2018/07/18 by Amy Krings, Bryan G Victor, John Mathias +1
paper · doi:10.1177/0020872818788397
crossref issued 2018/07/18 · crossref published 2018/07/18 · crossref published-online 2018/07/18 · crossref created 2018/07/18 · crossref published-print 2020/05/01 · crossref deposited 2026/04/29 · crossref indexed 2026/07/28
Despite increasing acknowledgment that the social work profession must address environmental concerns, relatively little is known about the state of scholarship on environmental social work. This study provides a scientometric summary of peer-reviewed articles ( N = 497) pertaining to environmental topics in social work journals between 1991 and 2015. We find that theoretical and empirical scholarship on environmental social work is growing, though this growth remains limited to specific geographical regions and topics. We note the need to clarify the relationship between environmental social work as a theoretical paradigm and as a research topic.