The Faculty Reward System Guidelines for Annual Performance Review, Promotion, and Tenure, The Ohio State University, College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences calls for data that measure the quality and impact of the faculty member's research and publications.  Commonly used measures are citedness or the number of times an article has been cited by other sources, the quality of the journal in which the scientist publishes, as measured by journal impact factor, rank, and the article acceptance rate.
 

Article citations

• Cited reference searching enables you to find articles from journals that have cited a book, a patent or another article.  Through a cited reference search, you can discover how a known idea or innovation has been confirmed, applied, improved, extended or corrected.

 
• Search Web of Science
• For more information:
• How to do a search for your citations
• Cited reference searching: an introduction (ISI)

Journal impact factor and ranking

• The journal impact factor is a measure of the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal

 has been cited in a particular year. The impact factor will help you evaluate a journal’s relative
 importance, especially when you compare it to others in the same field.

 The impact factor is calculated by dividing the number of current citations to articles published in the
 two previous years by the total number of articles published in the two previous years.

• Search Journal Citation Reports
• For more information:
• How to search for journal impact factor and ranking
• The impact factor (ISI essay)
• Find the high impact journals
• Using JCR wisely

Journal publication acceptance rate (also called rejection rate)

• The acceptance rate is the percent of articles accepted for publication of the total submitted to the journal for consideration.
• At this time, there is no central source for this information.  Some data can be obtained by contacting the publishers.
• Reference guide of professional journals/publications (OSUE) -- lists selected publications with information about publication guidelines, including article acceptance rates.