Study Ranks New York's Most Productive Universities

NYU is most productive, while NY’s small research universities underperform national average.

Chester, PA (PRWEB) May 15, 2007 -- Academic Analytics announced today New York’s most productive research universities as measured by faculty scholarly productivity. Academic Analytics’ Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index (FSP Index) is a new quantitative method for ranking doctoral programs at research universities based on a set of statistical algorithms developed by Dr. Lawrence Martin, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Consultant to Academic Analytics, Dean of the Graduate School, Associate Provost for Analysis and Planning and Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University. The index measures the scholarly productivity of faculty based on their publications, citations and financial and honorary awards won. Programs, not individual faculty, are rated and are aggregated to produce rankings of whole universities.

The highest-ranking large research universities in New York and those above the national average, according to the FSP Index, are:

1)    New York University

2)    SUNY at Stony Brook

3)    Cornell University

4)    Columbia University in the City of New York

5)    City University of New York Graduate School and University Center

6)    University of Rochester

7)    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

8)    SUNY at Albany

9)    SUNY at Buffalo

Overall, only two of New York’s large research universities crack the national top 25, New York University and SUNY at Stony Brook.

Among the small research universities in New York, those topping the charts are:

1)    Clarkson University

2)    St. John’s University

3)    Fordham University

But, even the best performing small research universities in New York underperform the national average for all universities in overall faculty scholarly productivity. That’s the bad news. The good news is that within the specialized research universities category, New York-based universities shine among small research universities nationwide:

•    Union Theological ranks #1 in Humanities

•    Teachers College at Columbia ranks #2 for Business, Education, and Social Sciences

•    Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories ranks #1 for Biomedical Biological Sciences, followed by Mount Sinai School of Medicine at #3 and Rockefeller University at #4.

•    Polytechnic University ranks #2 for Applied Sciences

“At research universities, more than 50% of a faculty member’s salary is compensation for scholarly work. One of the greatest challenges for academia has been finding a way to measure and evaluate that scholarly – as distinct from teaching – productivity,” says Dr. Martin. “The FSP Index allows university leadership for the first time to get a clear picture of the comparative scholarly strength and vitality of their doctoral programs relative to others on an annual basis.”

In its second year of analysis, the FSP Index has expanded its data-gathering program to include information from nearly 200,000 faculty members based at 354 institutions and representing 118 academic disciplines in nearly 7,300 Ph.D. programs throughout the country. In all, the FSP Index research matched those faculty to more than 15,000 books authored by slightly more than 9,500 faculty, more than one million journal articles, almost seven million cititations, over 6,000 awards and honors and more than 83,000 federal research grants.

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The FSP Index reports are available to universities on a subscription basis. For more information on the FSP Index, visit www.academicanalytics.com or call Stefanie Altman at 631-791-9691.

Academic Analytics, LLC

Founded in 2005, Academic Analytics, LLC (AA LLC) is the result of collaboration between faculty and researchers at the Stony Brook University and Educational Directories Unlimited. AA LLC compiles and distributes The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index™ (FSP Index), a new method for ranking doctoral programs at Research Universities (both Carnegie Research Extensive and Research Intensive). The FSP Index is based on a set of statistical algorithms developed by Dr. Lawrence Martin, that measure the scholarly productivity of faculty based on their publications, citations and financial and honorary awards won. For more information, visit www.academicanalytics.com.

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