Education Week recently unveiled the 2021 Rick Hess Straight Up Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, which identify top university-based scholars in the U.S. who shape educational practice and policy. Congratulations to EPOL professor Adrienne Dixson, who's been included in the list of 200 scholars of more than 20,000 or more who qualify.
Each scholar was scored in nine categories and chosen by a 28-member selection committee:
- Google Scholar Score: This figure gauges the number of widely cited articles, books, or papers a scholar has authored.
- Book Points: A search on Amazon tallied the number of books a scholar has authored, co-authored, or edited.
- Highest Amazon Ranking: This reflects the scholar’s highest-ranked book on Amazon.
- Syllabus Points: This seeks to measure a scholar’s long-term academic impact on what is being read by today’s college and university students. This metric was scored using OpenSyllabusProject.org, the most comprehensive extant database of syllabi. Newspaper Mentions: A LexisNexis search was used to determine the number of times a scholar was quoted or mentioned in U.S. newspapers
- Education Press Mentions: This measures the total number of times the scholar was quoted or mentioned in Education Week, the Chronicle of Higher Education, or Inside Higher Education during 2020.
- Web Mentions: This reflects the number of times a scholar was referenced, quoted, or otherwise mentioned online in 2020. The intent is to use a “wisdom of crowds” metric to gauge a scholar’s influence on the public discourse. The search was conducted using Google.
- Congressional Record Mentions: A name search in the Congressional Record for 2020 determined whether a scholar was referenced by a member of Congress.
- Twitter Score: Followerwonk’s “Social Authority” score was used to calculate Twitter scores. Followerwonk scores each Twitter account on a scale of 0-100 based on the user’s retweet rate and other user-specific variables (such as follower count).
Learn more about Dr. Dixson's (181) public influence ranking.
