Qualitative Social Work
Last updated ISSN 1473-3250
Qualitative Social Work is published by SAGE Publishing in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,650.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Qualitative Social Work concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1473-3250, 1741-3117 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,650 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,527 |
| Publishing since | 2002 |
| Journal website | qsw.sagepub.com/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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