BUSSW Faculty Again Ranked Highly
In early 2007, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that BUSSW faculty are ranked 8th in the in productivity among schools of social work with doctoral programs. BUSSW is the only school of social work in New England to be ranked in the top ten. Comments Dean ad interim Gail Steketee, “The productivity ranking means that the School’s faculty are publishing at a high rate as well as receiving numerous journal citations, awards, honors, and grants.”
In addition, a separate article now has ranked SSW faculty 8th among schools of social work in citations tabulated from articles in top social work journals*. (Once again, BUSSW was the only school of social work in New England to be ranked in the top ten.) The School’s faculty were cited very highly in 960 articles published from 1999 to 2003 in six top social work journals: Journal of Social Service Research; Social Work; Social Service Review; Journal of Social Work Education; Child Welfare; and Families in Society. BUSSW has climbed substantially in these rankings over the past 25 years, moving from 17th to 8th position. The top 12 rankings of social work programs as reported in the article are:
Rank Program Number of Citations
1 U. Illinois Urbana-Cham. 42
2 Columbia University 40
Washington University 40
3 Virginia Commonwealth 40
4 U. Michigan 33
U. of Washington 33
5 UNC – Chapel Hill 31
6 Yeshiva University 29
7 U. Tennessee 28
8 BOSTON UNIVERSITY 27
9 U. Kansas 26
10 Fordham University 25
U. Toronto 25
11 UCLA 21
Ohio State University 21
12 Georgia State University 20
Rutgers University 20
UC Berkeley 20
SUNY Albany 20
*Ligon, J., Jackson, D.L., & Thyer, B. (2007). Academic affiliations of social work journal article authors from 1999-2003: A productivity analysis spanning 25 years of social work authorship, Journal of Social Service Research, 33, 13-20.