According to the Life of a Professor website, at the associate professor stage you are supposed to “establish yourself as a leader in your field and to be recognized internationally.” That means that when you go up for full professor, one main criterion for which you will be evaluated is how internationally recognized you are. But how does one show “international recognition?”
As highlighted at a recent Center for Faculty Excellence workshop, there is a tool to help. If you have a record of publishing – especially research articles — one place to start is looking at where in the world your research has been cited. Clarivate Web of Science has a map that can show you this. Below is mine:
The map tells a tale. You can see that there has been interest worldwide (yay!), with Europe standing out as strongest, and I could include that story in my narrative that I write for my promotion file. But the map itself provides a persuasive visual data point to support my “international recognition” chops.
If you want to check out yours, go to Clarivate Web of Science and sign in. I find the best way to log in is using my ORCID ID. (If you don’t have yours yet, here’s how to get it.) Once signed in, on the right side of the screen you will see a “Open dashboard” button like the one below.
Once you open up your dashboard, scroll down until you see the map option:
Once in your map, you can zoom into areas to see where your research is cited with more granularity. For example, here is a closeup on one area of my map:
Whether you decide to ultimately include the map itself or closeups of it on your actual tenure/promotion dossier is up to you, but the insights the tool provides may be at least a good starting point to show your worldliness. And even if you don’t end up using it at all, it is fun to imagine your work being read by scholars somewhere along the Nile or in the shadow of Mount Fuji.
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