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Looking at the mid career - what recommendations do people have for someone considering going up for promotion to full professor?
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This depends almost exclusively on the university and whether the university is a research-, teaching-, and/or service-focused university. The higher-ranked US universities aspire to be research universities and thus place a heavy emphasis on research.
In Business Schools and Colleges of Arts and Sciences, the focus is on publications, while in Engineering Colleges, the focus is on dollars obtained through grants. For research, the typical Business School will look for:
- a good number of journal articles (20-50 depending on school, moderated by quality)
- articles in top journals in the field (at least a few)
- single author and multiple author papers
Then of course, there will be Service and Teaching aspects of the prodfessor's portfolio.
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The same formula (research+teaching+service)that applies to tenure applies to promotion to full professor. However the weights are different, and it varies among universities. At research universities, a potential full professor not only needs to publish but show indications that he/she is an authority in the subject. Teaching evaluation need to be above average, teaching awards are a plus. In terms of service, its important to show leadership.
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I understand that criteria to become a full professor is different from making tenure. However I am not sure how one can show expertise. Is it through the number of articles?
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Guest wrote:I understand that criteria to become a full professor is different from making tenure. However I am not sure how one can show expertise. Is it through the number of articles? The criteria for Making Full Professor are more strenuous, particularly in the realm of research, although you will find variations between schools. Generally, you are looking at more and better-quality journal articles for Full Professor. Another way of looking at it is that tenure seeks to determine whether a faculty member can make an impact in the field, whereas promotion to Full Professor tries to find out if the faculty member has made a contribution to the field. In addition, a Full Professor should have participated in, and possibly chaired Dissertation committees and served on college level committees etc. However, the primary criterion, especially in research schools, is research - quantity and quality.
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An important element of research expertise is citations. You should monitor the number of citations you have. It helps for tenure, to identify similar research projects,duplication or confirmation of research findings, receive funding, literature reviews and most importantly esablishes a researcher as an expert in a certain area.
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Much has been said about the research side of the promotion process for a Full Professor. However, in most mid- to top-level schools, the decision is also dependent on how much the individual has contributed to service. Service comprises some or all of the following:
a) Serving on College- or University-wide committees
b) Service on Editorial Boards of Journals
c) Service on dissertation committees and hopefully, heading a few
d) Service on Conference Organizing Committees
e) Service on Proposal Review Committees at the NSF, NIH, and other bodies
These types of service are routinely considered in these categories of schools.
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I also found impact an important factor. Impact in all four areas - teaching, research, service and leadership (almost by definition impact). I read a file once where a poet published half of her material online - not because she couldn't get into other venues, but because she wanted people to read it. So I also used that argument by including any data I could get on downloads, and indirect data like potential readership.
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How does a research go about checking their citations. Is it a score. How is it analyzed? Thanks for the help
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Google Scholar has citation information.
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