[Pols-l] Evaluating Research, Spring 2018

[Haider-Markel, Donald Patrick]

Colleagues, as we near the end of the semester just a reminder about the charge below.
Thanks for your attention.
DHM
From: Haider-Markel, Donald Patrick
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 11:27 AM
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Subject: Evaluating Research, Spring 2018

Evaluating Research, Spring 2018

Colleagues, before the end of the spring semester I am giving a charge to the most senior faculty member in each sub-field. I ask that you meet with your sub-field colleagues and try to develop a set of decision rules by which you will evaluate research contributions in your sub-field for annual evaluations, promotion, and award nominations. The meetings could occur along with prelim grading.

Senior Faculty are:

American: Johnson
Comparative: Rohrschneider
International Relations: Omelicheva
Public Policy: Haider-Markel


You can decide your own way of outlining decision rules. I made some suggestions below. Next fall we will meet and see how much agreement there is across sub-fields

1. How do you rate refereed journal publications? Top tier general journals, top tier specialty, second or third tier, outside of political science? One example in my mind is that a top tier general journal publication is worth three articles in other outlets.

2. How do you rate books relative to articles? Are they equivalent to a certain number of articles? What about edited collections or textbooks? Do you rank book publishers (examples).

3. If it all how do you assess co-authorship versus sole authorship?

4. How do you rate grants sought or received relative to publications?

5. How do you rate book chapters relative to other publications?

6. Do you consider service publications as publications? How are they rated relative to other publications? Examples might include blog posts, a chapter in a textbook, or any publication that does not consist of original research.

7. The University values engaged scholarship, but do we? Engaged scholarship could be research that includes direct involvement of the community, news media engagement, talks that are open to the public, blog posts, etc.

8. What other evidence is important for evaluating research?


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