action | European Journal of Social Work | 1998 | 67 |
| 8 | Critical reflection in social work | European Journal of Social Work | 2009 | 66 |
| 9 | Neoliberalism and social work identity | European Journal of Social Work | 2018 | 66 |
| 10 | Negotiating personal engagement and professional accountability: professional wisdom and ethics work | European Journal of Social Work | 2013 | 63 |
| 11 | Local and global practice: Relocating social work as a human rights profession in the new global order | European Journal of Social Work | 2001 | 62 |
| 12 | Social education and social pedagogy: reclaiming a Scottish tradition in social work | European Journal of Social Work | 2008 | 61 |
| 13 | Special essay. Am I my brother's keeper? | European Journal of Social Work | 2000 | 60 |
| 14 | The social worker as intellectual | European Journal of Social Work | 2009 | 59 |
| 15 | Critical reflexivity, social work, and the emerging European post-welfare states | European Journal of Social Work | 2009 | 57 |
| 16 | Pragmatic professionalism: micro-level discourse in social work | European Journal of Social Work | 2012 | 56 |
| 17 | Models for professional judgement in social work | European Journal of Social Work | 2012 | 55 |
| 18 | Parent participation in social work meetings - the case of child protection conferences | European Journal of Social Work | 2001 | 54 |
| 19 | Local orders and global chaos in social work | European Journal of Social Work | 2003 | 52 |
| 20 | The contested concept of vulnerability – a literature review | European Journal of Social Work | 2020 | 51 |
| 21 | Why don't women want to be social workers anymore? New managerialism, postfeminism and the shortage of social workers in social services departments in England and Wales | European Journal of Social Work | 2004 | 50 |
| 22 | Evidence-based practice: from medicine to social work | European Journal of Social Work | 2006 | 50 |
| 23 | From oaths to rulebooks: a critical examination of codes of ethics for the social professions | European Journal of Social Work | 2003 | 48 |
| 24 | Kinship care for children in the UK: messages from research, lessons for policy and practice1 | European Journal of Social Work | 2004 | 48 |
| 25 | Implementing evidence-based practices and programmes in the human services: lessons from research in public administration | European Journal of Social Work | 2010 | 48 |
| 26 | Professionals without a profession? Redesigning case management in Dutch local welfare agencies | European Journal of Social Work | 2010 | 48 |
| 27 | Rediscovering the social question | European Journal of Social Work | 2016 | 48 |
| 28 | Supervision reviewed: reflections on two different social work models in England and Sweden | European Journal of Social Work | 2009 | 47 |
| 29 | Placement, protective and risk factors in the educational success of young people in care: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses | European Journal of Social Work | 2013 | 47 |
| 30 | e-Social work: building a new field of specialization in social work? | European Journal of Social Work | 2018 | 47 |
| 31 | The motivation, professional development and identity of social work students in four European countries | European Journal of Social Work | 2003 | 45 |
| 32 | Finding ways to the hard to reach—considerations on the content and concept of outreach work | European Journal of Social Work | 2013 | 45 |
| 33 | Cross-national comparisons of social work—a question of initial assumptions and levels of analysis | European Journal of Social Work | 2007 | 44 |
| 34 | The reform of the welfare services in Norway: one office – one way of thinking? | European Journal of Social Work | 2013 | 44 |
| 35 | ‘Street-level bureaucracy, management and the corrupted world of service’ | European Journal of Social Work | 2016 | 44 |
| 36 | The impact of globalization on social work in the UK | European Journal of Social Work | 2000 | 43 |
| 37 | The flight from universalism | European Journal of Social Work | 1998 | 42 |
| 38 | The electronic eye: emerging surveillant practices in social work with children and families | European Journal of Social Work | 2004 | 42 |
| 39 | The street-level delivery of activation policies: constraints and possibilities for a practice of citizenship | European Journal of Social Work | 2016 | 42 |
| 40 | Empowerment as guidance for professional social work: an act of balancing on a slack rope | European Journal of Social Work | 2003 | 41 |
| 41 | Between professional ethics and bureaucratic rationality: the challenging ethical position of social workers who are faced with implementing a workfare policy Mellom profesjonsetikk og byråkratisk rasjonalitet: Sosialarbeideres utfordrende etiske posisjon ved iverksetting av arbeidslinjen | European Journal of Social Work | 2005 | 41 |
| 42 | Making social work more Bourdieusian: why the social professions should critically engage with the work of Pierre Bourdieu | European Journal of Social Work | 2007 | 41 |
| 43 | Guided or independent? Social workers, central bureaucracy and evidence-based practice | European Journal of Social Work | 2011 | 40 |
| 44 | Social work and macro-economic neoliberalism: beyond the social justice rhetoric | European Journal of Social Work | 2016 | 40 |
| 45 | e-Social work and digital society: re-conceptualizing approaches, practices and technologies | European Journal of Social Work | 2018 | 39 |
| 46 | The discretion and power of street-level bureaucrats: an example from Swedish municipal eldercare | European Journal of Social Work | 2006 | 38 |
| 47 | Delayed educational pathways and risk of social exclusion: the case of young people from public care in Spain | European Journal of Social Work | 2013 | 38 |
| 48 | Research orientation and expertise in social work—challenges for social work education Tutkimussuuntautuneisuus ja asiantuntijuus—sosiaalityön koulutuksen uudet haasteet | European Journal of Social Work | 2005 | 37 |
| 49 | Researching the history of social work: exposition of a history of the present approach | European Journal of Social Work | 2007 | 37 |
| 50 | Epistemology and social work: enhancing the integration of theory, practice and research through philosophical pragmatism | European Journal of Social Work | 2019 | 37 |
