New National Rankings Cite UC Among the Nation s Most Productive Faculty

A new annual report ranking doctoral programs at the nation’s research universities has the University of Cincinnati at the head of the class when it comes to the scholarly activity of faculty. UC’s doctoral programs in special education and criminal justice in the College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services are listed among the top 10 nationally in faculty scholarly productivity, according to the Academic Analytic’s Faculty Scholarly Productivity (FSP) Index.

The FSP Index, produced by the for-profit company, Academic Analytics, measures the productivity of nearly 200,000 faculty members in nearly 7,300 doctoral programs across the United States from 2005 data. The index ranks programs based on faculty publications and citations, as well as faculty financial and honorary awards.

“At research universities, more than 50 percent of a faculty member’s salary is compensation for scholarly work,” states FSP index developer Lawrence Martin, 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," Martin says, in an Academic Analytics news release on the rankings.

The index, reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education, ranked UC’s criminal justice program sixth among the nation’s top 10 doctoral programs in criminology and justice studies, with 62 percent of the program’s faculty published in journals and 48 percent cited by another work.

UC’s special education program was ranked ninth among the nation’s most productive doctoral programs in special education. The Chronicle of Higher Education report on the data showed 36 percent of the faculty had published a book, 27 percent were published in journals and 18 percent were cited by another work.

“UC’s criminal justice program has been long recognized as an outstanding program nationally,” says Lawrence J. Johnson, dean of the UC College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services. “UC’s division of teacher education is growing in recognition, and this distinction for the special education program is one example of how its reputation is on the rise.

“This recognition of our scholarly activity supports the college’s goals to grow our research excellence as part of the UC|21 Strategic Plan,” Johnson says.

“This kind of national acknowledgment, along with recent recognition received as a top program by ‘U.S. News’ and in academic journals from our field, is gratifying, in that it testifies to a lot of hard work by people within our department,” says Ed Latessa, head of UC’s criminal justice program. “We believe the work we do in our field is important to the university and to society, so recognition not just of our strong tradition but of our ongoing productivity is a nice reward.”

“We’re pleased to have our faculty’s scholarly productivity recognized. We continue to strengthen the program by adding new, talented faculty and attracting high-quality doctoral students,” says David Naylor, head of the division of teacher education and professor of education. “The present and future are bright indeed.”

Top Research Universities in the 2005 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index
Criminology and Justice Studies

1. University of Maryland at College Park
2. University of Florida
3. University of Pennsylvania
4. University of California at Berkeley
5. University of California at Irvine
6. University of Cincinnati
7. Temple University
8. City University of New York Graduate Center
9. University of Missouri at St. Louis
10. State University of New York at Albany

Top Research Universities in the 2005 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index
Special Education

1. Vanderbilt University
2. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
3. University of Kansas
4. University of Washington
5. University of Texas at Austin
6. University of California at Berkeley
7. University of Utah
8. University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9. University of Cincinnati
10. University of California at Los Angeles

Furthermore, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported that in biomedical science programs under the Academic Health Center, UC’s physiology program ranked sixth in the FSP Index and toxicology ranked 10th.

Additional data from the 2005 FSP Index

Note: In the categories in the above link, UC’s Special Education doctoral program is ranked in the education category, and UC’s Criminal Justice doctoral program is ranked in the Public Administration & Social Service Professions category.