Positive Peer-Pressured Productivity (P-QUAD): Novel Use of Increased Transparency and a Weighted Lottery to Increase a Division's Academic Output

Effects of institutional policies and characteristics on research productivity at Vietnam science and technology universities

“…Zaorsky et al (2019) found an association between disclosed payment from the industry and increased individual research productivity metrics. Pitt et al (2017) found that the combination of increased awareness of peers' academic productivity and a weighted lottery financial incentive appeared to be a useful model for stimulating academic productivity in early-career faculty.…”

Building a Local Research Symposium: The Crossroads of Scholarship, Education, and Faculty Development

“…Resources for improving trainee scholarship currently available in MedEdPORTAL include training curricula [8][9][10] and tools to encourage and teach faculty mentorship of learners. 11,12 Strategies for improving faculty scholarship include skillbuilding 1,2 and incentive-based 13 interventions.…”

Longitudinal Experience With a Transparent Weighted Lottery System to Incentivize Resident Scholarship

“…During the faculty pilot, we saw a statistically significant doubling of abstract submissions. 9 As we brought P-QUAD to residents, we wanted them to be able to see a leaderboard of submissions in real time, both to promote their work and to leverage DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4300/JGME-D-18-00036.1 the gamification aspect where the positive peer pressure of friendly competition can encourage outcomes. [10][11][12][13] We created a web-based platform (www.…”

“…The intervention sought to leverage positive peer pressure associated with increased awareness of colleagues' scholarly activity and used a lottery-based incentive where more productivity leads to more chances to win cash prizes. 9…”