The Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care Original research and conceptual articles explore issues crucial to individuals with serious, life-threatening, and life-limiting illness and their families across the lifespan. The focus includes, but is not limited to, the following areas: inter-professional practice and research; practice and policy innovations; practice evaluation; end-of-life communication and decision making; pain management and palliative care; grief and bereavement; ethical issues; sudden traumatic death; secondary trauma and compassion fatigue among professional caregivers. Topics addressed may cover a range of health and mental health community practice settings.
The “Reflections” section of the journal is dedicated to using creative writing to give voice to the personal impact of end-of-life and palliative care in clinical practice, community organizing, policy practice, research, and education. Content is accepted in three forms: poetry, essays, and case studies.
Peer Review Policy: All research, theoretical, and review articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing three anonymous referees.
Journal metrics
Usage
62K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.6 (2023) Impact Factor
Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
2.1 (2023) 5 year IF
2.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.808 (2023) SNIP
0.487 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
30 days avg. from submission to first
decision
43 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
53% acceptance rate
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5 Year Impact Factor*:
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CiteScore (Scopus)†:
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a four-year period.
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= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
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potential in the field.
SJR
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number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
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journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
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six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
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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.
EDITOR Ellen L. Csikai, LCSW, MPH, PhD – Professor, School of Social Work, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
REFLECTIONS CO-EDITOR & EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER Stacy F. Orloff, EdD, LCSW, ACHP-SW – Vice President, Innovation and Community Health, Empath Health, Clearwater, FL, USA
EDITORIAL BOARD Cathy Berkman, PhD – Professor, Graduate School of Social Service, Fordham University, New York, NY, USA Mercedes Bern-Klug, PhD – Professor and Director, School of Social Work, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA Kristin Bindley, BA, BSW(Hons), Grad Cert Loss, Grief & Trauma Counselling, PhD, AMHSW (AASW) – Bereavement Counsellor/Clinical Lead, Supportive & Palliative Care, Western Sydney Local Health District, Australia; Industry/Professional Fellow, IMPACCT (Improving Palliative, Aged and Chronic Care through Clinical Research and Translation), University of Technology Sydney, Australia Susan Bruno, MSW, ACSW, LCSW – Private practice, Tampa, FL, USA Jennifer Hill Buehrer, LMSW – Palliative Care Social Worker and Ethics Consultant, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Karen Bullock, PHD, LCSW, APHSW-C, FGSA – Ahearn Endowed Professor, College of Social Work, Boston College, Boston, MA, USA Susan Cadell, PhD – Professor, Renison University College, School of Social Work, Ontario, Canada Iraida Carrion, PhD – Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA Amy Chow, PhD – Professor, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, the University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong Csaba Degi, PhD, MSW – Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Work Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Lori Eckel, LCSW, ACHP-SW, OSW-C – Senior Ethics Consultant and Palliative Care Lead Social Worker, Legacy Health, Portland, OR, USA Iris Cohen Fineberg, PhD, MSW, OSW-C – Associate Professor and Interim Director of the Doctoral Program, School of Social Welfare, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA Richard Francoeur, PhD, MSW, MS – Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, USA Susan Hedlund, LCSW, MSW, OSW-C – Associate Professor in the Division of Hematology and Oncology, Director of Patient Family Support Services, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Knight Cancer Institute, Portland, OR, USA Judith L. Howe, PhD – Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Deputy Director and Associate Director/Education & Evaluation, VA Bronx-New York Harbor GRECC, Bronx, NY, USA Alexandria Lewis, Ed.S., MSW, CT, LCSW – Assistant Teaching Professor, School of Social Work, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA Lee Geok Ling, PhD – Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore Steve Marshall, PHD, PGDipSW – Palliative Care Social Worker, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London and Honorary Senior Lecturer, King’s College London, London, UK Quentin Maynard, PhD – Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN, USA Mary E. Morrissey, PhD, MPH, JD – Doctoral Program Director, Yeshiva Wurzleizer University, New York, NY, USA Christopher Onderdonk, MSW, LCSW, AHPSW-C – Inpatient Palliative Care Social Worker, Doris A. Howell Service- UCSD Hillcrest Medical Center, San Diego, CA, USA Maxxine Rattner, MA, MSW, RSW – Psychosocial Specialist with Canadian Virtual Hospice, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Abigail Rolbiecki, PhD, MPH, MSW – Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA Sheila G. Roth, PhD, LCSW – Professor of Social Work, Carlow University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Audrey Roulston, PhD – Professor of Social Work in Palliative Care, Queens University, Belfast, Ireland Melissa Schmidt, LICSW – Social Work Supervisor, HealthPartners Hospice & Palliative Care, Plymouth, MN, USA Adam Schoenfarber, LMSW – Palliative Social Worker, Westchester Medical Center- Advanced Physicians Services, Valhalla, NY, USA Tracy Shroepfer, PhD, MSW, MA – Professor, School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA Stacee Springer, LCSW, ACSW – Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and the Young Adult Program, Bethesda, MD, USA Maureen Tyra, LCSW – Director of Social Support Services, VyncaCare, Palo Alto, CA, USA Ashley Varner, PhD, MBA, LCSW – Clinical Social Worker, Emory University School of Medicine, Cognitive Neurology Program, Atlanta, GA, USA Christine Wilkins, Ph.D., LCSW – Advance Care Planning Program Manager, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA Stephanie P. Wladkowski, PhD, LMSW – Associate Professor School of Social Work and Benz Endowed Professor for the College of Health and Human Services, Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, OH, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted and/or indexed in: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) Database; EBSCOhost Online Research Databases; Elsevier Scopus; MEDLINE/PubMed; and Thomson Reuters (Emerging Sources Citation Index).
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Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care
(2005 - current)
Formerly known as
Loss, Grief & Care
(1987 - 2004)
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