Equipping Social Work Faculty to Document Scholarly Impact: New Bibliometric Benchmarks for Tenure, Promotion and Other Professional Evaluations

IF 2.1 4区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL WORK

Research on Social Work Practice Pub Date : 2026-02-23 DOI:10.1177/10497315251410180

David R. Hodge, Arianna Weide, Zoe K. Reep, Elizabeth Lightfoot

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Purpose: This study assists social work faculty to document their scholarly impact by articulating new bibliometric benchmarks for tenure, promotion, and other professional evaluations. Method: Coders collected data on the h-, g-, hi-norm, and the hi-annual indices on tenure-track faculty in the top 40 schools according to US News. Results: Faculty with earned social work doctorates recorded lower values across all four indices compared to those with other doctorates. For each index, benchmarks were calculated for assistant, associate, and full social work professors in each quartile. Analysis revealed h-index values in the top 10 schools had more than doubled from 2010 to 2025 across all ranks. The most impactful faculty were rank ordered using each index, with different indices producing a different ordering. Discussion: The findings illustrate the importance of disciplinary bibliometric benchmarks. Of the four indices, hi-annual may provide the fairest assessment of scholarly impact within, and possibly across, ranks.

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装备社会工作学院以记录学术影响：终身教职、晋升和其他专业评估的新文献计量基准

目的：本研究通过阐明新的文献计量基准来帮助社会工作教师记录他们的学术影响，任期，晋升和其他专业评估。方法：编码器收集《美国新闻与世界报道》排名前40位的大学终身教职教师的h-、g-、高标准和高年度指数数据。结果：与其他博士相比，获得社会工作博士学位的教师在所有四个指标上的得分都较低。对于每个指数，计算了每个四分位数的助理、助理和全职社会工作教授的基准。分析显示，从2010年到2025年，排名前10的商学院的h指数在所有排名中都增长了一倍以上。最具影响力的教师使用每个索引进行排名，不同的索引产生不同的排序。讨论：研究结果说明了学科文献计量基准的重要性。在这四个指数中，hi-annual可能提供了最公平的学术影响评估，甚至可能是跨排名。

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Research on Social Work Practice SOCIAL WORK-

CiteScore

3.50

自引率

11.10%

发文量

105

期刊介绍： Research on Social Work Practice, sponsored by the Society for Social Work and Research, is a disciplinary journal devoted to the publication of empirical research concerning the methods and outcomes of social work practice. Social work practice is broadly interpreted to refer to the application of intentionally designed social work intervention programs to problems of societal and/or interpersonal importance, including behavior analysis or psychotherapy involving individuals; case management; practice involving couples, families, and small groups; community practice education; and the development, implementation, and evaluation of social policies.