PUBLIC-ADMINISTRATION PRODUCTIVITY - AN ASSESSMENT OF FACULTY IN PA PROGRAMS

This article examines the relative frequency of contributions made by faculty members in public administration programs to the professional public administration journals. With the call for a leaner and more pr oductive government sector (e.g., universities), the profession needs to know which programs are producing most of the cutting-edge knowledg e, the research strengths of these programs, and where they publish. M ore specifically, the analysis draws on evidence from articles found i n highly ranked journals. To reflect on relative productivity using fo ur categories of measures: which schools (a) publish the greatest numb er of articles in the journals, (b) publish the greatest member of sin gle-authored equivalent articles in the journals, (c) publish the grea test number of articles in the ''best'' journals, and (d) publish the greatest member of single-authored equivalent articles in the best jou rnals. Together, the findings offer a comprehensive view of public adm inistration faculty productivity in central public administration jour nals.