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Abstract
The rapid increases in technology and communication over the past 20 years are undoubtedly providing scholars greater opportunity to collaborate on research. But collaboration brings with it a number of concerns for individuals embarking on such endeavors, as well as entire fields within academia. Of particular concern to this study is the perceived fairness of authorship ranking in multiple‐authored scholarship. In order to examine the extent to which such problems exist in criminology and criminal justice, 123 authors of collaborative scholarship found in 15 journals in the field for 1999 and 2000 were surveyed. The majority of researchers were found to have experienced disagreement over authorship ranking sometime during their careers. The implications of this finding and others are discussed.
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The textbooks reviewed by Mcskimming et al. (Citation2000) were Babbie (Citation1998), Berg (Citation1998), Champion (Citation1993), Fitzgerald and Cox (Citation1998), Frankfort‐Nachmias and Nachmias (Citation1996), Hagan (Citation1997), Leedy (Citation1997), Maxfield and Babbie (1998), Miller and Whitehead (Citation1996), Senese (Citation1998), and Taylor (Citation1994).
The textbooks reviewed by Sever (2001) were Babbie (Citation1998), Berg (Citation1998), Champion (Citation1993), Fitzgerald and Cox (Citation1998), Hagan (Citation2000), Maxfield and Babbie (1998), Miller and Whitehead (Citation1996), Neuman and Wiegard (Citation2000) Senese (Citation1998), and Taylor (Citation1994).
In full, the journals reviewed by Fisher et al. (Citation1998) included the following: sociology (American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Social Forces), political science (American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Politics), criminology and criminal justice (Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Criminal Justice, and Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency).
The journals that were used included: Justice Quarterly, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Drug Issues, Crime and Delinquency, Canadian Journal of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Deviant Behavior, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Policing and Society, Policing, British Journal of Criminology, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, and Criminology.