| Social Work | |
| Former Names: | The Compass, Social Work Journal |
| Abbreviation: | Soc. Work |
| Discipline: | Social work |
| Editor: | Tricia Bent-Goodley |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press on behalf of the National Association of Social Workers |
| History: | 1920-present |
| Frequency: | Quarterly |
| Impact: | 1.145 |
| Impact-Year: | 2015 |
| Issn: | 0037-8046 |
| Eissn: | 1545-6846 |
| Lccn: | a56001876 |
| Oclc: | 1605893 |
| Website: | http://sw.oxfordjournals.org/ |
| Link1: | http://sw.oxfordjournals.org/content/current |
| Link1-Name: | Online access |
| Link2: | http://sw.oxfordjournals.org/content/by/year |
| Link2-Name: | Online archive |
Social Work is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of social work. It was established in 1920 as The Compass and was renamed Social Work Journal in 1948. It obtained its current name in 1956.[1] [2] It is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the National Association of Social Workers, of which it is the official journal. The editor-in-chief is Tricia Bent-Goodley (Howard University). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 1.145.[3]