Letter From the Editor: Introducing the New Mission for the Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research

Abstract

T he Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research ( JSSWR) celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2019, and despite the pandemic that followed, the past 2 years have been the most productive in the journal’s history. In 2020 and 2021, we received a record 308 submissions; at the same time, we reduced our average time to first decision to just 25 days andmaintained our selectivity, accepting just 15% of all articles. We also expanded the journal’s page count to better accommodate the increasing number of submissions and added a “Just Accepted” section that publishes unedited articles online upon acceptance. And, our Impact Factor has increased to 1.603—our highest yet. We are grateful to the authors, reviewers, and editors who powered this progress. In the year ahead, we will continue expanding our editorial and publishing capacity, which will reduce the time to publication for accepted articles.We have also diversified our editorial board and will continue to diversify our pool of reviewers. The most noteworthy change is in the journal’s mission. Over the past 2 years, the JSSWR editorial board hasworked in close partnershipwith the Society for Social Work and Research Committee on Publications to advance JSSWR’s commitment to antiracist scholarship. In 2020, we published an editorial that called on the social work research community to energize emerging lines of scholarship that will generate new evidence for social change and to be even more steadfast in efforts to