Using citation analysis, this study examines the influence and
prestige of scholars, journals, and university departments in the
fields of criminology and criminal justice. In the tradition of
Marvin E. Wolfgang's "Evaluating Criminology," the authors apply
this quantitative method to evaluate the impact of individuals and
their research efforts on two fields and to identify
interconnections among scholars and their publications. This
examination of the most-cited scholars, works, and topics in major
American and international journals from 1986 to 1990 and from 1991
to 1995 provides valuable and unbiased feedback for researchers and
practitioners.
The nine chapters of this book detail a wide range of findings
in both criminology and criminal justice. After an introduction to
the methodology, chapters two, three, and four divide recent
scholarship into two periods, 1986 to 1990 and 1991 to 1995, in
order to consider the most-cited scholars, works, and topics.
Chapter five provides a longitudinal analysis of scholars in the
discipline since 1945. Chapters six and seven provide a system of
prestige-ratings for relevant journals as well as page coverage
analysis of the most influential scholars. The continuing
controversy over whether the two fields are converging or diverging
is the subject of chapter eight, and the work concludes with a
prescription for further research.
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