ARE SOCIAL-WORK JOURNAL EDITORIAL-BOARDS COMPETENT - SOME DISQUIETING DATA WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH ON SOCIAL-WORK-PRACTICE

This article describes a citation analysis of the journal-article contributions of the editorial board members of selected social work and psyhology journals. Social work editorial board members are cited by other scholars significantly less frequently than psychology journal editortal board members. This conclusion is based on the number of times editorial board members of selected social work and psychology journals were cited in the 1989 volume of the Social Sciences Citation Index. The implications of this finding for research on social work practice are discussed.