“…Most prominent in this scholarship were 'ranking studies' that focus on identifying and ordering individual scholars based on publication or citations counts. 1 Regarding rankings of individual scholars, some have identified and ranked 'academic stars' (Long, Boggess, & Jennings, 2011;Rice, Cohn, & Farrington, 2005;Shutt & Barnes, 2008), those who publish in the most prestigious journals (Sorensen, 1994), most frequent lead or solo authors in elite journals (Orrick & Weir, 2010) and female scholars (Khey, Jennings, Higgins, Schoepfer, & Langton, 2011;Rice, Terry, Miller, & Ackerman, 2007). A focus on departmental productivity includes assessments of faculty in doctoral programmes (Cohn & Farrington, 1998;Kleck & Barnes, 2011;Kleck, Wang, & Tark, 2007;Sorensen, Patterson, & Widmayer, 1992), graduates of specific graduate programmes (Cohn, Farrington, & Sorensen, 2000;Shutt & Barnes, 2008), faculty in doctoral and master's degreegranting programmes (Fabianic, 2002).…”