THERES MORE TO COUNTING THAN MEETS THE EYE - COMMENT

Surveys of the literature may facilitate future scholarship by identif ying important conceptual developments or recent advances in empirical research. However, we suggest that Shortz, Worthington, McCollough, D eVries, and Morrow's (1994) conclusions regarding prominent trends in marital therapy and research suffer serious limitations based on the a uthors' failure to consider objective indices of either journals' infl uence or authors' actual impact, in addition to their exclusion of non journal sources and use of an arbitrary method of weighting authorship . We identify alternative approaches to evaluating published scholarsh ip for use in future surveys.