Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Medical Scientist Training Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
World Neurosurg. 2020 May;137:e291-e297. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.01.173. Epub 2020 Jan 31.
Research experience is believed to be an important component of the neurosurgery residency application process. One measure of research productivity is publication volume. The preresidency publication volume of U.S. neurosurgery interns and any potential association between applicant publication volume and the match results of top-ranked residency programs have not been well characterized.
In this study, we sought to characterize the preresidency publication volume of U.S. neurosurgery residents in the 2018-2019 intern class using the Scopus database.
For each intern, we recorded the total number of publications, total number of first or last author publications, total number of neuroscience-related publications, mean number of citations per publication, and mean impact factor of the journal per publication. Preresidency publication volumes of interns at the top-25 programs (based on a composite ranking score according to 4 different ranking metrics) were compared with those at all other programs.
We found that 82% of neurosurgery interns included in the analysis (190 interns from 95 programs) had at least 1 publication. The average number of publications per intern among all programs was 6 ± 0.63 (mean ± standard error of the mean). We also found that interns at top-25 neurosurgery residency programs tended to have a higher number of publications (8.3 ± 1.2 vs. 4.8 ± 0.7, P = 0.0137), number of neuroscience-related publications (6.8 ± 1.1 vs. 4.1 ± 0.7, P = 0.0419), and mean number of citations per publication (9.8 ± 1.7 vs. 5.7 ± 0.8, P = 0.0267) compared with interns at all other programs.
Our results provide a general estimate of the preresidency publication volume of U.S. neurosurgery interns and suggest a potential association between publication volume and matching in the top-25 neurosurgery residency programs.
研究经验被认为是神经外科学住院医师申请过程中的一个重要组成部分。研究成果的一个衡量标准是出版物的数量。美国神经外科住院医师的预住院出版物数量，以及申请人出版物数量与顶级住院医师项目匹配结果之间的任何潜在关联，尚未得到很好的描述。
在这项研究中，我们试图使用 Scopus 数据库描述 2018-2019 年住院医师班的美国神经外科住院医师的预住院出版物数量。
对于每个住院医师，我们记录了总出版物数量、第一或最后作者出版物数量、神经科学相关出版物数量、每篇出版物的平均引用次数以及每篇出版物的平均期刊影响因子。排名前 25 位的项目（根据 4 种不同排名指标的综合排名得分）的住院医师的预住院出版物数量与所有其他项目的住院医师进行了比较。
我们发现，在分析中纳入的 82%的神经外科住院医师（来自 95 个项目的 190 名住院医师）至少有 1 篇出版物。所有项目中每名住院医师的平均出版物数量为 6±0.63（平均值±标准误差）。我们还发现，排名前 25 的神经外科学住院医师项目的住院医师往往有更多的出版物（8.3±1.2 与 4.8±0.7，P=0.0137）、更多的神经科学相关出版物（6.8±1.1 与 4.1±0.7，P=0.0419）和每篇出版物的平均引用次数（9.8±1.7 与 5.7±0.8，P=0.0267）比其他所有项目的住院医师都要多。
我们的结果提供了美国神经外科住院医师预住院出版物数量的一般估计，并表明出版物数量与排名前 25 的神经外科学住院医师项目的匹配之间存在潜在关联。
