Purpose Academic medical faculty members are assessed on their research productivity for
hiring, promotion, grant, and award decisions. The current work systematically reviews …

Male and female otolaryngologists all attend the same accredited medical schools, complete
the same accredited residency programs, and take the same board certification exams; …

Importance Despite equal numbers of men and women entering medical school, women are
underrepresented in the upper echelons of academic medicine and receive less …

Background: The Hirsch index (h-index), widely considered a valuable measure of
assessing academic productivity, has been studied in various medical and surgical …

Global investment in biomedical research has grown significantly over the last decades,
reaching approximately a quarter of a trillion US dollars in 2010. However, not all of this …

Objectives/Hypothesis The number of women in medicine has increased considerably over
the past 3 decades, and they now comprise approximately half of medical school …

Objective To evaluate gender differences in NIH funding among faculty in otolaryngology
departments and discuss potential reasons for these differences. Study Design and Setting …

Objectives In recent years, gender differences in academic promotion have been
documented within surgical fields. To the best of our knowledge, gender discrepancies in …

Object Bibliometrics is defined as the study of statistical and mathematical methods used to
quantitatively analyze scientific literature. The application of bibliometrics in neurosurgery is …

Objective To describe the publication productivity of academic urologists in the United States
by gender. Materials and Methods Gender inequality is prevalent in most surgical …