A Content Review and Impact Analysis of Housing and Society through 40 Years

AbstractThe journal of the Housing Education and Research Association, Housing and Society, reached its 40th year of publication in 2013. This article analyzes the content of the journal over those years and the use of the journal by other authors. The majority of the articles published in Housing and Society has focused on housing issues related to elderly persons and residential satisfaction. Ten housing scholars are represented as authors in 26% of the articles. Based on Google Scholar, researchers have cited articles in Housing and Society increasingly since its inception. In addition to Housing and Society itself, the journal articles that have cited a Housing and Society article most frequently were in the Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal and the Journal of Housing for the Elderly.