Journal profile · SOCIAL WORK
Social Work Research
ISSN 1070-5309 · eISSN 1545-6838 · Oxford University Press
Social Work Research: CAS Zone 4 · Sociology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.51; subscription journal; 29 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Social Work Research is published by Oxford University Press 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 Social Work Education and Practice, Homelessness and Social Issues and Child Abuse and Trauma, together about 36.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are General Health Professions. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Social Work Research publishes exemplary research to advance the development of knowledge and inform social work practice. Widely regarded as the outstanding journal in the field, it includes analytic reviews of research, theoretical articles pertaining to social work research, evaluation studies, and diverse research studies that contribute to knowledge about social work issues and problems. Journal metrics Citation metrics Clarivate 2025 Impact Factor 1.7 2025 5 Year Impact Factor 2.5 Social Work (Rank by Impact Factor) 29/99 2025 Cited Half-Life 12.3 years 2025 Immediacy Index 0.5 2025 Eigenfactor Score 0.00066 2025 Article Influence Score 0.758 Scopus 2025 CiteScore 3.4 Sociology And Political Science (Rank by CiteScore) 372/1530 2025 Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 1.122 Readership 2025 Full Text Usage 49,725 About metrics Disclaimer Statements of fact and opinion in the articles in Social Work Research 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 William D. CabinPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Social Work Education and PracticeSocial Sciences17.1%
- Homelessness and Social IssuesHealth Professions14.1%
- Child Abuse and TraumaPsychology5.2%
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentPsychology5.2%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering4.9%
- Mental Health and Patient InvolvementHealth Professions3.9%
- Child Welfare and AdoptionSocial Sciences3.7%
- Gender, Labor, and Family DynamicsSocial Sciences3.3%
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 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Social Work | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Sociology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Social Work | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
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
- 1.51LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.5Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.4LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 3.4Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.66LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.12LetPub ·
- h-index
- 77OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 515OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.95OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 20LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 49,725Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 989 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 18 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 29 | 4 | 20 |
| 2024 | 29 | 7 | 52 |
| 2023 | 25 | 2 | 116 |
| 2022 | 30 | 5 | 322 |
| 2021 | 32 | 1 | 211 |
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.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 4 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
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.
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.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISSN
- 1070-5309
- Electronic ISSN
- 1545-6838
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 50, Issue 2 (June 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Social Work Research
What CAS zone is Social Work Research in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Social Work Research 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 3 of Sociology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Social Work Research?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.51; CiteScore 3.4, h-index 77.
Which databases index Social Work Research?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Social Work Research is indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Is Social Work Research open access, and what is the APC?
Social Work Research 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .