The UAB School of Nursing has been ranked No. 1 among the nation’s schools of nursing for the scholarly productivity of its faculty.

The ranking was done by Academic Analytics, which annually rates faculty scholarly output in more than 7,000 U.S. doctoral programs.

In addition to the nursing ranking, published in the Jan. 12 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, the UAB School of Public Health ranked No. 7 among the nation’s schools of public health in faculty scholarly activity; and the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the UAB School of Medicine ranked No. 5.

The 2005 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index ranked 7,294 individual doctoral programs in 104 disciplines at 354 institutions. For a program to have been included in the 2005 index, it must have 10 or more faculty members, or, if it has fewer, it must have one-half the median number of faculty members for a program in that discipline.

The scholarly productivity of each named faculty member was judged on as many as three factors, depending on the most important variables in the given discipline: publications, which can include the number of books and journal articles published as well as citations of journal articles; federal-grant dollars awarded; and honors and awards.

The UAB School of Nursing’s 11 doctoral faculty members all produced peer-reviewed journal publications in 2005, with an average of 3.27 publications per person. Additionally, 64 percent of the faculty had journal publications cited by another work, with 8.09 citations per faulty member. The school also boasted 27 percent of faculty with new grant awards in 2005, with the average amount of each grant being $465,179. The UAB School of Nursing was ahead of schools including Emory University (No. 2), University of Pennsylvania (No. 3) and New York University (No. 4).

In the UAB School of Public Health, 91 percent of its 45 faculty members produce peer-reviewed journal publications in 2005, with 6.67 publications per person. Additionally, 84 percent of the faculty had journal publications cited by another work, with 28.18 citations per faulty member. The school also boasted 27 percent of faculty with new grant awards in 2005 — averaging $603,573.

The UAB School of Public Health ranked ahead of Emory University (No. 8), University of Massachusetts Medical School at Worcester (No. 9) and University of Wisconsin at Madison (No. 10).

The toxicology doctoral program in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the UAB School of Medicine, with 15 faculty members, had 93 percent of its faculty members produce peer-reviewed journal publications in 2005, with 9.33 publications per person. Additionally, 93 percent of the faculty had journal publications cited by another work, with 70.73 citations per faulty member. The program also had 53 percent of faculty with new grant awards in 2005 averaging $464,712.

UAB’s toxicology doctoral program topped programs at University of Washington (No. 6), University of Southern California (No. 7) and UCLA (No. 8).