Quantifying federal funding and scholarly output related to the academic emergency medicine consensus conferences.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Every year since 2000, Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM) has presented a one-day consensus conference to generate a research agenda for advancement of a scientific topic. One of the 12 annual issues of AEM is reserved for the proceedings of these conferences. The purpose of this study was to measure academic productivity of these conferences by evaluating subsequent federal research funding received by authors of conference manuscripts and calculating citation counts of conference papers.

Method

This was a cross-sectional study. In 2012, the NIH RePORTER system was searched to identify subsequent federal funding obtained by authors of the consensus conference issues from 2000 to 2010. Funded projects were coded as related or unrelated to conference topic. Citation co

SUBMITTER: Nishijima DK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4018650 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature