International Journal of Social Welfare

Discipline	Social Work
Language	English
Edited by	Åke Bergmark and Jill Duerr Berrick
Publication details
Former name(s)	Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare
History	1992-Present
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Frequency	Quarterly
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Int. J. Soc. Welf.
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ISSN	1468-2397
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International Journal of Social Welfare is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell. The journal was established in 1992 as Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, obtaining its current name in 1999.^[1] The journal covers topics associated with social welfare and social work and their regional and global implications. The current editors-in-chief are Åke Bergmark and Jill Duerr Berrick.^[2]

Aims and scope

Coverage of the journal includes current interdisciplinary research and comparative perspective of the most pressing social welfare issues of various branches of the applied social sciences. The focus includes social issues related to migration, economy, policy, case studies, protection, mental health, gender, age, and class. ^[3]