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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. 18.0% 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%
3.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
18.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+22%
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Which countries lead Social Work Education and Practice research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (898 and 415 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 898 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 415 works
  3. 3 Australia 253 works
  4. 4 Canada 210 works
  5. 5 China 127 works
  6. 6 Sweden 109 works
  7. 7 Germany 100 works
  8. 8 South Africa 93 works
  9. 9 Norway 81 works
  10. 10 India 79 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: 38.0%United Kingdom: 17.6%Australia: 10.7%Canada: 8.9%6 others listed: 24.9%38%largest
United States898 · 38.0%United Kingdom415 · 17.6%Australia253 · 10.7%Canada210 · 8.9%6 others listed589 · 24.9%

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

Which institutions lead Social Work Education and Practice research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Western Sydney University publishes the most Social Work Education and Practice research, followed by Aalborg University and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Western Sydney UniversityAustralia 27 works
  2. 2 Aalborg UniversityDenmark 25 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 21 works
  4. 4 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 21 works
  5. 5 University of AucklandNew Zealand 20 works
  6. 6 The Open UniversityUnited Kingdom 17 works
  7. 7 Charles Sturt UniversityAustralia 17 works
  8. 8 University of HelsinkiFinland 17 works
  9. 9 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 16 works
  10. 10 Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 14 works

Where is Social Work Education and Practice research done?

The largest centres of Social Work Education and Practice research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 New York United States 74 works
  2. 2 London United Kingdom 64 works
  3. 3 Melbourne Australia 49 works
  4. 4 Toronto Canada 39 works
  5. 5 Brisbane Australia 32 works
  6. 6 Dublin Ireland 29 works
  7. 7 Hong Kong China 28 works
  8. 8 Auckland New Zealand 27 works
  9. 9 Richmond Australia 27 works
  10. 10 Aalborg Denmark 26 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RichmondAU · 26.5 works32×
← 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, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University, Charles Sturt University and Aalborg 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.

0%20%40%mean 22.3%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University: 13, 27.9%Charles Sturt University: 17, 33.7%Aalborg University: 25, 12.5%Carleton University: 10, 23.2%Western Sydney University: 26, 11.9%Massey University: 14, 17.2%Curtin University: 10, 26.8%Trinity College Dublin: 11, 21.3%University of Dundee: 10, 22.9%Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway: 8, 25.6%Charles Sturt Univer…OsloMet – Oslo Metro…Carleton UniversityAalborg University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan UniversityNorway 73.627.9%40.5×13 +294.8%
2 Charles Sturt UniversityAustralia 68.533.7%37.2×17 +11.4%
3 Aalborg UniversityDenmark 67.212.5%14.2×25 +95.6%
4 Carleton UniversityCanada 64.423.2%11.1×10 +188.0%
5 Western Sydney UniversityAustralia 62.411.9%32.2×26 +10.4%
6 Massey UniversityNew Zealand 62.417.2%23.0×14 +124.7%
7 Curtin UniversityAustralia 62.426.8%9.3×10 +116.6%
8 Trinity College DublinIreland 62.321.3%9.9×11 +141.7%
9 University of DundeeUnited Kingdom 61.922.9%21.4×10 +141.2%
10 Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of GalwayIreland 59.125.6%12.8×8 +108.9%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Social Work Education and Practice research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 22% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.