International Social Work

Discipline	Social Work
Language	English
Edited by	Professor Vasilios Ioakimidis
Publication details
Former name(s)	Formerly (until 1958): Social Welfare in South-East-Asia
History	1957–present
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Frequency	Bi-monthly
Impact factor	0.573 (2016)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Int. Soc. Work
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0020-8728 (print) 1461-7234 (web)
LCCN	sa64007476
OCLC no.	475400860
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International Social Work is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of social work. The journal is edited by Professor Patrick O'Leary (Griffith University, Australia) and Professor Ming-sum TSUI (Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong). It has been in publication since 1957 and is currently published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), the International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) and the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW); each of whom have equal ownership of the journal.^[1]

Scope

International Social Work is a journal which strives to extend knowledge and promote communication in the fields of social development, social welfare and human services. It has a particular focus on a selection of key international themes in the delivery of services and the education of social workers.

Abstracting and indexing

International Social Work is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: Academic Search Premier, the British Education Index, Current Contents, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2016 impact factor is 0.573, ranking it 35th out of 42 journals in the category 'Social Work'.^[2]