title: Pharmaceutical science faculty publication records at research-intensive pharmacy colleges and schools.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine yearly (phase 1) and cumulative (phase 2) publication records of pharmaceutical science faculty members at research-intensive colleges and schools of pharmacy.
  
  
  METHODS
  The publication records of pharmaceutical science faculty members at research-intensive colleges and schools of pharmacy were searched on Web of Science. Fifty colleges and schools of pharmacy were randomly chosen for a search of 1,042 individual faculty members' publications per year from 2005 to 2009. A stratified random sample of 120 faculty members also was chosen, and cumulative publication counts were recorded and bibliometric indices calculated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The median number of publications per year was 2 (range, 0-34). Overall, 22% of faculty members had no publications in any given year, but the number was highly variable depending on the faculty members' colleges or schools of pharmacy. Bibliometric indices were higher for medicinal chemistry and pharmaceutics, with pharmacology ranking third and social and administrative sciences fourth. Higher bibliometric indices were also observed for institution status (ie, public vs private) and academic rank (discipline chairperson vs non-chairperson and professor vs junior faculty member) (p<0.01 for each). The median number of cumulative publications per faculty member was 34 (range, 0-370).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Significant differences exist in yearly and cumulative publication rates for faculty members and bibliometric indices among pharmaceutical science disciplines and academic ranks within research-intensive colleges and schools of pharmacy. These data may be important for benchmarking purposes.
authors.affiliation: College of Pharmacy, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, OK 73103, USA. dennis.thompson@swosu.edu
authors.forename: Dennis F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: Milap C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Nahata
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004512:Education, Pharmacy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005178:Faculty / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011642:Publications / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012106:Research / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012580:Schools, Pharmacy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States