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Academic Surgical Oncologists' Productivity Correlates with Gender, Grant Funding, and Institutional NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center Affiliation.


ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:A scholar's h-index is defined as the number of h papers published, each of which has been cited at least h times. We hypothesized that the h-index strongly correlates with the academic rank of surgical oncologists. METHODS:We utilized the National Cancer Institute (NCI) website to identify NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers (CCC) and Doximity to identify the 50 highest-ranked general surgery residency programs with surgical oncology divisions. Demographic data of respective academic surgical oncologists were collected from departmental websites and Grantome. Bibliometric data were obtained from Web of Science. RESULTS:We identified 544 surgical oncologists from 64 programs. Increased h-index was associated with academic rank (p?

SUBMITTER: Nguyen V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6074049 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Academic Surgical Oncologists' Productivity Correlates with Gender, Grant Funding, and Institutional NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center Affiliation.

Nguyen Vi V   Marmor Rebecca A RA   Ramamoorthy Sonia L SL   Blair Sarah L SL   Clary Bryan M BM   Sicklick Jason K JK  

Annals of surgical oncology 20180329 7


<h4>Background</h4>A scholar's h-index is defined as the number of h papers published, each of which has been cited at least h times. We hypothesized that the h-index strongly correlates with the academic rank of surgical oncologists.<h4>Methods</h4>We utilized the National Cancer Institute (NCI) website to identify NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers (CCC) and Doximity to identify the 50 highest-ranked general surgery residency programs with surgical oncology divisions. Demographic data  ...[more]

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