A 30-year analysis of National Institutes of Health-funded cardiac transplantation research: Surgeons lead the way.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Obtaining National Institutes of Health funding for heart transplant research is becoming increasingly difficult, especially for surgeons. We sought to determine the impact of National Institutes of Health-funded cardiac transplantation research over the past 30 years.

Methods

National Institutes of Health Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results was queried for R01s using 10 heart transplant-related terms. Principal Investigator, total grant funding amount, number of publications, and citations of manuscripts were collected. A citation-based Grant Impact Metric was assigned to each grant: sum of citations for each manuscript normalized by the funding of the respective grant (per $100K). The department and background degree(s) (MD, PhD, M

SUBMITTER: Narahari AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7782209 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature