Evaluation of the National Institutes of Health–supported relative citation ratio among American orthopedic spine surgery faculty: A new bibliometric measure of scientific influence

ABSTRACT: Highlights • Analyze new NIH-Supported bibliometric tool, the relative citation ratio (RCR).• Evaluate research productivity among fellowship trained Orthopedic Spine Surgeons.• Conduct demographic analysis of research productivity among fellowship trained Orthopedic Spine Surgeons.

Background

Publication metrics have been traditionally used to compare research productivity amongst academic faculty. However, traditional bibliometrics lack field-normalization and are often biased towards time-dependent publication factors. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has developed a new, field-normalized, article-level metric, known as the “relative citation ratio” (RCR), that can be used to make accurate self, departmental, and cross-specialty comparisons of research productivity. This

SUBMITTER: Dijanic C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9344340 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature