Preresidency Publication Productivity of U.S. Neurosurgery Interns.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research experience is believed to be an important component of the neurosurgery residency application process. One measure of research productivity is publication volume. The preresidency publication volume of U.S. neurosurgery interns and any potential association between applicant publication volume and the match results of top-ranked residency programs have not been well characterized.

Objective

In this study, we sought to characterize the preresidency publication volume of U.S. neurosurgery residents in the 2018-2019 intern class using the Scopus database.

Methods

For each intern, we recorded the total number of publications, total number of first or last author publications, total number of neuroscience-related publications, mean number of citations p

SUBMITTER: Duy PQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7202965 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature