Re‐Assessing Publication Productivity among Academic “Stars” in Criminology and Criminal Justice

Most-Cited Scholars in Criminology and Criminal Justice, 1986-2010

“…Productivity analysis, which looks at the productivity of faculty members in terms of their number of publications, has been used in CCJ to evaluate CCJ departments (Cohn & Farrington, 1998c ;Cohn, Farrington, & Sorenson, 2000 ;Davis & Sorenson, 2010 ;DeZee, 1980 ;Fabianic, 1981Fabianic, , 2001Fabianic, , 2002Kleck & Barnes, 2011 ;Kleck, Wang, & Tark, 2007 ;Oliver, Swindell, Marks, & Balusek, 2009 ;Parker & Goldfeder, 1979 ;Sorenson, 1994 ;Sorenson et al, 1992 ;Sorenson & Pilgrim, 2002 ;Steiner & Schwartz, 2006Taggart & Holmes, 1991 ). It has also been used either in place of or in addition to citation analysis to study the scholarly infl uence of individual scholars in CCJ Fabianic, 2012 ;Frost, Phillips, & Clear, 2007 ;Jennings, Gibson, Ward, & Beaver, 2008 ;Jennings, Schreck, Sturtz, & Mahoney, 2008 ;Khey, Jennings, Higgins, Schoepfer, & Langton, 2011 ;Long, Boggess, & Jennings, 2011 ;Oliver et al, 2009 ;Orrick & Weir, 2011 ;Rice, Cohn, & Farrington, 2005 ;Rice, Terry, Miller, & Ackerman, 2007 ;Shutt & Barnes, 2008 ;Stack, 2001 ;Steiner & Schwartz, 2006.…”

Perceptions on the Trend of Multi-Authored Collaboration: Results from a National Survey of Criminal Justice and Criminology Faculty

“…While there remains considerable attention to "academic stars" (Cohn et al, 2000;Khey et al, 2011;Long et al, 2011;Sorensen et al, 2006;Worley, 2011), the current data suggest the increase in multiauthored articles (as a whole) is unlikely to be the result of only the collaborations of these academic stars. The current results are similar to those found by Rice et al (2011) who used social networking analyses to illustrate the frequency of both publications and collaborations from prolific collaborators, demonstrating that the partnerships that these scholars created varied in their quantity of their unique (nonrepetitive) coauthorships.…”

“…More recently, authors have begun to use a web-based approach to citation counting and weighting (Khey, Jennings, Higgins, Schoepfer, & Langton, 2011;Long, Boggess, & Jennings, 2011;Worley, 2011). While one may contest the validity of the specific order of the ranking, what is harder to contest is that these rankings allow for increased status within the discipline; either for the prolific faculty member who is the author, or the department/university which is home to these "stars."…”

Criminology and Criminal Justice Hit Parade: Measuring Academic Productivity in the Discipline

“…Recent citation ranking in CCJ have relied on indices created using Harzing's Publish or Perish, which relies on data from Google Scholar (Khey, Jennings, Higgins, Schoepfer, & Langton, 2011;Long, Boggess, & Jennings, 2011). However, evaluations of citations using Google Scholar have pointed to 2.…”