TY - JOUR
T1 - Academic Productivity of United States Neurosurgeons Trained Abroad
AU - Li, Adam Y.
AU - Asfaw, Zerubabbel K.
AU - Kalagara, Roshini
AU - Schupper, Alexander J.
AU - Yaeger, Kurt A.
AU - Siddiqui, Faizaan
AU - Shuman, William
AU - Hannah, Theodore C.
AU - Ali, Muhammad
AU - Durbin, John R.
AU - Genadry, Lisa
AU - Germano, Isabelle M.
AU - Choudhri, Tanvir F.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Peter Christopher and Alden Weiner for help with data collection. Conflict of interest statement: The author declares that the article content was composed in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2021/8
Y1 - 2021/8
N2 - Background: Previous research in neurosurgery has examined academic productivity for U.S. medical graduates and residents. However, associations between scholarly output and international medical education, residency training, and fellowship training are scarcely documented. Methods: We identified 1671 U.S. academic neurosurgeons in 2020 using publicly available data along with their countries of medical school, residency, and fellowship training. Using Scopus, h-index, number of publications, and number of times publications were cited were compiled. Demographic, subspeciality, and academic productivity variables were compared between training locations using univariate analysis and multivariable linear regression. Results: Of the current neurosurgery faculty workforce, 16% completed at least 1 component of their training abroad. Canada was the most represented international country in the cohort. Academic productivity for neurosurgeons with international medical school and/or international residency did not significantly differ from that of neurosurgeons trained in the United States. Neurosurgeons with ≥1 U.S. fellowships or ≥1 international fellowships did not have higher academic productivity than neurosurgeons without a fellowship. However, dual fellowship training in both domestic and international programs was associated with higher mean h-index (β = 6.00, 95% confidence interval 1.01 to 10.98, P = 0.02), higher citations (β = 2092.0, 95% confidence interval 460.1 to 3724.0, P = 0.01), and a trend toward higher publications (β = 36.82, 95% confidence interval −0.21 to 73.85, P = 0.051). Conclusions: Neurosurgeon scholarly output was not significantly affected by international training in medical school or residency. Dual fellowship training in both a domestic and an international program was associated with higher academic productivity.
AB - Background: Previous research in neurosurgery has examined academic productivity for U.S. medical graduates and residents. However, associations between scholarly output and international medical education, residency training, and fellowship training are scarcely documented. Methods: We identified 1671 U.S. academic neurosurgeons in 2020 using publicly available data along with their countries of medical school, residency, and fellowship training. Using Scopus, h-index, number of publications, and number of times publications were cited were compiled. Demographic, subspeciality, and academic productivity variables were compared between training locations using univariate analysis and multivariable linear regression. Results: Of the current neurosurgery faculty workforce, 16% completed at least 1 component of their training abroad. Canada was the most represented international country in the cohort. Academic productivity for neurosurgeons with international medical school and/or international residency did not significantly differ from that of neurosurgeons trained in the United States. Neurosurgeons with ≥1 U.S. fellowships or ≥1 international fellowships did not have higher academic productivity than neurosurgeons without a fellowship. However, dual fellowship training in both domestic and international programs was associated with higher mean h-index (β = 6.00, 95% confidence interval 1.01 to 10.98, P = 0.02), higher citations (β = 2092.0, 95% confidence interval 460.1 to 3724.0, P = 0.01), and a trend toward higher publications (β = 36.82, 95% confidence interval −0.21 to 73.85, P = 0.051). Conclusions: Neurosurgeon scholarly output was not significantly affected by international training in medical school or residency. Dual fellowship training in both a domestic and an international program was associated with higher academic productivity.
KW - Academic neurosurgery
KW - Bibliometrics
KW - Citation number
KW - h-index
KW - International training
KW - Publication number
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U2 - 10.1016/j.wneu.2021.06.026
DO - 10.1016/j.wneu.2021.06.026
M3 - Article
C2 - 34133993
AN - SCOPUS:85108980340
SN - 1878-8750
VL - 152
SP - e567-e575
JO - World neurosurgery
JF - World neurosurgery
ER -