Occasionally I am asked how the citation rankings for planning programs take into account the age and rank distribution of planning programs (see most recent analysis: http://tomwsanchez.com/2018-urban-planning-faculty-citation-analysis/). They do not. Younger faculties have fewer overall citations compared to older faculties. For each additional average year of faculty service within a planning program, the average citation total increases by roughly 80 citations. This is not surprising. For this reason it is interesting to look at citation activity by rank for planning programs. The table below shows the top 25 planning programs, ranked by mean citations of their assistant professors. This was drawn from faculties with at least 3 assistant professors during the 2017-2018 academic year. As shown, the list has changed significantly since 2016 (see: http://tomwsanchez.com/another-way-to-slice-the-data-performance-by-rank/)
Table 1. Planning Programs Ranked by Mean Citations of Assistant Professors
| Rank | School | N | Mean Cites | Mean H-Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UCLA | 5 | 693 | 9 |
| 2 | University of Washington | 3 | 647 | 8 |
| 3 | University of Iowa | 3 | 614 | 11 |
| 4 | University of Michigan | 6 | 581 | 8 |
| 5 | State University of New York at Albany | 6 | 504 | 7 |
| 6 | University of British Columbia | 3 | 481 | 10 |
| 7 | University of Maryland | 4 | 370 | 6 |
| 8 | University of Waterloo, Ontario | 6 | 363 | 7 |
| 9 | Virginia Tech | 6 | 359 | 6 |
| 10 | Harvard University | 3 | 335 | 4 |
| 11 | University of Texas, Austin | 5 | 313 | 6 |
| 12 | Western Michigan University | 4 | 304 | 8 |
| 13 | University of Delaware | 3 | 301 | 6 |
| 14 | MIT | 6 | 295 | 7 |
| 15 | Universite Laval | 4 | 247 | 7 |
| 16 | University of Illinois, Chicago | 4 | 236 | 5 |
| 17 | Ohio State University | 9 | 231 | 6 |
| 18 | University of Calgary | 4 | 222 | 3 |
| 19 | University of Pennsylvania | 4 | 202 | 6 |
| 20 | Rutgers University | 3 | 196 | 6 |
| 21 | Portland State University | 7 | 196 | 5 |
| 22 | University at Buffalo, The State University of New York | 5 | 194 | 4 |
| 23 | Saint Louis University | 3 | 193 | 4 |
| 24 | University of Toronto | 5 | 175 | 5 |
| 25 | University of Hawaii | 3 | 158 | 2 |
| All Planning Schools | 284 | 192 | 5 |