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The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index (FSPI), a product of Academic Analytics, is a metric designed to create benchmark standards for the measurement of academic and scholarly quality within and among United States research universities. The index is based on a set of statistical algorithms developed by Lawrence B. Martin and Anthony Olejniczak. It measures the annual amount and impact of faculty scholarly work in several areas, including: * Publications (how many books and peer-reviewed journal articles have been published and what proportion of the faculty is involved in publication activity?) * Citations of journal publications (who is referring to those journal articles in subsequent work?) * Federal research funding (what and how many projects have been deemed of sufficient value to merit federal dollars, and at what level of funding?) * Awards and honors (a key indicator of innovative thinking and/or scholarly excellence that has impacted the discipline over a period) The FSPI analysis creates, by academic field of study, a statistical score and a ranking based on the cumulative scoring of a program's faculty using these quantitative measures compared against national standards within the particular discipline. Individual program scores can then be combined to demonstrate the quality of the scholarly work of the entire university. This information is gathered for over 230,000 faculty members representing 118 academic disciplines in roughly 7,300 Ph.D. programs throughout more than 350 universities in the United States. ==Rankings approach== Unlike other annual college and university rankings, ''e.g.'', the ''U.S. News & World Report'' annual survey, the FSPI focuses on research institutions as defined by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. It draws on the approach used by the United States National Research Council (NRC), which publishes a ranking of U.S.-based graduate programs approximately every ten years, but focuses on providing a more frequently-gathered set of benchmark measurements that do not include the qualitative and subjective reputation assessments favored by the NRC and other ranking systems. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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