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Determining the Drivers of Academic Success in Surgery: An Analysis of 3,850 Faculty

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  • Nakul P Valsangkar
  • Teresa A Zimmers
  • Bradford J Kim
  • Casi Blanton
  • Mugdha M Joshi
  • Teresa M Bell
  • Attila Nakeeb
  • Gary L Dunnington
  • Leonidas G Koniaris

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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

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  • Nakul P Valsangkar & Teresa A Zimmers & Bradford J Kim & Casi Blanton & Mugdha M Joshi & Teresa M Bell & Attila Nakeeb & Gary L Dunnington & Leonidas G Koniaris, 2015. "Determining the Drivers of Academic Success in Surgery: An Analysis of 3,850 Faculty," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(7), pages 1-17, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0131678
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131678
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