Research productivity in communication: An analysis, 1915–2001

Hickson, Mark; Bodon, Jean; Turner, J.

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“…To the extent that future studies substantiate and support the conclusions of this study, a few implications for professional practice may be derived. First and perhaps most important is the strong relationship of initial productivity to productivity across the career, a relationship previously suggested in the communication literature (Hickson et al, 1989, 1999, 2004), as well as in the literatures of other fields. Rates of publication at the 3‐year milestone are strong indicators of total career publication productivity.…”

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“…Subjective judgment also enters into questions of quantity and rate of publication because research into publication productivity in the field has heretofore been hampered by the constraints of available data sources, sources that generally have been limited to a select subset of the publications of the field, at best the relatively small number indexed in one or another edition of Index to Journals in Communication Studies Through 1995 (Matlon & Ortiz, 1997). As well, prior work has tended to focus on questions of the average productivity of all scholars in the field at all points in history (Hickson, Stacks, & Bodon, 1999), of the relative productivity of departments (Barker, Hall, Roach, & Underberg, 1981), or of the productivity of exceptional scholars (Hickson, Bodon, & Turner, 2004; Hickson, Stacks, & Amsbary, 1989).…”

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Normative Publication Productivity of Communication Scholars at Selected Career Milestones

Stephen¹,

Geel²

2007

Human Comm Res

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This study builds on past research on normative publication practices in the communication discipline by exploring rates of contribution to the discipline's literature as represented in the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship's ComAbstracts database. The ComAbstracts database, spanning 90 years and more than 46,000 publications, provides significantly greater breadth and depth than previously available data sources. The strategy for sampling scholars included in this study also differs from prior work by limiting the sample to scholars affiliated with the communication field through membership in one of its primary professional societies. For purposes of studying historical change in productivity, the sample of scholars was divided into six cohorts at different points in their careers to discover norms for publication productivity at milestone intervals following career onset, defined as the date of award of the Ph.D. or an equivalent terminal degree. Among other findings, results suggest (a) that rates of contribution of single-authored articles have fallen significantly over the years without compensating increases in the number of multiauthored publications, (b) that an early high rate of publication productivity is highly predictive of a sustained high rate, and (c) that more than one third of the membership of the scholars sample had not contributed any articles to the field's mainline periodical literature. As well, a metric for determining exceptionally high and low productivity rates by career stage is suggested and illustrated, revealing a way of identifying top-tier and subnormal productivity adjusted for years in career.

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Normative Publication Productivity of Communication Scholars at Selected Career Milestones

Stephen¹,

Geel²

2007

Human Comm Res

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“…Hickson et al (2004) note that by the late 1970s, “assessment had achieved a place in communication,” with academic journals emerging as the “the gatekeepers of knowledge of the profession” (p. 324). Subsequent investigations have examined research article productivity in such sub-domains as telecommunication (e.g., Vincent, 1991), advertising (Zou, 2005), across ethnic diasporas in Communication (So, 2001), by gender (Hickson et al, 1992), and across the Communication field generally (e.g., Griffin et al, 2018).…”

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The Evolution of Research in Journalism and Communication: An Analysis of Scholarly CIOS-Indexed Journals From 1915 to Present

Atkin

Lagoe

Stephen

et al. 2020

Journalism & Mass Communication Educator

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Assessments of programmatic research remain important in the current higher education landscape, as the field of Journalism & Mass Communication (JMC) enters its second century. This study profiles scholarly productivity across the larger discipline’s first century, focusing on scholarly output for institutions in referred journals indexed by the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS) database since 1915. The 30 most prolific scholars all have at least a decade of experience and typically publish with a coauthor. All but four of the 30 most prolific units grant doctoral degrees. Implications of converging research areas wrought by emerging digital media—and their erasure of the field’s sub-domains—are discussed.

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“…En esta línea se pueden señalar los trabajos de Burroughs y otros (1989), Hickson (1991), Funkhouser (1996), Hickson, Bodon y Turner (2004), Stephen y Geel (2007) o Hickson y otros (2009) en lo que respecta a la investigación en Comunicación de masas, las contribuciones de Wilhoit (1984) Riffe y Freitag (1998) o Lauf (2005 en el ámbito de los estudios de Periodismo o las de Soley y Reid (1983, 1988, Pasadeos (1985), Pasadeos y Phelps (1998) o Zou (2005 sobre Publicidad.…”

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Los ‘Radio Studies’ en España. Tres décadas de investigación en las revistas académicas de Comunicación

Piñeiro-Otero

2015

Estud. Mensaje Period.

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Los 'Radio Studies' en España. ResumenLa investigación comunicativa en España ha vivido una importante expansión en las últimas décadas. Esta evolución no ha sido equilibrada, sino que ha potenciado determinadas temáticas y aproximaciones en detrimento de otras. En esta línea el presente artículo ha tenido por objeto efectuar un análisis longitu dinal de la producción científica sobre radio publicada en las principales revistas de Comunicación es pañolas entre 19802013. Dicho análisis se ha centrado en la evolución de la publicación de artículos sobre radio, las principales temáticas y enfoques de dicha investigación, así como la orientación teórica metodológica de dichas contribuciones y su evolución a lo largo de tres décadas. Unas variables que han permitido efectuar una aproximación crítica respecto a la investigación radiofónica en España. Palabras clave: comunicación radiofónica, investigación comunicativa, estudios de radio, metacomu nicación.'Radio Studies' in Spain. Three decades of research in academic Communication journals (19802013) AbstractThe communication research in Spain has lived a major expansion in recent decades. This evolution has not been balanced; it has enhanced certain topics and approaches over others. Knowing this context, this article aims to conduct a longitudinal analysis of radio scientific production published in Spanish Com munication journals between 19802013. This analysis has focused on the evolution of the publication of articles on radio, main topics and approaches of the research and theoretical methodological guid ance of these contributions and evolution over three decades. These variables have allowed making a critical approach on radio research in Spain.

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Research productivity in communication: An analysis, 1915–2001

Cited by 16 publications

References 6 publications

Normative Publication Productivity of Communication Scholars at Selected Career Milestones

Normative Publication Productivity of Communication Scholars at Selected Career Milestones

The Evolution of Research in Journalism and Communication: An Analysis of Scholarly CIOS-Indexed Journals From 1915 to Present

Los ‘Radio Studies’ en España. Tres décadas de investigación en las revistas académicas de Comunicación

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