SOIS consistenly ranked among top information studies schools in scholarly productivity
According to a very recent study, "Scholarly productivity of U.S. LIS faculty" by Denice Adkins and John Budd (Library & Information Science Research, Autumn 2006, 374-389; for access to the article itself, go here), SOIS ranked among the top ten or twenty among other leading LIS schools in several categories. Updating an earlier study that covered a period through 1998, the researchers examined productivity and citedness among LIS faculty from 1999 through 2004.
Among "Programs with the most journal articles," SOIS tied with UCLA for 9th place, below Indiana, Tennessee, Florida State, Syracuse, North Carolina, Illinois, Rutgers, and Washington.
Among "Per capita journal articles by program," SOIS ranked 7th, below Tennessee, Missouri, Hawaii, UCLA, Indiana, and Florida State.
Among "Programs with the most citations to faculties' works," SOIS stands at 15th place, after Michigan, Rutgers, Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, UCLA, Syracuse, Washington, Maryland, Tennessee, Drexel, Simmons, Pittsburgh, and Florida State.
For "Per capita citations by program," SOIS ran 18th, after Rutgers, Michigan, UCLA, Indiana, North Carolina, Maryland, Illinois, Tennessee, Missouri, Washington, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Catholic, Hawaii, Drexel, Simmons, and Queens.
Overall, SOIS ranked 13th, after Indiana, Rutgers, Tennessee, UCLA, North Carolina, Illinois, Missouri, Syracuse, Washington, Michigan, Florida State, and Maryland.
Prof. Dietmar Wolfram tied for 9th place among all faculty in all LIS schools for total number of journal articles during the period studied.
Prof. Wolfram also ranked 25th of all the scholars at all institutions covered in total number of citations to his works.
This comes at a time when SOIS is developing a new PhD program and otherwise exploring new avenues and higher levels of research productivity. SOIS also did extremely well in the previous study and it is good to see it continue at this rate. Given the new recent research mandate from SOIS Dean Johannes Britz, the larger number of research faculty now than during the period covered by the Adkins/Budd study, and the introduction of a doctoral program, the next five years promises to be even more impressive.
Among "Programs with the most journal articles," SOIS tied with UCLA for 9th place, below Indiana, Tennessee, Florida State, Syracuse, North Carolina, Illinois, Rutgers, and Washington.
Among "Per capita journal articles by program," SOIS ranked 7th, below Tennessee, Missouri, Hawaii, UCLA, Indiana, and Florida State.
Among "Programs with the most citations to faculties' works," SOIS stands at 15th place, after Michigan, Rutgers, Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, UCLA, Syracuse, Washington, Maryland, Tennessee, Drexel, Simmons, Pittsburgh, and Florida State.
For "Per capita citations by program," SOIS ran 18th, after Rutgers, Michigan, UCLA, Indiana, North Carolina, Maryland, Illinois, Tennessee, Missouri, Washington, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Catholic, Hawaii, Drexel, Simmons, and Queens.
Overall, SOIS ranked 13th, after Indiana, Rutgers, Tennessee, UCLA, North Carolina, Illinois, Missouri, Syracuse, Washington, Michigan, Florida State, and Maryland.
Prof. Dietmar Wolfram tied for 9th place among all faculty in all LIS schools for total number of journal articles during the period studied.
Prof. Wolfram also ranked 25th of all the scholars at all institutions covered in total number of citations to his works.
This comes at a time when SOIS is developing a new PhD program and otherwise exploring new avenues and higher levels of research productivity. SOIS also did extremely well in the previous study and it is good to see it continue at this rate. Given the new recent research mandate from SOIS Dean Johannes Britz, the larger number of research faculty now than during the period covered by the Adkins/Budd study, and the introduction of a doctoral program, the next five years promises to be even more impressive.
posted by SOIS at 6:44 PM
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