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Social Work Abstracts Fails Again: A Replication and Extension

¹ New York University
² City University of New York: Medgar Evers College
³ Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
⁴ Mt. Sinai Medical Center

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: gary.holden{at}nyu.edu.

	Abstract

Objective: According to a prior study, there are substantial lapses in journal coverage in the Social Work Abstracts (SWA) database. The current study provides a replication and extension. Method: The longitudinal pattern of coverage of thirty-three journals categorized in SWA as core journals (published in the 1989-1996 period) is examined. Results: The proportion of issues missing from SWA is significantly greater than 0, increase over time, and is significantly biased in favor of NASW journals. Conclusion: The errors in SWA reported here, combined with those previously reported, will exert a long-term negative impact on scholarship unless their existence becomes known to all SWA users and they take steps to compensate for the situation.

First published on April 6, 2009, doi:10.1177/1049731508329392

Research on Social Work Practice 2009;19:715.

A more recent version of this article appeared on November 1, 2009


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