About this journal
Aims and scope
Psychoanalytic Social Work, the only avowedly social work publication listed on the PEPWeb (Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing) database, offers clinicians, clinical educators, and others highly informative and stimulating articles relevant to the practice of psychoanalytic social work with individuals.
With its distinguished international editorial advisory board, Psychoanalytic Social Work offers an impressive range of exciting, original contributions, ranging from detailed, intensive single-case studies to scholarly discussions of theoretical psychoanalysis. The journal, with no adherence to any particular body of psychoanalytic thinking, also focuses on the special requirements, adaptations, and problems associated with a psychoanalytic approach to treatment in social work settings and with traditional social work populations.
Founded in 1993, Psychoanalytic Social Work is a refereed journal employing a double anonymized review process. It gives high priority to those articles most relevant to practice including, but not limited to:
- clinical case studies
- psychoanalytic approaches to special populations and in work with minorities and the underserved
- applications of specialized or innovative psychoanalytic techniques and methods in the treatment of various clinical problems
- manuscripts exploring emerging bodies of psychoanalytic knowledge (e.g., the importance of human neuroscience to contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice)
- research studies that are clinically focused and that investigate various aspects of psychoanalytic psychotherapy or psychoanalytic developmental psychology
Journal metrics
Usage
- 31K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.2 (2023) Impact Factor
- 0.4 (2023) 5 year IF
- 0.4 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- 0.423 (2023) SNIP
- 0.141 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 43 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 56% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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.
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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.
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*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Jerrold R. Brandell, PhD, BCD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Wayne State University School of Social Work, Detroit, MI, USA
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR
Linda Chernus, MSW, BCD, Professor Emerita, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
CONSULTING EDITORS
Tina Adkins, PhD, Sue Fairbanks Psychoanalytic Academy, Steve Hicks School of Social Work,University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
Peter Andersson, PhD, Stockholm University, Department of Social Work, Stockholm, Sweden
Karen Baker, MSW, Analyst, Michigan Psychoanalytic Council, and Private Practice, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Denia Barrett, MSW, Institute for Psychoanalysis, Chicago, IL, USA
Barbara Berger, PhD, Institute for Clinical Social Work, Chicago, IL, USA
Marion Bower, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, British Psychotherapy Foundation, London, United Kingdom
Janice Berry Edwards, PhD, LICSW, Associate Professor, Howard University School of Social Work, Washington, D.C., USA
Amy Eldridge, PhD, Dean Emerita, Institute for Clinical Social Work, Private Practice, Chicago, IL, USA
Les Fleischer, PhD, RSW, FIPA, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, Lakehead University, Orillia, ON, Canada
George Hagman, LCSW, Private Practice, New York, NY and Stamford, CT, USA
Eric Hartman, DSW, LCSW-R, Private Practice, New York, NY, USA and St CT, USA
Joel Kanter, MSW, LCSW-C , Private Practice, Silver Springs, MD, USA
George Karpetis, PhD, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
David Kealy, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Lisa Koshkarian, AM, PhD, San Francisco, CA, USA
Michelle Kwintner, PhD, LCSW, International Psychotherapy Institute, Bethesda, MD; Psychoanalyst, Ithaca, NY, USA
Donna M. Mahoney, PhD, Counselor Education and Supervision, Argosy University, Schaumburg, IL, USA
Teresa Méndez, MSW,Baltimore Psychotherapy Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
Fredric T. Perlman, PhD, Faculty, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York, NY, USA
Brian Rasmussen, PhD, RSW, Okanagan University College School of Social Work, Kelowna, BC, Canada
Shoshana Ringel, PhD, University of Maryland School of Social Work, Baltimore, MD, USA
Anne Brantley Segall, LMSW, Private Practice, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
R. Dennis Shelby, PhD, Institute for Clinical Social Work, Chicago, IL, USA
Susan B. Sherman, DSW, Private Practice, New York, NY, USA
Zoi Simopoulou, PhD, University of Edinburgh, Department of Couneling Psychotherapy & Applied Social Sciences, Edinburgh, Scotland
Golnar A. Simpson, PhD, LCSW, Private Practice, McLean, VA, USA
Jenny Svebeck, Licensed Psychotherapist & Lecturer/Supervisor, Stockholm University Department of Social Work, Sweden
Kate Van Heugten, PhD, Lecturer, Department of Social Work, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Phuongloan Vo, MSW, LISW-S, University of Cincinnati, School of Social Work; Private Practice, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Hanoch Yerushalmi, PhD, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel
Abstracting and indexing
- CSA
- Biological Sciences
- Ecology Abstracts (Online)
- Enviornmental Sciences and Pollution Management
- PsycINFO
- Social Services Abstracts
- Sociological Abstracts (Online) - De Gruyter Saur
- Dietrich's Index Philosophicus
- IBZ - Internationale Bibliograhphie der Geistes - und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur - EBSCOhost
- Academic Search Complete
- Academic Search Premier
- Current Abstracts
- SocINDEX
- SocINDEX with Full Text
- TOC Premier
- Violence & Abuse Abstracts - Elsevier
- Scopus - OCLC
- ArticleFirst
- Electronic Collections Online
- Enviornmental Sciences and Pollution Management
- PsycFIRST - Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing
- Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts (Online)
- VINIT RAN
- Referativnyi Zhurnal
Open access
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- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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News, offers and calls for papers
News and offers
Society information
Members of the following groups can receive an individual print and online subscription at a special society member rate of US$40.
- American Psychological Association - Division 39 Psychoanalysis
- Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
- NYSSCSW
- International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy – IARPP
- The Westchester Center For the Study of Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy
Contact +44 (0)20 8052 0501 or [email protected] to subscribe.
2 issues per year
Currently known as:
- Psychoanalytic Social Work (1999 - current)
Formerly known as
- Journal of Analytic Social Work (1992 - 1998)
- Journal of Independent Social Work (1987 - 1991)
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