Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, 325 9th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104. E-mail address:
J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2013 Oct 2;95(19):e1421-6. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.L.01627.
The Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA) awarded over $3 million in research grants during 2000 through 2009. However, little is known regarding the outcomes of this funding program. Given the continued constraints in securing research dollars, we evaluated the research funding program of the OTA over this ten-year period. We studied the association of grant funding with (1) the publication rate, (2) the cost per publication, (3) the journal impact factor for published manuscripts, and (4) the dollar amount of extramural funding secured.
Grants from the target period were identified with use of the OTA online archive. The title of each grant and the name of the principal investigator were used to search across seven scientific databases for associated publications.
Over the study period, $3,507,050 was awarded through 131 grants (thirty-three clinical, thirty-nine basic science, and fifty-nine resident). A total of 202 associated publications (seventy-three for the clinical grants, eighty-four for the basic science grants, and forty-five for the resident grants) were identified. Twenty-two (67%) of the clinical grants led to at least one publication compared with thirty-one (79%) of the basic science grants and twenty-four (41%) of the resident grants. The cost per publication was $26,892 for the clinical grants compared with $11,357 for the basic science grants and $13,111 for the resident grants. The mean impact factor of the journals containing the publications was 2.58.
Over the study period, the publication output for the funded projects was substantial. Basic science grants had the highest publication rate. The three types of grants resulted in publication in peer-reviewed journals with similar impact factors.
2000 年至 2009 年期间，骨科创伤协会（OTA）共颁发了超过 300 万美元的研究资助。然而，对于这一资助计划的结果却知之甚少。鉴于目前争取研究资金的持续限制，我们对 OTA 在这十年间的研究资助计划进行了评估。我们研究了资助与（1）发表率、（2）每篇发表文章的成本、（3）发表手稿的期刊影响因子以及（4）获得的外部资助金额之间的关联。
使用 OTA 的在线档案确定目标期间的赠款。每个赠款的标题和主要研究者的姓名被用来在七个科学数据库中搜索相关的出版物。
在研究期间，通过 131 项赠款（33 项临床、39 项基础科学和 59 项住院医师）授予了 3507050 美元。共确定了 202 篇相关出版物（临床赠款 73 篇，基础科学赠款 84 篇，住院医师赠款 45 篇）。22 项（67%）临床赠款至少有一篇论文发表，而 31 项（79%）基础科学赠款和 24 项（41%）住院医师赠款发表了一篇论文。临床赠款的每篇文章成本为 26892 美元，而基础科学赠款为 11357 美元，住院医师赠款为 13111 美元。包含出版物的期刊的平均影响因子为 2.58。
在研究期间，资助项目的发表成果颇丰。基础科学赠款的发表率最高。这三种类型的赠款都在同行评议的期刊上发表了具有相似影响因子的论文。
