Abstract
Educational background is a factor that may help explain scholarly influence. This study updates a previous study which examined the educational background of highly-cited scholars in criminology and criminal justice (CCJ). Using lists of most-cited scholars identified by Cohn et al., we identified the university where each scholar obtained their Ph.D. (or other terminal degree), the year this degree was obtained, and the field of study. The study found that 146 scholars graduated from 76 different institutions. Overall, 18 institutions produced 50% of the most-cited scholars while 56% of the institutions produced only one scholar each. The most common majors were sociology (31%), psychology (28%), and CCJ (26%). We also examined the most-cited scholars in the Asian Journal of Criminology, comparing scholars publishing in that journal to those in the original list. We compared the results of this study to those of the prior research to identify changes over time.
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