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Academic Analytics
Research Center


Academic Analytics Research Center (AARC) is committed to creating reproducible and open scholarship covering all aspects of the scholarly research enterprise. Our goal is to empower scholars and research administrators as they improve academic research policy, management, and equity through independent, data-based inquiry.

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About AARC

Established in 2019, Academic Analytics Research Center (AARC) is an independent unit within Academic Analytics, LLC. AARC’s mission is to produce original and open research on higher education, scientometrics, and research policy. We author peer-reviewed journal articles, deposit publicly available data sets, host webinars on recent findings, and produce reports on issues of special interest to the higher education research community.

We are committed to research transparency, openly available data, and open access publication of results. Our goal is to make high-quality and typically closed-access data available to those seeking generative solutions to challenges in academic research policy, management, and equity through independent, data-based inquiry.

AARC projects have been covered in Science News, Nature Index, Inside Higher Education, and other media outlets. For media inquiries, please contact press@aarcresearch.com. The Public Information Officer (PIO) for AARC is the center's Director, Anthony J. Olejniczak.

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Empowering Strategic Leaders: Leveraging Data For Institutional Transformation

Across higher education, provosts, vice provosts, chiefs of staff, and other senior administrators are navigating some of the most pressing challenges of our time.  Whether it’s retaining and recruiting top faculty, deciding where limited resources will have the greatest impact, or breaking down silos and strengthening external partnerships, the stakes have never been higher.

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