Academic Analytics Taps Dr. Howard Jackson for Expansion of Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index
Academic Analytics has tapped Dr. Howard Jackson, Professor of Physics, and Distinguished Teaching Professor, at the University of Cincinnati to help oversee the expansion and distribution of its Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index. The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index is a new quantitative method for ranking doctoral programs at research universities which measures the scholarly productivity of faculty.
Stony Brook, NY (PRWEB) May 23, 2007 -- Academic Analytics announced today that it has tapped Dr. Howard Jackson, Professor of Physics, and Distinguished Teaching Professor, at the University of Cincinnati to help oversee the expansion and distribution of its Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index. The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index (FSP Index) is a new quantitative method for ranking doctoral programs at research universities which measures the scholarly productivity of faculty based on their publications, citations and financial and honorary awards won.
"As a former Vice President of Research and University Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Jackson will be a tremendous asset to Academic Analytics," says 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, and developer of the FSP Index. "He brings an experienced perspective to clients and prospects in the practical application of the data to effectively boost productivity, and raise an academic institution's standing."
As a consultant to Academic Analytics, Dr. Jackson will continue his role as Professor of Physics at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, pursuing his research on light scattering from low dimensional semiconductor nanostructures. A highly published researcher, Dr. Jackson's research has been published in Nano Letters, Applied Physics Letters, Physical Review Letters and Physical Review, to name a few. In addition, his research funding has been provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Army Research Office, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the National Science Foundation which is providing current research support.
Before joining the University of Cincinnati, he was associated with McMaster University, and the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. He has been a visiting scientist at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University, Oxford, England, and the University of Southampton, Southampton, England. He served this past year as the Council of Graduate Schools/National Science Foundation Dean-in-Residence in Washington, DC.
Dr. Jackson is Fellow of the Graduate School of the University of Cincinnati, a member of Sigma Xi, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
In its second year of analysis, the FSP Index's data-gathering program included 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 citations, over 6,000 awards and honors and more than 83,000 federal research grants.
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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