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    Endangered academia: preserving the pediatric surgeon scientist
    (Elsevier, 2017-07) Markel, Troy A.; Valsangkar, Nakul P.; Bell, Teresa M.; Kiel, Brandon A.; Zimmers, Teresa A.; Koniaris, Leonidas G.; Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine
    Background Pediatric surgery is one of the most difficult surgical fellowships to obtain. It requires stellar academic credentials and, often, dedicated time pursuing research. It is unknown, however, if pediatric surgeons maintain high academic output as faculty members. We hypothesized that the majority of pediatric surgeons do not pursue robust research activities as faculty, and therefore, over time, their academic productivity decreases. Methods Numbers of publications, citations, H-index, and NIH funding rates were determined for 4354 surgical faculty at the top-55 NIH based departments of surgery using websites, Scopus, NIH RePORTER, and Grantome. Continuous variables were compared with ANOVA and post-hoc Bonferroni; categorical variables by χ2 test. p < 0.05 was significant. Results In this dataset, 321 pediatric surgery (PS) faculty represented 7.4% of the cohort. Among PS faculty, 31% were assistant professors, 24% associate professors, 31% full professors and 13% had no academic rank. PS faculty had significantly more publications, a higher H index, and more high level NIH funding early in their careers at the assistant professor level compared to general surgeons. PS faculty at the associate professor level had equivalent high level NIH funding, but lower recentness and academic power compared to general surgeons. Professors of PS rebounded slightly, with only observed deficiencies in number of citations compared to general surgeons. Conclusions PS faculty in assistant professor ranks has higher scholarly productivity compared to equivalently ranked general surgeons. Despite some mild academic setbacks in midcareer, pediatric surgeons are able to maintain similar academic productivity to their general surgery colleagues by the time they are full professors. Level of evidence 2.
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    The Open Access Divide
    (2013-10) Xia, Jingfeng
    This paper is an attempt to review various aspects of the open access divide regarding the difference between those academics who support free sharing of data and scholarly output and those academics who do not. It provides a structured description by adopting the Ws doctrines emphasizing such questions as who, what, when, where and why for information-gathering. Using measurable variables to define a common expression of the open access divide, this study collects aggregated data from existing open access as well as non-open access publications including journal articles and extensive reports. The definition of the open access divide is integrated into the discussion of scholarship on a larger scale.
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    REVISTAS DEL CEMOrOC: VIGINTI QUINQUE ANNIS (1997-2022)
    (Univ. Sao Paulo and Univ. Porto., 2022) Mallorquí-Ruscalleda, Enric
    In the form of a tribute, this article intends to give an account of the educational, publication, and internationalization activities that I have carried out over the last twenty years with the CEMOrOc journals that we are paying tribute to this essay. In the same way, it is intended to pay tribute to Prof. Dr. Jean Lauand himself, without whose impetus, tireless work, dedication, devotion, genuine generosity, and sincere friendship, none, absolutely none of what will be described in this work, could have been carried out.