Santori G, Valente R, Ghirelli R, Valente U
Department of Transplantation, San Martino University Hospital, Genoa, Italy.
Transplant Proc. 2008 Jul-Aug;40(6):1820-2. doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2008.05.017.
Evaluation of research products released during activities that have received public funds should be a mandatory practice. In this study, we evaluated the research products released during the research program "Innovative Strategies to Expand Cadaveric Donor Pool for Liver Transplantation" (SITF Project), funded by the Italian Ministry of Health. The SITF Project prefigured the participation of Italian transplantation centers with more advanced experience in the field of liver transplantation. The research products released during the SITF Project were evaluated according to Guidelines for Research Evaluation of the Committee for Evaluation of Research (CIVR) from the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. Thus, we considered as the research products released during the SITF Project the number of articles published in English language in peer-reviewed scientific journals by each operative unit (OU), as returned by PubMed. The articles were included on the basis of relationship with the research lines of the SITF Project and availability of the impact factor (IF) calculated by Thomson Scientific for each journal. Following these criteria, 62 research products were released during the executive phase of the SITF Project (January 1, 2004-December 31, 2005). All research products were original articles, with no reviews or letters. The articles were published in 10 different scientific journals (mean IF, 2.64+/-1.74). Spearman's rank test found a weak negative correlation between journal IF and number of published articles (r= -.2919; P= .413). Although the OU involved in the coordination of the SITF Project released a relatively high number of articles (n=8; IF, 0.923+/-0.352), several other OUs obtained better results for number of articles (9-11) and/or IF (3.071+/-2.248 or 2.959+/-1.779). In projects that benefit from public funds, the potential negative impact of coordination activities to scientific production should be adequately considered.
对使用公共资金开展的活动期间发布的研究成果进行评估应成为一项强制性做法。在本研究中，我们评估了由意大利卫生部资助的“扩大肝脏移植尸体供体库的创新策略”研究项目（SITF项目）期间发布的研究成果。SITF项目预计意大利肝脏移植领域经验更丰富的移植中心会参与其中。SITF项目期间发布的研究成果根据意大利教育、大学和研究部研究评估委员会（CIVR）的研究评估指南进行评估。因此，我们将每个手术单位（OU）在同行评审科学期刊上以英文发表的文章数量视为SITF项目期间发布的研究成果，这些数据由PubMed返回。文章根据与SITF项目研究方向的相关性以及汤姆森科学公司为每种期刊计算的影响因子（IF）的可用性来纳入。按照这些标准，SITF项目执行阶段（2004年1月1日至2005年12月31日）共发布了62项研究成果。所有研究成果均为原创文章，无综述或信函。这些文章发表在10种不同的科学期刊上（平均IF为2.64±１.74）。Spearman秩检验发现期刊IF与发表文章数量之间存在微弱的负相关（r = -0.2919；P = 0.413）。尽管参与SITF项目协调的OU发表的文章数量相对较多（n = 8；IF为0.923±0.352），但其他几个OU在文章数量（9 - 11）和/或IF（3.071±2.248或2.959±1.779）方面取得了更好的成绩。在受益于公共资金的项目中，应充分考虑协调活动对科研产出的潜在负面影响。
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