The most-cited scholars in criminal justice textbooks, 1989–1993

The state and evolution of information systems research in canada: a scientometric analysis

“…The study of individual research productivity also has a long-standing tradition in various scientifi c disciplines (Bapna & Marsden, 2002;Wright & Cohn, 1996). Individual productivity is important since it directly affects promotion and tenure, builds international reputation, and facilitates external collaboration.…”

Meta‐review of knowledge management and intellectual capital literature: citation impact and research productivity rankings

“…Bapna and Marsden (2002) and Erkut (2002) examine research productivity and impact of business schools faculty members. Similar projects have been conducted in various areas such as operations research (Vokurka, 1996), management information systems (Grover et al, 1992;Im et al, 1998), computer science (Goodrum et al, 2001), artificial intelligence (Cheng et al, 1996), and jurisprudence (Wright and Cohn, 1996). There also exist two journals-Cybermetrics: International Journal of Scientometrics, Informetrics and Bibliometrics, and Science Watch-devoted to the study of the quantitative analysis of scholarly and scientific communications, citation impacts, and productivities of individual researchers.…”

“Scholarly influence” and white-collar crime scholarship

“…There is an alternative approach studying scholarly influence in criminology/ criminal justice through the use of citation analysis of introductory criminal justice textbooks (see, for example [42]; [59]; [61]). The rationale behind this method of analysis is that introductory textbooks meant to provide a general summary of the accumulated knowledge of a discipline to a new audience [28].…”

“…Notably, as one of the prolific scholars of the prestige and influence structure of criminology and criminal justice the late Richard A. Wright concluded there is a divergence between the citations found in criminology and criminal justice textbooks on the one hand and those found in the professional journals on the other (see, [56][57][58][59]61]). In order to underscore these differences Wright titled one of his articles focusing on the citations of these two kinds of outlets as "The two criminologies: the divergent worldviews of textbooks and journals."…”