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Editor's note: the impact of Housing Policy Debate

One purpose of a journal is to have influence on thought and scholarship for a particular topic or discipline. Housing Policy Debate provides a venue for original research on housing policy, to promote relevant and timely discussion of issues surrounding housing. As we close out our first 20 years and look to the next 20 years of housing policy, it is helpful to look at the impact Housing Policy Debate has had within the research community and how we can increase the value of our research towards the end of better informing policy-makers. The network of housing-related research is extensive and one way to assess our reach is through citation analysis. Citation analysis measures the frequency that researchers and scholars cite an article within other published work. The citation analysis literature goes into great depth about the coverage and completeness of bibliographic databases such as Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar – as well as metrics for author citations that include frequency, overall recognition, and immediacy of citation. The rapid increase in electronic availability of scholarly books and journals as well as research reports and policy documents coincides with the rise of indexing and bibliometrics on the internet. We can only expect these trends to continue for competitive scholarly outlets now that popularity and prestige metrics are readily available. With this in mind, I thought it would be useful to examine the citation statistics for all of the articles that have appeared in Housing Policy Debate. The nearly 600 articles appearing in Housing Policy Debate have been cited over 15,000 times, averaging approximately 25 citations per article. This equates to about 680 citations per year resulting in an H-index of 59. Another objective was to identify the most cited (i.e. popular) articles published in the journal since 1990 as well as to review the topics of the articles that have generated the most interest. The following is the list of the ten most cited articles: