The Use of the h-Index in Academic Orthopaedic Surgery

Bastian, Sevag; Ippolito, Joseph A.; Lopez, Santiago A.; Eloy, Jean Anderson; Beebe, Kathleen S.

doi:10.2106/jbjs.15.01354

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“…The h-indices of surgical oncologists appear to be higher across all academic ranks compared to neurosurgeons, otolaryngologists, plastic surgeons, radiation oncologists, and orthopedic surgeons. 6–8,12,14 This aligns with a previous report that faculty from the Division of Surgical Oncology were among the most academically productive within their Departments of Surgery, as measured by total publications, citations, and NIH funding. 3 Surgical oncologists’ higher h-indices likely reflect the presence of institutional research resources (within cancer centers), more readily available external funding including federal and foundational support, and perhaps the advent of genomic technologies and personalized oncotherapeutics.…”

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

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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 identify 544 surgical oncologists from 64 programs. Increased h-index was associated with academic rank (p < 0.001), male gender (p < 0.001), number of National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants (p < 0.001), and Affiliation with an NCI CCC (p = 0.018) but not number of additional degrees (p = 0.661) or Doximity ranking (p = 0.102). H-index was a stronger predictor of academic rank (r = 0.648) than total publications (r = 0.585) or citations (r = 0.450). Conclusions. This is the first report to assess the h-index within academic surgical oncology. H-index is a biblio-metric predictor of academic rank that correlates with NIH grant funding and NCI CCC Affiliation. We also highlight a previously unexpected and unappreciated gender disparity in the academic productivity of US surgical oncologists. When academic rank was accounted for, female surgical oncologists had lower h-indices compared with their male colleagues. Evaluation of the etiologies of this gender disparity is needed to address barriers to academic productivity faced by female surgical oncologists as they progress through their careers.

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

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“…16 Furthermore, selfcitation can increase an author's h-index. 17,18 Despite these limitations, the h-index can be used as an indicator of both publication impact and academic advancement within orthopedic surgery. 17 The Journal of Hand Surgery authors had significantly higher mean total payments as reported in Open Payments compared with editors and reviewers.…”

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Comparison of Editor, Reviewer, and Author Demographics in The Journal of Hand Surgery

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Hayes

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Journal of Hand Surgery Global Online

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The Journal of Hand Surgery (JHS). We aimed to test the null hypothesis that there would be no difference among these 3 groups with respect to gender, geographic location, academic productivity, and financial relationships with industry. Methods: Editors, reviewers, and physician authors were identified for 2018 JHS. Gender and geographic location were recorded for each person. We used the Scopus database to determine the Hirsch index (hindex) as well as the number of publications and citations for members of each group. Industry payment information was obtained using the Open Payments Web site. Results: The editor group contained 20% women compared with the author group (17% women

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“…First, we conducted a WoS-based analysis to understand the basic features of the publications in the sample, such as the H index; annual output; all authors, journals, institutions, and countries/regions of origin; and languages of publication. The H index and total number of citations reflect the quality and academic influence of publications at the institution or author level [16].…”

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Global Research on Osteosarcoma, 1999–2019: A Bibliometric and Visual Analysis

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Cheng

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Background Osteosarcoma is a primary malignant bone tumor that occurs in children and adolescents. Increasing numbers of scholars have studied its development and treatment. To fully understand the current status of osteosarcoma research and global trends therein, we performed a bibliometric and visual analysis of osteosarcoma studies published between 1999 and 2019. Methods We searched the Web of Science database for publications on osteosarcoma. The basic characteristics of this sample of publications, such as H indices, annual outputs, languages of publication, and authors, journals, institutions, and countries of origin, were determined. Co-citation, collaboration, and keyword co-occurrence were analyzed using CiteSpace software. Results The sample comprised 16,934 articles. The number of publications increased annually. H indices and total numbers of citations were far higher for articles from the United States than for those from other countries. Among institutions, the largest proportion of articles originated from Shanghai Jiaotong University. R. Gorlick was the author with the highest H index and total number of citations. Oncology Letters published the largest number of articles and Cancer Research was the most frequently cited journal. The five most frequently appearing keywords were “osteosarcoma,” “cancer,” “expression,” “apoptosis,” and “metastasis.” The analysis generated 10 major clusters of keywords and 23 clusters of co-cited references. Conclusions The findings of this study have guiding significance for researchers seeking cooperating institutions and partners for osteosarcoma research, popular journals and important literature in the field, an understanding of the knowledge base for this research, and up-to-date identification of research hotspots and trends. Keywords: osteosarcoma, bibliometric, citespace, visual analysis, co-citation

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The Use of the h-Index in Academic Orthopaedic Surgery

Cited by 133 publications

References 31 publications

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

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

Comparison of Editor, Reviewer, and Author Demographics in The Journal of Hand Surgery

Global Research on Osteosarcoma, 1999–2019: A Bibliometric and Visual Analysis

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