Today’s Chronicle of Higher Education has a series of articles on a new faculty rankings measure, The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index (FSP Index):

A method for evaluating doctoral programs at Research Universities (both Carnegie Research Extensive and Research Intensive), based on a set of statistical algorithms developed by Lawrence Martin, PhD. The FSP Index measures the annual productivity of faculty on several factors including:

• Publications (books and journal articles)
• Citations of journal publications
• Federal Research Funding
• Awards and Honors

The FSP analysis creates, at the discipline level, a scale based on the cumulative scoring of a program’s faculty using these measures compared against national standards. Each program can then be compared to the national mean z-score.

Here are the Top 25 Large Research Universities, along with their Faculty Scholarship Productivity scores:

[Click on chart to enlarge.]  For the extensive Chronicle of Higher Education coverage, see:

• A New Standard for Measuring Doctoral Programs; Annual Index Ranks Departments According to Their Scholarly Output — But its Methods Rankle Some College Officials
• Difference of Opinion:  The Top 10 English Departments in Three Different Graduate-School Rankings
• Top Departments in 104 Fields
• Top 10 Institutions in 24 Disciplines
• Top 10 Institutions in Aggregated Fields
• Top Research Universities (Large and Small)
• How the Index Works: Rankings of 7,294 Programs in 104 Disciplines at 354 Institutions