THERES MORE TO COUNTING THAN MEETS THE EYE - COMMENT Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Surveys of the literature may facilitate future scholarship by identifying important conceptual developments or recent advances in empirical research. However, we suggest that Shortz, Worthington, McCollugh, DeVries, and Morrow's (1994) conclusions regarding prominent trends in marital therapy and research suffer serious limitations based on the authors' failure to consider objective indices of either journals' influence or authors' actual impact, in addition to their exclusion of nonjournal sources and use of an arbitrary method of weighting authorship. We identify alternativeapproaches to evaluating published scholarship for use in future surveys. Copyright 1994, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF MARITAL AND FAMILY THERAPY

author list (cited authors)

  • SNYDER, D. K., & RICE, J. L.

citation count

  • 7

complete list of authors

  • SNYDER, DK||RICE, JL

publication date

  • January 1994

publisher