Meta-Research: How significant are the public dimensions of faculty work in review, promotion and tenure documents?

  1. Juan P Alperin  Is a corresponding author
  2. Carol Muñoz Nieves
  3. Lesley A Schimanski
  4. Gustavo E Fischman
  5. Meredith T Niles
  6. Erin C McKiernan
  1. Simon Fraser University, Canada
  2. Arizona State University, United States
  3. University of Vermont, United States
  4. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
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Percentage of institutions mentioning public and community terms and concepts by type of institution.

Bars represent whether each term or concept (several terms and phrases) was identified within documents from doctoral/research-focused universities (R-type; blue), master’s colleges and universities …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.42254.003
Percentage of institutions mentioning public and community terms and concepts by institution sub-type.

Bars represent whether each term or concept (several terms and phrases) was identified within documents of doctoral/research-focused universities, from the most research intensive (R1; blue), to …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.42254.004
Percentage of institutions mentioning public and community terms and concepts by discipline.

Bars represent whether each term or concept (several terms and phrases) was identified within documents of academic units from Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH; blue), Physical Sciences and …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.42254.005
Relative frequency of words surrounding the term "public".

Visual representation of the relative frequency of words near (within 15 words) the word "public" across all documents. The most frequent word near "public" is "service." Along with other frequent …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.42254.006
Relative frequency of words surrounding the term "community".

Visual representation of the relative frequency of words near (within 15 words) the word "community" across all documents. The most frequent word near "community" is "university." Along with other …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.42254.007
Percentage of institutions mentioning terms and concepts related to research and metrics by institution type.

Bars represent whether each term or concept (several terms and phrases) was identified within documents from doctoral/research-focused universities (R-type; blue), master’s colleges and universities …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.42254.008
Percentage of institutions mentioning terms and concepts related to research and metrics by institution sub-type.

Bars represent whether each term or concept (several terms and phrases) was identified within documents of doctoral/research-focused universities, from the most research intensive (R1; blue), to …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.42254.009
Percentage of institutions mentioning terms and concepts related to research and metrics by discipline.

Bars represent whether each term or concept (several terms and phrases) was identified within documents of academic units from Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH; blue), Physical Sciences and …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.42254.010
Relative frequency of words surrounding the term "impact".

Visual representation of the relative frequency of words near (within 15 words) the word "impact" across all documents. The most frequent word near "impact" is "research." Along with other frequent …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.42254.011

Tables

Table 1
Sampling summary of universities from Canada and the United States.

Overview of population of universities from the United States and Canada by type and sub-type, the number and percent randomly chosen for the stratified sample, and the number of institutions for …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.42254.002
Number in categoryNumber sampledPercent sampledNumber with documents
R-typeR11151715%15
R21071615%15
R31131715%14
RCan1515100%12
M-typeM1393174%11
M2298124%10
M314164%4
MCan1515100%13
B-typeBas259145%11
Bd324175%5
BCan1919100%17

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