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Publication Date: 2016-Oct
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Citation Impact of Women in Social Work: Exploring Gender and Research Culture
Holosko, Michael J.; Barner, John R.; Allen, Junior Lloyd
Research on Social Work Practice, v26 n6 p723-729 Oct 2016
Purpose: We assessed citation impact scholarship of women in the top 25-ranked schools of social work in the United States. Method: We used a mixed methodology. Part 1 was a secondary data analysis of the top-25 "U.S. News and World Report" ranked schools from 2012 using the Hirsch h-index over a 10-year period. Qualitative interviews were conducted with graduates from top-ranked schools. We then examined the faculty websites. Results: The mean h-score was 18.64. The majority of these women were employed at the University of Washington (n = 6), followed by Columbia University and the Universities of Southern California (n = 3, respectively), Michigan, and California at Berkeley (n = 2, respectively). Discussion: The overall impact scores for these women are significant and speak to a number of factors including negotiating long-standing systemic and structural variables. We continue to describe elements of research cultures, which are essential to our profession's academic development in today's corporate university cultures.
Descriptors: Social Work, Citation Analysis, Women Faculty, Womens Studies, Scholarship, Mixed Methods Research, Interviews, Graduate Surveys, Web Sites, Classification, Females, College Faculty, Productivity, Educational Research, Faculty Publishing
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Identifiers - Location: California (Berkeley); California (Los Angeles); Michigan (Ann Arbor); New York (New York); Washington (Seattle)
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