A Mathematical Approach to Measurement of Academic Visibility in Universities

Abstract

Research and publications which marks how scholarly a university faculty is, has remained the vital tools for measuring academic visibility of a university and that of faculty. Online social network tools notwithstanding, quality journals remain the most efficient tool to Project University and faculty to global visibility. In this paper, statistical model equations for measuring academic visibility of faculty (AVF) and that of university (AVU) have been formulated as a novel contribution. This new mathematical method unlike the traditional citation and scientometric methods is fast and provided a score board where 3.0 4.0 represents high to excellent visibility. 2.0-2.9 is good to very good visibility, 1.0 -1.9 is fair visibility while 0.0 to 0.9 is zero to low visibility. University Library should take the challenge of measuring and promoting academic visibility while faculty is obliged to submit their publications to the university library annually.