Study Ranks North Carolina's Most Productive Research Universities

Academic Analytics announces North Carolina's most productive research universities as measured by faculty scholarly productivity. Duke University tops the charts among the state's largest research universities.

Chester, PA (PRWEB) July 18, 2007 -- Academic Analytics announced today North Carolina's most productive research universities as measured by faculty scholarly productivity. Academic Analytics' Faculty 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. 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 quantitative rankings of whole universities.

The highest-ranking large research universities in North Carolina, defined as institutions with 15 or more Ph.D. programs across multiple disciplines, according to Academic Analytics' Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index (FSP Index), are:

• Wake Forest University ranks #13 in Biomedical Biological Sciences, while East Carolina University - School of Medicine cracks the top 50;
• North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University ranks #14 in Applied Sciences; and
• Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary ranks among the top 25 universities in Humanities.

"At research universities, more than 50 percent 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. 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 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.

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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