利用相对引用率来比较塑性外科手术学术生产率的性别
Isabel Herzog1, John B Park1, Mingzhuo Pei1
1Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey.
The Journal of surgical research
|September 28, 2024
概括
性别不是在整形外科学术生产力的预测因素,尽管研究成果指标的差异. 相对引用率 (RCR) 准确地评估了这些差异,考虑了研究质量和数量.
科学领域:
- 医学研究 医学研究
- 图书统计学 图书统计学
- 整形外科手术 整形外科手术
背景情况:
- 相对引用率 (RCR) 是用于评估研究生产力的文献指数.
- 平均RCR (m-RCR) 和加权RCR (w-RCR) 分别评估个人研究质量和职业生涯生产力.
- 了解学术生产力的基于性别的差异对于公平的职业发展至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 确定在整形外科的学术生产力基于性别的差异.
- 识别与增加学术生产率相关的人口变量.
- 评估RCR在评估研究成果中的性别差异方面的实用性.
主要方法:
- 编制了美国学术性整形外科医生协会的学术性整形外科医生名单.
- 使用NIH iCite工具提取人口统计信息和RCR数据 (m-RCR和w-RCR).
- 采用了统计分析,包括千二测试,曼-惠特尼U测试,克鲁斯卡尔-瓦利斯测试和多变量线性回归.
主要成果:
- 分析包括785名外科医生 (186名女性,599名男性).
- 学术等级和住院培训模式与性别有显著的关联.
- 男人有更高的m-RCR;男性助理教授或首席/主席地位,在综合住院计划,并在更大的部门有更高的w-RCR.
- 在多变量回归中,学术等级和教师规模与较高的w-RCR有关.
结论:
- 虽然在整形外科手术中性别之间存在w-RCR的差异,但性别本身并不能预测学术生产力.
- RCR是评估学术生产率的性别差异的有效工具,对研究质量和数量都负责.
- 在评估研究影响方面,RCR与较旧的文献计量指数相比,可能是一个优越的指标.
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