Five-year institutional bibliometric profiles for 103 US neurosurgical residency programs

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 547-560

  Taylor, Douglas R ^a,b   Venable, Garrett T ^a   Jones, G Morgan ^b,c   Lepard, Jacob R ^a   Roberts, Mallory L ^a   Saleh, Nabil ^a   Sidiqi, Said K ^a   Moore, Andrew ^a   Khan, Nickalus ^b   Selden, Nathan R ^d   Michael, L Madison ^b,e   Klimo, Paul ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Departments of Neurosurgery   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Semmes Murphey Neurologic and Spine Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; E index; G index; Gini coefficient; H index; I10 index; Institutional; Neurosurgery; Rank; Regional; United States

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; NEUROLOGIST; NEUROSURGEON; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLISHING; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SURGICAL TRAINING; UNIVERSITY; EDUCATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PUBLICATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

BIBLIOMETRICS; EFFICIENCY; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; NEUROSURGERY; PUBLICATIONS; PUBLISHING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84952716933     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2014.10.JNS141025     Document Type: Article

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