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Abstract
The current study provides an examination of the publication productivity of 46 previously identified top-ranked criminology and criminal justice scholars across a host of publication productivity metrics. More importantly, the trajectories of the citations accumulated by these scholars’ published works from 2007–2016 are estimated. Results reveal five distinct group-based trajectories, and there are several factors such as the author’s h-index, the author’s number of publications, and the age of the publication that were significantly associated with the citation-based, trajectory group membership. In addition, some of the most frequently cited papers were systematic reviews and meta-analysis and papers focusing on developmental life-course criminology or biosocial research. Study implications are discussed.
Notes
1 It is important to note that in a recent follow-up on the scholars previously identified as the 15 top-ranked Assistant Professor scholars in the original Copes, Khey, and Tewksbury (Citation2012) study, Khey (Citation2017) ranked these scholars in descending order as follows: Wesley Jennings, Allison, Redlich, JC Barnes, Abigail Fagan, Chris Gibson, Thomas Holt, Christopher Sullivan, Terrance Taylor, Brent Teasdale, Leah Daigle, Amie Schuck, Brian Stults, Christopher Melde, and Nathalie Fontaine. In addition, their citations ranged from a low 790 to a high of 3,198.