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1、TheScienceImpactofAstronomyPhDGrantingDepartmentsintheUnitedStates.A.L.Kinney,NASA/GSFC,8800GreenbeltRoad,Greenbelt,MD,20771ABSTRACTAreyouastudentapplyingtoGraduateSchoolsforaPhDinAstronomy?Wouldyouliketoknowhowyourfavoritedepartmentsrankintermsofscientificimpactonthefieldofastronomy?Here,th
2、eimpactindexoftheastronomicalresearchof36astronomyPhDgrantingdepartmentsismeasuredandrankedtheusingthemethodologybasedonHirsh'sh-indexandtheMolinariandMolinariimpactindexh(m).BecauseofthecomplexnatureofUniversitiestoday,thisstudylooksattheUniversitiesintwoways;firstanalyzingthescienceimpacto
3、fthepublishedastrophysicalworkovera10yearperiodoftheDepartmentwhichgrantsthePhDand;second,lookingattheimpactofthepublishedastrophysicalworkfromtheUniversityasawholeincludingLaboratories,Centers,andFacilitiesattheUniversity.TheUniversitiesconsideredinthestudyaredrawnfromthe1992NationalResearc
4、hCouncilstudyonProgramsofResearch,DoctorateinAstrophysicsandAstronomy(Goldberg,etal.,1995)withthreeUniversitiesadded.JohnsHopkinsUniversity,MichiganStateUniversity,andNorthwesternUniversityallhostsubstantialastronomicalresearchwithintheirDepartmentsofPhysicsandAstronomyandsoareincludedhere.T
5、hefirstmethodofmeasuringimpactconcentratesontenuredandtenuredtrackfaculty,withthetopquartileofUniversitiesbeing1.Caltech,2.UCSantaCruz,3.PrincetonUniversity,4.HarvardUniversity,5.UniversityofColorado,Boulder,6.SUNY,StonyBrook,7.JohnsHopkinsUniversity,8.PennStateUniversity,and9.UniversityofMi
6、chigan,AnnArbor.Thesecondmethodadditionallyincludes"softmoney"scientistsinresearchandadjunctfacultypositions,withthetopquartilebeing1.UCSantaCruz,2.PrincetonUniversity,3.JohnsHopkinsUniversity,4.PennStateUniversity,5.SUNYStonyBrook,6.UniversityofMichigan,AnnArbor,7.NewMexicoStateUniversity,8
7、.UniversityofMassachusetts,Amherst,and9.UniversityofVirginia,Charlottesville.BothmethodsrevealimportantaspectsofUniversitiesforgraduatestudents,representingnotonlythedepthbutalsothebreadthofthescienceavailabletoastudentwhobecomesaffiliatedwiththeUn
