Ringwald Bryce A, Middleton Jennifer L
OhioHealth Riverside Family Medicine Residency Program, Columbus, OH.
Fam Med. 2025 Jul;57(7):493-499. doi: 10.22454/FamMed.2025.354255. Epub 2025 Jun 4.
Barriers to performing family medicine research include funding, infrastructure, and mentorship shortages. The Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance (CERA) was created in 2011 to address these issues. This study explores the scope and impact of CERA-related publications in family medicine.
We performed a descriptive bibliometric study of CERA-related publications from 2011 to 2023. Articles were sourced from Medline (PubMed), SCOPUS, and the CERA website. Data analysis focused on publication type, authors, CERA survey type, and citation rates.
From a total of 231 articles retrieved via initial searches and 166 from the CERA website, 174 were included in the analysis. Most studies (95.4%) were original research, with the journal Family Medicine publishing the majority (69.4%). General membership surveys had the highest citations per publication (6.3), while publications prior to 2017 had more citations on average (6.3) compared to those after 2017 (2.4). CERA-related publications featured 515 unique authors across 153 affiliations, with top contributors being Kelly Everard and Arch Mainous III.
CERA provides essential infrastructure for family medicine research, fostering diversity in authorship and affiliations. While impactful in family medicine journals, opportunities exist to extend CERA's reach. Continued support and enhancements in data use are both needed.
开展家庭医学研究的障碍包括资金、基础设施和导师短缺。学术家庭医学教育研究联盟（CERA）理事会于2011年成立，以解决这些问题。本研究探讨了与CERA相关的家庭医学出版物的范围和影响。
我们对2011年至2023年与CERA相关的出版物进行了描述性文献计量研究。文章来源为医学期刊数据库（PubMed）、Scopus和CERA网站。数据分析重点关注出版物类型、作者、CERA调查类型和引用率。
通过初步检索共获得231篇文章，从CERA网站获取166篇，其中174篇纳入分析。大多数研究（95.4%）为原创研究，《家庭医学》杂志发表的文章最多（69.4%）。普通会员调查的每篇出版物引用率最高（6.3），2017年之前的出版物平均引用率（6.3）高于2017年之后的出版物（2.4）。与CERA相关的出版物有来自153个机构的515位不同作者，主要贡献者是凯利·埃弗拉德和阿奇·梅努斯三世。
CERA为家庭医学研究提供了重要的基础设施，促进了作者和机构的多样性。虽然在家庭医学期刊中有影响力，但仍有机会扩大CERA的影响力范围。需要持续的支持和加强数据使用。
