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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Thorac Surg. 2023 Aug 26;117(2):449–455. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2023.08.011

Table 2:

Authorship Position

Traditional Integrated “I-6” p-value
Total Manuscripts 21,472 1,533 -
First author manuscripts1 3 [1–9] 4 [1–7.3] 0.188
 % of all manuscripts1 20.0% [3.6 – 38.1] 30.6% [12.5 – 47.1] 0.001
Last author manuscripts1 0 [0 – 3] 0 [0 – 1] 0.001
 % of all manuscripts1 0 [0 – 13.0%] 0 [0 – 4.2%] 0.0004
Other authorship position 4 [1 – 15] 5 [1 – 8] 0.668
 % of all manuscripts 36.2% [20.2 – 53.3] 36.4% [19.6 – 53.4] 0.923
1

Presented as median [Interquartile range], p-value calculated using Mann Whitney U Test