Is there more to counting than what meets the eye? comment on snyder and rice

TLDR: This paper argued that the results obtained from Snyder and Rice's suggested methodologies are neither appreciably different from the original results nor significantly different from their original results. But they also argued that their suggested methods emphasize a different research question that our original question, we investigated productivity of authous and institutions, not im-pact of scholars on the fiels of marital therapy.

Abstract: Snhyder and Rice (1994) comment that Shortz, Worthington, McCullough, DeVries, and Morrow (1994) failed to use sophisticated methods in their identification of prolific authors, institutions, and journals within the field of mari-tal therapy. This article is a response to Snyder and rice. We argue that Snyder and Rice's suggested methods emphasize a different research question that ouroriginal question, We investigated productivity of authous and institutions, not im-pact of scholars on the fiels of marital therapy. furthermore, we demonstrate that the results obtained from Snyder and Rice's suggested methodologies are nor appreciably different from our original results.