THE USE OF CITATION INDICES IN COMPARING GEOGRAPHY PROGRAMS: AN EXPLORATORY STUDYFootnote∗
∗We thank Greg Knapp, William Koelsch, Susan Hanson, David Ward, and the reviewers of this paper for their comments during various stages of its development.

B. L. Turner II Director of the Graduate Schooi of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA, 01610

William B. Meyer Graduate student in geography, Clark University

Citation information is discussed as a means for ranking the research and publication visibility of eleven graduate programs in geography. It is suggested that the ranks produced by this objective method correspond better to the peer-based ranks of the 1982 NRC survey of graduate programs than those derived from publication counts. Citation information also provides a means of evaluating the differences between programs' inter- and intradisciplinary visibility.

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His research specialty is cukural ecology.

His interests include economic geography and the history of geographic thought.

∗We thank Greg Knapp, William Koelsch, Susan Hanson, David Ward, and the reviewers of this paper for their comments during various stages of its development.

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THE USE OF CITATION INDICES IN COMPARING GEOGRAPHY PROGRAMS: AN EXPLORATORY STUDYFootnote∗
∗We thank Greg Knapp, William Koelsch, Susan Hanson, David Ward, and the reviewers of this paper for their comments during various stages of its development.