Once more, publication and citation rates

Reexamines A. R. Buss's (1976) data on publication and citation rates at Canadian university psychology departments to indicate some further conclusions that can be drawn from the data. These generally relate to the factor of the geographical location of the universities in question and tend to support some fairly common subjective opinions in this issue. Viewed as an exercise in the "sociology of psychological knowledge," this approach suggests that even data as slender as those providing the base for these evaluations can lead to useful--if long intuitively suspected--findings, and may thus provide some further insights into the effect of "soft" factors on "hard" issues. (French abstract)