12/04/2007
A&S Clinical Psychology Program Ranked First
National rankings based on faculty scholarly activity place 10 University of Kentucky academic departments among the top 10 when stacked against their peers. The 2006-07 Faculty Scholarly Activity index, unveiled this week by the Chronicle of Higher Education, ranks 7,294 individual doctoral programs in 104 disciplines at 354 institutions. UK is categorized as a large research institution.
Ten individual programs at UK were ranked nationally as follows:
• Clinical Psychology (College of Arts and Sciences), ranked first.
• Anatomy (College of Medicine), ranked third.
• Plant Pathology (College of Agriculture) ranked fourth.
• Pharmaceutical Sciences Ph.D. (College of Pharmacy), ranked fourth.
• Plant Sciences (College of Agriculture), ranked fifth.
• In Family and Human Sciences, Gerontology (College of Public Health), ranked sixth.
• In European Studies, Hispanic Studies (College of Arts and Sciences), ranked seventh.
• In Biological Sciences, Plant Physiology (College of Agriculture), ranked seventh.
• Entomology (College of Agriculture), ranked ninth.
• Nutrition (College of Medicine), ranked ninth.
"Faculty productivity is key to achieving our Top 20 goals in research," said Kumble Subbaswamy, UK's provost. "The fact that so many of our departments are ranked among the best in the country in terms of productivity is a testimonial to the quality and dedication of our faculty as we strive to become a Top 20 public research institution."
The index is created by Academic Analytics, a company partially owned by the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Institutions are categorized as large research universities (those with 15 or more Ph.D. programs) and small research universities. For a program to be included in the index, it must have 10 or more faculty members, or, if it has fewer, it must have one-half the median number of faculty members for a program in that discipline.
The productivity of faculty members is measured based on as many as three factors, with the preponderance of weight given to the most important
variable(s) in each discipline. Categories examined included: publications, including books and journal articles published as well as citations of journal articles; federal grant dollars awarded; and honors and awards.