Compare a faculty candidate’s productivity to faculty in a specific discipline at UH, as well as with individuals at comparable institutions and at top U.S. research universities.

Terms and Definitions

• H-index: H represents the number of a scholar’s publications, as well as the number of citations per publication. A scholar with an index of h has published h papers each of which has been cited in other papers at least h times.

• M-index: M represents a scholar’s annualized productivity since the time of graduation. M is a scholar’s h-index divided by the number of years since Ph.D. completion. Note that this definition does not overlap with that by Hirsch (2005), which uses the year of someone’s first publication instead of the year of Ph.D. completion.

• Impact Factor: Impact factor represents the average impact factor of the journals in which an individual has published, across all publications.

• Federal Funding: Pertains to the total lifetime cumulative $ of NIH and/or NSF Funding a faculty member has attained. This data is based on NIH reporter and does not include industry funding or funding from federal agencies other than NIH/NSF (e.g. USDA, DHS).