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Promotion & Tenure Resource Guide

This guide is intended to provide resources useful to individuals who need to evaluate research and its impact. It includes journal acceptance rates, citation analysis, impact factors, journal rankings, creating publication lists, etc.

ISU Librarians Specializing in this Area

There are several ISU librarians who are quite adept at giving presentations about these resources or who would be willing to sit down with you one-on-one and assist you in constructing more in-depth searches. Please feel free to contact anyone below for further assistance:

Jeff Alger (Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences areas)

Jeff Kushkowski (Business and Social Sciences areas, Cited Reference Searching)

Lorrie Pellack (Science & Engineering areas, Cited Reference Searching, ResearcherID, Publish or Perish software)


For other subject areas consult: