Does Diversity of Authorship Matter? An Analysis of Plastic Surgery’s Top 100 Articles

Diversity, whether related to age, gender, ethnicity, race, geography, or experience, is increasing in all realms of medicine, including plastic surgery. Research has also become more diverse in those who conduct studies and those who participate in them. Fittingly, surgeons who produce prominent re...

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Autores principales: Asserson, Derek B., Janis, Jeffrey E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8947603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35356043
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000004214
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description Diversity, whether related to age, gender, ethnicity, race, geography, or experience, is increasing in all realms of medicine, including plastic surgery. Research has also become more diverse in those who conduct studies and those who participate in them. Fittingly, surgeons who produce prominent research are likely to come from diverse backgrounds. This study was designed to analyze the diversity of authorship in peer-reviewed plastic surgery journals. METHODS: Using the Web of Science database, the authors identified the 100 most-cited articles from the highest-impact plastic surgery journals from January 2010 to December 2020. Author, institutional, and topic information was collected. RESULTS: There was an average of 5.6 authors on the top 100 articles, of which 96.1% involved collaboration and 75.7% mixed-gender authorship. The average number of affiliations was 2.1, of which 51.5% involved cross-institutional collaboration, 12.6% came from both domestic and international institutions, 30.1% involved multiple specialties, and 10.7% came from both academia and private practice. Having both domestic and international authors was found to be most predictive of more citations on multiple regression, with year as a nonconfounding variable (P < 0.05), followed by mixed-gender authorship (P < 0.10). CONCLUSION: Impactful publications in plastic surgery come from diverse sets of authors and institutions.
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spelling pubmed-89476032022-03-29 Does Diversity of Authorship Matter? An Analysis of Plastic Surgery’s Top 100 Articles Asserson, Derek B. Janis, Jeffrey E. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open Education Diversity, whether related to age, gender, ethnicity, race, geography, or experience, is increasing in all realms of medicine, including plastic surgery. Research has also become more diverse in those who conduct studies and those who participate in them. Fittingly, surgeons who produce prominent research are likely to come from diverse backgrounds. This study was designed to analyze the diversity of authorship in peer-reviewed plastic surgery journals. METHODS: Using the Web of Science database, the authors identified the 100 most-cited articles from the highest-impact plastic surgery journals from January 2010 to December 2020. Author, institutional, and topic information was collected. RESULTS: There was an average of 5.6 authors on the top 100 articles, of which 96.1% involved collaboration and 75.7% mixed-gender authorship. The average number of affiliations was 2.1, of which 51.5% involved cross-institutional collaboration, 12.6% came from both domestic and international institutions, 30.1% involved multiple specialties, and 10.7% came from both academia and private practice. Having both domestic and international authors was found to be most predictive of more citations on multiple regression, with year as a nonconfounding variable (P < 0.05), followed by mixed-gender authorship (P < 0.10). CONCLUSION: Impactful publications in plastic surgery come from diverse sets of authors and institutions. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2022-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8947603/ /pubmed/35356043 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000004214 Text en Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of The American Society of Plastic Surgeons. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal.
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