Scholarly Productivity of Social Work Faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Are h-Index Scores a Suitable Measure?

© 2016 Council on Social Work Education. Faculty scholarship at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU) has in the past served as a blueprint for the Black masses. Even today, HBCU faculty scholarship continues to be an informative source to communicate accurate information regarding marginalized groups. This study examines h-index scores of 65 faculty members at five doctorate-granting schools of social work. The majority of calculated h-index scores were considered to be low in terms of productivity. We make the argument that these scores are not a good measure of productivity because of the problematic nature of their use to evaluate HBCU faculty. Implications for future research, practice, and teaching are presented

Synthesis and complexation of heptafluoroisopropyldiphenylphosphine

We report a one-step synthesis of the phosphine, PPh2iC3F7 from commercially available precursors. The stereoelectronic properties of the phosphine were probed by coordination to transition metals. Mo(CO)5PPh2iC3F7 was synthesised and the synthesis and structure of trans-PtCl2(PPh2iC3F7)2 are described. PPh2iC3F7 was found to be a bulky electron-withdrawing ligand