Stiftel B, Rukmana D, Alam B "Faculty quality at US graduate planning schools - A national research council-style study:" Journal of Planning Education and Research 24(1):6-22 FALL 2004

[Eugene Garfield]

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Bhuiyan Alam  : bhuiyan at eng.fsu.edu



Title: Faculty quality at US graduate planning schools - A national research
council-style study

Author(s): Stiftel B, Rukmana D, Alam B

Source: JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH 24 (1): 6-22 FAL 2004

Cited References: 33      Times Cited: 5

Abstract:
Faculty quality assessment methods of the National Research Council study of
research doctorate programs are applied to U.S. Urban and regional planning
graduate programs. Findings suggest that about. one-half of planning faculty
actively publish and that there is considerable concentration of both
Publication and citation activity among a relatively small group of scholars
and schools. Accredited and nonaccredited schools show substantial
differences, as do doctoral degree-graming schools compared with
master's-only schools. The strengths and weaknesses of faculty quality
measures used are discussed, leading to a call for other Studies rising
different measures.

Addresses: Stiftel B (reprint author), Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL
32306 USA
Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2455 TELLER RD, THOUSAND OAKS, CA 91320 USA

IDS Number: 845QH
ISSN: 0739-456X


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EXCERPT FROM PAPER :
Notes:
#4  In an effort to assess the completeness of the Institute for Scientific
Information (ISI) database coverage of urban and regional planning journals,
we constructed a list of English-language "core journals".  Webegan with all
journals categorized as both "housing and urban planning" and "refereed
scholarly" in Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory (Ulrich 2003).
We then applied three tests (1) Is the journal published by a professional
or scholarly organization concerned principally with urban and / or regional
planning? (2) Is at least one editor of the journal a faculty member at an
urban and / or regional planning school? And (3) Does the journal have the
word "planning" in its title? To be retained in our list, a journal had to
satisfy at least two of these three criteria.  This search procedure
produced a list of thirty-one journals, of which twenty (64.5 percent) are
included in the ISI database.  These thirty-one journals include eighteen
titles published in the United Kingdom, eight published in the United
States, three published in the Netherlands, and two published in Greece.
The title, date of first publication, and ISI status of this list of core
journals in urban and regional planning is as follows :

Developments in Landscape Management and Urban Planning      1982  No
Ekistics                                                     1955  Yes
Environment and Planning A                                   1969 Yes
Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design              1974 Yes
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space                1983 Yes
European Planning  Studies                                   1993 Yes
Growth and Change                                            1970 Yes
Habitat International: A journal for the Study of Human
Settlements                                                  1976 Yes
International Development Planning Review                    1979 Yes
International Planning Studies                               1996 No
Journal of Architectural and Planning Research               1984 Yes
Journal of Community Development Society                     1970 No
Journal of Developing Areas                                  1966 Yes
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management             1948 No
Journal of Planning Education and Research                   1981 Yes
Journal of Planning History                                  2002 No
Journal of Planning Literature                               1986 Yes
Journal of the American Planning Association                 1925 Yes
Journal of Urban Planning and Development                    1956 Yes
Landscape and Urban Planning                                 1974 Yes
Planning and Administration                                  1974 Yes
Planning Perspectives                                        1986 No
Planning Practice and Research                               1986 No
Planning Theory                                              2002 No
Planning Theory and Practice                                 2000 No
Progress in Planning                                         1973 Yes
Socio Economic Planning Sciences                             1967 Yes
Studies in Urban and Regional Planning                       1994 No
Town and Country Planning                                    2004 Yes
Town Planning Review                                         1910 No

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