Title: Faculty Perceptions of Research Assessment at Virginia Tech 
Description: This data set represents the data analyzed and discussed in a research article for the Journal of Altmetrics (JOA) of the same title/name. However, the original survey project was commissioned by Virginia Tech Faculty Senate to assess faculty perceptions of research assessment and salary considerations at Virginia Tech. The project was overseen by the Faculty Senate Research Assessment Committee and the resulting report was submitted to Faculty Senate and presented to the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors at their June 2019 meeting. That report can be found at https://bov.vt.edu/assets/Attachment%20II_Constituent%20Reports_June%202019.pdf, pages 12-118 (includes survey questions). The data that are available in this data set represent data that were analyzed and included in the JOA research article. Certain data, including responses to questions about salaries, are not included in this data set, because they were not a part of the analysis for the JOA publication.This data set includes four files: the survey instrument (all questions, PDF format), select quantitative responses (.csv), select qualitative responses (.csv), and the codebook for the questions in the response files (.csv). All response data have been anonymized; please see each file for more details.  Racial data and departmental data are eliminated to ensure anonymity.  The survey was submitted to the Institutional Review Board of Virginia Tech and was determined to not be research involving human subjects as defined by HHS and FDA regulations, resulting in approval to broadly distribute the survey to Virginia Tech faculty with expectations that responses are kept anonymous and results do not claim to be generalizable knowledge (IRB reference number 19-234). The authors would like to thank Dr. Ivica Ico Bukvic, who provided us with a survey instrument used within the School of Performing Arts (SOPA) at Virginia Tech to determine the types of research and creative works SOPA faculty produce and which indicators they prefer for scholarly evaluation; this project's survey instrument was based in-part on the SOPA survey instrument.
	
Authors: Nathaniel Porter, Amanda MacDonald, James Kuypers, Virginia Pannabecker, Rachel Miles
	
Keywords: bibliometrics, Virginia Tech faculty, faculty perceptions, research evaluation, academic libraries, altmetrics, Virginia Tech researchers, research assessment perceptions, research assessment, survey research, Education, Social Sciences, researcher profiles
	
Subject: 
	
Language: English
	
Location: Blacksburg, VA
	
Publisher: University Libraries, Virginia Tech

	
Items in this dataset:

Title: codebook.csv
Description: The codebook for the quantitative and qualitative responses to the Virginia Tech faculty survey on research assessment and salary considerations. The codebook is necessary for the quantitative responses, but the qualitative responses do have the question written out (since there are only three). 
	
Authors: Virginia Pannabecker, Rachel Miles, Nathaniel Porter, Amanda MacDonald,  James Kuypers
	
Resource type: Tabular Data
	
License: CC0
	
Keywords: research assessment, survey research, faculty perceptions, Virginia Tech researchers
	
Subject: Education, Social Sciences
	
Language: English
	
Location: 
	
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-08

Title: qualitative-responses-anonymized.csv
Description: This qualitative survey data represent responses to three select questions from a survey distributed to Virginia Tech faculty in the spring of 2019. Data that are available here represent data that were analyzed and included in a research article for the Journal of Altmetrics. Some responses were modified slightly, and in some cases eliminated entirely, to protect the anonymity of respondents. This file is also separate from the quantitative data to further protect respondents and keep the data as anonymous as possible. 
	
Authors: Nathaniel Porter, Amanda MacDonald, James Kuypers, Virginia Pannabecker, Rachel Miles
	
Resource type: Tabular Data
	
License: CC0
	
Keywords: research assessment, survey research, faculty perceptions, Virginia Tech researchers
	
Subject: Education, Social Sciences
	
Language: English
	
Location: 
	
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-08

Title: Faculty_Senate_and_University_Libraries_Faculty_Research_Assessment_Survey.pdf
Description: This survey instrument was used in the spring of 2019 to assess faculty perceptions of research assessment and salary considerations and was distributed and analyzed by the Faculty Senate Research Assessment Committee. A subsequent report was written and presented by the Faculty Senate President at the June 2019 Board of Visitors meeting. Four presentations were given at conferences over the course of the next few months detailing the results of the survey, and a journal article was written and accepted for publication to the Journal of Altmetrics on the project. 
	
Authors: Nathaniel Porter, Amanda MacDonald, James Kuypers, Virginia Pannabecker, Rachel Miles
	
Resource type: Other Data
	
License: CC BY 3.0 US
	
Keywords: survey research, research assessment perceptions, faculty perceptions, Virginia Tech researchers, Virginia Tech faculty, academic libraries
	
Subject: Education, Social Sciences
	
Language: English
	
Location: 
	
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-08

Title: quantitative-responses.csv
Description: This quantitative survey data represents select responses from a survey distributed to Virginia Tech faculty in the spring of 2019. Data that are available represent data that were analyzed and included in a research article for the Journal of Altmetrics. Racial data and departmental data are eliminated to ensure anonymity. 
	
Authors: Nathaniel Porter, Amanda MacDonald, James Kuypers, Virginia Pannabecker, Rachel Miles
	
Resource type: Tabular Data
	
License: CC0
	
Keywords: research assessment, survey research, faculty perceptions, Virginia Tech researchers
	
Subject: Education, Social Sciences
	
Language: English
	
Location: 
	
Date Uploaded: 2020-06-08