Social Work: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Trauma Violence & Abuse	13
2	Child Abuse & Neglect	8
3	Health & Social Care in the Community	6
4	Journal of Community Psychology	5
-	American Journal of Community Psychology	5
-	Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development	5
-	Children and Youth Services Review	5
8	Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal	4
-	Child Maltreatment	4
-	Children & Society	4
-	Family Relations	4
-	International Journal of Social Welfare	4
-	Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools	4
-	Journal of Social Policy	4
-	Qualitative Social Work	4
-	Social Work in Health Care	4
17	Affilia-Feminist Inquiry in Social Work	3
-	Australian Social Work	3
-	Social Policy & Administration	3
-	British Journal of Social Work	3
-	Child & Family Social Work	3
-	Clinical Social Work Journal	3
-	International Social Work	3
-	Journal of Gerontological Social Work	3
-	Journal of Social Service Research	3
-	Journal of Social Work Education	3
-	Social Policy and Society	3
-	Social Work	3
29	American Journal of Orthopsychiatry	2
-	European Journal of Social Work	2
-	Health & Social Work	2
-	Journal of Social Work	2
-	Social Service Review	2
-	Social Work Research	2
-	Child Abuse Review	2
-	Families in Society-The Journal of Contemporary Social Services	2
-	Human Service Organizations Management Leadership & Governance	2
-	Journal of Public Child Welfare	2
-	Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research	2
-	Research on Social Work Practice	2
-	Social Work in Public Health	2
42	Journal of Social Work Practice	1