“Opaque, gameable, and just plain wrong!” That was the judgment rendered by one of my colleagues on Academic Analytics, our university’s shiny new measurement tool. Why had Rutgers University — proud ...

Just a few years ago, Academic Analytics, an upstart company providing data on faculty productivity, talked of helping cash-strapped universities save as much as $2 billion by identifying their lowest ...

With the advent of Google Scholar and other metrics for faculty productivity, advancing one’s career as a professor is much more of a numbers game than it used to be. Still, the traditional system of ...

Academic Analytics, a company that measures the performance, the production and ultimately the success of faculty and overall institutions at the university level, has been collecting data on the ...

NEW BRUNSWICK-- Productivity has always been an important aspect of any college professors' performance. How many books they write, how often they are cited in articles, how much grant money they win ...

The faculty of the Graduate School at Rutgers University in New Brunswick took a stand against Academic Analytics on Tuesday, resolving that administrators shouldn’t use proprietary information about ...

On Saturday February 21 st, 2015, a team of students from Northwestern University’s Master of Science in Analytics (MSiA) program participated in Illinois Institute of Technology Stuart School of ...

A new study published in Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics examined publication patterns across 170 academic disciplines to better understand how disciplinary differences in publishing may ...