Setting the Standards: Examining Research Productivity Among Academic Urologists in the USA and Canada in 2019

Chandrasekar, Thenappan; Han, Timothy M.; Glick, Lydia; Leong, Joon Yau; Teplitsky, Seth; Noorani, Rodrigo; Goldberg, Hanan; Klaassen, Zachary; Wallis, Christopher J.D.; Mark, James Ryan; Trabulsi, Edouard J.; Lallas, Costas D.; Gomella, Leonard G.

doi:10.1016/j.euf.2020.02.003

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“…Regardless of academic track, across surgical specialties [7][8][9][10][11][12] and within orthopaedics 2,[12][13][14] , faculty with greater research productivity are more likely to hold higher academic positions. One accepted metric for the quantity and quality of research output is the Hirsch index (h-index), which is the largest number "h" such that "h" publications have each been cited "h" times 15 .…”

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Subspecialty Selection Impacts Research Productivity and Faculty Rank of Academic Orthopaedic Surgeons

Haimowitz

Veliky

Forrester

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Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

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Background: Faculty promotion and research productivity are important for the overall career trajectory of academic orthopaedic surgeons. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role that subspecialty and demographic factors play in research productivity and academic advancement among orthopaedic surgeons. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of academic rank among orthopaedic surgeons in 2018. We identified academic orthopaedic programs in the United States from the Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database (FREIDA) and collected publicly available data for surgeons, including fellowship training, gender, faculty rank, geographic region, and years since residency, from institutional websites. Research productivity was defined with the Hirsch index (h-index) from Scopus, and the m-index was calculated from the surgeon's h-index and the date of the first publication. Multivariate regression analyses were performed to determine the variables that are associated with associate professorship, full professorship, and the h-index. Results: In this study, we identified and included 2,879 academic orthopaedic surgeons. Completion of a fellowship in foot and ankle (odds ratio [95% confidence interval]: 2.45 [1.17 to 5.15]), sports medicine (2.15 [1.12 to 4.15]), trauma (2.83 [1.42 to 5.66]), hand and upper extremity (2.20 [1.13 to 4.28]), musculoskeletal oncology (3.28 [1.49 to 7.21]), or upper-extremity reconstruction (3.20 [1.31 to 7.81]) was associated with associate professorship. Completion of a trauma fellowship was associated with full professorship (2.93 [1.27 to 6.77]). Completion of a fellowship in adult reconstruction (difference in least-squares means [95% confidence interval]: 5.01 [1.22 to 8.81]), sports medicine (4.52 [1.00 to 8.04]), spine (5.40 [1.63 to 9.18]), or upper-extremity reconstruction (10.64 [6.15 to 15.12]) or the completion of multiple fellowships (5.12 [1.27 to 8.94]) were independently associated with a higher h-index. Women had significantly lower h-indices than men at the assistant (median [interquartile range]: 3 [1 to 6] versus 4 [2 to 8]) and full professor (17 [12 to 26] versus 22 [13 to 34]) levels. There were no differences in the m-index between men and women at any academic rank. Conclusions: Orthopaedic subspecialty selection is independently associated with research productivity and academic rank. The differences in research productivity may be important to consider when evaluating orthopaedic surgeons for promotion. While female surgeons had lower h-indices than their male counterparts, this difference was not seen when using the m-index.Disclosure: The Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest forms are provided with the online version of the article (http://links.lww.com/JBJS/G790).

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Subspecialty Selection Impacts Research Productivity and Faculty Rank of Academic Orthopaedic Surgeons

Haimowitz

Veliky

Forrester

et al. 2021

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

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“…The number of publications was our study's primary metric for academic productivity. A previous study using the H-index tool as a metric for analyzing research productivity of any fellowship-trained urologists found it was 3.44 times more likely to have an H index greater than the median [ 5 ]. Another study showed no difference between the H index of fellowship and non-fellowship-trained academic urologists [ 6 ].…”

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Early Career Publication Trajectory of Male Infertility Fellows During and After Fellowship

Carretero¹,

Plambeck²,

Deibert³

2023

Cureus

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Background: Improving evidence-based medicine through research contribution is an important aspect of fellowship training. Prior studies have investigated the research activity of urology fellows during and after fellowship. The main objective of this study was to specifically explore the publication productivity of male infertility fellows both during fellowship and in the first 5 years afterwards. Methods: The 19 fellowship program directors from the Society for the Study of Male Reproduction were asked to share a list of fellows from 2004 to 2019. Publications from 87 fellows at 12 programs were analyzed. PubMed® was utilized to search for peer-reviewed publications for each fellow during their fellowship and in the first 5 years afterwards. Each publication was classified by publication type (original research, review article, editorial comment, or case report), topic (fertility, testosterone, or other), and author type (sole, first, middle, or last author). Results: Some 87 male infertility fellows were analyzed, and a total of 1608 peer-reviewed publications were identified. Some 662 total publications (41.2%) were written on the topic of fertility during fellowship and in the first 5 years afterwards. Some 554 (34.5%) publications were completed during fellowship, 178 (11.1%) in year 1, 164 (10.2%) in year 2, 220 (13.7%) in year 3, 269 (16.7%) in year 4, and 223 (13.9%) in year 5. The mean number of publications during fellowship was 6.37 (range 0-57). Means for years 1-5 after fellowship were 2.12, 1.95, 2.65, 3.36, and 2.97, respectively. After fellowship, 25.3% of the fellows did not publish again. A significant difference was detected between the group mean number of publications (analysis of variance, ANOVA - p = 0.0001) during fellowship and the 5 years afterwards. There was no significant difference between the group mean number of publications between the 1st and 5th years post-fellowship (ANOVA - p = 0.5919). Conclusions: As anticipated, male infertility fellows were most productive during fellowship, with relatively stable research production thereafter. Thus, early career support and mentorship remain important to the future academic success of fellows. Future investigation of the relationship between male infertility fellow characteristics and the pursuit of an academic career is warranted.

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“…Factors that contribute to the decline in value education which also emphasizes value-based education (Kurniawati et al, 2017;Sulistyarini et al, 2019;Susilawati et al, 2017). The declining of ethical values in higher education system will give rise to unskilled professional and undisciplined students (Bhtia & Arun, 2015;Chandrasekar et al, 2020;Turan & Koç, 2018). This trend needs to be addressed if India has to survive as a nation and acquire its due place in the world.…”

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Students’ Perception and Experience of Ghost Writing – Study with Reference to Mangalore City

Nayak¹,

Hegde²

2022

Indonesian J. Educ. Res. Rev.

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Higher education in India is vibrant as it assumes greater role interns of building the nation. As enrolment ratio is less, Govt through Universities and colleges promote higher education and the reach is now in rural areas too. To enrol more number of the students has become a target for the colleges and faculties’ working there, as a result to increase the quantity, less attention is paid towards the quality of higher education. The higher education is associated with the tasks such as assignment writing, dissertations to full fill the requirements of the particular degree and these are graded to improve the research habits among the students and at the same time to enhance the quality of higher education which also contribute for the development of certain skills among student community. There are agencies and individual involved to assist the students by providing the service of writing the assignments and dissertations for certain prescribed amount of money. There are academic writers (Ghost writers) who provide such readymade assignments and dissertations to the students. In this paper attempt is done to find the students perception and at the same time their experiences of ghost writers are studied. The study is concentrated in Mangalore city of Karnataka State students those who perused higher education and undergone dissertation while perusing their master degree.

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Setting the Standards: Examining Research Productivity Among Academic Urologists in the USA and Canada in 2019

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Subspecialty Selection Impacts Research Productivity and Faculty Rank of Academic Orthopaedic Surgeons

Subspecialty Selection Impacts Research Productivity and Faculty Rank of Academic Orthopaedic Surgeons

Early Career Publication Trajectory of Male Infertility Fellows During and After Fellowship

Students’ Perception and Experience of Ghost Writing – Study with Reference to Mangalore City

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