Social Work is a cautionary tale of what happens to a journal when it accedes to pressure for a professionally comforting publication. Pardeck and Meinert’s (1999) data make a strong case for dropping Social Work from the Social Science Citation Index and accepting it on its own merits: A membership association’s glorification of itself.
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