Types of problems that AAS can help solve.

A.  The Board of Regents needs to know how their school stacks up against six national competitors in terms of research productivity. We can provide information by discipline and in the aggregate.

B.  The President would like a measure that shows how research productivity has grown over her five-year tenure. We can provide an unbiased measure of research quality over whatever time frame that is specified. 

C.  The Provost is charged with the responsibility of naming five Chaired Professors from among the current faculty. At least ten professors think that they deserve the honor. The Provost needs unbiased data to allow him to minimize political fallout. We can provide a measure of research quality for each candidate, and also show the percentile rank for each candidate within their discipline. 

D.  The Dean wants to know the strongest candidates for a senior faculty position in a specific academic discipline. We can provide a ranked target list of the 20 most productive scholars in the academic area, so that they can be contacted concerning their interest in the position.

E.  The Dean faces an important promotion and tenure decision concerning a faculty member whose volume of publications may (or may not) be matched by a quality measure. We can provide the quality measure to help him make that decision. 

F.  The Dean wishes to reward Departments based on the impact that their research has had on their prospective disciplines. We can provide the quality measure to help make that decision.

G.  These are only some of the issues that we can address by providing information based on the unbiased database of citations that we have created. Each school has unique needs, so please contact us so that we can work out a solution to address your particular issue.