• Anesthesiology · Sep 2015

    Scholarly Productivity and National Institutes of Health Funding of Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research Grant Recipients: Insights from a Bibliometric Analysis.

    • Paul S Pagel and Judith A Hudetz.
    • From the Department of Anesthesia Service, The Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
    • Anesthesiology. 2015 Sep 1;123(3):683-91.

    BackgroundThe Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) grant program provides fellows and junior faculty members with grant support to stimulate their careers. The authors conducted a bibliometric analysis of recipients of FAER grants since 1987.MethodsRecipients were identified in the FAER alumni database. Each recipient's affiliation was identified using an Internet search (keyword "anesthesiology"). The duration of activity, publications, publication rate, citations, citation rate, h-index, and National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for each recipient were obtained using the Scopus (Elsevier, USA) and NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (National Institutes of Health, USA) databases.ResultsThree hundred ninety-seven individuals who received 430 FAER grants were analyzed, 79.1% of whom currently hold full-time academic appointments. Recipients published 19,647 papers with 548,563 citations and received 391 NIH grants totaling $448.44 million. Publications, citations, h-index, the number of NIH grants, and amount of support were dependent on academic rank and years of activity (P < 0.0001). Recipients who acquired NIH grants (40.3%) had greater scholarly output than those who did not. Recipients with more publications were also more likely to secure NIH grants. Women had fewer publications and lower h-index than men, but there were no gender-based differences in NIH funding. Scholarly output was similar in recipients with MD and PhD degrees versus those with MD degrees alone, but recipients with MD and PhD degrees were more likely to receive NIH funding than those with MDs alone.ConclusionMost FAER alumni remain in academic anesthesiology and have established a consistent record of scholarly output that appears to exceed reported productivity for average faculty members identified in previous studies.

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