Unit Aggregations (Medical Insight)

Unit Aggregations (Medical)

The Academic Analytics Medical Insight database contains over 190,000 medical-department faculty from across 

155 LCME-accredited medical education programs and 115 cancer centers.

Reports are generated at three levels of aggregation; the base level is the most specific, the faculty members. The first and second level reports provide comparative data on a broader scale. The first level is the discipline, with each scholar placed in the discipline designated as their primary taxonomy. The third level is the Broad Field, which are aggregations of disciplines, such as Clinical Sciences, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Health Professions Science, etc. Thus, the SRI score of each discipline or broad field is the average SRI of the faculty who comprise that discipline. The SRI score of each Broad Field is the average of the within-discipline SRIs for each scholar within that Broad Field. 

Disciplines and Broad Fields comprise both volume and per capita metrics. Because volume metrics are often a function of how many scholars are in a discipline (more scholars lead to higher totals) we derive per capita metrics such as, “per faculty” and “percentage of faculty.” The per capita metrics reduce the faculty group size effect and allow smaller disciplines to compare to larger disciplines. Discipline level metrics are:

1. Books metrics

• Total books published 
• Number of faculty with a book publication
• Percentage of faculty who have authored a book
• Books published per faculty member

2. Journal publication metrics

• Total journal articles
• Number of faculty with a journal article 
• Percentage of faculty who have authored a journal article
• Journal articles published per faculty member
• Articles per author

3. Conference proceedings metrics

• Total conference proceedings
• Number of faculty with a conference proceeding 
• Percentage of faculty who have a conference proceeding
• Conference proceedings per faculty member
• Conference proceeding per author 

4. Citations metrics

• Total citations
• Number of faculty with a citation
• Percentage of faculty with a citation
• Citations per faculty member
• Citations per journal article
• Citations per author

5. Federal funding metrics

• Total federal grants
• Total federal grant dollars
• Number of faculty who have a federal grant 
• Percentage of faculty who have won new and competitive federal research funding
• Federal grants per faculty member
• Federal grant dollars won per faculty member
• Dollars per grant

6. Honorific awards metrics

• Total honorific awards
• Number of faculty who have won an honorific award
• Percentage of faculty who have won an honorific award
• Honorific awards per faculty member

The following descriptive statistics are provided for each metric and are relevant to the comparison group chosen.

1. Rank

2. Z-score (metric value - µ of the metric value) / σ of the metric value

3. Percentile rank