About the Journal

Field and Content

The journal "SOCIAL WORK – Review of Social Sciences" is a scientific publication of the Hellenic Association of Social Workers (HASW). It stands as the only Social Work journal in Greece, aiming to promote, disseminate, and critically analyze contemporary trends and issues in social work and related social sciences.

The journal features articles on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

The articles published in the journal concern the following topics:

  • History and Comparative Social Work
  • Theoretical Models of Social Work
  • Community Social Work
  • Family Social Work
  • Group Social Work
  • School Social Work
  • Clinical Social Work
  • Intercultural Social Work
  • Radical Social Work
  • Social work with vulnerable and socially excluded people
  • Social Work in the Judicial and Penitentiary System
  • Health/Social Work Issues in Medical Care
  • Psychotherapy and Counselling
  • Ethics and Code of Conduct
  • Human Rights
  • Gender Issues and Equality Policies
  • Child Protection
  • Delinquency/ Deviance
  • Adoption and Foster Care
  • Adults, Children and Adolescents Mental Health
  • Addictions
  • Elderly
  • Humanitarian and Social Crises
  • Social and Solidarity Economy
  • Individual and Group Supervision
  • Other topics of Social Sciences and Humanities

History

The journal "SOCIAL WORK – Review of Social Sciences" has been published quarterly by the Hellenic Association of Social Workers since 1986. From 1986 to 2013, it was available in print (ISSN 1105-4018), and since 2014, it has been published electronically.

As of 2023, the journal is hosted on the electronic publishing platform of the National Documentation Centre (NDC), an integrated digital service for the publication and distribution of open-access scientific and thematic journals. This decision was made by the Board of Directors of ASWG.

Review Process

The reviewer’s role is critical in ensuring the credibility and validity of the articles published in the journal. Reviewers are expected to evaluate submissions transparently and within the guidelines set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). (Publication Ethics, COPE, Available at: https://publicationethics.org/files/cope-ethical-guidelines-peer-reviewers-v2_0.pdf)

Reviewers assess submissions based on the journal’s standards and predefined criteria for quality, completeness, and scientific reliability. They provide constructive feedback, suggest improvements, and make recommendations to the Editorial Committee regarding the acceptance, rejection, or revision of articles. While reviewers play a significant role, the final decision rests with the Editorial Committee.

The editorial committee employs a rigorous double-blind review process involving two independent reviewers for each submission.

Reviewers are expected to:

  • Uphold strict scientific evaluation standards.
  • Support the scientific integrity and credibility of the journal to maintain its quality.
  • Communicate with authors using professional, respectful, and scientific language. Reviews should focus on the work and avoid personal criticism of the author.
  • Maintain confidentiality regarding the reviewed texts. They must not share or disclose any part of the submission without authorization from the Editorial Committee.
  • Keep any information or ideas gained during the review process confidential and refrain from using it for personal benefit.

If reviewers identify a conflict of interest with an assigned text, they are obligated to inform the Editorial Committee and recuse themselves from the evaluation.

Eligible reviewers include social workers and professionals from related scientific fields with recognized academic or professional expertise, a history of publications in relevant fields (e.g., Scopus, ORCID, Google Scholar), and demonstrated contributions to their discipline through research or other scientific work.

 

ePublisher

The National Documentation Centre (www.ekt.gr) is a national infrastructure. Since 1980, it actively engages in the collection, organization and dissemination of scientific and technological information in Greece and internationally. EKT’s strategic priority is the aggregation, organized online dissemination and preservation of quality-assured scholarly and educational content in a single research infrastructure.

EKT’s vision is 'Access to Knowledge'. To this end, it implements Open Access policies in research, supports the transfer and dissemination of scientific knowledge, collaborates with research, education and cultural institutions for the aggregation, organization and dissemination of digital content and provides innovative services in scientific information.

EKT provides reliable ePublishing services as part of its scholarly content aggregation and dissemination activities. Its integrated online ePublishing environment is developed with open-source interoperable technology. This affords the incorporation of EKT’s infrastructures into the continuously developing international infrastructure environment.

EKT’s ePublishing services (http://epublishing.ekt.gr/) are directed to public and extended public institution publishers of accredited scholarly journals. They include, most significantly, the organization, documentation and organized dissemination of metadata and content of scholarly journals, the training and consulting services on issues such as intellectual property, the standardization of editorial processes according to internationally accepted standards, the inclusion of content and metadata in international content indexers and harvesters via interoperable systems.