Pia Tham

693 total citations
25 papers, 494 citations indexed

About

Pia Tham is a scholar working on Public Administration, General Health Professions and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Pia Tham has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 494 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Public Administration, 19 papers in General Health Professions and 10 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Pia Tham's work include Social Work Education and Practice (20 papers), Research in Social Sciences (8 papers) and Interprofessional Education and Collaboration (6 papers). Pia Tham is often cited by papers focused on Social Work Education and Practice (20 papers), Research in Social Sciences (8 papers) and Interprofessional Education and Collaboration (6 papers). Pia Tham collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Australia and United Kingdom. Pia Tham's co-authors include Deborah Lynch, Gabrielle Meagher, Paula McFadden, Ingemar Kåreholt, Gunn Astrid Baugerud, Maria Engström, Janet Carter Anand, Stefan Wiklund, Austin Griffiths and Gunnar Bergström and has published in prestigious journals such as The British Journal of Social Work, BMC Nursing and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

In The Last Decade

Pia Tham

21 papers receiving 465 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Pia Tham Sweden 11 347 312 152 129 67 25 494
Nancy S. Dickinson United States 8 252 0.7× 211 0.7× 154 1.0× 50 0.4× 82 1.2× 12 402
Pam Green Lister United Kingdom 12 275 0.8× 266 0.9× 103 0.7× 209 1.6× 59 0.9× 36 475
Elisabeth Willumsen Norway 12 107 0.3× 195 0.6× 133 0.9× 71 0.6× 93 1.4× 33 344
Christopher Hall United Kingdom 5 221 0.6× 179 0.6× 98 0.6× 98 0.8× 88 1.3× 9 335
Alessandro Sicora Italy 10 214 0.6× 184 0.6× 99 0.7× 57 0.4× 74 1.1× 28 328
Alastair Christie Ireland 12 180 0.5× 154 0.5× 127 0.8× 86 0.7× 93 1.4× 24 326
Tonya M. Westbrook United States 6 268 0.8× 208 0.7× 161 1.1× 30 0.2× 60 0.9× 8 369
Jane Dalrymple United Kingdom 12 162 0.5× 214 0.7× 109 0.7× 120 0.9× 145 2.2× 22 413
Terry Tse Fong Leung Hong Kong 9 193 0.6× 194 0.6× 77 0.5× 112 0.9× 75 1.1× 19 320
Katharine Briar‐Lawson United States 9 159 0.5× 183 0.6× 136 0.9× 73 0.6× 60 0.9× 32 333

Countries citing papers authored by Pia Tham

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Fields of papers citing papers by Pia Tham

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pia Tham

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Pia Tham. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Pia Tham based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Pia Tham. Pia Tham is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tham, Pia, et al.. (2025). Child welfare social workers’ working conditions: Does leadership matter?. The British Journal of Social Work. 55(8). 4095–4113.
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Tham, Pia, et al.. (2024). The specialization/collaboration paradox: Investigating specialization within child welfare as a barrier to collaboration. The British Journal of Social Work. 55(3). 1178–1197. 1 indexed citations
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Tham, Pia, et al.. (2024). Dialogue with Avatars in Simulation-Based Social Work Education: A Scoping Review. Social Sciences. 13(11). 628–628.
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Tham, Pia, et al.. (2024). Building professional identity during social work education: the role of reflective writing as a tool. Social Work Education. 43(9). 2847–2864. 2 indexed citations
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Tham, Pia, et al.. (2023). Social work in an assembly line? The development of specialisation in child welfare and further internal division of work between 2003 and 2018. European Journal of Social Work. 27(3). 650–663. 7 indexed citations
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Engström, Maria, et al.. (2023). Staff quality of working life and turnover intentions in municipal nursing care and social welfare: a cross-sectional study. BMC Nursing. 22(1). 171–171. 10 indexed citations
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Tham, Pia, et al.. (2023). How Do Child Welfare Social Workers Assess the Leadership of Their First-line Managers? A 15-Year Perspective. The British Journal of Social Work. 54(4). 1737–1752. 2 indexed citations
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Tham, Pia & Ingemar Kåreholt. (2022). Lower Demands but Less Meaningful Work? Changes in Work Situation and Health among Social Workers in a 15-Year Perspective. The British Journal of Social Work. 53(4). 2038–2056. 6 indexed citations
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Tham, Pia, et al.. (2021). How do we prepare students for the challenges of social work? Examples from six countries around the world. Social Work Education. 42(4). 494–510. 11 indexed citations
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Tham, Pia. (2021). Not Rocket Science: Implementing Efforts to Improve Working Conditions of Social Workers. The British Journal of Social Work. 52(4). 1896–1915. 12 indexed citations
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Tham, Pia, et al.. (2020). Under the delusive wings of the welfare state: engagement in the policy process among social work faculty members in Sweden. European Journal of Social Work. 23(6). 1081–1091. 2 indexed citations
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Tham, Pia, et al.. (2019). The Iron Cage of Leadership—the Role of First-Line Managers in Child Welfare. The British Journal of Social Work. 50(2). 369–388. 10 indexed citations
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Tham, Pia. (2017). A Professional Role in Transition: Swedish Child Welfare Social Workers’ Descriptions of Their Work in 2003 and 2014. The British Journal of Social Work. 48(2). 449–467. 37 indexed citations
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Tham, Pia & Deborah Lynch. (2017). ‘Lost in transition?’ – Newly educated social workers’ reflections on their first months in practice. European Journal of Social Work. 22(3). 400–411. 29 indexed citations
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Tham, Pia. (2016). Mindre erfaren - mer utsatt? : Nya och mer erfarna forskningssekreterares beskrivningar av sina arbetsvillkor. 40(6). 20–33. 3 indexed citations
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Tham, Pia. (2008). Arbetsvillkor i den sociala barnavården : förutsättningar för ett kvalificerat arbete.
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Tham, Pia & Gabrielle Meagher. (2008). Working in Human Services: How Do Experiences and Working Conditions in Child Welfare Social Work Compare?. The British Journal of Social Work. 39(5). 807–827. 90 indexed citations
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Tham, Pia. (2007). Ny i yrket men redan gammal i gården? : Arbetsvillkor för nya och mer erfarna socialsekretare i den sociala barnavården. 22(6). 62–77. 4 indexed citations

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