TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - H -index and m -quotient benchmarks of scholarly impact in criminology and criminal justice: a preliminary note
JO  - Journal of criminal justice education
A1  - Copes, Heith
A1  - Cardwell, Stephanie
A1  - Sloan, John J.
SP  - 441
EP  - 461
VL  - 23
IS  - 4
N2  - Because Scopus and metrics like the h-index and m-quotient have become increasingly popular for assessing the impact of social science scholarship, criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) departments may be tempted to use those metrics when making important decisions like tenure and promotion. However, since no discipline-wide standards based on those metrics yet exist, CCJ departments have no comparative basis for interpreting the results of citation analyses of a particular faculty member's scholarship. To identify what a set of disciplinary standards might look like, we used Scopus and calculated mean and median h-index and m-quotient values for faculty members (n = 504) in CCJ Ph.D. granting departments (n = 35) by rank and for editorial board members (n = 91) of Criminology, Justice Quarterly, and the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. Our results illustrate how comparative disciplinary standards could be developed and used by those in CCJ departments to assess the impact of faculty members' scholarship.<p />
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SN  - 1051-1253
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10511253.2012.680896
ID  - ref1
ER  -