About this journal
Aims and scope
Social Work with Groups is a one-of-a-kind resource for social work educators, students, field instructors, supervisors and practitioners, and allied professionals, who are actively engaged in community and clinical practice. The journal offers readers fresh examples of evidence-guided group work with diverse populations in multiple settings through a combination of vivid practice illustrations and sound theoretical concepts. In addition, Social Work with Groups presents innovative approaches for classroom and field instruction.
Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone editorial screening and anoymized peer review, most often by at least two or three reviewers.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 137K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.690 (2023) SNIP
- 0.224 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 64% 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.
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 (2023-)
Diana Coholic — PhD, Professor, School of Social Work, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Sanam Bamshad Alavi — PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist- Global Wellness Counselor, New York University (NYU) Paris, Paris, FrancE
Mary BitelThomas Caplan — MSW, Private Practice, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Shantih E. Clemans — DSW, Associate Professor, Community & Human Services, SUNY Empire State College, Brooklyn, New York
Jennifer A. Clements — PhD, Professor, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, Department of Social Work and Gerontology, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
Carol S. Cohen — DSW, Professor Adelphi University School of Social Work, Garden City, NY, USA
Melvin Delgado — PhD, Professor, Boston University School of Social Work, Boston, MA, USA
Alex Gitterman — EdD, Professor, University of Connecticut School of Social Work, West Hartford, CT, USA
Christian Itin - PhD, Professor, Department of Social Work at Metropoloitan State Univeristy of Denver, Denver, CO, USA
Brian L. Kelly — PhD, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Timothy B. Kelly — PhD, Professor Emeritus. School of Education and Social Work, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland
Dana Grossman Leeman — PhD, Senior Associate Director at Tufts University Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching, Boston, MA, USA
Keren Ludwig — MSW, Faculty, The Ackerman Institute for the Family, New York City, NY , USA
Mark J. Macgowan — PhD, Professor, School of Social Work, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA
Katrina Mcferran — PhD, Professor, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Donna McGlaughlin
Dominique Moyse Steinberg - DSW, Social Work Educator-Trainer/Scholar. New York, NY, USA
Barbara Muskat — PhD, Adjunct Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto; Child & Family Therapist, ISAND, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lawrence Shulman — MSW, EdD, Professor Emeritus, University at Buffalo School of Social Work, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
Founding Editors
Catherine P. Papell, DSW (1916–2013)
Beulah Rothman, DSW (1924–1990), EIC Emerita
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus (2005-2023)
Andrew Malekoff — MSW, Executive Director/CEO Emeritus, North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center, Roslyn Heights, NY, USA
Co-Editor Emerita (1990-2005 with Andrew Malekoff)
Roselle Kurland, PhD
Abstracting and indexing
- Clarivate
- Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
- De Gruyter Saur
- EBSCOhost
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- Academic Search Alumni Edition, 6/1/1996-
- Academic Search Complete, 6/1/1996-
- Academic Search Elite, 6/1/1996-
- Academic Search Premier, 6/1/1996-
- Associates Program Source Plus, 1/1/1991-
- Biography Index: Past and Present (H.W. Wilson), vol.25, no.1/2, 2002-vol.31, no.3/4, 2008
- Book Review Digest Plus (H.W. Wilson), Jan.1994-
- Child Development & Adolescent Studies, 3/1/1979-
- CINAHL Complete, 1/1/2003-
- CINAHL Database (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature), 1/1/2003-
- CINAHL Plus, 1/1/2003-
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text, 1/1/2003-
- CINAHL with Full Text, 1/1/2003-
- Current Abstracts, 1/1/2000-
- Family & Society Studies Worldwide, 9/1/1978-
- OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson), 1/1/1994-
- Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, 1/1/1991-
- PsycINFO, 1981-
- Social Sciences Abstracts (H.W. Wilson), 1/1/1994-
- Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson), 1/1/1994-
- SocINDEX, 1/1/1991-
- SocINDEX with Full Text, 1/1/1991-
- TOC Premier (Table of Contents), 6/1/1996-
- Vocational Studies Complete, 1/1/1991-
- Women's Studies International, 6/1/1979-
- Elsevier BV
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- Scopus, 2005-, 1986, 1981
- E-psyche
- Gale
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- Academic ASAP, 01/1994-04/2015
- Academic OneFile, 01/1994-04/2015
- Advanced Placement Psychology Collection, 01/1994-
- Criminal Justice Collection, 01/1994-
- Expanded Academic ASAP, 01/1994-04/2015
- General OneFile, 01/1994-04/2015
- Health Reference Center Academic, 01/1994-04/2015
- InfoTrac Custom, 01/1994-04/2015
- Nursing Resource Center, 1/1994-4/2015
- Psychology Collection, 01/1994-04/2015
- World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean, 1/1994-4/2015
- H.W. Wilson
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- Social Sciences Index, 1994/01-
- National Library of Medicine
- National Periodical Library
- OCLC
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- ArticleFirst, vol.4, no.3/4, 1981-vol.34, no.3/4, 2011
- Electronic Collections Online, vol.4, no.3/4, 1981-vol.34, no.3/4, 2011
- Periodical Abstracts, v.17, n.4, 1995-v.34, n.2, 2011
- PsycFIRST, vol.23, no.4, 2001-vol.32, no.1/2, 2009
- Sociological Abstracts (Online), Selective
- Ovid
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- PsycINFO, 1981-
- Personal Alert (E-mail)
- ProQuest
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- ASSIA (Online) (Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts), Selective
- CSA Social Services Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts), Core
- Health Research Premium Collection, 1/1/1995-
- Hospital Premium Collection, 1/1/1995-
- Nursing & Allied Health Database, 1/1/1995-
- Professional ProQuest Central, 01/01/1995-
- ProQuest 5000, 01/01/1995-
- ProQuest 5000 International, 01/01/1995-
- ProQuest Central, 01/01/1995-
- Psychology Database, 1/1/1995-
- PsycINFO, 1981-
- Research Library, 01/01/1995-
- Social Science Database, 1/1/1995-
- Social Science Premium Collection, 1/1/1995-
- Sociological Abstracts (Online), Selective
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, Selective - Indexing Ceased
- Taylor & Francis
Open access
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- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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