Journal of Public Child Welfare
Impact Factor & Key Scientometrics

Journal of Public Child Welfare
Overview

Impact Factor

1.158

H Index

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Impact Factor

1.71

I. Basic Journal Info

Country

United Kingdom
Journal ISSN: 15548732, 15548740
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
History: 2006-2021
Journal Hompage: Link
How to Get Published:

Research Categories

Scope/Description:

Decisions made in the practice of child welfare have lifelong effects on children and their entire families which in turn affects every facet of society. To effectively practice in this vital field social workers psychologists counselors juvenile court judges attorneys and other child welfare professionals need to stay informed about the latest findings and important issues in public child welfare. To answer this crucial need the Journal of Public Child Welfare provides a broad forum for theorybased and applied research in child welfare. Rather than limit itself to primarily private agencies this essential journal provides the quality research and comprehensive information that child welfare professionals and public agencies need most. The legal mandate of vital public child welfare programs is safety permanence and child and family wellbeing. With this in mind the Journal of Public Child Welfare presents quantitative qualitative and mixed methods theorybased or applied research cogent reviews of the literature policy analyses and program evaluation articles about child welfare.

II. Science Citation Report (SCR)



Journal of Public Child Welfare
SCR Impact Factor

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SCR Journal Ranking

Journal of Public Child Welfare
SCImago SJR Rank

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR indicator) is a measure of scientific influence of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from.

Journal of Public Child Welfare
Scopus 2-Year Impact Factor Trend

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Scopus 3-Year Impact Factor Trend

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Scopus 4-Year Impact Factor Trend

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Journal of Public Child Welfare
Impact Factor History

2-year 3-year 4-year
  • 2023 Impact Factor
    1.791 2.42 2.271
  • 2022 Impact Factor
    2.077 1.968 1.815
  • 2021 Impact Factor
    1.71 1.75 1.777
  • 2020 Impact Factor
    0.831 1.148 1.25
  • 2019 Impact Factor
    0.949 1 1.042
  • 2018 Impact Factor
    1.115 1.067 1.157
  • 2017 Impact Factor
    0.817 0.826 0.992
  • 2016 Impact Factor
    0.722 0.778 0.835
  • 2015 Impact Factor
    0.758 0.747 0.738
  • 2014 Impact Factor
    0.781 NA NA
  • 2013 Impact Factor
    0.441 NA NA
  • 2012 Impact Factor
    0.604 NA NA
  • 2011 Impact Factor
    0.255 NA NA
  • 2010 Impact Factor
    0.259 NA NA
  • 2009 Impact Factor
    0.273 NA NA
  • 2008 Impact Factor
    0.1 NA NA
  • 2007 Impact Factor
    0.158 NA NA
  • 2006 Impact Factor
    0 NA NA
  • 2005 Impact Factor
    NA NA NA
  • 2004 Impact Factor
    NA NA NA
  • 2003 Impact Factor
    NA NA NA
  • 2002 Impact Factor
    NA NA NA
  • 2001 Impact Factor
    NA NA NA
  • 2000 Impact Factor
    NA NA NA
Note: impact factor data for reference only

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Impact Factor

Impact factor (IF) is a scientometric factor based on the yearly average number of citations on articles published by a particular journal in the last two years. A journal impact factor is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field. Find out more: What is a good impact factor?


III. Other Science Influence Indicators

Any impact factor or scientometric indicator alone will not give you the full picture of a science journal. There are also other factors such as H-Index, Self-Citation Ratio, SJR, SNIP, etc. Researchers may also consider the practical aspect of a journal such as publication fees, acceptance rate, review speed. (Learn More)

Journal of Public Child Welfare
H-Index

The h-index is an author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar. The index is based on the set of the scientist's most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other publications

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Journal of Public Child Welfare
H-Index History