9- The First Ten Years: A Review of African Sociological Review, 1997-2006
African Sociological Review,
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2006): African Sociological Review
Abstract
Scholarly journals are acknowledged as the mainstays of scientific communication and academics publish in them for promotion, recognition among peers and mobility in academia. The scrutiny and assessment of academic journals is therefore vital to the scientific academic community. Such scrutiny is part of the organisation of scholarly publication and allows insights into the publishing performance of a journal. It is within this academic practice that this paper reviewed the contributions to the African Sociological Review, which is now in its tenth year. Examined as part of the review were the type of papers published, the quantity of each type, the authors of the papers, and the institutional affiliations of the authors and the country of origin of the papers. The analyses showed that the African Sociological Review could best be regarded as a journal of
commentary, mostly with a theoretical bent, extended essays with carefully built arguments and qualitative empirical articles. The review therefore drew the conclusion that the journal falls into the category of social science journal that has been described as a ‘literary’ type than the ‘normal science’ type.
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References
Allen, M. T. and Kau, J. B., 1991, ‘Contributing authors to the journal of Urban Economics: 1974-1989’, Journal of Urban Economics, 30: 373-384.
Academy of Science of South Africa, 2006, Report on a Strategic Approach to Research Publishing in South Africa, Pretoria: Academy of Science of South Africa.
Clemens, Elisabeth, S., Walter, W. Powell, Mcllwaine and Okamoto, Dina, 1995, ‘Careers in Print: Books, Journals, and Scholarly
Reputations’, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 101, no. 2: 433-94.
De MeMaria, Anthony N., 2004, ‘Publication Bias and Journals as Policemen’, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Vol. 44: 1707-1708.
Durden, G. C., 1994, ‘An Analysis of Publishing Performance in Social Science Quarterly, 1977-1987’, Social Science Quarterly, 72, (March), 181-88.
Garfield, E., 1972, ‘Citation analysis as a tool in journal evaluation’, Science, 178: 471-479.
Merton, Robert K., 1973 [1942], ‘The Normative Structure of Science’, pp. 267-78, in The Sociology of Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Moore, L. J. and Taylor, III, B. W., 1980, ‘A Study of Institutional Publications in Business-Related Academic Journals, 1972-178’, Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, 20: 87-97.
Oppermann, M. and Roehl, W. S., 1995, ‘A reflection on hospitality’s influential authors’, Hospitality and Tourism Educator, 7 (4): 55-56.
Rutherford, D. G, and Samenfink, W. H., 1992, ‘Most frequent contributors to the hospitality literature’, Hospitality Research Journal, 16 (1): 23-29.
Sheldon, P. J., 1990, ‘Journal usage in tourism: Perceptions of publishing faculty’,Journal of Tourism Studies, 1: 42-8.
Stinchcombe, Arthur L., 1994, ‘Disintegrated Disciplines and the Future of Sociology’, Sociological Forum, 9 (2): 279-91.
Whitley, Richard, 1984, The Intellectual and Social Organisation of Sciences. New York: Oxford University Press.