title: The research impact of school psychology faculty.
abstract: Hirsch's (2005) h index has become one of the most popular indicators of research productivity for higher education faculty. However, the h index varies across academic disciplines so empirically established norms for each discipline are necessary. To that end, the current study collected h index values from Scopus and Google Scholar databases for 401 tenure-track faculty members from 109 school psychology training programs. Male faculty tended to be more senior than female faculty and a greater proportion of the male faculty held professorial rank. However, female faculty members outnumbered males at the assistant and associate professor ranks. Although strongly correlated (rho=.84), h index values from Google Scholar were higher than those from Scopus. h index distributions were positively skewed with many faculty having low values and a few faculty having high values. Faculty in doctoral training programs exhibited significantly larger h index values than faculty in specialist training programs and there were univariate differences in h index values across academic rank and sex, but sex differences were not significant after taking seniority into account. It was recommended that the h index be integrated with peer review and diverse other indicators when considering individual merit.
authors.affiliation: Department of Educational Psychology, Baylor University, USA. Electronic address: Marley_Watkins@baylor.edu.
authors.forename: Marley W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Watkins
authors.affiliation: University Libraries, Baylor University, USA.
authors.forename: Christina Y
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Chan-Park
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D035841:Behavioral Research / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004500:Education, Graduate / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005178:Faculty / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011588:Psychology, Educational / Q000193:education*; D014495:Universities / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
keywords: Faculty; Higher education; Research; School psychology; h-Index