Social Service Review

Social Service Review is published by University of Chicago Press and is in Zone 3 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Social Work Education and Practice, Homelessness and Social Issues and Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering, together about 34% of its articles. Its main subfields are Political Science and International Relations. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Frequency: 4 issues/year ISSN: 0037-7961 E-ISSN: 1537-5404 2025 JCR Impact Factor*: 2.8 Ranked #4 out of 99 “Social Work” journals Turnaround time (as of 2023, from submission to first decision): 56 days Founded in 1927, Social Service Review is devoted to the publication of thought-provoking, original research on pressing social issues and promising social work practices and social welfare policies. Articles in SSR analyze issues from the vantage points of a broad spectrum of disciplines, theories, and methodological traditions, at the individual, family, community, organizational, and societal levels. Social Service Review features balanced, scholarly contributions from social work and social welfare scholars and from members of the various allied disciplines engaged in research on human behavior, social systems, social structure, history, public policy, and social services. View content coverage periods and institutional full-run subscription rates for Social Service Review. Press ReleasesMedia University of Chicago Press journals earn top rankings in 2025 indices August 27, 2026 2026 Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize November 13, 2025 University of Chicago Press journals earn top rankings in 2024 indices August 8, 2025 All press releases 65,000 Pennsylvania kids have a parent in prison or jail? Here’s what research says about the value of in-person visits Read the Social Service Review article cited in The Conversation October 7, 2025 Yes, Cash Transfers Work Read the Social Service Review article cited in MSN September 10, 2025 What experts think about the $1,000 'Trump' accounts for babies Read the Social Service Review article cited in PBS News July 2, 2025 All media

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): SOCIAL WORK

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SSCIScopusLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

2.71LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

2.8Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

3.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.75LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.26LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

103OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,023OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.95OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

10.7%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

4.84%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

20LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

University of Chicago Press

ISSN

0037-7961

Electronic ISSN

1537-5404

Official links

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