Loonen Martijn P J, Hage J Joris, Kon Moshe
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2007;60(9):1067-73. doi: 10.1016/j.bjps.2006.12.011. Epub 2007 May 16.
The allotment of grants is increasingly dependent on benchmarking of scientific output. Still, data to benchmark such output for plastic surgeons are lacking. Therefore, we retrieved these data for plastic surgeons in The Netherlands.
We analysed the bibliographic and some biographic characteristics of all 223 plastic surgeons registered in The Netherlands from 1950 through 2004, as well as of all 61 trainee plastic surgeons. Biographic characteristics were obtained through the Netherlands Society of Plastic Surgery and bibliographic characteristics were retrieved from PubMed and the Science Citation Index. With these data, we established a trend of publications at various moments in the careers of plastic surgeons.
The age at graduation from medical school (27 years) and at the defence of PhD before registration (32 years) did not differ between specialists and residents. Eighteen residents (0.30) had already obtained a PhD, compared to the 34 specialists (0.15) who obtained their PhD prior to registration. Specialists made 2396 contributions to 1758 PubMed-indexed articles and residents made 327 contributions to 323 articles. Sixty percent of the specialists had published by the time of registration, whereas 79% of the current residents had already done so. The resident-authors had contributed to more articles (mean 6.8) than their predecessors had done at the moment of their registration (mean 4.7). Surgeons and residents published the greater part of their work in plastic surgery journals with relatively high impact factors. Sixty percent of the articles by residents and 45% of the articles by specialists had been cited by others, and articles by residents obtained a mean of 3.8 citations as compared to 4.3 citations to articles by specialist. Most specialists published until six years after registration.
The quantity and quality of publications by plastic surgeons and residents from The Netherlands increased over the studied 55-year period. Most specialists published from the moment of their graduation at medical school until six years after their registration as plastic surgeon. The residents of 2004 published more and better than their predecessors.
科研经费的分配越来越依赖于科研产出的基准评估。然而，目前仍缺乏整形外科医生科研产出基准评估的数据。因此，我们收集了荷兰整形外科医生的这些数据。
我们分析了1950年至2004年在荷兰注册的所有223名整形外科医生以及所有61名实习整形外科医生的文献学和一些个人传记特征。个人传记特征通过荷兰整形外科协会获取，文献学特征从PubMed和科学引文索引中检索。利用这些数据，我们确立了整形外科医生职业生涯中不同阶段的发表趋势。
专科医生和住院医生从医学院毕业的年龄（27岁）以及注册前获得博士学位的年龄（32岁）没有差异。18名住院医生（0.30）已经获得博士学位，相比之下，34名专科医生（0.15）在注册前获得博士学位。专科医生为1758篇被PubMed收录的文章做出了2396项贡献，住院医生为323篇文章做出了327项贡献。60%的专科医生在注册时已经发表过文章，而目前79%的住院医生已经发表过。住院医生作为作者参与撰写的文章数量（平均6.8篇）多于他们的前辈在注册时的文章数量（平均4.7篇）。外科医生和住院医生发表的大部分作品都发表在影响因子相对较高的整形外科学术期刊上。住院医生撰写的文章中有60%、专科医生撰写的文章中有45%被他人引用，住院医生撰写的文章平均被引用3.8次，而专科医生撰写的文章平均被引用4.3次。大多数专科医生在注册后六年内都有发表。
在研究的55年期间，荷兰整形外科医生和住院医生发表文章的数量和质量都有所增加。大多数专科医生从医学院毕业时起至注册为整形外科医生后六年内都有发表。2004年的住院医生发表的文章比他们的前辈更多、质量更好。
