Academic Affiliations of Social Work Journal Article Authors, 2004-2008

Abstract

The researchers tabulated the academic affiliations of the authors of all articles published between 2004 and 2008 in 6 major social work journals to produce a ranking of the colleges and universities whose faculty made the most substantive contributions to the social work literature. The results of this analysis are compared with findings of 5 identical, previously published studies, which cover the 5-year periods of 1979-1983, 1984-1988, 1989-1993, 1994-1998, and 1999-2003. The limitations of this method of analysis are discussed, as are its merits.