Covenant University
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Asked 22 August 2022
Publication required to be an Associate Professor ?
Colleagues,
Please what is the average number of publications required before one can qualify to be an Associate Professor?
This information is not clearly written in the cyberspace/public domain, hence I need comments from experts in the Academia.
I look forward to hearing from you soon
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- Prof. Ademola Abdulkareem is a Professor of Electrical Power Systems and Energy at Covenant University and a seasonal researcher/ Visiting Scientist at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), Pretoria, South Africa. To answer your question, when I was seeking promotion to the position of Associate Professor in 2021, I submitted thirty-nine (39) selected SCOPUS Journal Publications, 60% main Author with a total score of 85%, to be promoted from Senior Lecturer to Associate Professor at Covenant University. However, this may be on the high side and vary from one university to another.
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Charlemagne College, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Dear Sodiq Arogundade ,
In general, this is as indicated by Wolfgang R. Dick impossible to say. I found a source that not looked at number of publications but at a closely related metric the so-called h-index (for more info, and criticism, and the source https://www.aacc.org/cln/articles/2019/september/scientific-impact-and-the-h-index). They studied your question and they found “A colleague and I surveyed typical values for academic physicians in 14 medical specialties (Am J Clin Pathol 2019;151:286-91). We found that, on average, assistant professors have an h-index of 2-5, associate professors 6-10, and full professors 12-24. These are mean or median values only—the distribution of values at each rank is very wide. If you hope to win a Nobel Prize, your h-index should be at least 35 and preferably closer to 70.”
But this is only studied in the field of medicine. I assume as said by others that it will be different in other disciplines, in different countries (and between different universities) and hopefully depend on more than just counting numbers (publications, citations, etc.).
Best regards.
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Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy
There are no general rules for this around the world. It depends on the field of science and on the specific situation in the university and faculty.
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University of Baghdad
This depends on the rule of your university and it is not a universal statement. Wish you luck.
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Queensland Health
Hello Sodiq Arogundade
I agree with the points made by Wolfgang R. Dick that it depends a lot on the field and university. The other thing - and Dr Disk will hate to hear this - it depends on the number of citations as well. A case I know well, the new vie-chancellor of one of the universities near here had a fairly low h-index and a lot of the academics there said bad things about him just because of that.
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With my best knowledge so far the university determine because i have seen an associate professor with 110 citation and just 17 papers
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Charlemagne College, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Dear Sodiq Arogundade ,
In general, this is as indicated by Wolfgang R. Dick impossible to say. I found a source that not looked at number of publications but at a closely related metric the so-called h-index (for more info, and criticism, and the source https://www.aacc.org/cln/articles/2019/september/scientific-impact-and-the-h-index). They studied your question and they found “A colleague and I surveyed typical values for academic physicians in 14 medical specialties (Am J Clin Pathol 2019;151:286-91). We found that, on average, assistant professors have an h-index of 2-5, associate professors 6-10, and full professors 12-24. These are mean or median values only—the distribution of values at each rank is very wide. If you hope to win a Nobel Prize, your h-index should be at least 35 and preferably closer to 70.”
But this is only studied in the field of medicine. I assume as said by others that it will be different in other disciplines, in different countries (and between different universities) and hopefully depend on more than just counting numbers (publications, citations, etc.).
Best regards.
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Covenant University
Ademola Abdulkareem is an Associate Professor at Covenant University, and a seasonal researcher/ Visiting Scientist at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), Pretoria, South Africa. To answer your question, I submitted thirty-nine (39) selected SCOPUS Journal Publications, 60% main Author with a total score of 85%, to be promoted from Senior Lecturer to Associate Professor at Covenant University. However, this may be on the high side and vary from one university to another.
Covenant University
- Prof. Ademola Abdulkareem is a Professor of Electrical Power Systems and Energy at Covenant University and a seasonal researcher/ Visiting Scientist at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), Pretoria, South Africa. To answer your question, when I was seeking promotion to the position of Associate Professor in 2021, I submitted thirty-nine (39) selected SCOPUS Journal Publications, 60% main Author with a total score of 85%, to be promoted from Senior Lecturer to Associate Professor at Covenant University. However, this may be on the high side and vary from one university to another.
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