2013 年，世界顶尖大学的医学本科生对出版物产出的贡献。

Medical undergraduates' contributions to publication output of world's top universities in 2013.

机构信息

Faculty of Medicine, Menoufia University, Yassin Abdelghaffar St., Shebin Al-Kom, Menoufia, Egypt.

Faculty of Medicine, Menoufia University, Yassin Abdelghaffar St., Shebin Al-Kom, Menoufia, Egypt National Liver Institute, Menoufia University, Yassin Abdelghaffar St., Shebin Al-Kom, Menoufia, Egypt.

出版信息

QJM. 2016 Sep;109(9):605-11. doi: 10.1093/qjmed/hcw028. Epub 2016 Mar 11.

DOI:10.1093/qjmed/hcw028

PMID:26970608

Abstract

BACKGROUND

Medical undergraduates' (UGs) involvement in research activities is thought to be mutually beneficial to students, their mentors and the scholarly productivity of their universities. However, most evidence in favor of such assumption relies on subjective measures such as the self-reported gains in skills or knowledge rather than robust objective estimates for assessing impact.

AIM

We aimed to objectively track and describe publications with UG co-authors-their proportion to the total publication output of world's top universities, their characteristics and their potential impact on biomedical literature.

METHODS

We contacted the corresponding authors of the 2013's Medline-indexed publications affiliated to world's top 10 universities to investigate if any of their co-authors was an UG. Articles with UG co-authors were further assessed to determine, along with other variables: the type of study design, field of the article, publishing journal and its impact factor (IF), and number of received citations.

RESULTS

Out of 25 152 publications, 2537 articles (10.1%) contained at least one UG co-author who was the first author in 635 papers (25%). Articles with UG co-authors were published in 1114 journals with a median IF of 3.661. Most UGs' co-authored publications (82.7%, n = 2098) were cited at least once within 1 year, for a median of three citations per article.

CONCLUSION

UGs contributed to one in every 10 publications affiliated to top universities. Their papers were published in journals with good IFs and received a fair number of citations, which would reflect the relatively good quality and impact of these articles.

摘要

背景

医学本科生（UGs）参与研究活动被认为对学生、导师和大学的学术产出都有益处。然而，大多数支持这种假设的证据依赖于主观的衡量标准，例如技能或知识的自我报告收益，而不是用于评估影响的可靠客观估计。

目的

我们旨在客观地跟踪和描述具有 UG 合著者的出版物——它们在世界顶尖大学的总出版物中的比例、它们的特征以及它们对生物医学文献的潜在影响。

方法

我们联系了世界排名前 10 位的大学附属的 2013 年 Medline 索引出版物的通讯作者，以调查他们的合著者中是否有 UG。进一步评估了有 UG 合著者的文章，以确定除其他变量外，研究设计类型、文章领域、出版期刊及其影响因子（IF）以及收到的引用次数。

结果

在 25152 篇出版物中，有 2537 篇文章（10.1%）至少有一名 UG 合著者，其中 635 篇文章（25%）的第一作者是 UG。有 UG 合著者的文章发表在 1114 种期刊上，中位数 IF 为 3.661。UGs 合著的出版物（82.7%，n=2098）中有 82.7%（n=2098）在 1 年内至少被引用一次，中位数为每篇文章 3 次引用。