THE SCIENTIFIC STATURE OF COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING-PROGRAMS - ASTILL PICTURE OF A SHIFTING SCENE

Previous research examining the scientific stature of counseling psych ology training programs has not attended to emerging methodological is sues. Two databases (PsycLIT from 1974 to June of 1991 and the Social Science Citation Index [SSCI] from 1971 to 1991) provided publication and citation frequencies for all 488 counseling psychology faculty aff iliated with all 68 currently active doctoral programs. Grand total sc ores from these databases were determined and then adjusted on the bas is of faculty size alone, faculty age alone, and faculty size and age combined. An additional stability correction was derived by deleting t he record of the most prolific (PsycLIT) or cited (SSCI) faculty membe r from the total scores of each program. The leading programs identifi ed on the basis of the 11 adjusted and unadjusted measures of scientif ic stature are presented. An r of .70 between PsycLIT and SSCI was fou nd.