I’m not usually one to boast, but as a co-editor of Child Abuse Review I’m feeling really pleased with the latest news from the journal.
2017 Thomson Reuters Journal Impact Factor
The 2017 Thomson Reuters Journal Impact Factors were released this week, and I’m really proud to report that our impact factor for Child Abuse Review has shot up from 1.543 to 2.253!
This is particularly encouraging as we had set our target, in our 2014-19 business plan to increase it to 1.2 by 2017.
The result places the journal 4th out of 42 social work journals and 9th out of 46 in family studies.
Publishing high quality research that has an impact on practice
While journal impact factors have their limitations, I think this is a recognition of the fact that we are managing to publish really important, high-quality research in child protection, and that this research does have an impact on practice.
This was also reflected in the 2018 Wiley prizes for the best papers published in Child Abuse Review, which were announced at the BASPCAN congress in April:
- First Prize – Beyond the Physical Incident Model: How Children Living with Domestic Violence are Harmed By and Resist Regimes of Coercive Control by Emma Katz (Liverpool Hope University) – Published in Volume 25 Issue 1 (2016)
- Second Prize – The Prevalence of Child Maltreatment across the Globe: Review of a Series of Meta‐Analyses by Marije Stoltenborgh, Marian J. Bakermans‐Kranenburg, Lenneke R.A. Alink and Marinus H. van IJzendoorn (Leiden University) – Published in Volume 24 Issue 1 (2015)
- Third Prize – Risk and Protective Factors for Physical and Emotional Abuse Victimisation amongst Vulnerable Children in South Africa by Franziska Meinck (University of Oxford), Lucie D. Cluver (University of Oxford, and University of Cape Town), Mark E. Boyes (University of Oxford), Lodrick D. Ndhlovu (Tintswalo Hospital) – Published in Volume 24 Issue 3 (2015).
All three of these papers are freely available online for the next year, as are all our editorials and many other papers, so do take a look.
All this could only have been achieved through the hard work of our editorial team, Diane Heath, our editorial manager, the publishing team at Wiley, and, of course, our authors, reviewers and readers. Thank you all.