Campus Units
Political Science
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
2001
Journal or Book Title
PS: Political Science & Politics
Volume
34
Issue
3
First Page
675
Last Page
680
DOI
10.1017/S1049096501001081
Abstract
The relationship between reputational rankings of political science departments and their scholarly productivity remains a source of discussion and controversy. After the National Research Council (1995) published its ranking of 98 political science departments, Katz and Eagles (1996), Jackman and Siverson (1996), and Lowry and Silver (1996) analyzed the factors that seemingly influenced those rankings. Miller, Tien, and Peebler (1996) offered an alternate approach to ranking departments, based both upon the number of faculty (and their graduates) who published in the American Political Science Review and upon the number of citations that faculty members received. More recently, two studies have examined departmental rankings in other ways. Ballard and Mitchell (1998) assessed political science departments by evaluating the level of productivity in nine important disciplinary and subfield journals, and Garand and Graddy (1999) evaluated the impact of journal publications (and other variables) on the rankings of political science departments. In general, Miller, Tien, and Peebler found a high level of correspondence between reputation rankings and productivity, Ballard and Mitchell did not, and Garand and Graddy found that publications in “high impact” journals were important for departmental rankings.
Copyright Owner
Cambridge University Press
Copyright Date
2001
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
McCormick, James M. and Rice, Tom W., "Graduate Training and Research Productivity in the 1990s: A Look at Who Publishes" (2001). Political Science Publications. 25.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/pols_pubs/25
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Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Higher Education Commons, Political Science Commons
Comments
This is an article from PS: Political Science & Politics 34 (2001): 675, doi:10.1017/S1049096501001081. Posted with permission.