Family Relations (journal)

This article is about the academic journal. For the Russian film of the same name, see Family Relations.

Family Relations is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the National Council on Family Relations. It covers applied research on family studies and social work. The journal was established in 1952 as The Coordinator, renamed The Family Life Coordinator in 1960, and renamed again in 1970 to The Family Coordinator before obtaining its current title in 1980.

Family Relations

Discipline	Family science, social work
Language	English
Edited by	Wendy Middlemiss
Publication details
History	1952-present
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the National Council on Family Relations
Frequency	5/year
Impact factor	1.317 (2019)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Fam. Relat.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	FCOOBE
ISSN	0197-6664 (print) 1741-3729 (web)
LCCN	80642226
JSTOR	01976664
OCLC no.	5885388
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive Journal page at National Council on Family Relations website

Editors

The following persons are or have been editors-in-chief of the journal:

• 2019-present: Wendy Middlemiss
• 2016-2018: Jason D. Hans
• 2010-2015: Ronald M. Sabbatelli
• 2005-2009: Joyce Arditti
• 2001-2004: Kay Pasley
• 1997-2000: Jeffrey W. Dwyer
• 1993-1996: Mark A. Fine
• 1987-1992: Timothy H. Brubaker
• 1982-1986: Michael Sporakowski
• 1976-1981: James Walters
• 1970-1975: William C. Nichols, Jr.
• 1968-1969: William M. Smith, Jr.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• EBSCO databases
• Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences^[1]
• InfoTrac
• ProQuest databases
• Social Sciences Citation Index^[1]
• VINITI Database RAS

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 1.426.^[2]