| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Recognising and responding to child maltreatment | Lancet, The | 2009 | 454 |
| 2 | ‘You've got to trust her and she's got to trust you’: children's views on participation in the child protection system | Child and Family Social Work | 2016 | 106 |
| 3 | Childhood stress, behavioural symptoms and mother–daughter pubertal development | Journal of Adolescence | 1998 | 91 |
| 4 | Parent-reported Problems in 211 Adopted Children: Some Risk and Protective Factors | Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines | 1997 | 88 |
| 5 | Can the corporate state parent? | Children and Youth Services Review | 2006 | 72 |
| 6 | Risk, resilience and identity construction in the life narratives of young people leaving residential care | Child and Family Social Work | 2017 | 63 |
| 7 | Children's involvement in care order decision-making: A cross-country analysis | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2015 | 61 |
| 8 | Professionals’ attitudes to children’s participation in decision-making: dichotomous accounts and doctrinal contests | Child and Family Social Work | 2000 | 47 |
| 9 | Familiar subjects? Domestic violence and child welfare | Child and Family Social Work | 1997 | 46 |
| 10 | Children’s and adults’ understanding of death: Cognitive, parental, and experiential influences | Journal of Experimental Child Psychology | 2018 | 42 |
| 11 | Sexual Exploitation, Selling and Swapping Sex: Victimhood and Agency | Child Abuse Review | 2014 | 37 |
| 12 | Social work research: the state of the art (or science) | Child and Family Social Work | 1996 | 35 |
| 13 | Competing constructions of childhood: Children's rights and children's wishes in divorce | Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law | 1997 | 32 |
| 14 | Inner and outer worlds: a psychosocial framework for child and family social work | Child and Family Social Work | 1998 | 32 |
| 15 | Family relations in early childhood and reproductive development | Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology | 1999 | 32 |
| 16 | The team as a secure base: Promoting resilience and competence in child and family social work | Children and Youth Services Review | 2017 | 30 |
| 17 | A Cross‐Country Comparison of Child Welfare Systems and Workers' Responses to Children Appearing to be at Risk or in Need of Help | Child Abuse Review | 2017 | 30 |
| 18 | Family participation in child protection | Child Abuse Review | 1995 | 27 |
| 19 | Disorders of Attachment and Attachment Therapy | Adoption & Fostering | 1999 | 27 |
| 20 | Can the Corporate State Parent? | Adoption & Fostering | 2006 | 25 |
| 21 | Adopted Adults Who Search for Background Information and Contact with Birth Relatives | Adoption & Fostering | 1997 | 24 |
| 22 | Social Media, Social Capital and Adolescents Living in State Care: A Multi-Perspective and Multi-Method Qualitative Study | British Journal of Social Work | 2018 | 24 |
| 23 | The mental distress of the birth relatives of adopted children: ‘disease’ or ‘unease’? Findings from a UK study | Health and Social Care in the Community | 2013 | 23 |
| 24 | Research Ethics with Gender and Sexually Diverse Persons | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 2020 | 22 |
| 25 | The home visit in child protection social work: Emotion as resource and risk for professional judgement and practice | Child and Family Social Work | 2020 | 21 |
| 26 | Psychosocial and relationship‐based theories for child and family social work: political philosophy, psychology and welfare practice | Child and Family Social Work | 1997 | 20 |
| 27 | Assessment and decision-making in a case of child neglect and abuse using an attachment perspective | Child and Family Social Work | 2000 | 18 |
| 28 | Being there: a family centre worker’s role as a secure base for adolescent girls in crisis | Child and Family Social Work | 1999 | 16 |
| 29 | Protecting Unborn and Newborn Babies | Child Abuse Review | 2015 | 16 |
| 30 | Time, Institutional Support, and Quality of Decision Making in Child Protection: A Cross-Country Analysis | Human Service Organizations Management, Leadership and Governance | 2016 | 16 |
| 31 | Recognition, telling and getting help with abuse and neglect: Young people's perspectives | Children and Youth Services Review | 2019 | 16 |
| 32 | Young adult carers: making choices and managing relationships with a parent with a mental illness | Advances in Mental Health | 2020 | 15 |
| 33 | Safeguarding adults practice and remote working in the COVID-19 era: challenges and opportunities | Journal of Adult Protection, The | 2020 | 15 |
| 34 | Parents' involvement in care order decisions: a cross‐country study of front‐line practice | Child and Family Social Work | 2017 | 14 |
| 35 | Linked lives: Gender, family relations and recurrent care proceedings in England | Children and Youth Services Review | 2019 | 14 |
| 36 | The social worker's role in the hospital: seen through the eyes of other healthcare professionals | Health and Social Care in the Community | 2007 | 13 |
| 37 | Rights, Responsibilities and Pragmatic Practice: Family Participation in Case Reviews | Child Abuse Review | 2015 | 13 |
| 38 | Citizens' views in four jurisdictions on placement policies for maltreated children | Child and Family Social Work | 2017 | 13 |
| 39 | The use of institutional care for children across europe | European Journal of Social Work | 1998 | 12 |
| 40 | Residential care as a permanence option for young people needing longer-term care | Children and Youth Services Review | 2016 | 12 |
| 41 | Children’s and parents’ involvement in care order proceedings: a cross-national comparison of judicial decision-makers’ views and experiences | Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law | 2019 | 12 |
| 42 | Relationship-based practice and digital technology in child and family social work: Learning from practice during the COVID-19 pandemic | Developmental Child Welfare | 2022 | 12 |
| 43 | Pathways to permanence in England and Norway: A critical analysis of documents and data | Children and Youth Services Review | 2016 | 11 |
| 44 | Making Sense of Sensemaking: Conceptualising How Child and Family Social Workers Process Assessment Information | Child Care in Practice | 2020 | 11 |
| 45 | Assessment as the Site of Power: A Bourdieusian Interrogation of Service User and Carer Involvement in the Assessments of Social Work Students | Social Work Education | 2016 | 10 |
| 46 | “I Had No Hope, I Had No Help at All”: Insights from a First Study of Fathers and Recurrent Care Proceedings | Societies | 2020 | 10 |
| 47 | The Hidden Proceedings – An Analysis of Accountability of Child Protection Adoption Proceedings in Eight European Jurisdictions | European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance | 2019 | 10 |
| 48 | Unlocking the Past: The Experience of Gaining Access to Barnardo's Records | Adoption & Fostering | 1999 | 9 |
| 49 | Men as Fathers in Child Protection | Australian Social Work | 2019 | 9 |
| 50 | Are child protection workers and judges in alignment with citizens when considering interventions into a family? A cross-country study of four jurisdictions | Children and Youth Services Review | 2020 | 9 |
