Faculty Publication Timelines: An Indiana University Service to Junior Faculty

Abstract

Swain Hall library is one of 12 subject libraries on the Indiana University, Bloomington campus. Established in 1950, it has been the lifeline for Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics, Computer Science, and the School of Informatics. Apart from traditional information services, including collection development, examining faculty publishing activities has been one of our primary goals. We have received positive feedback from scholars and committees as we summarize those contributions to those unfamiliar with the science itself. We used Microsoft Excel to create these timelines, a YouTube describing how to do this can be found on the web with the title “Create a timeline in Microsoft Excel”. Timelines offered a condensed, single view of Publications, Citation count, and Journal Impact. The results of this analysis may assist committee member in compiling individual publications; and it may enable assessment committees in decisions related to faculty promotion and tenure. Citation databases consulted to build citation count for each journal article were: SCOPUS, Google Scholar, and Web Of Science.