Browsing by Subject "Faculty, Medical"

Now showing 1 - 4 of 4
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Current State of Women in Academic Surgical Subspecialties: How a New Metric in Measuring Academic Productivity May Change the Equation
    (The Southeastern Surgical Congress, 2018-05-01) Fecher, Alison M.; Valsangkar, Nakul; Bell, Teresa M.; Lisy, Megan E.; Rozycki, Grace S.; Koniaris, Leonidas G.; Surgery, School of Medicine
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Determining the Drivers of Academic Success in Surgery: An Analysis of 3,850 Faculty
    (Public Library of Science, 2015) Valsangkar, Nakul P.; Zimmers, Teresa A.; Kim, Bradford J.; Blanton, Casi; Joshi, Mugdha M.; Bell, Teresa M.; Nakeeb, Attila; Dunnington, Gary L.; Koniaris, Leonidas G.; Department of Surgery, IU School of Medicine
    OBJECTIVE: Determine drivers of academic productivity within U.S. departments of surgery. METHODS: Eighty academic metrics for 3,850 faculty at the top 50 NIH-funded university- and 5 outstanding hospital-based surgical departments were collected using websites, Scopus, and NIH RePORTER. RESULTS: Mean faculty size was 76. Overall, there were 35.3% assistant, 27.8% associate, and 36.9% full professors. Women comprised 21.8%; 4.9% were MD-PhDs and 6.1% PhDs. By faculty-rank, median publications/citations were: assistant, 14/175, associate, 39/649 and full-professor, 97/2250. General surgery divisions contributed the most publications and citations. Highest performing sub-specialties per faculty member were: research (58/1683), transplantation (51/1067), oncology (41/777), and cardiothoracic surgery (48/860). Overall, 23.5% of faculty were principal investigators for a current or former NIH grant, 9.5% for a current or former R01/U01/P01. The 10 most cited faculty (MCF) within each department contributed to 42% of all publications and 55% of all citations. MCF were most commonly general (25%), oncology (19%), or transplant surgeons (15%). Fifty-one-percent of MCF had current/former NIH funding, compared with 20% of the rest (p<0.05); funding rates for R01/U01/P01 grants was 25.1% vs. 6.8% (p<0.05). Rate of current-NIH MCF funding correlated with higher total departmental NIH rank (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Departmental academic productivity as defined by citations and NIH funding is highly driven by sections or divisions of research, general and transplantation surgery. MCF, regardless of subspecialty, contribute disproportionally to major grants and publications. Approaches that attract, develop, and retain funded MCF may be associated with dramatic increases in total departmental citations and NIH-funding.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Do local citation patterns support use of the impact factor for collection development?
    (Medical Library Association, 2008-10) Ralston, Rick K.; Gall, Carole; Brahmi, Frances A.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    The Role of PhD Faculty in Advancing Research in Departments of Surgery
    (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer) - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2017-01) Bell, Teresa M.; Valsangkar, Nakul; Joshi, Mugdha; Mayo, John; Blanton, Casi; Zimmers, Teresa A.; Torbeck, Laura; Koniaris, Leonidas G.; Surgery, School of Medicine
    OBJECTIVE: To determine the academic contribution as measured by number of publications, citations, and National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding from PhD scientists in US departments of surgery. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: The number of PhD faculty working in US medical school clinical departments now exceeds the number working in basic science departments. The academic impact of PhDs in surgery has not been previously evaluated. METHODS: Academic metrics for 3850 faculties at the top 55 NIH-funded university and hospital-based departments of surgery were collected using NIH RePORTER, Scopus, and departmental websites. RESULTS: MD/PhDs and PhDs had significantly higher numbers of publications and citations than MDs, regardless of academic or institutional rank. PhDs had the greatest proportion of NIH funding compared to both MDs and MD/PhDs. Across all academic ranks, 50.2% of PhDs had received NIH funding compared with 15.2% of MDs and 33.9% of MD/PhDs (P < 0.001). The proportion of PhDs with NIH funding in the top 10 departments did not differ from those working in departments ranked 11 to 50 (P = 0.456). A greater percentage of departmental PhD faculty was associated with increased rates of MD funding. CONCLUSIONS: The presence of dedicated research faculty with PhDs supports the academic mission of surgery departments by increasing both NIH funding and scholarly productivity. In contrast to MDs and MD/PhDs, PhDs seem to have similar levels of academic output and funding independent of the overall NIH funding environment of their department. This suggests that research programs in departments with limited resources may be enhanced by the recruitment of PhD faculty.