Index Ranks Yale Forestry Program Best in Research Productivity
The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies has the best forestry program in the United States based on the research productivity of its faculty, according to a recently released index.
“For a hundred years, this school has been a leader in forest research and training and, with forests at home and abroad greatly threatened, Yale will continue to provide the leadership in forest science, management and policy,” said Gus Speth, dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. “I am very proud of our current faculty continuing in that tradition.”
The 2005 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, partly financed by the State University of New York at Stony Brook and produced by Academic Analytics, a for-profit company based in Pennsylvania, rates faculty members’ scholarly output at 7,294 doctoral programs around the country and 177,816 faculty members at 354 institutions.
The index ranks the top 10 programs in 104 disciplines (Yale’s Immunobiology and Neuroscience programs are also ranked highest), and examines the number of book and journal articles published by each program’s faculty, as well as journal citations, awards, honors and grants received.
The index relies on Scopus, a database that compiles journal publication and citation data from more than 15,000 journals, while it counts books using Amazon.com, whose database matches the Library of Congress catalog. The index incorporates grant data collected either from federal agencies directly or from information on their websites, including from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. Academic Analytics collects information on honors and awards from the Web sites of 55 organizations.
The main areas of Yale’s forestry research are stand dynamics, silviculture and applied forest ecology (restoration, protection, sustainable management) of native forests around the world; fire and fire ecology and policy; landscape management systems; biometrics and sampling design; community and social forest issues; nontimber forest products; tree physiology and anatomy; wildlife community ecology; micrometeorology of forests; forest certification and governance; forest economics and finance; and global issues in forest policy and regulation (illegal logging, poverty reduction, energy).
“Because of its organization and tradition, the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies has always been innovators in research, constantly exploring new concepts rather than dominating targeted areas of expertise,” said Chad Oliver, Pinchot Professor of Environmental Studies.
For more information contact Dave DeFusco, 203-436-4842
“For a hundred years, this school has been a leader in forest research and training and, with forests at home and abroad greatly threatened, Yale will continue to provide the leadership in forest science, management and policy,” said Gus Speth, dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. “I am very proud of our current faculty continuing in that tradition.”
The 2005 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, partly financed by the State University of New York at Stony Brook and produced by Academic Analytics, a for-profit company based in Pennsylvania, rates faculty members’ scholarly output at 7,294 doctoral programs around the country and 177,816 faculty members at 354 institutions.
The index ranks the top 10 programs in 104 disciplines (Yale’s Immunobiology and Neuroscience programs are also ranked highest), and examines the number of book and journal articles published by each program’s faculty, as well as journal citations, awards, honors and grants received.
The index relies on Scopus, a database that compiles journal publication and citation data from more than 15,000 journals, while it counts books using Amazon.com, whose database matches the Library of Congress catalog. The index incorporates grant data collected either from federal agencies directly or from information on their websites, including from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. Academic Analytics collects information on honors and awards from the Web sites of 55 organizations.
The main areas of Yale’s forestry research are stand dynamics, silviculture and applied forest ecology (restoration, protection, sustainable management) of native forests around the world; fire and fire ecology and policy; landscape management systems; biometrics and sampling design; community and social forest issues; nontimber forest products; tree physiology and anatomy; wildlife community ecology; micrometeorology of forests; forest certification and governance; forest economics and finance; and global issues in forest policy and regulation (illegal logging, poverty reduction, energy).
“Because of its organization and tradition, the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies has always been innovators in research, constantly exploring new concepts rather than dominating targeted areas of expertise,” said Chad Oliver, Pinchot Professor of Environmental Studies.
For more information contact Dave DeFusco, 203-436-4842
