The British Journal of Social Work


The British Journal of Social Work is a peer-reviewed academic journal with a focus on social work in the UK. It is published eight times a year by Oxford Journals for the British Association of Social Workers. The journal was first published in 1971 and the current joint editors-in-chief are Margaret Holloway, and Malcolm Golightley,.

Abstracting and indexing

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 1.103, ranking it 17th out of 42 journals in the category "Social Work".