10.1177/0011000004274130THE COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGIST / May 2005Diegelman et al. / COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITYCurrent Institutional Trends in Research Productivity in Counseling Psychology Journals

This study investigated institutional publication activity in counseling psychology jour-nals for the 10-year period from 1993 to 2002. Four journals reported by counseling psy-chology training directors as prime publication outlets for the field of counseling psy-chology were used: Journal of Counseling Psychology, The Counseling Psychologist, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and Journal of Counseling and Development. Compari-sons with the most recent previous ranking study revealed that institutions in the top 20 remained fairly stable. However, 13 of the top 40 institutions ranked in this study were not ranked in the previous top 40. Implications for the field are discussed, and suggestions for how to improve publication activity trend analyses are made. The quality of counseling psychology training has been assessed continu-ously throughout the history of the field. Initial efforts to evaluate graduate psychology programs often focused on reputation (e.g., Roose & Anderson, 1970). Because of concerns about the objectivity of using reputation scores in ranking psychology programs, however, subsequent examinations fo-cused on published research productivity (Cox & Catt, 1977; Thoreson, Cox, & Krauskopf, 1975). Although research productivity of counseling psychol-ogy programs has been evaluated using a wide range of criteria, including individual author productivity and impact (e.g., Goodyear, Abadie, & Walsh