Reports and Other Staff Publications

• The Top American Research Universities
  The Center Reports:
  2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009,
  2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
• Competing with the Best: America's Top Research Universities 2000-2020, 2020
• The Unrecognized Complexity of Higher Education, 2019
• Staying at the Top: An Essay on the Comparative Advantage of America’s Top Research Universities, 2018
• America's Research Universities: Is the Enterprise Model Sustainable?, 2017
• American Research Universities in an Era of Change: 2006-2015, 2016
• What's in a Name? The Classification of Research Universities, 2015
• Tracking Academic Research Funding: The Competitive Context for the Last Ten Years, 2014
• The Best American Research Universities Rankings: Four Perspectives, 2013
• Measuring Research Performance: National and International Perspectives, 2012
• Moving Up: The Marketplace for Federal Research in America, 2011
• In Pursuit of Number One, 2010
• Research University Competition and Financial Challenges, 2009
• Competition and Restructuring
• Rankings, Competition, and the Evolving American University, 2007
• Deconstructing University Rankings: Medicine and Engineering, and Single Campus Research Competitiveness, 2005
• Measuring and Improving Research Universities: TheCenter at Five Years , 2004
• The Sports Imperative in America's Research Universities, 2003
• University Organization, Governance, and Competitiveness, 2002
• Quality Engines: The Competitive Context for Research Universities , 2001
• The Myth of Number One: Indicators of Research University Performance, 2000

• Modeling research universities: Predicting probablefutures of public vs. private and large vs. smallresearch universities PNAS, December 11, 2018 by Rouse, William B., Lombardi, John V. and Craig, Diane D.
• Performance and costs in higher education: A proposal for better data. Change, April, 23, 8-15. (2011) by Capaldi, E. D. & Abbey, C. W.
• Capaldi, E. D. Intellectual transformation and budgetary savings through academic reorganization. Change, July/August, 19-27. (2009) by Capaldi, E. D.
• Improving Graduation Rates: A Simple Method That Works, Change , 38:4 (2006), 44-58 by Elizabeth D. Capaldi, John Lombardi, and Victor Yellen.
• Inside Higher Ed -- Reality Check (2003- ) by John Lombardi
• Using National Data in University Rankings and Comparisons ( TheCenter Reports, June 2003) by Denise S.Gater
• A Review of Measures Used in U.S. News & World Report 's "America's Best Colleges" ( TheCenter , An Occasional Paper from The Lombardi Program on Measuring University Performance, Summer 2002) by Denise S. Gater
• TheCenter Top American Research Universities: An Overview ( TheCenter Reports, 2002) by Diane D. Craig
• The Competition for Top Undergraduates by America's Colleges and Universities ( TheCenter Reports, 2001) by Denise S. Gater
• Quality Engines: The Strategic Principles for Competitive Universities in the Twenty-First Century (Universidad Central de Venezuela, 2001) by John Lombardi
• The Use of IPEDS/AAUP Faculty Data in Institutional Peer Comparisons ( TheCenter Reports, 2001) by Denise S. Gater and John Lombardi
• Toward Determining Societal Value Added Criteria for Research and Comprehensive Universities ( TheCenter Reports, 2001) by Roger Kaufman
• How Classifications Can Help Colleges ( Chronicle of Higher Education , 2000) by John Lombardi
• Measuring University Performance (University of  Florida, 1995-1999) by John Lombardi, Elizabeth Capaldi, and Diane Craig
• Managing Universities: A Graduate Colloquium (UMass Amherst, 2007) by John Lombardi
• U.S. News & World Report's Methodology ( TheCenter Reports, 2001, Revised) by Denise S. Gater
• Academic Libraries in a Digital Age ( D-Lib , 2000) by John Lombardi
• University Improvement: The Permanent Challenge (University of South Carolina, 2000) by John Lombardi
• A Decade of Performance at the University of Florida (1990-1999) (University of Florida, 1999) by John Lombardi and Elizabeth Capaldi