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Social Work Education and Practice

Social Work Education and Practice is a research topic within Public Administration. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the challenges and practices within the social work profession, focusing on topics such as retention, burnout, evidence-based practice, supervision, cultural competence, job satisfaction, reflective practice, child welfare, stress, and professional development.

  • Retention
  • Burnout
  • Evidence-Based Practice
  • Supervision
  • Cultural Competence
  • Job Satisfaction
  • Reflective Practice
  • Child Welfare
  • Stress
  • Professional Development
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Social Work Education and Practice

Which countries lead Social Work Education and Practice research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1k and 464 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 464 works
  3. 3 Australia 283 works
  4. 4 Canada 231 works
  5. 5 China 189 works
  6. 6 Sweden 121 works
  7. 7 Germany 112 works
  8. 8 South Africa 107 works
  9. 9 India 100 works
  10. 10 Finland 89 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 37.8%United Kingdom: 17.0%Australia: 10.4%Canada: 8.5%6 others listed: 26.4%38%largest
United States1,032 · 37.8%United Kingdom464 · 17.0%Australia283 · 10.4%Canada231 · 8.5%6 others listed719 · 26.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Social Work Education and Practice research?

By volume in 2022-now, City University of New York publishes the most Social Work Education and Practice research, followed by Western Sydney University and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 City University of New YorkUnited States 31 works
  2. 2 Western Sydney UniversityAustralia 28 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 26 works
  4. 4 Aalborg UniversityDenmark 26 works
  5. 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 22 works
  6. 6 University of AucklandNew Zealand 21 works
  7. 7 University of HelsinkiFinland 20 works
  8. 8 The Open UniversityUnited Kingdom 18 works
  9. 9 Charles Sturt UniversityAustralia 18 works
  10. 10 Indiana UniversityUnited States 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Social Work Education and Practice?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Social Work Education and Practice include F. Stuart Chapin.

  1. 1 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Social Work Education and Practice?

The most cited paper in Social Work Education and Practice is "An invitation to social construction" (Torbjörn Bredenlöw, 2001), with 1,871 citations. Next come "Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide" (1,338) and "Focus groups in feminist research" (1,234).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 An invitation to social construction Torbjörn Bredenlöw · Scandinavian Journal of Management Dec 2001 1,871
2 Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide Rebecca R. Bryan · Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly Jul 2011 1,338
3 Focus groups in feminist research Sue Wilkinson · Women s Studies International Forum 1998 1,234
4 Interprofessionality as the field of interprofessional practice and interprofessional education: An emerging concept Danielle D’Amour, Ivy Oandasan · Journal of Interprofessional Care May 2005 1,021
5 Getting the Focus and the Group: Enhancing Analytical Rigor in Focus Group Research Pamela Stinson Kidd, Mark B. Parshall · Qualitative Health Research May 2000 1,019
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Social Work Education and Practice research done?

The largest centres of Social Work Education and Practice research in 2022-now are New York (United States), London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia) and Toronto (Canada). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Richmond.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 84 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 72 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 51 works
  4. 4 TorontoCanada 45 works
  5. 5 BrisbaneAustralia 37 works
  6. 6 Hong KongChina 33 works
  7. 7 DublinIreland 31 works
  8. 8 SydneyAustralia 28 works
  9. 9 AucklandNew Zealand 28 works
  10. 10 RichmondAustralia 28 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RichmondAU · 27.7 works30×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Social Work Education and Practice than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Social Work Education and Practice?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Toronto, City University of New York and Western Sydney University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of TorontoCanada 72.222.8%3.7×26 -19.8%
2City University of New YorkUnited States 71.410.3%16.4×31 +25.8%
3Western Sydney UniversityAustralia 69.69.9%29.1×28 +281.2%
4Charles Sturt UniversityAustralia 69.018.1%38.8×18 +28.6%
5The Open UniversityUnited Kingdom 64.812.3%36.7×18 +34.3%
6Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom 63.221.9%8.5×11 +80.6%
7University of GothenburgSweden 62.416.1%8.9×14 +39.9%
8OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan UniversityNorway 61.022.5%36.9×13 +0.3%
9University of HelsinkiFinland 60.011.0%8.2×20 +31.7%
10Ben-Gurion University of the NegevIsrael 58.722.5%8.1×10 +71.8%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Social Work Education and Practice, country by country

Is Social Work Education and Practice research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Social Work Education and Practice.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Social Work Education and Practice as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Social Work Education and Practice over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Social Work Education and Practice9.9% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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