Wurz in Top 10: Most Productive Profs

A recent study shows that professors at Wurzweiler School of Social Work are in the top ten of American colleges and universities in the number of scholarly works published between 1999 and 2003.

The study was conducted by Jan Ligon at Georgia State University, D. Lynn Jackson at University of North Texas, and Bruce Thyer at Florida State University.

The six social work journals they examined were:

• Journal of Social Service research
• Social Work
• Social Service Review
• Journal of Social Work Education
• Child Welfare
• Families in Society

These are considered six of the most prestigious journals in the field because they are competitive, carefully edited and rigorously peer reviewed.

The article, Academic affiliations of social work journal authors from 1999 to 2003: A productivitity analysis spanning 25 years of social work scholarship, was published in the Journal of Social Service Research, Volume 33, Issue 3, in 2007. Identical studies have been published every year five years since 1999.

The top ten producers of scholarly work were:

1. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2. Columbia University
3. Washington University
4. Virginia Commonwealth University
5. University of Michigan
6. University of Washington
7. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
8. Yeshiva University
9. University of Tennessee
10. Boston University
11. University of Kansas
12. Fordham University