Erschienen in:
03.05.2018 | Health Services Research and Global Oncology
Changing the Status Quo, Including How We Measure It
verfasst von:
Allison R. Wilcox, MD, Sandra L. Wong, MD, MS
Erschienen in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Ausgabe 7/2018
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Excerpt
In this issue of
Annals of Surgical Oncology, Nguyen et al. show an expected association between surgical oncologists’ h-index and academic rank.
1 One of the authors’ main findings was that male gender was associated with higher h-indices across all ranks of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor. There was not a statistically significant difference associated with administrative position (e.g., division chief or department chair). These data form the basis for important discussions about how current metrics of research productivity may inadvertently influence and perpetuate gender disparities. …