Table 2.

Characteristics of the articles generated from research questions developed during the American Thoracic Society Methods in Epidemiologic, Clinical, and Operations Research Program in Turkiye and subsequently accepted for publication, by the course level in which the research question was developed

Characteristic	Level 1 (n = 9)	Level 2 (n = 25)	Level 3 (n = 21)	P Value
Years from research question development to publication, median (IQR)	3 (3–5)	3 (2–4)	2 (2–4)	0.36*
Publication in an SCI- or SCIE-indexed journal, n (%)	7 (77.8)	17 (68.0)	19 (90.5)	0.08†

Definition of abbreviations: IQR = interquartile range; SCI = Science Citation Index; SCIE = Science Citation Index Expanded.

^*Wilcoxon signed-rank test.

^† Chi-square test.