Publication Performance in German Academie Heart Surgery

TY - JOUR

T1 - Publication Performance in German Academie Heart Surgery

AU - Debus, Sebastian

AU - Dolg, Maximilian

AU - Reichenspurner, Hermann

AU - Grundmann, Reinhart T

PY - 2020/9/8

Y1 - 2020/9/8

N2 - Background This study was designed to evaluate the publication performance ofmanagement teams consisting of chief and senior physicians in German universitycardiac surgery units over a 10-year period and to facilitate benchmarking.Methods The cutoff date for consideration of staffing from the unit Web site andpublications was July 1, 2017. The literature search was based on an evaluation of thePubMed database. The 5-year impact factor (IF) from 2016 was assigned to eachjournal.Results Two thousand five hundred thirty-five publications (average IF 3.02) wereregistered, published in 323 journals. Of a total of 341 management team members,235 (68.9%) published as first or last author over the 10-year period. The number ofpublications from the units divided into quintiles varied considerably with the first sixunits contributing 39.0% of all publications and the last nine units 9.4%. With acumulative IF total of 3265, the publications of the first six units accounted for 42.7% ofthe cumulative IF, the last unit quintile amounted to 621 (8.1%) of the cumulative IF.When considering publications per managing member, the first quintile averaged 11.9publications (29.6 IF) per managing member, the last quintile 3.3 publications (8.0 IF)per member.Conclusions The six units of the first quintile published on average 3.6 timesmore permanaging member than the nine units in the last quintile and the average cumulative IFper member in the first quintile was almost five times higher. Further investigationmust show whether this considerable difference in publication activity between theuniversity units is also observed in other operative fields.

AB - Background This study was designed to evaluate the publication performance ofmanagement teams consisting of chief and senior physicians in German universitycardiac surgery units over a 10-year period and to facilitate benchmarking.Methods The cutoff date for consideration of staffing from the unit Web site andpublications was July 1, 2017. The literature search was based on an evaluation of thePubMed database. The 5-year impact factor (IF) from 2016 was assigned to eachjournal.Results Two thousand five hundred thirty-five publications (average IF 3.02) wereregistered, published in 323 journals. Of a total of 341 management team members,235 (68.9%) published as first or last author over the 10-year period. The number ofpublications from the units divided into quintiles varied considerably with the first sixunits contributing 39.0% of all publications and the last nine units 9.4%. With acumulative IF total of 3265, the publications of the first six units accounted for 42.7% ofthe cumulative IF, the last unit quintile amounted to 621 (8.1%) of the cumulative IF.When considering publications per managing member, the first quintile averaged 11.9publications (29.6 IF) per managing member, the last quintile 3.3 publications (8.0 IF)per member.Conclusions The six units of the first quintile published on average 3.6 timesmore permanaging member than the nine units in the last quintile and the average cumulative IFper member in the first quintile was almost five times higher. Further investigationmust show whether this considerable difference in publication activity between theuniversity units is also observed in other operative fields.

M3 - Other (editorial matter etc.)

VL - 2021

SP - 19

EP - 25

JO - THORAC CARDIOV SURG

JF - THORAC CARDIOV SURG

SN - 0171-6425

IS - 69

M1 - 10.1055/s-0040-1715599

ER -