Publication productivity of faculty members in criminology and criminal justice doctoral programs

Abstract

This study evaluates the publication productivity of faculty members in 23 programs offering doctorates in criminology, criminal justice, or a closely related discipline. The departments are ranked according to the number of journal publications and the number of pages published by faculty members from various indexes from 1986 through 1990. We create a scale of journal quality and use it to rank programs by their faculties' publication of articles in those journals. Programs also are ranked by the number of times faculty members were cited in introductory criminology and criminal justice textbooks. In the final analysis we compare a cumulation of these rankings to a cumulative ranking from previous studies. Drastic changes have occurred in the ranking of many doctoral programs during the past decade.