Ted Rogers School helps contribute to TMU’s increased research output and impact
The Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) has made the most progress on research output and impact at Canadian universities since 2006-09, according to the new CWTS Leiden Ranking, and the Ted Rogers School of Management has played a major part in this growth.
The CWTS Leiden Ranking (external link, opens in new window) is an annual global university ranking based on bibliometric indicators for institutions around the world, including 31 in Canada. The rankings are compiled by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and reports the data for the last four-year period for which full data is available. The most recent period available is for 2018-21, and the available data goes back to the 2006-09 period.
Between the 2006-09 and 2018-21 periods, TMU had the highest percentage change in mean normalized citation scores and the highest percentage increase in publications of any Canadian university. Of the 1,980 publications from TMU during the 2018-21 period, 530 were from Ted Rogers School researchers, which is roughly one-quarter of the university’s output.
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From Research Outcome and Impact Data (external link, opens in new window) Blog Post by Alex Usher (April 30, 2024).
“If you look at Ted Rogers School’s research publication numbers between 2010 to 2022, we increased from 76 publications to 191, which is roughly a 150% increase,” says Ozgur Turetken, Associate Dean, Research at the Ted Rogers School. This parallels the TMU average increase, he notes. “We accomplished this performance with a relatively small group of faculty.”
Turetken says that this increase in research output at the Ted Rogers School can be attributed to a number of factors. Firstly, the teaching mode changed around 2008-09, so there was more time for faculty members to devote to something other than teaching.
In addition, the school launched the first graduate program in business in 2006. While most of it was MBA-related, the Master of Management Science (MMSc) degree program also launched, which was a research-intensive program providing students with the knowledge and skills needed to excel in research-based management positions within the IT sector.
The MMSc degree was later renamed to Master of Science in Management (MScM) in 2015. The renaming of the program necessitated the removal of the IT sector focus, and replaced it with a broader spectrum of elective courses across Ted Rogers School programs. Turetken says that the expansion of the MScM program, and the launch of the PhD in Management program in 2020 has contributed to the growth of research at the school.
Turetken adds that starting around 2015, hiring at the school has almost exclusively been focused on research-oriented faculty. “The volume of those hires has made one of the biggest impacts in the last four to five years,” he says. “Since 2019, we’ve hired roughly 50 research-focused faculty members.”
“In addition, the Ted Rogers School is one of the first at TMU to create a portfolio specifically on research, and we have one of the first Associate Dean, Research positions,” explains Turetken. “This role gives me the opportunity to exclusively focus on research, separate from student-related issues and program administration.”
“It has created an environment where you can think about different research support programs,” he adds. “It has also helped to change the research culture at the school, and as a result, we are able to attract more researchers.”