Assessing Faculty Productivity by Research Impact: Introducing Dp2 Index

Research Productivity of Sports Medicine Fellowship Faculty

BACKGROUND Research productivity is considered an important factor in academic advancement in sports medicine. No study to date has evaluated academic productivity and correlates of academic rank for sports medicine fellowship faculty. PURPOSE To describe the academic productivity of American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) fellowship program faculty and to determine the assoc...

Assessing IS Research Impact

Based on the International Conference on Information Systems' (ICIS) 2013 senior scholars' forum, this paper shares insights on IS research impact assessment. We define research impact as conducting research that makes a difference to individuals, businesses, industries and societies. While assessment groups like AACSB (the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) want scholars to...

Faculty research productivity and organizational structure in schools of nursing.

The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between faculty research productivity and organizational structure in schools of nursing. The need for nursing research has been widely recognized by members of the nursing profession, yet comparatively few engage in conducting research. Although contextual variables have been investigated that facilitate or inhibit nursing research, th...

IS Faculty Research Productivity: Influential Factors and Implications

Why are some faculty members more productive than others in academic research? We constructed a number of hypotheses about faculty research productivity based on the life-cycle model of academic research and previous studies. Tests were conducted using data collected via a national survey of information systems (IS) faculty. The results show that while there are only two significant factors con...

Faculty Seminar Series: A Window into Research Potentials and Productivity