ABSTRACT
The findings indicate that the most prestigious journals in social work are: Social Service Review, Social Work, and American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. The next most prestigious journals are Social Casework and Social Work Research and Abstracts. The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry began publication and is issued quarterly by the American Orthopsychiatric Association. The fifth journal has fared somewhat better with its American audience. New social work journals continue to be established, but the pace appears to have slowed. If Child Welfare, a specialty journal within the social work discipline, is excluded and the Journal of Social Service Research is added, Baker's list matches the titles identified as the most prominent by the literature review. The Journal of Social Work Education is published three times yearly by the Council on Social Work Education, the major US professional association for social work educators. The journal began publication in 1965 and, until 1984, was called the Journal of Education for Social Work.
