Urban Social Work
Last updated ISSN 2474-8684
Urban Social Work is published by Springer Nature in health professions. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Urban Social Work concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Place Attachment and Urban Studies
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Health disparities and outcomes
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Nature |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2474-8684, 2474-8692 |
| Subject area | Health Professions |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 125 |
| Publishing since | 2017 |
| Journal website | www.springerpub.com/urban-social-work-journal.html |
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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