Citation Impact of Women in Social Work

Abstract

Purpose: We assessed citation impact scholarship of women in the top 25-ranked schools of social work in the United States. Method: We used a mixed methodology. Part 1 was a secondary data analysis of the top-25 U.S. News and World Report ranked schools from 2012 using the Hirsch h-index over a 10-year period. Qualitative interviews were conducted with graduates from top-ranked schools. We then examined the faculty websites. Results: The mean h-score was 18.64. The majority of these women were employed at the University of Washington (n ¼ 6), followed by Columbia University and the Universities of Southern California (n ¼ 3, respectively), Michigan, and California at Berkeley (n ¼ 2, respectively). Discussion: The overall impact scores for these women are significant and speak to a number of factors including negotiating long-standing systemic and structural variables. We continue to describe elements of research cultures, which are essential to our profession's academic development in today's corporate university cultures.

Zehn Jahre Soziale Passagen: Eine empirische Analyse ihrer Themen

“…Der h-Index wird auch genutzt, um Zitierhäufigkeiten von Doktorand*innenprogrammen (Smith et al 2018), Fakultäten der Sozialen Arbeit (Ligon et al 1995), oder die Soziale Arbeit mit anderen Disziplinen (Barner et al 2014) zu vergleichen. Zitationen werden zudem herangezogen, um sie mit anderen Merkmalen von Artikeln oder Wissenschaftler*innen in Bezug zu setzen und damit komplexere Fragestellungen zu beantworten, wie beispielsweise der Frage nach dem Zusammenhang zwischen ,wissenschaftlichen Einfluss' ("academic impact") und Gender (Sheppard 2017) sowie beruflicher Position in der Wissenschaft (Carter et al 2017;Holosko et al 2016).…”

Evidence, Expertise, and Ethics

“…In an analysis of the 100 most-cited articles in disciplinary journals from 2000 to 2009, Eileen was sole (Gambrill, 2006) or coauthor (Gibbs & Gambrill, 2002) of two of the top three articles and sole author of a third (Gambrill, 2001;Hodge, Lacasse, & Benson, 2011). Another review lists her among the 25 ''most-cited female faculty'' in 25 top-rated schools of social work between 2004 and 2014 (Holosko, Barner, & Allen, 2015). Of the 14 articles listed in the h-index for that period, Eileen is sole author of 12 and one of two authors on the others.…”