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.

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This is an article from PS: Political Science & Politics 34 (2001): 675, doi:10.1017/S1049096501001081. Posted with permission.

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Cambridge University Press

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en

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