Research Awards Program

Research and Extramural Funding Awards Program

The Research and Extramural Funding Awards program is designed to use salary release dollars from extramural grants to reward and encourage extramural funding procurement and publication of research results. In addition to advancing the industries we serve and our mission as a Carnegie Research 1 institution, extramural funding provides revenue to support facilities and administration. The Research and Extramural Funding Awards program is being established to encourage activities that will increase this source of revenue by incentivizing grant procurement, research publications and new grant proposals.

CoJMC provides three distinct mechanisms for rewarding faculty under the auspices of the Research and Extramural Funding Awards program. First, 2.5% of the faculty salary funds (2.5% of the salary release dollars contributed by each investigator) bought out with external grants or contracts will be spent by the College to fund internal grants to support research and creative activity. Second, 50% of the remaining funds available (i.e., 5% of the salary release dollars contributed by each investigator) will be returned to investigators who secured those funds as non-recurring salary for the hard work done and for the prestige and resources brought to the College. Third, 50% of the remaining funds available will be allocated to reward activities that increase research program prestige and productivity.

The College allocates this third set of funds as follows:

Twenty-five percent (25%) of the remaining funds will be allocated to faculty who receive acceptance either of first-authored articles in top-tier research journals in journalism or communication (not teaching journals) or original scholarly books (not textbooks or the compilation of others’ work in edited books). A scholarly book of original journalism or communication research will be considered the equivalent of three journal articles. This total pool of funds will be divided by the number of such acceptances by all faculty in the college in the period January 1 of the preceding academic year to December 31 of the current academic year (the award year). (For example, if there were a total of seven such acceptances for research journal articles and one scholarly book in the College during this period and the available funds were $2,000, then each first author of a research journal article accepted would receive $200 and the first author of the book would receive $600). Each faculty member will receive a non-recurring increase in their salary of that amount for each acceptance. The maximum amount awarded per acceptance, however, no matter the total funds available, will be $1,000 for a journal article or $2,000 for a scholarly book.

Twenty-five percent (25%) of the remaining funds will be allocated to faculty who submit a new grant proposal or competitive renewal proposal as a principal investigator (with a minimum of $50K in direct costs from an extramural source) for the first submission, between January 1 and December 31. As in item 1 above, this pool will be divided by the number of such submissions, and each faculty member will receive a non-recurring salary increase of that amount for each submitted proposal. The maximum amount awarded per submission, however, no matter the total available funds in this category, will be $1,000.

List of research journals for publication awards:

  • Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

  • Journalism and Communication Monographs

  • Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media

  • Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

  • Communication Methods and Measures

  • Journal of Communication Inquiry

  • International Communication Research

  • Journal Communication Law and Policy

  • Mass Communication and Society

  • Journal of Media Ethics

  • Communication, Culture & Critique

  • Communication Monographs

  • Communication Research

  • Communication Theory

  • Journal of Communication

  • Annals of the Association (Communication Yearbook)

  • Journalism

  • Journalism Studies

  • Journalism History

  • Community Journalism

  • Digital Journalism

  • Electronic News

  • Newspaper Research Journal

  • Visual Communication Quarterly

  • New Media and Society

  • Social Media and Society

  • Human Communication Research

  • Journal of Applied Communication

  • Research Health Communication

  • Journal of Health Communication

  • Journal of Advertising

  • International Journal of Advertising

  • Journal of Advertising Research

  • Public Relations Review

  • Journal of Public Relations Research

  • Management Communication Quarterly

  • Journal of Sports Media

  • Communication and Sport

  • International Journal of Sport Communication

  • Plus any journal with an impact factor of 2 or above

Approved by the college on December 18, 2020.

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