Scholarly Research Index (Medical)
Academic Analytics calculates the discipline level Scholarly Research Index (SRI) based on the mean SRI scores of individual faculty within the taxonomic classification. Thus, the SRI of each discipline or other level of aggregation – department, division, broad field, institution, etc.- is the average of the faculty who comprise that discipline.
Metrics for Faculty-Based Scholarly Research Index (Default Metrics)
Metrics for the person-based Scholarly Research Index are:
Total Journal Articles
Total Citations
Total Books
Total Book Chapters
Total PI Grant Dollars
Total Awards
Total Conference Proceedings
Total US Patents
Total Clinical Trials
Academic Analytics utilizes a weighting scheme for these metrics.
Scholarly Research Index (SRI) Methodology Description
The Scholarly Research Index (SRI) is a patented methodology to provide comparative context for faculty or discipline research activity compared to taxonomy peers. This comparison is based on the metrics Academic Analytics collects and maintains for the medical benchmarking tools.
Person level SRI is a composite score, based on the metrics weighed in the faculty's discipline taxonomic classification. The composite score is displayed on a Z-Score scale, but it is NOT a composite Z-Score. SRI is derived in this manner because the practice of using Z-Scores to identify possible outliers can be misleading, particularly as it relates to variable or small sample sizes. This methodology ensures the SRI is scaled based on the number of faculty in the taxonomy.
Within each taxonomy, Academic Analytics calculates each faculty's rank on each of the metrics and multiplies each of those metric ranks based on the respective metric weights. Academic Analytics sums the weighted ranks for each person and calculates the Z-Score of the summed weighted ranks for each faculty within the taxonomy. That Z-Score is displayed as the SRI score in the Medical Insight benchmarking tools.
Scholarly Research Index (SRI) Calculation Steps
- Rank the total metric counts for each faculty in the taxonomy
- Calculate the number of faculty in the taxonomy
- Calculate each faculty's rank within the taxonomy, for each metric
- Multiply each metric rank by the metric weight
- Sum the weighted ranks for each faculty
- (Total Weighted Rank - Discipline Total Weighted Rank Mean)/Discipline Total Weighted Rank Standard Deviation = Scholarly Research Index (SRI)
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