Journal of Social Work Education

Journal of Social Work Education is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 4 of Education in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Social Work Education and Practice, Interprofessional Education and Collaboration and Homelessness and Social Issues, together about 58.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are General Health Professions. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Journal of Social Work Education (JSWE) is a refereed professional journal concerned with education in social work and social welfare. Its purpose is to serve as a forum for creative exchange on trends, innovations, and problems relevant to social work education at the undergraduate, master’s, and postgraduate levels. • Manuscripts submitted to JSWE should address either issues relevant to the education and training of social workers at all levels or innovative approaches to social work practice and their educational implications. • Articles should be original, have a sound conceptual or empirical base, and be well-argued. Manuscripts are considered original if they make a significant contribution to the advancement of existing knowledge. • Conceptual soundness requires defining terms, providing a review of relevant literature, and advancing an intellectually sound argument or discussion. • Empirical soundness requires congruence between questions raised and methods used to test them, as well as complete reporting of methods and analyses. “Show-and-tell” papers describing ad hoc experiences do not fit the above criteria. Articles should be free of racial, religious, gender, or ethnic bias; they should focus on a key issue; they should be well-organized, up to date, and editorially sound. Authors may find it useful to seek editorial help or criticism from colleagues before submitting their manuscripts. Publishing Ethics The Council on Social Work Education and Taylor & Francis Group are committed to the highest academic, professional, legal, and ethical standards in publishing work in this journal. To this end, we have adopted a set of guidelines, to which all submitting authors are expected to adhere, to assure integrity and ethical publishing for authors, reviewers, and editors. Taylor & Francis is a member of the Committee of Publications Ethics (COPE). COPE aims to provide a forum for publishers and editors of scientific journals to discuss issues relating to the integrity of their work, including conflicts of interest, falsification and fabrication of data, plagiarism, unethical experimentation, inadequate subject consent, and authorship disputes. For more information on COPE please visit http://publicationethics.org.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Multiple

Editor-in-chief Michele D. HannaPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 11 (11 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q1 · best quartile · 2025
• CiteScore Q1 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

SSCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

Current ContentsPublisher website

Other: Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts, Current Index to Journals in Education, Education Resources Information Center, Research Into Higher Education, Sociological Abstracts, Social Work Abstracts

As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.

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.

Impact

Impact factor

1.65LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.8Publisher website · 2026-09-30

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.8Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

3.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

3.5Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

0.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.6Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SNIP 2026-06

1.11LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.11Publisher website · 2026-09-30

h-index

90OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,196OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.44OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

11.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

3.17%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

55LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

198,000Publisher website · 2026-09-30

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.

Figures by source

Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025

49%Publisher website · 2026-09-30

Submission to first decision 2025

132 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

First decision after review 2025

145 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Acceptance to publication 2025

242 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1043-7797

Electronic ISSN

2163-5811

Society / sponsor

Council on Social Work Education

Latest issue on the website

Volume 62, Issue 3 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website