Webcast Lecture Series

Publishing High-Impact Meta-Analysis

Dr. Rong Su is an Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship and the Mahoney Fellow at the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business. She is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and one of the five inaugural recipients of the Iowa Mid-Career Faculty Scholar Award. An organizational and quantitative psychologist, Dr. Su’s research focuses on individual differences, person-environment fit, career success and career gaps, and quantitative research methods (in particular, meta-analysis, psychometric measurement, structural equation modeling, and large-scale data analytics). Her publications have appeared in top-tier journals including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Psychological Bulletin, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. They have been broadly cited, placing her within top 2% most impactful scientists within her subfield each year since 2021. Her work has garnered over $1.9 million in grants to date from funding organizations such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and has been featured by national and international media outlets including Time and The New York Times.

Beyond her own research, Dr. Su currently serves the field as an Associate Editor for Psychological Bulletin, a high-impact journal in the field of psychology for publishing systematic research syntheses and reviews (impact factor = 17.3), and an editorial board member for the Journal of Applied Psychology and Psychological Science. She has provided research consultation for a number of organizations, including the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Army, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).