Citation impact factors among social work faculty in Hong Kong

ABSTRACT Most studies in the published literature on social work faculty and departmental scholarship are from the United States. The present study added an international sample from the Hong Kong SAR to this knowledge-building work. Data are reported on the faculties’ citational impact at five local universities offering social work degrees (N = 149). For social work trained faculty, their h and g scores were M = 11.23 (6.8) and M = 19.6 (11.5), respectively. The top-ranked citational impact university departments of social work were the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the City University of Hong Kong. Nine social work authors had ten-year citational count reference hits from 145 to 721. This was a highly productive group of social work scholars. Results and implications are discussed related to the local university culture of research and infrastructures supporting such research.