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26 J. Crim. Just. Educ. 1 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/jcrimjed26 and id is 1 raw text is: Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 2015 Vol. 26, No. 1, 1-21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10511253.2014.915334 Perceptions of the Trend of Collaborative Publications: Results from a Survey of Criminal Justice and Criminology Department Chairs Richard Lemke, Lee Michael Johnson and David Jenks Department heads are unique academic positions which can bridge the worlds of faculty and administration. As such, they are sometimes in the unique position where their perceptions and experiences can have real-world impact in the realm of assessing a coleague's work, tweaking departmental policies of promotion and advancement, and mentoring. While faculty members of all levels have opinions of colaboration, department heads are the leaders who can actualy act upon those perceptions, yet these perceptions have not been examined. This study addresses this gap in a survey of Criminal Justice and Criminology department heads (n= 73). The survey varied authorship order, journal prestige, medium of journal, and also examined co-author prestige. In addition, 12 years of 20 criminal justice journals were coded for solo-authored publications. Results demonstrated differential publication trends between top tier and lower tiered journals, and that department heads attributed these trends as a combination of increasing social research networks and more pragmatic concerns. Of particular interest, is the differential value respondents placed on solo-authored work and colaborative work even when taking into consideration prestige of the journal. Over recent decades, multi-authored articles grew to replace single-authored articles as the norm in criminal justice, criminology, and other social science journals, especially among articles reporting on quantitative studies. While other scholars have highlighted the trend across time or between journals, a controversy emerges from the perceived causes of this trend or how it may impact the administrative decisions within academia as collaborative research and writing have potential benefits and drawbacks. Perhaps the main benefit of collaboration is that the expertise of multiple scholars may be employed to produce better work and meet the current demand for more sophisticated analyses. Collaboration may even be a current necessity, as it can be difficult to meet tenure, promotion, and other advancement requirements through Routledge Taylor&FrandsGmup D 2014 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

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