About this Journal

Aims and scope

Health and Social Care in the Community is an international peer-reviewed journal with a multidisciplinary audience including social workers, health care professionals with a community or public health focus e.g. public health practitioners, GP’s, Community Nurses and Social Care researchers and educators.

The Journal promotes critical thinking and informed debate about all aspects of health and social care. Original papers are sought that reflect the broad range of policy, practice and theoretical issues underpinning the provision of care in the community.

Health and Social Care in the Community publishes systematic and narrative reviews, policy analysis and empirical qualitative or quantitative papers including papers that focus on professional or patient education.

Bibliographic information

ISSN: 1365-2524 (Online)  

DOI: 10.1155/hsc   

    Abstracting and Indexing

    Discoverability

    The journal's articles appear in a wide range of abstracting and indexing databases, and are covered by numerous other services, as given in the full list below. The following link provides more information about Wiley's approach to making articles more discoverable.

    Indexing Information

    • Abstracts in Social Gerontology (EBSCO Publishing)
    • Abstracts on Hygiene & Communicable Diseases (CABI)
    • Academic Search (EBSCO Publishing)
    • Academic Search Alumni Edition (EBSCO Publishing)
    • Academic Search Elite (EBSCO Publishing)
    • Academic Search Premier (EBSCO Publishing)
    • AgeLine Database (EBSCO Publishing)
    • Agricultural & Environmental Science Database (ProQuest)
    • AMED: Allied & Complementary Medicine Database (British Library)
    • CAB Abstracts® (CABI)
    • CAS: Chemical Abstracts Service (ACS)
    • CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (EBSCO Publishing)
    • Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences (Clarivate Analytics)
    • Global Health (CABI)
    • Health Research Premium Collection (ProQuest)
    • Health Source Nursing/Academic (EBSCO Publishing)
    • HEED: Health Economic Evaluations Database (Wiley-Blackwell)
    • Journal Citation Reports/Social Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics)
    • Leisure Tourism Database (CABI)
    • Leisure, Recreation & Tourism Abstracts (CABI)
    • Natural Science Collection (ProQuest)
    • Nutrition Abstracts & Reviews Series A: Human & Experimental (CABI)
    • ProQuest Central (ProQuest)
    • ProQuest Sociology Collection (ProQuest)
    • PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts (APA)
    • Public Health Database (ProQuest)
    • Review of Aromatic & Medicinal Plants (CABI)
    • Rural Development Abstracts (CABI)
    • SciTech Premium Collection (ProQuest)
    • SCOPUS (Elsevier)
    • Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest)
    • Social Sciences Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
    • The RECAL Legacy (National Centre for Prosthetics & Orthodontics)
    • Tropical Diseases Bulletin (CABI)
    • World Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology Abstracts (CABI)