Which Group Are You In?”

A Preliminary Investigation of Group‐Based Publication Trajectories of Criminology and Criminal Justice Scholars

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ID15316367
AutoresWesley G Jennings (0000-0001-7524-4825, autor correspondente), Chris L Gibson, Jeffrey T Ward (0000-0003-1607-5392), Kevin M Beaver (0000-0003-3042-3496)
Ano2008
Volume19
Fascículo2
Páginas227-250
Data de publicação2008-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Criminal Justice Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1051-1253 • E-ISSN: 1745-9117
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10511250802137556
OpenAlexW2004238351
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas28
Referências citadas23

This study employs Nagin and Land's (1993 Nagin, D. S. and Land, K. C. 1993. Age, criminal careers, and population heterogeneity: Specification and estimation of a nonparametric, mixed poisson model. Criminology, 31: 327–362. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]; Criminology, 31, 327–362) group‐based trajectory modeling procedure to examine the scholarly productivity of 204 criminology and criminal justice scholars currently employed in PhD granting programs. The results indicate that there are three groups of scholars that publish in a large number of multidisciplinary journals at different rates in their first six years post‐PhD: one group begins low, slightly increasing over time, yet ending low; another group begins with a moderate rate, noticeably increasing over time, and ending strong; and a third group of scholars starts high, surging even higher over time, and ending averaging well above the typical "two" publications per year. When group‐based trajectories were estimated taking into account the number of publications in eight "elite" criminology and criminal justice journals, three similar trajectory groups emerge, although the percentage of scholars in each of the three groups changes considerably. Additional analyses demonstrate that there are factors that also significantly distinguish group membership. Study limitations and implications are discussed

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