Affilia

*Affilia*
Discipline	Social work
Language	English
Edited by	Yoosun Park, Stéphanie Wahab, Rupaleem Bhuyan
Publication details
History	1986–present
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	1.028 (2018)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Affilia
Indexing;
ISSN	0886-1099 (print); 1552-3020 (web);
LCCN	90656452
OCLC no.	12871850
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access; Online archive;

Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers social work practices 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.

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[]

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 (My Struggle), 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]