12 January 2007 | Uncategorized
“A New Standard for Measuring Doctoral Programs,” in The Chronicle of Higher Education, describes the new “Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, partly financed by the State University of New York at Stony Brook and produced by Academic Analytics, a for-profit company, [which] rates faculty members’ scholarly output at nearly 7,300 doctoral programs around the country. It examines the number of book and journal articles published by each program’s faculty, as well as journal citations, awards, honors, and grants received. The company has given The Chronicle exclusive access to some of its data.” The index has produced some rather odd results, the result perhaps of flaws in its methods, as The Chronicle itself notes. For example, “the company compiles names of faculty members from university Web sites, which can be incomplete or outdated.”
Its top-ten departments in art history are
1. Johns Hopkins
2. NYU
3. U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4. Yale
5. UC Berkeley
6. U. of Chicago
7. UCLA
8. U. of Maryland at College Park
9. CUNY Graduate Center
9. Stanford