Academic productivity of US neurosurgery residents as measured by H-Index: Program ranking with correlation to faculty productivity

Clinical Neurosurgery

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 975-984

  Sarkiss, Christopher A ^a   Riley, Kyle J ^a   Hernandez, Christopher M ^a   Oermann, Eric K ^a   Ladner, Travis R ^a   Bederson, Joshua B ^a   Shrivastava, Raj K ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic neurosurgery; ACGME neurosurgery programs; Bibliometrics; H index; Neurosurgery resident; Pubmed; Research productivity; Scopus

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; H INDEX; HUMAN; NEUROSURGEON; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SURGICAL TRAINING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 85052592029     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: 15244040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/neuros/nyx071     Document Type: Article

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