Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA.
Aesthet Surg J. 2021 Jun 14;41(7):NP935-NP938. doi: 10.1093/asj/sjaa379.
Plastic surgery faculty, residencies, and institutions are frequently judged on the quantity and quality of their research output. Some of the most impressive individuals in the specialty receive financial support in the form of grants and payments to help with research ideas.
The authors sought to discern if funding directly correlates to greater impact in the top plastic surgery journals as measured by citations.
Using the Web of Science database, the authors identified the 50 most-cited articles in each of the top plastic surgery journals from January 1975 to August 2020. The articles were scanned for funding sources and categorized as industry, federal, foundational, and institutional, while stratifying by decade.
Between 16 journals, 13.3% of the most-cited articles received funding, 2.6% of which came from industry, 5.4% from government, 4.4% from foundations, and 0.86% from institutions. The percentage of most-cited articles and the proportion that received funding were both correlated with decade (P = 0.0017 and P = 0.043, respectively). However, only the percentage of articles was found to significantly increase over time (P = 0.0068).
Although funding leads to meaningful publications, this study showed that financial support is not required to have an influence in plastic surgery research.
整形外科教员、住院医师和机构的科研产出数量和质量经常受到评判。该专业领域中一些最杰出的人士会获得以拨款和支付形式提供的资金支持，以帮助开展研究。
作者试图确定资金是否与顶级整形外科期刊上的更高影响力直接相关，影响力以引用次数衡量。
作者使用 Web of Science 数据库，确定了 1975 年 1 月至 2020 年 8 月期间每个顶级整形外科期刊中最受引用的前 50 篇文章。对这些文章的资金来源进行了扫描，并根据资助来源分为行业、联邦政府、基金会和机构资助，同时按十年进行分层。
在 16 种期刊中，3.3%的最受引用文章获得了资助，其中 2.6%来自行业，5.4%来自政府，4.4%来自基金会，0.86%来自机构。最受引用文章的百分比和获得资助的比例都与十年相关（P=0.0017 和 P=0.043）。然而，只有文章的百分比随着时间的推移而显著增加（P=0.0068）。
尽管资金能带来有意义的出版物，但本研究表明，在整形外科研究中，获得财务支持并非必需。
