| Kinship care and foster care: A comparison of characteristics and outcomes M Scannapieco, RL Hegar, C McAlpine Families in Society 78 (5), 480-488, 1997 | 217 | 1997 |
| From family duty to family policy: The evolution of kinship care R Hegar, S Maria A history of child welfare, 193-209, 2017 | 204 | 2017 |
| Sibling placement in foster care and adoption: An overview of international research RL Hegar Children and Youth Services Review 27 (7), 717-739, 2005 | 188 | 2005 |
| Kinship foster care: Policy, practice, and research RL Hegar, M Scannapieco Oxford University Press, USA, 1999 | 184 | 1999 |
| Moving toward empowerment-based practice in public child welfare RL Hegar, JM Hunzeker Social work 33 (6), 499-502, 1988 | 181 | 1988 |
| Kinship care and sibling placement: Child behavior, family relationships, and school outcomes RL Hegar, JA Rosenthal Children and Youth Services Review 31 (6), 670-679, 2009 | 145 | 2009 |
| When parents kidnap GL Greif, RL Hegar Simon and Schuster, 2010 | 138 | 2010 |
| Foster children placed with or separated from siblings: Outcomes based on a national sample RL Hegar, JA Rosenthal Children and Youth Services Review 33 (7), 1245-1253, 2011 | 119 | 2011 |
| The cultural roots of kinship care RL Hegar Kinship foster care: Policy, practice, and research, 17-27, 1999 | 112 | 1999 |
| Sibling relationships and separations: Implications for child placement RL Hegar Social service review 62 (3), 446-467, 1988 | 104 | 1988 |
| Assessing attachment, permanence, and kinship in choosing permanent homes RL Hegar Child Welfare, 367-378, 1993 | 94 | 1993 |
| Kinship care providers: Designing an array of supportive services M Scannapieco, RL Hegar Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal 19, 315-327, 2002 | 84 | 2002 |
| Empowerment-based practice with children RL Hegar Social Service Review 63 (3), 372-383, 1989 | 82 | 1989 |
| Kinship foster care in context M Scannapieco, RL Hegar Kinship foster care: Policy, practice, and research, 1-16, 1999 | 73 | 1999 |
| Disposition of child physical abuse reports: Review of the literature and test of a predictive model SJ Zuravin, JG Orme, RL Hegar Children and Youth Services Review 17 (4), 547-566, 1995 | 72 | 1995 |
| A nontraditional assessment framework for formal kinship homes M Scannapieco, RL Hegar Child Welfare, 567-582, 1996 | 69 | 1996 |
| Factors predicting severity of physical child abuse injury: A review of the literature RL Hegar, SJ Zuravin, JG Orme Journal of Interpersonal Violence 9 (2), 170-183, 1994 | 67 | 1994 |
| Legal and social work approaches to sibling separation in foster care RL Hegar Child Welfare, 113-121, 1988 | 56 | 1988 |
| Paulo Freire: Neglected mentor for social work RL Hegar Journal of Progressive Human Services 23 (2), 159-177, 2012 | 54 | 2012 |
| Toward a causal typology of child neglect RL Hegar, JJ Yungman Children and Youth Services Review 11 (3), 203-220, 1989 | 53 | 1989 |
