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Child and Family Social Work

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 1996

ISSN1365-2206

SJR Q1✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SSCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.661

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.14

Total Worksi

2,555

Total Citationsi

55,024

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.99

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Family Studies; Social Work; Sociology and Political Science; Health (social science).

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1996

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications2,555

Publisher OrgWiley

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1365-2206

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

109

1.9k

2019

1.1k

2020

898

2021

104

2022

135

704

2023

135

392

2024

191

213

2025

157

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Sociology and Political ScienceQ1

Health (social science)Q2

Social WorkQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Family StudiesSocial Work

Scopus Categories

Sociology and Political ScienceSocial WorkHealth (social science)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Child Welfare and AdoptionChild Abuse and TraumaSocial Work Education and PracticeHomelessness and Social IssuesFamily and Disability Support ResearchIntergenerational Family Dynamics and CaregivingChildren's Rights and ParticipationFamily Support in IllnessChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentIntimate Partner and Family Violence

Frequently asked questions about Child and Family Social Work

Is Child and Family Social Work a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Child and Family Social Work: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Child and Family Social Work?

Child and Family Social Work is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.99.

Is Child and Family Social Work indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Child and Family Social Work is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Child and Family Social Work?