| Couple relationships in a global context: Understanding love and intimacy across cultures A Abela, S Vella, S Piscopo Springer Nature, 2020 | 8 | 2020 |
| Long-term care of older adults in Malta: influencing factors and their social impacts amid the international financial crisis C Pace, S Vella, SF Dziegielewski Journal of Social Service Research 42 (2), 263-279, 2016 | 8 | 2016 |
| Care for older people in three Mediterranean countries: discourses, policies and realities of de-institutionalisation B Deusdad, S Lev, C Pace, S Vella Social Services Disrupted, 259-278, 2017 | 7 | 2017 |
| Malta: safeguarding welfare through flexicurity S Vella, C Pace Challenges to European Welfare Systems, 513-537, 2016 | 5 | 2016 |
| Family formation among youth in Europe: Coping with Socio-Economic Disadvantages M Emirhafizovic, T Heiman, M Medgyesi, CP Mota, S Tomanovic, S Vella IAP, 2022 | 3 | 2022 |
| Understanding love relationships in a global context: Supporting couples across cultures A Abela, S Piscopo, S Vella Couple Relationships in a Global Context. Understanding love and intimacy …, 2020 | 3 | 2020 |
| Couple Relationships in Mediterranean Malta S Piscopo, S Vella, A Abela Couple Relationships in a Global Context: Understanding Love and Intimacy …, 2020 | 3 | 2020 |
| ESPN thematic report on making access to social protection for workers and the self-employed more transparent through information and simplification-Malta S Vella European Commission, 2022 | 2 | 2022 |
| The independent living movement and capitalism: challenges and contributions AM Callus, S Vella University of Malta. Faculty for Social Wellbeing, 2021 | 2 | 2021 |
| Perspectives on wellbeing: a reader S Vella, R Falzon, A Azzopardi Brill, 2019 | 2 | 2019 |
| Young people and family formation in Malta S Vella, J Cassar Family Formation Among Youth in Europe: Coping with Socio-Economic …, 2022 | 1 | 2022 |
| Disadvantages in starting a family across Europe M Emirhaizovic, T Heiman, M Medgyesi, CP Mota, S Tomanovic, S Vella Family Formation Among Youth in Europe: Coping with Socio-Economic Disadvantages, 2022 | 1 | 2022 |
| Active labour market policies in Malta S Vella Malta University Press, 2021 | 1 | 2021 |
| Migrants' access to social protection in Malta S Vella Migration and social protection in Europe and beyond (Volume 1): comparing …, 2020 | 1 | 2020 |
| Wellbeing: A Welfare Perspective S Vella Perspectives on Wellbeing, 159-172, 2019 | 1 | 2019 |
| Sustaining relationships: the expectations and lived experiences of couples in Malta A Abela, S Piscopo, S Vella, A Zammit Said Malta Foundation for the Wellbeing of Society, 2017 | 1 | 2017 |
| Welcoming the stranger: Social policy perspectives on asylum seekers in Malta S Vella Melita Theologica 67 (1), 61 - 76, 2017 | 1 | 2017 |
| Families and Poverty in European Malta: A Research Agenda S Vella Perspectives on Wellbeing: Applications from the Field, 186-204, 2022 | | 2022 |
| Social security S Vella, L Cilia Midsea Books, 2022 | | 2022 |
| Malta: widened access and scope of in vitro fertilisation laws, amid controversy S Vella European Commission, 2022 | | 2022 |
