Fig 1.
Study design flowchart.
Table 1.
General and demographic characteristics of academic faculty from 55 departments of surgery.
Cardiothoracic surgery includes cardiac and thoracic surgery. General surgery includes acute care surgery, general and minimally invasive surgery, surgical oncology, and trauma and critical care.
Table 2.
Subset analysis of scholarly output by academic rank and credentials.
Table 3.
Academic output by type of current or former NIH funding and distribution of NIH funding by surgical divisions.
Table 4.
Subset Analysis of scholarly output by type of current or former NIH funding.
Cardiothoracic surgery includes cardiac and thoracic surgery; General surgery includes acute care surgery, general and minimally invasive surgery, surgical oncology, and trauma and critical care.
Table 5.
Subset analysis of scholarly output of surgical faculty by university NIH-funding rank groups.
Cardiothoracic surgery includes cardiac and thoracic surgery; General surgery includes acute care surgery, general and minimally invasive surgery, surgical oncology, and trauma and critical care.
Fig 2.
A Bar chart comparing between 10 most cited faculty and all other faculty, grouped by deciles of rank of the institution by NIH funding.
Indicated for rank-group are the percentages of all publications, citations towards which the faculty contributed. The top-10 faculty contribute between 20% and 46% of publications and 49% to 65% of all citations in a department. B Comparisons between 10 most cited faculty and all other faculty regarding mean numbers of citations per paper, grouped by rank of the department of surgery by NIH funding.
Table 6.
Scholarly output of top 10 faculty at each institution stratified by the institutional NIH funding rank.
Fig 3.
Extramural funding characteristics of the top cited faculty.
Comparison of the (%) of faculty that are NIH funded between top-10 faculty and the other faculty in rank-groups by rank of NIH funding. The (%) that are NIH funded is indicated by Blue/Red bar, and (%) with no NIH funding are indicated by the green bar. This figure indicates that the top-10 faculty are more than two times likely to have any form of current/former NIH funding in every rank-group except the highest ranked institutions by NIH funding (Rank 1–11). In this group they are 50% more likely to have NIH funding than the “other faculty”.