Social Work is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of social work.

It was established in 1920 as The Compass and was renamed Social Work Journal in 1948.

[1][2] It is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the National Association of Social Workers, of which it is the official journal.

The editor-in-chief is Tricia Bent-Goodley (Howard University).

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 1.145.