Use of the h index in neurosurgery

Lee, Janet; Kraus, Kristin L.; Couldwell, William T.

doi:10.3171/2008.10.jns08978

Cited by 211 publications

(246 citation statements)

References 18 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

240

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Nonetheless, at least one previous study examining h-indices found a strong correlation between the h-index calculation results of Scopus and Google Scholar, another widely used h-index calculator, making it unlikely that database choice provided inaccurate conclusions. 14 …”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…14 An h-index analysis comparing very different scientific disciplines, such as theoretical physics and medicine, would have unclear relevance given the different types of research conducted. However, examination and comparison of fields within medicine, more specifically surgical fields, provides potentially valuable insight into the degree to which research is emphasized as well as other possible factors influencing scholarly productivity within a specific field.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Comparison of scholarly impact among surgical specialties: An examination of 2429 academic surgeons

Svider¹,

Pashkova²,

Choudhry³

et al. 2013

The Laryngoscope

110

108

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Objectives/Hypothesis The h‐index, a bibliometric indicator that objectively characterizes the impact of an author's scholarship, is an effective tool that may be considered by academic departments for decisions related to hiring and faculty advancement. Our objective was to characterize the scholarly productivity of academic surgeons from different specialties relative to otolaryngologists. Study Design Analysis of a bibliometric database. Methods The h‐indices of 2,429 faculty members within surgical specialties at 20 randomly selected academic institutions were calculated using the Scopus database and were examined to determine relationship with academic rank and comparison among surgical subspecialties. Results The h‐index statistically increased with academic rank. Mean h‐indices were as follows: assistant professor, 4.37 (range, 2.73–6.69); associate professor, 8.70 (6.53–11.02); professor, 16.44 (13.39–20.45); and chairperson, 20.79 (14.81–27.89). Mean increase between academic rank was 5.47, with the largest increase between the levels of associate professor and professor. Further examination demonstrated statistically significant increases through all academic ranks for most, but not all, individual specialties. Urologists, general surgeons, and neurosurgeons had the highest mean h‐indices. Conclusions h‐indices among the different surgical specialties vary and are potentially impacted by the number of practitioners as well as research emphasis within a field. The mean h‐index of academic otolaryngologists falls in the lower values for academic surgeons. Because this metric varies among different fields, it is most relevant for comparison when examining values within a field. H‐indices reliably increase with increasing academic rank through professor and offer a quantifiable and objective alternative to other metrics when evaluating faculty members for academic advancement.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparison of scholarly impact among surgical specialties: An examination of 2429 academic surgeons

Svider¹,

Pashkova²,

Choudhry³

et al. 2013

The Laryngoscope

110

108

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…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. [7][8][9] Cardiothoracic anesthesia may be an exception; faculty members from 30 randomly selected cardiothoracic anesthesia fellowship programs contributed 28 ± 46 publications on average, with senior faculty having more than junior faculty and ACGME-accredited fellowship program faculty having more than those in nonaccredited programs. 2 Still, the 15 faculty directing non-ACGME cardiothoracic anesthesia fellowships had 20 ± 24 publications, 2 which is several fold more than the directors of ACGME-accredited core anesthesia residency programs included in our study.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

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.

show abstract

“…These bibliometric indices-the h-index in particular-have been widely applied to neurosurgery [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. Using this database, we identified the 25 top-ranked North American pediatric neurosurgeons based on the manually calculated h-index from Scopus (Elsevier, www.scopus.com) [17].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An application of Bradford’s law: identification of the core journals of pediatric neurosurgery and a regional comparison of citation density

et al. 2014

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Use of the h index in neurosurgery

Cited by 211 publications

References 18 publications

Comparison of scholarly impact among surgical specialties: An examination of 2429 academic surgeons

Comparison of scholarly impact among surgical specialties: An examination of 2429 academic surgeons

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

An application of Bradford’s law: identification of the core journals of pediatric neurosurgery and a regional comparison of citation density

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About