Abstract
Tohn Rohrbaugh and David F. Anderison are certainly correct in their basic d point in Letters to the Editor, published in the March/April, 1997 issue of the Public Administration Review, page 186. Ratings of public administration programs based on numbers of publications need to widen the circle of relevant sources used. Such surveys should look at a wider range of journals and also at other outlets for disseminating research results. Public Administration is a very large tent, providing conceptual coherence for multiple skills and approaches, and we should emphasize and celebrate those facts. Rohrbaugh and Anderson critique Douglas (September/October 1996) because his narrow range of journals consulted introduces distortion. The effect is to undervalue all strong, publishing departments. Specifically in our shop, article-length publications of a single faculty member appear in these 70-plus sources:
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