University Publication Count Totals, How Are They Calculated?

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Tenure track professor at USA research university here. My university just released their annual report and celebrated something like 3k publications from the entire university last year.

Any idea how my university reached this number? I have never reported my publications to my university, they just go straight to my CV on another line. Unless I’m supposed to have reported this to someone?

My best guess is they can get this from like Clarivate JCR that counts papers from universities, but that’s only for journals that are indexed and qualify for JCR. So it sounds like my university is undercounting since all the smaller publishers and unindexed journals remain hidden?

Comments

  1. sallysparrow88 Avatar

    Don’t you have annual performance review for merrit raise?

  2. Fun-Astronomer5311 Avatar

    Just query Scopus or Web of Science for affiliation or an author’s name.

  3. alaskawolfjoe Avatar

    This just seems weird, especially given how differently “publication” is defined in different fields.

  4. scienide09 Avatar

    ORCID? There’s a dashboard for institutions.

  5. lipflip Avatar

    We are expected to register new publications with our library. We also use that for Benchmarking between departments and within collaborative research projects (but it lacks other metrics, such citations per article) 

    Benefit: our list of references on our institutes/researcher’s websites get updated automatically based on this infor action.