Measuring Productivity Changes in Academic Units

The academic RVU: a system for measuring academic productivity.

Despite the importance of teaching, research, and related activities to the mission of academic medical departments, no useful and widely agreed-on metrics exist with which to assess the value of individual faculty members' contributions in these areas. Taking the concept of the clinical relative value unit (RVU) as a model, the authors describe the development of an academic RVU (aRVU) system ...

Measuring Productivity Changes of Hospitals in Tehran: The Fuzzy Malmquist Productivity Index

Background and Objectives: The purpose of this paper is to suggest a novel method to measure the productivity changes of hospitals over time in the presence of linguistic variables along with fuzzy data. Methods: Applying the popular and applicable approaches including data envelopment analysis (DEA), Malmquist productivity index (MPI) and possibilistic progra...

Measuring academic productivity and changing definitions of scientific impact.

This manuscript provides a brief overview of the history of communication of scientific research and reporting of scientific research impact outcomes. Current day practices are outlined along with examples of how organizations and libraries are providing tools to evaluate and document the impact of scientific research to provide a meaningful narrative suitable for a variety of purposes and audi...

Academic productivity in otolaryngology.

We congratulate Bhattacharyya and Shapiro on their attempt to evaluate the academic productivity of younger otolaryngologists. However, we have significant concerns about the validity of their methodology and conclusions. In their report they reviewed only publications in the four major general otolaryngology journals but did not include either subspecialty journals or basic science journals. I...

Individual publication productivity as a social position effect in academic and industrial research units

Throughout the development of the sociology of science, the study of normal scientific activity has focused on the general stratification and communication system in science. This seems to affect all scientific fields and manifests itself most clearly in the skewed distributions of productivity and rewards. There have been productivity studies on scientists of a variety of disciplines, includin...

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