TY - JOUR
T1 - Bibliometric Analysis of AANS/CNS Joint Section on Tumors (JST) Award Recipients
AU - Quinones, Addison
AU - Hrabarchuk, Eugene I.
AU - Schupper, Alexander J.
AU - Vasan, Vikram
AU - Dullea, Jonathan
AU - Berger, Connor
AU - Li, Adam Y.
AU - McCarthy, Lily
AU - Durbin, John R.
AU - Ali, Muhammad
AU - Kalagara, Roshini
AU - Asfaw, Zerubabbel
AU - Genadry, Lisa
AU - Shuman, William
AU - Hannah, Theodore C.
AU - Choudhri, Tanvir F.
N1 - Funding Information:
JST award recipients were identified using the official AANS/CNS website listing of awards, which include: Synaptive Brain Tumor Research Award, Rosenblum-Mahaley Clinical Award, ABTA Young Investigator Award, Journal of Neuro-Oncology Award, Ronald Bittner Award and Lectureship, Integra Foundation Award, Columbia Softball Skull Base Surgery Award, Brainlab Neurosurgery Award, Andy T. Parsa Fellowship Award, Lunsford and Leksell Radiosurgery Award, AANS/CNS Joint Section on Tumors Neuro-Oncology Trainee Award, Farber-Ahijit Guha Award, James Rutka Pediatric Brain Tumor Award, Brian D. Silber Award, 2020 CNS Tumor Section Award, 2020 Tumor Section Satellite Symposia Award, Preuss Research Award, NBTF Translational Research Grant Award, Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation Award, Brainlab International Fellowship, ABTA Clinical Research Award. Award recipients included in this study are as of January 2021.[17] Certain JST awards are intended for more senior physicians (Preuss Award and Rosenblum-Mahaley Award) while other awards are reserved for junior trainees (ABTA Young Investigator Award and AANS/CNS JST Trainee Award). Non-award winners were determined as those neurosurgeons within our database who were not listed as a JST award recipient in the tumor section website.
Funding Information:
The RCR, h-index, and NIH-funding are indices used to measure scholarly output for academic neurosurgeons. The JST bestows awards to those who show innovative research that will have a large impact on its respective field. In this bibliometric analysis, we demonstrate that neurosurgeons who had received a JST award were more likely to have an increased w-RCR, h-index, and NIH funding than those who have not won an award. Fellowship training in Oncology/Skull Base, general neurosurgery, and radiosurgery was associated with JST award winning more than other fellowship subspecialities. This analysis provides novel insight into the utility of RCR as a newer bibliometric tool and establishes a valuable benchmark for neurosurgeons seeking awards from the JST.
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PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - The AANS/CNS Joint Section on Tumors (JST) awards are given for tumor research and clinical achievements. Associations between scholarly awards and academic productivity in neurosurgery have not been thoroughly investigated. We explore associations between JST awards and measures of academic productivity to evaluate the relationship between scholarly output, fellowship training, and awarded recognition. Demographic information was collected from public data of 1671 academic neurosurgeons comprising 115 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education accredited institutions. h-index was queried from Scopus. The mean-Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) and weighted-RCR were gathered from the NIH iCite database from 2002-2020. JST award reception was determined from the JST official resource. RCR, h-index, and NIH funding were compared between neurosurgeons who received JST awards and those who did not, using multivariable linear regression. Analysis showed w-RCR was higher among award recipients (β=15.02; 95% CI:4.741,25.29; p<0.01), while m-RCR was not significantly different (β=-0.049, 95%CI 0.2214,0.1238; p=0.5336). h-index was higher among award winners (β=2.155; 95% CI 1.164,3.147; p=0.0008). Award recipients also received greater NIH funding (p<0.0001) and were positively associated with Oncology/Skull Base, General, and Radiosurgery subspecialty training. Receiving a JST award may be correlated with a more productive research career and establishes benchmark metrics for JST award winning. To our knowledge, this is one of the first analyses on this type of award winning in neurosurgery using both the h-index and the more recently created RCR.
AB - The AANS/CNS Joint Section on Tumors (JST) awards are given for tumor research and clinical achievements. Associations between scholarly awards and academic productivity in neurosurgery have not been thoroughly investigated. We explore associations between JST awards and measures of academic productivity to evaluate the relationship between scholarly output, fellowship training, and awarded recognition. Demographic information was collected from public data of 1671 academic neurosurgeons comprising 115 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education accredited institutions. h-index was queried from Scopus. The mean-Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) and weighted-RCR were gathered from the NIH iCite database from 2002-2020. JST award reception was determined from the JST official resource. RCR, h-index, and NIH funding were compared between neurosurgeons who received JST awards and those who did not, using multivariable linear regression. Analysis showed w-RCR was higher among award recipients (β=15.02; 95% CI:4.741,25.29; p<0.01), while m-RCR was not significantly different (β=-0.049, 95%CI 0.2214,0.1238; p=0.5336). h-index was higher among award winners (β=2.155; 95% CI 1.164,3.147; p=0.0008). Award recipients also received greater NIH funding (p<0.0001) and were positively associated with Oncology/Skull Base, General, and Radiosurgery subspecialty training. Receiving a JST award may be correlated with a more productive research career and establishes benchmark metrics for JST award winning. To our knowledge, this is one of the first analyses on this type of award winning in neurosurgery using both the h-index and the more recently created RCR.
KW - Academic productivity
KW - Bibliometrics
KW - Relative citation ratio
KW - h-index
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85158862352&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5530/jscires.12.1.006
DO - 10.5530/jscires.12.1.006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85158862352
SN - 2321-6654
VL - 12
SP - 26
EP - 34
JO - Journal of Scientometric Research
JF - Journal of Scientometric Research
IS - 1
ER -