Association between academic degrees and research productivity: an assessment of Canadian academic general surgeons.

ABSTRACT:

Background

For academic hiring committees and surgical trainees, the benefits of a graduate degree are unclear. We sought to identify if graduate degrees or professorship status were associated with increased research productivity among Canadian academic surgeons.

Methods

We included general surgeons from the largest hospitals associated with accredited residency programs. We classified staff surgeons active between 2013 and 2018 by degree (MD only, master's degree, PhD) and professorship (assistant, associate, professor) status. We identified their publications from January 2013 to December 2018. Variables of interest included publications per year, citations per article, journal of publication, CiteScore, author's Hirsch (h) index and the revised h-index (

SUBMITTER: Purich K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9202825 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature