“Opaque, gameable, and just plain wrong!” That was the judgment rendered by one of my colleagues on Academic Analytics, our university’s shiny new measurement tool. Why had Rutgers University — proud ...

Just a few years ago, Academic Analytics, an upstart company providing data on faculty productivity, talked of helping cash-strapped universities save as much as $2 billion by identifying their lowest ...

Rutgers faculty members, citing philosophical concerns and errors, are pushing back against the use of Academic Analytics to evaluate their productivity. With the advent of Google Scholar and other ...

Academic Analytics, a company that measures the performance, the production and ultimately the success of faculty and overall institutions at the university level, has been collecting data on the ...

NEW BRUNSWICK-- Productivity has always been an important aspect of any college professors' performance. How many books they write, how often they are cited in articles, how much grant money they win ...

A new study published in Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics examined publication patterns across 170 academic disciplines to better understand how disciplinary differences in publishing may ...

Rutgers professors vote a second time to seek access to and limits on use of data from Academic Analytics -- as faculty advocates vow to take such criticism to other campuses. The faculty of the ...

This report looks at how higher education institutions are using analytics to recruit and retain the best students, including: Tips to overcome barriers to implementing analytics in higher-learning ...

Some University of Missouri faculty members on Wednesday complained about the use of data and information from Academic Analytics in decisions on promotion and tenure of faculty. Mun Choi, MU ...