Journals of the Century in Social Work

Social work is an applied discipline within the social sciences. During the Twentieth Century, journals became crucial for the provision of current awareness, the presentation of new ideas, the exploration of topics in a timely manner, and the building of a disciplinary knowledge base. Practitioners, educators, and students became ever more dependent on the journal literature for information and knowledge as the century passed. To identify the most important social work journals of the Twentieth Century was a challenge.