Retaining, resigning and firing: bibliometrics as a people analytics tool for examining research performance outcomes and faculty turnover

What is it about?

A bibliometric analysis of faculty turnover in a University. Results show that faculty research outcomes as measured by the hIa metric are a predictor of terminated employment status. Results suggest the hIa index is a more accurate measure of research performance the widely used h-index. Implications for the use of the hIa metric in evaluating faculty employment decisions are discussed.

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