About this journal
Aims and scope
Social Work in Public Health is dedicated to publication of original research, research methods, policy, and practice in the fields of social work, public health, and other health related fields. The mission of the journal is to publish rigorous research that is related to practice and policy. We welcome research that is intersectional in nature that is affected by social, political, and economic factors. Social Work in Public Health is interested in publishing rigorous quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research, conceptual papers, and literature reviews. The journal regularly publishes editorials and evidence-based commentaries that focus on intervention and prevention, health services, health systems, policy-relevant topics, and social justice issues related to health.
Both the Journal Editor and Associate Editors provide guidance to ensure that Social Work in Public Health brings practitioners the high-quality research and knowledge they require to make well-informed decisions related to awareness, health promotion, prevention, and intervention. By integrating conceptual and practical considerations, Social Work in Public Health enables authors from all health-related disciplines to examine health and social policy issues, concerns, and questions with a focus on implications for practitioners and scholars in social work and public health.
This valuable resource also presents leading policymakers, community leaders, and individuals affected by public health and social policies a forum to discuss and debate contemporary issues and their impact, giving readers special insight into policy formulation.
Social work and public health are critically important fields that play a vital role in promoting individual well-being, community health, and societal advancement. Your research should advance or contribute to the following:
- Improving Health Outcomes: Social work and public health professionals work to identify and address the social determinants of health, such as poverty, education, housing, and access to healthcare. By focusing on prevention and intervention strategies, they can help improve health outcomes and reduce disparities in health.
- Advocacy and Social Justice: Social workers and public health professionals advocate for policies and programs that promote equity, social justice, and human rights. They work to address systemic barriers to health and well-being, advocating for marginalized and underserved populations.
- Community Engagement and Empowerment: Both fields emphasize community engagement and empowerment, encouraging individuals and communities to participate in decision-making processes that affect their health and well-being. By involving communities in the planning and implementation of programs, social work and public health professionals can create sustainable, culturally relevant interventions.
- Prevention and Health Promotion: Social work and public health focus on prevention and health promotion strategies to reduce the burden of disease and improve quality of life. By advocating for healthy behaviors, early intervention, and population-level initiatives, they can prevent illness and promote wellness.
Social work and public health professionals conduct research and evaluation studies to assess the effectiveness of interventions, identify best practices, and generate evidence-based solutions to public health issues. This research informs policy decisions, program development, and practice guidelines in both fields.
Types of articles that will be published in Social Work in Public Health include:
- the best scientific research in the fields of public health and social work;
- a platform for diverse viewpoints on social and public health issues, practices, and policies;
- transdisciplinary perspectives on research that informs policy development for individuals from minoritized backgrounds;
- articles that are centered on a particular theme or subject, such as homelessness, HIV/AIDS, or the economic costs of illness and health policy;
- articles that explore health disparities such as e.g., maternal-child health disparities; and
- articles that explore the culturally relevant factors that influence health behaviors among marginalized groups.
We invite scholars from health-related disciplines who will contribute scholarship to social work and public health research, practice, methods, and theory.
Please note:
Each manuscript must include a substantive and rigorous integration regarding the intersection of social work and public health for practice, research, theory, and/or policy as it relates to their topic. This requirement can be accomplished by including the aforementioned elements throughout the body of their manuscript or in a specific section (e.g., Discussion and Implications) of the submitted manuscript. Any submitted manuscripts that lack a clear and substantive integration of social work and no discernable implications for the social work and public health professions will be advised to revise and resubmit to include a greater focus on social work and public health.
Social Work in Public Health recognizes that your work is profoundly affected by public and social policy issues. Thus, we strongly encourage you to read and contribute to this practical and informative journal.
Peer Review Policy: All accepted papers in this journal have undergone editorial screening and double-anonymous peer review.
Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Journal metrics
Usage
- 108K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.7 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 2.0 (2023) 5 year IF
- 4.2 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.714 (2023) SNIP
- 0.669 (2023) SJR
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
RAYMOND ADAMS, MPH, PhD, MSW - Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL, USA
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
DONTE BOYD, PhD, MSW - Associate Professor, College of Social Work, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
TOMMIE LEE WATKINS JR., PhD, MDiv, MSW - Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
EDITORIAL BOARD
DAWN ANDERSON-BUTCHER, PhD - College of Social Work, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
TERRELL BROWN, PhD, MA, MSW - Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of Social Work, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, USA
JANELLE K. BRYAN, PhD, MSW - Clinical Assistant Professor, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT, USA
VALERIE COPELAND, PhD - Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
KATRINA R. ELLIS, PhD, MPH, MSW - Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
GRETCHEN ELY, PhD, MSW - Professor, University of Tennessee College of Social Work, Knoxville, TN, USA
COLITA FAIRFAX, PhD - Professor, School of Social Work, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA, USA
ADRIAN GALE, PhD, MSW - Assistant Professor, Rutgers School of Social Work, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
FAYE A. GARY, PhD – Professor of Nursing, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
ROGER HO, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
STEVEN HOFFMAN, PhD, LMSW - Associate Professor, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA
ROBERT H. KEEFE, PhD - Associate Professor, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
KATINA LANG-LINDSEY, PhD, LMSW - Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL, USA
HUSAIN LATEEF, PhD, MSW - Assistant Professor, Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
ARATI MALEKU, PhD, MSW - Associate Professor, College of Social Work, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
SANA MALIK, DrPH, MSW, MPH - Assistant Professor, School of Social Welfare, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
SHARON PARKER, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Social Work & Sociology, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, USA
YVONNE PATTERSON, PhD - Assistant Professor, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, USA
ROBIN PERRY, PhD – Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
CAMILLE R. QUINN, PhD, AM - Associate Professor, University of Michigan, School of Social Work, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
BETTY J. RUTH, MSW, MPH – Clinical Professor Emerita, School of Social Work, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
KIANA WEBB-ROBINSON, DSW, LMSW - Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA, USA
DARREN WHITFIELD, PhD, MSW - Associate Professor, University of Maryland School of Social Work, Baltimore, MD, USA
ED-DEE G. WILLIAMS, PhD, MSW - Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Boston College, Boston, MA, USA
EDITOR EMERITUS
Stanley Battle, PhD - University of Connecticut
FORMER CONTRIBUTING EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Kimberly Hardy, PhD - Fayetteville State University, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted and/or indexed in: Abstracts in Anthropology; Abstracts in Social Gerontology; Academic Search Alumni Edition; Academic Search Complete; Academic Search Premier; CAB International; Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL); Current Abstracts; Gerolit – German Centre of Gerontology; HaPI - Health and Psychosocial Instruments; HECLNET – Health Care Literature Information Network; IBZ: Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur; Index Copernicus – Google Scholar; International Political Science Abstracts; MasterFile Premier; MEDLINE; Scopus; SOCIndex; TOC Premier; and VINITI: All Russian Scientific and Technical Information; Social Sciences Citation Index® Journal Citation Reports/ Social Sciences Edition; Social Sciences Citation Index® Current Contents®/Social and Behavioral Sciences
Open access
Social Work in Public Health is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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8 issues per year
Currently known as:
- Social Work in Public Health (2007 - current)
Formerly known as
- Journal of Health & Social Policy (1989 - 2007)
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