SCHOLARLY PRODUCTIVITY IN CRIMINAL-JUSTICE - INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION OF AUTHORS IN THE TOP 10 CRIMINAL-JUSTICE JOURNALS

While many efforts have been aimed at evaluating the level of institut ional productivity in criminal justice, few are recent. Those that are tend to limit evaluations to departments or schools offering doctorat es in criminal justice. This study sought to evaluate the recent schol arly productivity of institutions by recording author affiliation for articles published in the top ten criminal justice journals over the p ast decade, 1983-1992. Fourteen top-ranking universities with a total of 431 publications during the period studied were identified. As expe cted, many of the these top-producing institutions offer doctorates in criminal justice or criminology; however, some of their rankings have changed from previous evaluations. By not limiting the evaluation to a previously selected handful of schools, some of the top-ranking inst itutions herein were less expected. Among the unexpected are instituti ons housing masters programs in criminal justice, or sociology program s with an emphasis in criminology. While a core of schools exist that significantly influence the discipline through numerous publications i n the top criminal justice journals, the boundaries separating them fr om other institutions are fluid and the top place rankings tentative.