A Metastudy of Adultspan Journal : An Analysis of Publication Characteristics From 1999 to 2019

Abstract

Articles published in Adultspan Journal from 1999 to 2019 were analyzed for trends over time in author characteristics (e.g., leading contributors and institutions, work setting, gender, domicile) and article characteristics (e.g., reporting standards, topics, research design, participant characteristics, and statistical sophistication).

A Metastudy of Journal of Counseling & Development: An Analysis of Publication Characteristics From 2000 to 2019

“…The growing overall proportion of research to nonresearch articles was impressive as the proportion of JCD research articles nearly doubled over the past 2 decades, increasing from 41.3% in 2000–2004 to 76.3% in 2015–2019. Not surprisingly, this trend toward more published research articles was noted in recent metastudies of many other counseling family journals, including Adultspan Journal (Rippeto et al, 2021), CES (Johnsen et al, 2021); CORE (Johnson et al, 2021), CVJ (Alder et al, in press), JAOC (MacInerney et al, 2020), JCC (Milowsky et al, in press), JMHC (Menzies et al, 2020), and MECD (Saks et al, 2020). Indeed, several counseling family journals are now close to or exceeding an 80% threshold of published research articles (i.e., CES, CORE, JCC , and MECD ).…”

“…The number of authors credited for each article has grown steadily over the past 20 years from 2.27 authors per JCD article in 2000–2004 to 3.18 authors per article in 2015–2019. This trend of multiple authorship is also apparent in other counseling journals, including Adultspan Journal (Rippeto et al, 2021), CORE (Johnson et al, 2021), CVJ (Alder et al, in press), JAOC (MacInerney et al, 2020), JCC (Milowsky et al, in press), JMHC (Menzies et al, 2020), and MECD (Saks et al, 2020). Previously, Erford et al (2011) found that JCD authorship also reflected this trend, and recent growth suggests an expanded author collaboration, and perhaps mentorship, culture in the last decade.…”

“…Female authors constituted 52.4% of the total authorship from 2000 to 2004 and maintain a firm majority at 59% in the past 10 years. Indeed, known metastudies indicate that majority women authorship is now consistent across nearly all counseling family journals, including Adultspan Journal (Rippeto et al, 2021), Counseling and Values ( CVJ ; Alder et al, in press), Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation ( CORE ; Johnson et al, 2021), JAOC (MacInerney et al, 2020), JCC (Milowsky et al, in press), JMHC (Menzies et al, 2020), and MECD (Saks et al, 2020). Only the Journal of Humanistic Counseling ( JHC ; Sylvester et al, in press), at about 45%, currently does not have majority women authorship.…”

“…Many other counseling family journals have an equally low rate of nonuniversity authors. These include Adultspan Journal (Rippeto et al, 2021), CORE (Johnson et al, 2021), Counselor Education and Supervision ( CES ; Johnsen et al, 2021), CVJ (Alder et al, in press), JAOC (MacInerney et al, 2020), JCC (Milowsky et al, in press), and MECD (Saks et al, 2020). Even JMHC (Menzies et al, 2020), which has historically had a practitioner author rate above 10%, dropped to a 3.8% proportion in 2015–2019.…”

“…Metastudies of other counseling family journals have been conducted to analyze publication patterns to inform and guide editorial decisions about counseling scholarship. For example, MacInerney et al (2020) published a metastudy of author and article characteristics from 1998 to 2017 in the Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling ( JAOC ); Milowsky et al (in press) and Menzies et al (2020) performed metastudies of the Journal of College Counseling ( JCC ) and the Journal of Mental Health Counseling ( JMHC ), respectively, from 2000 to 2019; and Rippeto et al (2021) analyzed Adultspan Journal publication characteristics between the years 1999 and 2019.…”