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Social Work Abstracts Fails Again

A Replication and Extension

Gary Holden

New York University

Kathleen Barker

The City University of New York: Medgar Evers College

Lucinda Covert-Vail

New York University

Gary Rosenberg

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Stephanie A. Cohen

Mount Sinai Medical Center

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.

Key Words: bibliometric database • empirically based practice • evidence-based practice • evidence-supported interventions • impact factor score • literature review • meta-analysis • systematic review • NASW • NASW Press • research synthesis • scholarship • Social Work Abstracts

This version was published on November 1, 2009

Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 19, No. 6, 715-721 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1049731508329392
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