International Journal of Care and Caring

Aims & Scope

The International Journal of Care and Caring (IJCC) is a new multidisciplinary journal designed to advance scholarship and debate in the important and expanding field of care and caring.

Multidisciplinary and international in scope, it publishes high-quality contributions on care, caring and carers from all regions of the world.

IJCC has a broad focus, covering care and caring for people of any age who have long-term conditions, disabilities or frailties, or who are seriously ill or near the end of life.

It explores the economic, organisational, political, social, legal, familial, transnational and ethical settings in which this care occurs.

The International Journal of Care and Caring (IJCC) is concerned with care provided as paid work and as support for family members, friends or neighbours; with care in home, community and residential settings; and with formal and informal care relations, organisation, systems and markets.

It focuses on 'receiving' and 'giving' care and on the gendered nature and social, political, legal and economic status and circumstances of care and caring.

It debates the support needed in localities, workplaces and health systems to make care and caring feasible and rewarding for carers and dignified and supportive of independence for care recipients.

IJCC welcomes contributions on caring relationships, the ethics and political economy of care, care as a focus of moral philosophy and feminist analysis and care and caring as sources of claims-making and challenge and as the spur for national and global social movements.

The journal encourages critical engagement with policy and practice developments and aims to include contributions from different areas of the world in each edition.

Its regular Debates and Issues section features dialogue with carers’ organisations, policy makers, trade unions, employers and academics, to encourage global dialogue and international sharing of ideas, expertise and experience.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.2
2024	1.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.374

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	17

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	14464

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	163

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Medicine and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• There is an alternative: homines curans and the limits of neoliberalism

  Citation: 202

  Authors: Joan

• Care poverty: unmet care needs in a Nordic welfare state

  Citation: 54

  Authors: Teppo, Jiby Mathew, Lina

• Life course trajectories of family care

  Citation: 50

  Authors: Norah, Jacquie, Laura, Janet, Joohong

• Resisting hierarchies through relationality in the ethics of care

  Citation: 38

  Authors: Fiona

• Family care work: a policy-relevant research agenda

  Citation: 35

  Authors: Phyllis, Nicole

• Social consequences of family care of adults: a scoping review

  Citation: 34

  Authors: Norah, Jacquie

• An ethics of care research manifesto

  Citation: 29

  Authors: Tula

• Care and caring: interdisciplinary perspectives on a societal issue of global significance

  Citation: 29

  Authors: Sue, Yueh-Ching, Michael, Mary, Alisoun

• Care and violence through the lens of personal support workers

  Citation: 28

  Authors: Christine

• Care goes viral: care theory and research confront the global COVID-19 pandemic

  Citation: 28

  Authors: Michael, Joan

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