Scholar Profile Suggested Honorific Awards (Research Insight)

Scholar Profile Suggested Honorific Awards (Research Insight)

The Suggested Awards tool presents, for a given scholar, a list of awards for which the scholar could potentially be nominated. For a given scholar and award, a Suitability Index is calculated by comparing characteristics of the scholar with those of previous awardees. These characteristics include comparative benchmarks, previous co-authorship, academic age at the time of receiving the award, institution and academic unit affiliations, and scholarly research similarity. Due to the dependence on comparative benchmarks, scholars that are not associated with either a department or program will not have any suggested awards.

The initial view when navigating to Suggested Honorific Awards displays all awards where the scholar has a Suitability Index equal to or greater than 0.6. The view displays, from left to right:

• Suitability Index (SI)
• Award Name
• Granting Organization
• Data related to the selected scholar that may support selection as a nominator or letter writer:
  • Number of previous awardees at the same Institution
  • Number of previous awardees having a common academic unit affiliation
  • Number of previous awardees with co-authored scholarly works
• NRC prestige classification of the award
• Award nomination opening month (where available)
• Award nomination closing month (where available)

The three entries above for “Related Recipients” are displayed in blue text and are clickable. Clicking on any of them will open the Related Recipients dialog box and display the corresponding data set. This dialog box shows, for the selected scholar and award, the previous awardees who are affiliated with the same Institution (Common Institution), who are affiliated with the same academic unit (Common Unit), and who are previous collaborators. Note that “previous collaborators” are defined as having an article, conference proceeding, grant, book, patent, clinical trial, or book chapter collaboration with the selected scholar. The scholar profiles of previous awardees can be viewed by clicking their name.

Clicking on the name of an award entry will transition to the Award Profile. The Award Profile contains an overview of the award, a listing of up to the 100 most recent recipients, and an analysis of select previous awardee characteristics.