Recent trends in publications of US and European directors for vascular surgery training
Anil Hingorani, Amrit Hingorani, Enrico Ascher, Natalie Marks, Eleanor Iadgarova.
Total Vascular Care, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
OBJECTIVES: As a tool to assess and compare academic productivity, we reviewed the number of vascular publications listed in PubMed from 2010 to 2015 for US and European program directors in vascular surgery. METHODS: The list of program directors from the APDVS and the European Union of Medical Specialists (EUMS) were queried for the names of the directors of vascular surgical training programs at the end of 2015. PubMed listed 5474 citations published from 2010-2015. 3561 were from Europe directors of vascular surgery training programs (n= 273) while 1912 were from the US program directors (n=114).
RESULTS: The average number of citations in PubMed per program director was 2.36 per year (s.d. = 4.77). In Europe, each program director averaged 2.17 (s.d. = 5.36) publications per year while each of the US program directors averaged 2.80 publications per year (s.d. = 2.73) (p-value = .13). Journal of Vascular Surgery publications made up 24.0% (12.7% in Europe and 45.0% in the US (p-value < .0001). In the US, the top third produced 69% of the publications and 77% of the JVS publications while in Europe, the top third produced 87% of the publications and 98% of the JVS publications. In the US, 5 programs (4.4%) had no publications and 21 (18.4%) had no JVS publications. In Europe, 82 programs (30.0%) had no publications while 180 (65.9%) had no JVS publications. Between 2010 and 2015, the number of publications per year in Europe increased by 35.7% (485 to 658) while the number of publications per year in the United States increased by 55.8% (419 to 635). Abstracts were categorized by topic for comparison. Comparing the topics of the publications from Europe and the US, it was found that the US program directors published a great deal more on Endo Lower Extremity, Open Lower Extremity, Education, TEVAR, Open Carotid, and Endo Venous while their European counterparts published more in the areas of Vascular Medicine, Replies, and Not Vascular topics. CONCLUSIONS:
In both Europe and the US, the top third produced more than two-thirds of the publications, with the disparity being even more pronounced in Europe where the top third produced almost 90% of the total publications. These data suggest some similarities and differences between publications in each setting.
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