Give Academic Appointment and Employment Info A Home

Interfolio Lifecycle Management provides provosts, deans, academic affairs, and other higher education leadership a dedicated, central database to look up the institution’s academic employees, including their title, rank, formal appointment(s), status, workload and key dates during their time at the institution.

Honor Academic Employment Commitments and Agreements

Keep track of the specific employment commitments your institution has made to each member of the faculty, regardless of full-time/part-time status—including workload allocation, spousal hires, sabbatical discussions, and similar, hard-to-track-down information.

Make Academic Employment Models Visual and Interactive

Visualize the professional journey and timeline expected for each type of academic employee, in each discipline or administrative unit. View paths for multiple appointments side by side. Consult any individual scholar’s current profile to understand how their expected growth pathway may vary from the standard progression.

Anticipate and Plan for Upcoming Professional Milestones

Forecast and proactively manage academic personnel milestones, including appointment, annual review, tenure, promotion, sabbatical or travel leave, and more. Be prepared for financial and other resourcing implications of faculty availability.

Enable Committees to Make Efficient, Fair Decisions

Give your search committees tools that let them spend their time on reviewing applicants, rather than on accessing materials or letters, confirming search status, and keeping track of notes. Free up professional services staff to spend time assisting academics in the ways that are most valuable.

Deliver on Academic Diversity and Inclusion Efforts

Inform every academic hire with data on real-time, self-reported, anonymous demographic survey responses from 100% of applicants. Establish custom, explicit criteria for evaluating applicants. Empower authorized administrators to intervene in insufficiently diverse searches.

Recruit New Colleagues Strategically and Effectively

Slice and compare a wide variety of data points about applications received—and positions offered—to understand patterns of attraction toward your institution (or lack thereof) among the academic job market. Understand where applicants are finding your job listings. Build a backlog of competitive candidates for future searches.

Make Academic Hiring Equitable, Responsible, Consistent

Establish a source of truth and enforce standards for how academic hiring should take place across your institution. Ensure recruitment activity runs through the proper pre-hire and post-hire approval workflows. Give senior academic officers visibility into the facts around hiring researchers and instructors.

Achieve High Data Quality and Broad Coverage

Interfolio Faculty Activity Reporting (Faculty180) leverages the innovative Interfolio Data Service to give you an ongoing source of accurate and reliable faculty information. 

Pull data in from an expanding group of sources that include over 230 million records, published and tracked in over 60,000 reputable periodicals and other outlets.

Incentivize Scholars to Validate Their Data

• Present scholars with recent data on file about their accomplishments for them to validate throughout the year.
• Enable attachment of actual work produced, whether it’s journal articles, conference proceedings, videos, or computer science code.
• Facilitate connection to ORCID or external profile systems.

Assist Scholars in Compiling and Communicating Their Work

• Maintain any number of official CV templates to automatically present fielded data in clean, readable formats. 
• Enable scholars to establish custom CV formats that reflect their discipline and put their best foot forward. 
• Link activity data to your website’s scholar profiles.

Generate Faculty Activity Reports for Accreditation and More

• Gather data for accreditation and other compliance requirements.
• Create custom reports and easily navigate through cells to view the underlying data. 
• Save and share reports with peers inside and outside the institution.

Regularly Pull in Data About Faculty Members’ Work

On an ongoing basis, the Interfolio Data Service identifies and brings in citation data on your faculty members’ academic work, including journal articles, books, book chapters, and conference proceedings. 

The Data Service comes connected to an expanding group of sources that include over 230 million records, published and tracked in over 60,000 reputable periodicals and other outlets.

Eliminate Data Cleanup with Behind-the-Scenes Smart Matching 

Behind the scenes, the Interfolio Data Service does the data processing for you before the imported data is ever shown to your scholars for validation. The Data Service normalizes the format of the data, matches between different scholars with similar names, and consolidates duplicate records.

Build a Trustworthy Data Pool with Natural Validation by Scholars

The Interfolio Data Service presents scholars with an intuitive, frictionless user experience that incentivizes them to validate the academic data found for them. Only after a scholar has validated their data will it be saved to their profile in Interfolio Faculty Activity Reporting (Faculty180).

Draw on Reliable Data for CVs, Faculty Reviews, Reporting, and More

Once the data has been validated and saved, enable faculty and administrators to draw on your accumulated pool of accurate data. Use it in faculty professional reviews/annual reviews, grant applications, accreditation reporting, and more. Be able to trust the data, gain insights, and save everyone time.

Enable Colleagues to Reach Decisions Effectively Online

Equip individual reviewers and committees to focus on the substance of reviews with easy tools for collecting, viewing, annotating, labeling, and routing candidate materials. Pick and choose from features like required forms, recusal, rebuttal, standing and ad hoc committees, or multimedia to mirror your exact process.

Give Academics Under Review A Positive Experience

Make your professional academic reviews into a clear, familiar, affirmative routine. Draw upon data from Interfolio Faculty Activity Reporting (Faculty180) and candidates’ past reviews to make packet assembly easy. Provide every academic with a lifelong, private, portable Interfolio Dossier to curate materials and accomplishments.

Create Consistency and Establish Standard Workflows

Build workflow templates to govern every type of academic review case that happens at your institution. Automatically document that the mandated process was followed in all cases. Facilitate consistency across all reviews while preserving appropriate differences between disciplines, ranks, and employment models.

Give Academic Offices Mutual Transparency Into Reviews

Bring all current and past faculty review cases into a single view. Establish a shared source of truth about the current stage of each review, who is on the committee, and what the next step is. Identify disparities in review practices and better understand the impact on your administrative workloads.

For Higher Education Institutions

Researchfish by Interfolio raises the integrity and credibility of the university’s public narrative about its own work and role. The researcher-centric platform gives universities an efficient method to study and communicate the overall global impact of contributions to all fields by scholars at the institution. 

For Funders

Researchfish by Interfolio enables funders to create powerful impact stories to make strategic funding decisions and advocate for research activity. As a funding entity, you gain a concrete method to collect, benchmark, and analyze research impact data—both directly from researchers, and via harvesting from thousands of external databases.

For Research Organizations

Researchfish by Interfolio gives your research organization, center, or institute a compelling source from which to build a factual narrative of your work and pursue your strengths. The platform’s data quality and comparative analytics empower you to join the global conversation about mission-driven research in any field.