Esmaeeli Shooka, Xu Thomas Q, Wiegmann Aaron Lee, Jaraczewski Taylor, Seu Michelle, Akin Jennifer, Dorafshar Amir H
Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Ill.
Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 2020 Apr 30;8(4):e2712. doi: 10.1097/GOX.0000000000002712. eCollection 2020 Apr.
We aimed to longitudinally study the relative research contributions of US and international plastic surgeons by evaluating publications within the premier plastic surgery journal over the last 2 decades. We hypothesized that even with an increased pressure to publish in this journal, the relative research contributions from American plastic surgeons will continue to be the largest overall and in all subspecialties.
Data for the surgical subspecialty, corresponding author's country of origin, and region were extracted from all original articles in 2 randomly selected monthly issues of () from the last 2 decades to evaluate longitudinal trends. Data were also extracted from all of the original articles published in for the last 3 years to analyze the recent distribution of research output.
During the last 2 decades, the relative proportion of total original articles written by US authors has increased. They have published proportionally more articles in the Reconstructive and Breast field while publishing relatively less in the hand/peripheral nerve field. From the first decade of analysis, US authors wrote relatively fewer articles in the hand/peripheral nerve field, whereas in the second decade, the US authors wrote relatively fewer articles in the Experimental field. In the last 3 years, US authors published relatively fewer articles in the Experimental and Cosmetic fields.
Each country's scientific productivity in is related to funding, interest, patients' demand, and healthcare market pressure. In this study, we see that these factors influence trends within research publications over the last 2 decades.
我们旨在通过评估过去20年顶级整形外科学术期刊上的出版物，纵向研究美国和国际整形外科医生的相对研究贡献。我们假设，即使在该期刊上发表文章的压力增加，美国整形外科医生的相对研究贡献在总体上和所有亚专业中仍将继续是最大的。
从过去20年中随机选择的两期《》月刊的所有原创文章中提取手术亚专业、通讯作者的原籍国和地区的数据，以评估纵向趋势。还从过去3年在《》上发表的所有原创文章中提取数据，以分析研究产出的近期分布。
在过去20年中，美国作者撰写的原创文章总数的相对比例有所增加。他们在重建和乳腺领域发表的文章比例相对较高，而在手/周围神经领域发表的文章相对较少。在分析的第一个十年中，美国作者在手/周围神经领域撰写的文章相对较少，而在第二个十年中，美国作者在实验领域撰写的文章相对较少。在过去3年中，美国作者在实验和美容领域发表的文章相对较少。
各国在《》上的科研生产力与资金、兴趣、患者需求和医疗市场压力有关。在本研究中，我们看到这些因素影响了过去20年研究出版物的趋势。
