Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture
Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences
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Food Science ranked No. 4 in ‘Scholarly Productivity” The Department of Food Science was ranked No. 4 in the nation for “faculty scholarly productivity” by Academic Analytics, which ranks 7,294 doctoral programs at 354 institutions. The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, partly financed by the State University of New York at Stony Brook, rates faculty members' scholarly output based on the number of book and journal articles published by each program's faculty, as well as journal citations, awards, honors, and grants received. The rankings for 2005 were recently published online at www.academicanalytics.com. Data for the rankings were collected from university Web sites and the Scopus abstract and citation database for more than 15,000 peer-reviewed journals. A Jan. 12 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education said the new index provides an objective alternative to the influential “reputation based” rankings by U.S News and World Report and the National Research Council. The only doctoral programs ranked ahead of the University of Arkansas in the “Food Science” category were at Cornell, Illinois and Massachusetts. The rest of the top 10 list, after Arkansas, were Louisiana State, Florida, Wisconsin, Colorado State, Pennsylvania State and Michigan State. Ron Buescher, UA Food Science Department head, said the ranking recognizes both the quantity and quality of research conducted by the department’s 12 research faculty members, graduate students and research support scientists. “Scholarly research productivity by food scientists at the University of Arkansas has been a tradition and we are honored by this national recognition,” Buescher said. The rankings cited 5.9 journal publications per faculty member and 36.9 citations of UA research by other scientists in journal articles per faculty member. The U of A System’s Division of Agriculture sponsors the department’s research and extension program. Undergraduate and graduate degree programs are administered by Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences at UA, Fayetteville. “Graduates of Food Science have excellent employment opportunities and they are highly successful in their professional careers,” Buescher said. “A major reason for that, as this ranking illustrates, is that our students are taught by some of the top food scientists in the nation.” |