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Evaluating Scholarly Productivity and Impacts of Landscape Architecture Faculty Using Citation Analysis

Keunhyun Park, Thomas W. Sanchez and Jessica Zuban
Landscape Journal, May 2022, 41 (1) 1-14; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.41.1.1
Keunhyun Park
Keunhyun Park is an assistant professor of urban forestry at the University of British Columbia. He completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in landscape architecture at Seoul National University and a PhD degree in urban planning and design at the University of Utah. Before joining UBC, Park was an assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at Utah State University. He conducts behavioral research through spatial data analytics and digital technologies.
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Jessica Zuban is a student in the Master of Ecology program at the University of Otago, New Zealand, studying the effects of regenerative agriculture on soil and plant health. Originally from New Jersey, she completed her BA in International Studies at Boston College in 2015. In addition to pursuing her master’s, Jessica works as a landscape architecture associate at Patch Landscape in Queenstown, New Zealand.
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Thomas W. Sanchez is currently professor of urban affairs and planning at Virginia Tech. He earned his PhD in city planning from Georgia Tech in 1996 and has since taught at Iowa State University, Portland State University, and the University of Utah. Sanchez conducts research in the areas of transportation, social justice, technology, and scholarly impact.
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Abstract

The academic field of landscape architecture has taken an increasing interest in scholarly productivity and the impact of faculty research. Quantitative measures of academic output and reputation are important assessment tools used by many academic disciplines, especially for promotion and tenure evaluation. Citation analysis, one approach used for these purposes that combines metrics for productivity and impact, is seen as an effective way to assess scholarly activity in related fields such as urban planning and tourism. Universities are increasingly employing metrics of this kind to measure faculty members’ scholarly productivity and impacts alongside their teaching and service records.

This article applies citation analysis to the landscape architecture faculty inNorth America. UsingGoogle Scholar data, we analyzed four citation measures (total citation counts, h-index, hI,norm, and hI,annual) for tenure-track faculty. The results show that citation activity is correlated with rank (assistant, associate, or full professor), degree type (doctorate vs. non-doctorate), and number of years since first publication, with no detectable differences between male and female scholars.We found that landscape architecture faculty ranking in the top 20% according to total citation counts accounted for 87% of total citations, and 15% of the tenure-track faculty in the field have no citation records.Webelieve that our methods and findings can be used as a complementary measure to assess the level of scholarly contributions at the individual and program levels.

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  • Bibliometrics
  • landscape architecture scholarship
  • research performance
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Keunhyun Park, Thomas W. Sanchez, Jessica Zuban
Landscape Journal May 2022, 41 (1) 1-14; DOI: 10.3368/lj.41.1.1

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Evaluating Scholarly Productivity and Impacts of Landscape Architecture Faculty Using Citation Analysis
Keunhyun Park, Thomas W. Sanchez, Jessica Zuban
Landscape Journal May 2022, 41 (1) 1-14; DOI: 10.3368/lj.41.1.1
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