Impact of fellowship training on research productivity in academic neurological surgery

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 738-744

  Agarwal, Nitin ^a   Clark, Scott ^a   Svider, Peter F ^b   Couldwell, William T ^d   Eloy, Jean Anderson ^a,b,c   Liu, James K ^a,b,c  

^a New Jersey Medical School   (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic productivity; Academic promotion; Academic rank; H index; Neurological surgery; Neurological surgery fellowship training; Neurological surgery fellowships; Scholarly impact; Scholarly productivity

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; H INDEX SCORE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEUROSURGEON; NEUROSURGERY; NORMAL HUMAN; SCORING SYSTEM; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; TREND STUDY;

ACADEMIC PRODUCTIVITY; ACADEMIC PROMOTION; ACADEMIC RANK; H-INDEX; NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY; NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY FELLOWSHIP TRAINING; NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY FELLOWSHIPS; SCHOLARLY IMPACT; SCHOLARLY PRODUCTIVITY;

BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; FACULTY; FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; NEUROSURGERY;

EID: 84889688165     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: 18788769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2013.09.020     Document Type: Article

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