Bibliometric Analysis of Radiation Oncology Departmental Scholarly Publication Productivity at Domestic Residency Training Institutions

Fuller, Clifton D.; Choi, Mehee; Thomas, Charles R.

doi:10.1016/j.jacr.2008.07.004

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“…12,17,21,30 Such efforts require sound methodology that incorporates easily accessible data over a discrete and reasonable time period, accounting for the hetero-or homogeneity that may occur from year to year. Adequate time to accumulate citations is also required.…”

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“…12 Nevertheless, the ih(5)-index is a valuable indicator of the professional impact of the single most visible, marketable, and measurable result of academic productivity: peer-reviewed publications.…”

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“…Ranking 78 US radiation oncology departments 12 and 99 US and Canadian neurosurgical departments 21 using a 10-year time span was limited by the inability of departmental search strings to distinguish clinical from nonclinical or affiliated faculty contributions. This method overestimates the h-indices of institutions with large affiliate clinical and basic science divisions.…”

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“…This method overestimates the h-indices of institutions with large affiliate clinical and basic science divisions. 12,21 To focus on neurosurgical content and author productivity, Ponce and Lozano 21 calculated the 10-year h-index of each institution, using only those articles found within the 2 most highly referenced neurosurgical journals (Journal of Neurosurgery and Neurosurgery). This approach, however, ignores important research produced by neurosurgeons but published in journals other than these specific neurosurgical journals.…”

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Five-year institutional bibliometric profiles for 103 US neurosurgical residency programs

Taylor

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Jones

et al. 2015

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OBJect Various bibliometric indices based on the citations accumulated by scholarly articles, including the h-index, g-index, e-index, and Google's i10-index, may be used to evaluate academic productivity in neurological surgery. The present article provides a comprehensive assessment of recent academic publishing output from 103 US neurosurgical residency programs and investigates intradepartmental publishing equality among faculty members. methOds Each institution was considered a single entity, with the 5-year academic yield of every neurosurgical faculty member compiled to compute the following indices: ih(5), cumulative h, ig(5), ie(5), and i10(5) (based on publications and citations from 2009 through 2013). Intradepartmental comparison of productivity among faculty members yielded Gini coefficients for publications and citations. National and regional comparisons, institutional rankings, and intradepartmental publishing equality measures are presented. results The median numbers of departmental faculty, total publications and citations, ih(5), summed h, ig(5), ie(5), i10(5), and Gini coefficients for publications and citations were 13, 82, 716, 12, 144, 23, 16, 17, 0.57, and 0.71, respective-ly. The top 5 most academically productive neurosurgical programs based on ih(5)-index were University of California, San Francisco, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Pittsburgh, Brigham & Women's Hospital, and Johns Hopkins University. The Western US region was most academically productive and displayed greater intradepartmental publishing equality (median ih[5]-index = 18, median Gini pub = 0.56). In all regions, large departments with relative intradepartmental publishing equality tend to be the most academically productive. Multivariable logistic regression analysis identified the ih(5)-index as the only independent predictor of intradepartmental publishing equality (Gini pub ≤ 0.5 [OR 1.20, 95% CI 1.20-1.40, p = 0.03]). cONclusiONs The ih(5)-index is a novel, simple, and intuitive metric capable of accurately comparing the recent scholarly efforts of neurosurgical programs and accurately predicting intradepartmental publication equality. The ih(5)-index is relatively insensitive to factors such as isolated highly productive and/or no longer academically active senior faculty, which tend to distort other bibliometric indices and mask the accurate identification of currently productive academic environments. Institutional ranking by ih(5)-index may provide information of use to faculty and trainee applicants, research funding institutions, program leaders, and other stakeholders.

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“…However, to date, little work has been done to determine metrics of faculty academic productivity within specific disciplines. At present, limited examinations focused mostly on publications and citations have been reported in subsets of physicians in relatively few specialties [18][19][20] [21,22] [23,24] [20,25] [ 20,26]. To date, no such examination has been done within the field of surgery.…”

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Determining the Drivers of Academic Success in Surgery: An Analysis of 3,850 Faculty

Valsangkar

Zimmers

Kim

et al. 2015

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

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ObjectiveDetermine drivers of academic productivity within U.S. departments of surgery. MethodsEighty academic metrics for 3,850 faculty at the top 50 NIH-funded university-and 5 outstanding hospital-based surgical departments were collected using websites, Scopus, and NIH RePORTER. ResultsMean faculty size was 76. Overall, there were 35.3% assistant, 27.8% associate, and 36.9% full professors. Women comprised 21.8%; 4.9% were MD-PhDs and 6.1% PhDs. By faculty-rank, median publications/citations were: assistant, 14/175, associate, 39/649 and full-professor, 97/2250. General surgery divisions contributed the most publications and citations. Highest performing sub-specialties per faculty member were: research (58/1683), transplantation (51/1067), oncology (41/777), and cardiothoracic surgery (48/860). Overall, 23.5% of faculty were principal investigators for a current or former NIH grant, 9.5% for a current or former R01/U01/P01. The 10 most cited faculty (MCF) within each department contributed to 42% of all publications and 55% of all citations. MCF were most commonly general (25%), oncology (19%), or transplant surgeons (15%). Fifty-one-percent of MCF had current/former NIH funding, compared with 20% of the rest (p<0.05); funding rates for R01/U01/P01 grants was 25.1% vs. 6.8% (p<0.05). Rate of current-NIH MCF funding correlated with higher total departmental NIH rank (p < 0.05). ConclusionsDepartmental academic productivity as defined by citations and NIH funding is highly driven by sections or divisions of research, general and transplantation surgery. MCF, regardless of subspecialty, contribute disproportionally to major grants and publications. Approaches

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Medical School and Residency Influence on Choice of an Academic Career and Academic Productivity Among US Neurology Faculty

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Lee²,

Bell³

et al. 2011

Arch Neurol

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To evaluate the effectiveness of medical schools and neurology training programs in the United States by determining their contribution to academic neurology in terms of how many graduates choose academic careers and their respective influence on current medical knowledge through bibliometric analysis. Design, Setting, and Participants: Biographical information from current faculty members of neurology training programs in the United States was obtained through an Internet-based search of departmental Web sites. Collected variables included medical school attended, residency program completed, and current academic rank. For each faculty member, ISI Web of Science and Scopus h-indices were also collected. Results: Data from academic neurologists from 120 training programs with 3249 faculty members were collected. All data regarding training program and medical school education were compiled and analyzed by the institution from which each individual graduated. The 20 medical schools and neurology residency training programs producing the greatest number of graduates remaining in academic practice and the mean h-indices are reported. More medical school graduates of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons chose to enter academic neurology practice than the graduates of any other institution. Analyzed by residency training program attended, New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia University), Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minnesota), and Mount Sinai Medical Center (New York, New York) produced the most graduates remaining in academics.Conclusions: This retrospective, longitudinal cohort study examines through quantitative measures the academic productivity and rank of academic neurologists. The results demonstrate that several training programs excel in producing a significantly higher proportion of academically active neurologists.

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Bibliometric Analysis of Radiation Oncology Departmental Scholarly Publication Productivity at Domestic Residency Training Institutions

Cited by 42 publications

References 34 publications

Five-year institutional bibliometric profiles for 103 US neurosurgical residency programs

Five-year institutional bibliometric profiles for 103 US neurosurgical residency programs

Determining the Drivers of Academic Success in Surgery: An Analysis of 3,850 Faculty

Medical School and Residency Influence on Choice of an Academic Career and Academic Productivity Among US Neurology Faculty

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