Editorial: Advances with the Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal
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Editorial: Advances with the Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal Bruce A. Thyer1 · Lisa Schelbe1
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We, Bruce Thyer and Lisa Schelbe, began our joint appointment as new Co-Editors in 2016 and we are now completing our fifth year working on behalf of this journal, published by Springer Nature Publications, one of the world’s top producers of scholarly periodicals. We have carried on the tradition of our editorial predecessors by actively soliciting high quality submissions and recruiting superlative editorial board members. These efforts have paid off. In the world of scholarly publishing, one way of estimating a journal’s quality, among others, is to see if it is listed in the Web-of-Science’s Journal Citation Reports’ (JCR) database owned by Clarivate Analytics. Of the several hundred social work journals around the world, only 42 make this list. Being listed on the JCR means that a given journal has received an impact factor (IF). A given journal’s impact factor is calculated by counting the number of research papers that journal has published in the past 2 years, and dividing this by the number of times these articles have been cited during that 2 year window. The higher a journal’s IF, the more likely it is that its articles will be cited, which is a very direct measure of scholarly impact. One way to enhance the likelihood your own publications will be read and cited, is to publish in a journal with an IF, and the higher the IF the better, in terms of use within the discipline. While not all highly cited articles reflect genuinely good research (the work could simply be about something controversial, or contain an egregious mistake that others cite as a bad example, etc.), in general authors like to see their publications cited a lot, hence the attractiveness of publishing in a journal with a high IF. We are very pleased to announce that this year the Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal (CASWJ) was added to the JCR, receiving an IF of 1.156. In this instance, the CASWJ published 111 articles during 2018 and 2019, and these articles were cited in 96 other publications * Bruce A. Thyer [email protected] 1
(111/96 = 1.156). Our initial impact factor exceeded that of many other well-established social work journals long-listed in the JCR, including the NASW journal called Social Work Research, the CSWE’s Journal of Social Work Education, and the Clinical Social Work Journal, among others. The CASWJ was ranked #24, in terms of 2 year IF, right in the middle of the social work journals listed. We are actually better than that since for some reason the JCR incorrectly includes some non-social work journals in its social work list, periodicals such as the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, and the American Journal of Community Psychology. Were these inappropriately included journals removed from the social work listing, the rank of the CASWJ would be higher still. Social work journals’ IFs are not static. They are recalculated every year
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