Citing the Empirical Shreds on Social Welfare and Methods of Social Work Employing Bibliometric Analysis From 1971 to 2020

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper was to evaluate the literature on social welfare, social casework, social group work, and community organization employing bibliometric analysis from 1971 to 2020. We extracted data from the science citation index database, web of science (core collection) extracted at 08:35 PM, PST on May 09, 2021. A total of 4015 published documents were found. The study findings revealed that social welfare was the top topic and more than half of the documents were published in article form in the English language. The published documents increased in number gradually year-wise and reached a higher portion in 2016 to 2020. The of Bixby AK was on top of the list of top twenty authors' information and Dept. Econ, United States was the top organization. Similarly, United States was the top country, social welfare top keyword, the policy was the top keyword plus, and social work was a top source of publication. Further, the top funding agency was the National Natural Science Foundation of China NSFC and the top article by citation was written by Dayton, PK. This study fill the gap and addition in the existing body of knowledge in the field of social work. Keywords: Social Welfare, Social Case Work, Social Group Work, Community Organization, Bibliometric Study.