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Fekula and Hornyak
order of authorship. Each school was assigned credit for a journal based upon the affiliation of the author.
Un-weighted and weighted assignments were made. In the case of un-weighted assignments, each school
received equal weight according to the number of author s. In the weighted cases, e ach first author was
given .6 of the credit, while the remaining .4 was distributed equally among the other authors.
The current stud y used the top 1 20 rated schools an d the 31 5 peer rated U.S. schools as determ ined by
U.S. News and World Report, “America’s Best Colleges 2005” ( 2005). T he data was analy zed to
determine the number of schools publ ishing in each t ier, according to school or institution type. Because
the m ain reference point for our stud y is fam iliar prom otion an d tenure s ystems, the percentages o f
schools publi shing were calculated as proportions o f U. S. schools onl y. Sim ilarly, an analy sis of the
percentages of articles published in e ach tier relative to U.S. totals for each school type was calculated.
Finally, an assessment of the relative publishing fre quency of the top 120 and t he 315 peer-rated school s
was conducted. The firs t assessment of t his data (Fekula & Hornyak, 2007) revealed a correlation
between publication frequency and s chool rank ( r=.535, p