Affilia

Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers social work practice(s) and feminist analysis of gender inequality. The editors-in-chief are Yoosun Park (Smith College School for Social Work), Stéphanie Wahab (Portland State University), and Rupaleem Bhuyan (University of Toronto). The journal was established in 1986 and is published by SAGE Publications. The founding editor was Beatrice Saunders.

Affilia
DisciplineSocial work
LanguageEnglish
Edited byYoosun Park, Stéphanie Wahab, Rupaleem Bhuyan
Publication details
History1986–present
Publisher
SAGE Publications
FrequencyQuarterly
1.028 (2018)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Affilia
Indexing
ISSN0886-1099 (print)
1552-3020 (web)
LCCN90656452
OCLC no.12871850
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Abstracting and indexing

Affilia is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to Journal Citation Reports, its 2017 impact factor is 0.833, ranking it 24th out of 42 journals in the category "Women's Studies", and 29th out of 42 journals in the category "Social Work."[1]

Grievance studies affair
Main article: Grievance studies affair

In October 2018, it was revealed that the journal had accepted for publication a hoax article entitled "Our Struggle Is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism." It was later reported that the manuscript included plagiarized sections from Chapter 12 of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, in which Hitler describes why the Nazi party is needed and what it requires of its members. The authors replaced Hitler's references to "National Socialism" with "feminism" and "Jews" with "privilege". The submission of the paper was an attempt to show the lack of rigor in some fields of academia, so-called "grievance studies", by demonstrating that absurdities and morally fashionable political ideas could get published as legitimate academic research in the field.[2][3][4]

See also

References
  1. "SAGE Journals: Your gateway to world-class journal research". journals.sagepub.com. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
  2. Jillian Kay Melchior (2018-10-02). "Fake news comes to academia". The Wall Street Journal. United States. Archived from the original on 2018-10-05. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
  3. Schuessler, Jennifer (October 4, 2018). "Hoaxers Slip Breastaurants and Dog-Park Sex Into Journals". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2018-10-10. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  4. "Duped academic journal publishes rewrite of 'Mein Kampf' as feminist manifesto". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2018-10-08.


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