The use of citation data in evaluating the research performance of academic programs and individual faculty members is explored in the context of a 10-year analysis of a single academic unit. The study controls for possible accounting bias by comparing results obtained using three differing approaches to allocating citation credit: straight, whole, and adjusted counts. Citation scores are correlated with salary, time-in-field, and gender. The results of the study raise serious questions about the validity of research rankings derived from perception studies.
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