Analysis of Selected Social Work Journals and Productivity Rankings among Schools of Social Work

Abstract

This paper analyzes articles appearing in Child Welfare, Social Casework, Social Service Review, Social Work, and Journal of Education for Social Work in terms of empiricism and author affiliations. Data indicated that only a small percentage of published articles were empirical in nature, a figure that has not changed significantly in the past 20 years. Academic and nonacademic social workers were fairly evenly represented among the authors, with some differences appearing among journals. Schools of social work were ranked on the basis of publication in these journals.