h-indices in a university department of anaesthesia: an evaluation of their feasibility, reliability, and validity as an assessment of academic performance

Bould, M. Dylan; Boet, Sylvain; Sharma, Bharat; Shin, Eun-Kyung; Barrowman, Nicholas J.; Grantcharov, Teodor P.

doi:10.1093/bja/aeq403

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“…Output from 1974 (n = 352, 0.2% of total output) was accidentally excluded during data collection, and hence was not included in the subsequent analysis. In addition, this study has focused on entries contained in the WOS only, and it should be noted that the employment of other databases including PubMed and Scopus may have yielded slightly different results [14,15]. The aforementioned discussion notwithstanding, there are a number of important limitations associated with the h index.…”

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The h index and the identification of global benchmarks for breast cancer research output

Healy

Glynn

Scutaru

et al. 2011

Breast Cancer Res Treat

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The h index is used to assess an individual's contribution to the literature. This metric should not be employed to compare individuals across research areas; rather each subject should have its own baseline and standard. This work aimed to identify global bibliometric benchmarks for those involved in breast cancer research, and specifically, to describe the bibliographic characteristics of breast surgeons in the UK and Ireland. Authorship data was extracted from breast cancer related output from 1945 to 2008, as indexed in the Web of Science. Authors' publications, citations and h indexes were identified. The breast-related output of 277 UK and Irish breast surgeons was evaluated, and a citation report generated for each. Strong correlation was noted between the h index and number of publications (r = 0.642, P < 0.001) and number of total citations (r = -0.922, P < 0.001). The author with the highest h index is B Fisher (h index = 80). 23.0% of surgeons had not published original research pertaining to the breast; the remainder had together produced 2,060 articles, accounting for 59,002 citations. The top quartile was responsible for 83% of output; the 90th percentile was 20 publications. The range of h index values for the surgeons was 0-50, with a median h index returned of 3 (IQR 1-6); the 90th percentile was 13.5. This work has identified bibliometric benchmarks to which those involved in breast cancer research might aspire. Our findings suggest that there is need for wider involvement of surgeons in the research process and raises questions regarding the future of scientific breast surgery.

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The h index and the identification of global benchmarks for breast cancer research output

Healy

Glynn

Scutaru

et al. 2011

Breast Cancer Res Treat

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“…6 Furthermore, a recent study of 24 accredited residency programs in the United States showed that the median number of career publications of academic anesthesiologists was just 3, with assistant, associate, and full professors having 1, 13, and 46, respectively, although the range within each rank was large. 1 Similar but modestly higher numbers were reported for groups of pediatric anesthesiologists 3 and academic anesthesiologists 3 in Canada. None of these studies included a nonanesthesiologist control group, but similar analyses of radiation oncologists and faculty in neurosurgery and urology suggest anesthesiologists publish less often than do these other specialists.…”

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“…[1][2][3] The h-index is determined mainly by how often a publication is cited and is defined as the number (h) of an investigator's publications that have been cited at least h times. 4 …”

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Academic Productivity of Directors of Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-Accredited Residency Programs in Surgery and Anesthesiology

Culley¹,

Fahy²,

Xie³

et al. 2014

Survey of Anesthesiology

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Background-Scholarly activity is expected of program directors of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited residency training programs. Anesthesiology residency programs are cited more often than surgical programs for deficiencies in academic productivity. We hypothesized that this may in part reflect differences in scholarly activity between program directors of anesthesiology and surgical trainings programs. To test the hypothesis, we examined the career track record of current program directors of ACGMEaccredited anesthesiology and surgical residency programs at the same institutions using PubMed citations and funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as metrics of scholarly activity.

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“…Leadership positions have been shown to positively correlate with NIH funding in radiology, urology, neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, ophthalmology and among anesthesiologists [17,[19][20][21][22]. Department Chairs and Research Directors are often considered to be among the highest academically ranked individuals in the department.…”

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Academic characteristics for successful national institutes of health funding in dermatology

Yaghoubnejad¹,

Akarakian²,

Loftin³

et al. 2016

Glob Dermatol

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h-indices in a university department of anaesthesia: an evaluation of their feasibility, reliability, and validity as an assessment of academic performance

Abstract: Agreement between the two databases was problematic. There was evidence of construct validity; however, the overlap between academic ranks limits the discriminative power of a low h-index.

Cited by 51 publications

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The h index and the identification of global benchmarks for breast cancer research output

The h index and the identification of global benchmarks for breast cancer research output

Academic Productivity of Directors of Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-Accredited Residency Programs in Surgery and Anesthesiology

Academic characteristics for successful national institutes of health funding in dermatology

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