Journal profile · SOCIAL WORK
Children & Schools
ISSN 1532-8759 · eISSN 1545-682X · National Assn. of Social Workers
Children & Schools: CAS Zone 4 · Sociology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.8 (journal website); subscription journal; 32 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Children & Schools is published by National Assn. of Social Workers and is in Zone 4 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Education Discipline and Inequality, Family and Disability Support Research and Social Work Education and Practice, together about 29.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Children & Schools publishes professional materials relevant to social work services for children. The journal publishes articles on innovations in practice, interdisciplinary efforts, research, program evaluation, policy, and planning. Topics include student-authority relationships, multiculturalism, early intervention, needs assessment, violence, and ADHD. Children & Schools is a practitioner-to-practitioner resource. Journal metrics Citation metrics Clarivate 2025 Impact Factor 1.2 2025 5 Year Impact Factor 1.8 Social Work (Rank by Impact Factor) 52/99 2025 Cited Half-Life 9.1 years 2025 Immediacy Index 0.2 2025 Eigenfactor Score 0.00036 2025 Article Influence Score 0.404 Scopus 2025 CiteScore 2.0 Education (Rank by CiteScore) 882/1698 Health (Social Science) (Rank by CiteScore) 219/387 2025 Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 0.596 Readership 2025 Full Text Usage 47,878 About metrics Disclaimer Statements of fact and opinion in the articles in Children and Schools are those of the respective authors and contributors and not of the Journal, National Association of Social Workers, or Oxford University Press, unless otherwise expressly indicated. Neither Oxford University Press, National Association of Social Workers, nor the Journal make any representation, express or implied, in respect of the accuracy of the material in the Journal and cannot accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that may be made. Readers should make their own evaluation as to the appropriateness or otherwise of the information included.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): SOCIAL WORK
Editor-in-chief Kevin TanPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Education Discipline and InequalitySocial Sciences10.3%
- Family and Disability Support ResearchPsychology9.8%
- Social Work Education and PracticeSocial Sciences9.6%
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentPsychology8.9%
- Parental Involvement in EducationSocial Sciences8.2%
- Early Childhood Education and DevelopmentSocial Sciences6.4%
- Diverse Education Studies and ReformsSocial Sciences6.2%
- Youth Development and Social SupportSocial Sciences4.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Sociology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Social Work | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Sociology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Social Work | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.8Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 2Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.38LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.6LetPub ·
- h-index
- 60OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 470OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.49OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 21LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 47,878Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,554 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 21 | 2 | 4 |
| 2025 | 32 | 0 | 30 |
| 2024 | 32 | 1 | 93 |
| 2023 | 32 | 2 | 111 |
| 2022 | 29 | 0 | 176 |
| 2021 | 33 | 15 | 319 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Open calls for papers1, by deadline
- Call for PapersDeadline
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- National Assn. of Social Workers
- ISSN
- 1532-8759
- Electronic ISSN
- 1545-682X
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 48, Issue 3 (July 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Children & Schools
What CAS zone is Children & Schools in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Children & Schools is in Zone 4 of Sociology, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Social Work. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Sociology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Children & Schools?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.8 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 2, h-index 60.
Which databases index Children & Schools?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Children & Schools is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Children & Schools open access, and what is the APC?
Children & Schools is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .