Researchers from the University of Missouri-Columbia have announced that the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee is ranked number one in the nation for per capita journal articles published by its faculty.
Based on data collected from 1999-2004, the researchers report in an article just published in Library and Information Science Research (www.sciencedirect.com) “Scholarly Productivity of U.S. LIS Faculty,” that SIS is additionally ranked 2nd among all U.S. LIS programs with respect to the number of journal articles published and 3rd in the researchers’ cumulative program rankings.
Notably, SIS Professor Carol Tenopir, who joined the faculty in 1994, is ranked as the most research productive LIS faculty member in the United States.
“The per capita ranking is an important and solid metric of a program’s research productivity, since it takes into account the significant variability of faculty sizes in LIS programs throughout the United States,” said Dr. Ed Cortez, Director and Professor of SIS. “The School of Information Sciences currently has 13 faculty members, but at the time of the study only 11 faculty lines where occupied. Just as per capita income is considered as a true measure of a nation’s wealth, a program’s per capita journal articles attests to its true measure of value and productivity. I am very proud of our faculty and congratulate them for their achievements.”
The School of Information Sciences is ranked 16th out of 56 graduate programs in library and information sciences accredited by the American Library Association, according to a survey by U.S. News & World Report released in April of this year. SIS is one of four schools within the College of Communication and Information.
Carol Tenopir is a professor at the School of Information Sciences
and the Interim Director of the Center for Information Studies.
