[Cce-faculty-list] Fw: Papers to highlight

[Govindaraju, Rao S]

Colleagues:
Please see below and send me links to your papers you wish to be considered for highlighting by May 28, 2025. I will send those over to Ashlee.
Best.
GS

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From: Bahr, David F <dfbahr at purdue.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2025 2:13 PM
To: Mosier, Nathan S <mosiern at purdue.edu>; Crossley, William A <crossley at purdue.edu>; Kevin John Otto <kotto at purdue.edu>; Govindaraju, Rao S <govind at purdue.edu>; Kim, Sangtae <kim55 at purdue.edu>; Berger, Edward J <bergere at purdue.edu>; Sutherland, John W <jwsuther at purdue.edu>; Son, Young-Jun <yjson at purdue.edu>; Groll, Eckhard A <groll at purdue.edu>; Stanciu, Lia A <lstanciu at purdue.edu>; Kim, Seungjin <seungjin at purdue.edu>; Kulkarni, Milind <milind at purdue.edu>
Cc: Messersmith, Ashlee J <ajmesser at purdue.edu>
Subject: Papers to highlight


Folks,

Arvind has been asking heads for nominations for papers to highlight each month in his email letter to the faculty.  However, not every school has been highlighted regularly, and while  there are differences in numbers of faculty, we don’t want to show any particular favoritism in promoting faculty research.  Similarly, some faculty are very proactive in letting heads know that a paper has been published, and others are a bit more laid back about promoting their work.  Meaning it’s possible that our highlighted papers don’t reflect the breadth of the work across the college.



Along with the monthly Dean’s newsletter we (the college, and it falls to me to make the list) also have to provide a list of impactful papers to the provost quarterly.



So, in an effort to help the faculty’s work be promoted and minimizing the number of monthly/quarterly requests you get, we’ve come up with a way to hopefully streamline this a bit.



If you have a paper you want to nominate for the monthly Dean’s newsletter, please do send it to Ashlee (copied above) as usual.  Just sending a DOI link is ok, and we’re looking for ones published (not “early access”).

Ashlee will do a search in web of science about the middle of each month on papers published by school affiliation that occurred over the past 2 months.

She’ll sort that list by impact factor (which we know isn’t always a great measure of impact of a given paper) and we’ll focus on ones where the corresponding author is in a given school (i.e. the paper from Northwestern where one ECE faculty helped a team from NW isn’t going to be the one highlighted).  We’ll usually stick to journals that would be “quartile 1” in the Scimago rankings for your field rather than get into competition of 8 vs 12 on an impact factor.

We’ll look for papers that represent the breadth of each school over time (for instance, not every ME paper highlighted should be on heat transfer, nor every highlighted MSE paper on metals).

I’ll send Arvind a suggested list of papers (with DOI links) targeting 1-2 per school for him to make final selections for the monthly newsletter, with a goal of highlighting a breadth of faculty (different stages of careers, different areas of research, etc.), if you send a suggestion I promise it’ll be one of the two submitted to him.



We’ll make a list of highlighted papers over time to make sure we’re not favoring any one particular area, and have that list stored so any of the heads can check the history if they were wondering if the paper they were going to highlight was the same author as two months ago.  This way we’ll also have a list for the quarterly provost reports.



We’ll try this method for the next few months and see how it works.  With time we’ll probably have to come up with something between the senate and house methods (1 per school versus proportional to faculty), but for now we’ll try with the one per school model.   In particular for fields where the “coin of the realm” is conferences, we may need to come up with an alternative, but let’s try this for a few months.  If you have any issues, please let me know.



Dave


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