Family Relations is a peer reviewed

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 academic journal

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 published on behalf of the National Council on Family Relations by Wiley-Blackwell. It covers family studies and social work

Social work

Social Work is a professional and academic discipline that seeks to improve the quality of life and wellbeing of an individual, group, or community by intervening through research, policy, community organizing, direct practice, and teaching on behalf of those afflicted with poverty or any real or...

 research

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, educational practices or philosophies

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, and professional development

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 for researchers, educators, family policy specialists and family practitioners

Family medicine

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Abstracting and indexing

Family Relations is abstracted and indexed in, among others, EBSCO databases

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. According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2010 impact factor

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of 1.216, ranking it 18th of 40 in in the category "Family Studies" and 8th of 39 in the category of "Social Work".