Abstract
One important dimension of the quality of a graduate program is the quality of its faculty. Previous assessments of the publication productivity of criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) faculties have been needlessly incomplete and narrow, reflecting publications only in a small number of CCJ journals. Assessments covering only CCJ journals fail to reflect the multi-disciplinary nature of CCJ and bias results against programs whose most productive scholars publish in non-CCJ journals. The present research covers the full array of major journals in which CCJ-related research appears, by searching for articles using the Web of Science and ProQuest databases. This article is an update of two previous evaluations, covering 2000–2004 and 2005–2009. Based on article counts, the most productive faculties are those of Sam Houston State University, Florida State University and the University of Cincinnati. The article also summarizes changes in rankings of CCJ programs from 2000 through 2014.
Notes
1 This does not mean that we automatically entered a publication if it showed up on the vita. Rather, we then attempted to locate the specific publication in the WOS or ProQuest databases to determine whether it had been mistakenly overlooked.
2 “Authorships” are what was referred to as “publications” in previous evaluations (Kleck & Barnes, Citation2011; Kleck et al., Citation2007).