Table 6.
Analysis of doctoral degree academic publications listed in the database PubMed and Index to Chiropractic Literature in February 2006
| Academics with a doctoral degree N = 13 (31.7%) | Academics without a doctoral degree N = 28 (68.3%) | Chiropractor academics with doctoral degree N = 8 (25.8%) | Chiropractic academics without a doctoral degree N = 23 (74.2%) | |
| Total PubMed publications | 134 | 21 | 59 | 20 |
| Mean PubMed publications | 10.3 (SD 13.2) | 0.75 (SD 1.2) | 7.4 (SD 7.5) | 0.9 (SD 1.3) |
| Mean PubMed publication rate | 0.70 | 0.13 | 0.70 | 0.12 |
| Total PubMed publications last 5 years | 44 | 6 | 30 | 5 |
| Mean PubMed publications last 5 years | 3.4 (SD 5.1) | 0.2 (SD 0.5) | 3.8 (SD 5.6) | 0.2 (SD 0.5) |
| Mean PubMed recent publication rate | 0.68 | 0.04 | 0.75 | 0.04 |
| Total ICL publications | 311 | 104 | 162 | 110 |
| Mean ICL publications | 23.9 (SD 41.1) | 3.7 (SD 5.2) | 20.3 (SD 18.9) | 4.6 (SD 5.4) |
| Mean ICL publication rate | 1.44 | 0.24 | 1.39 | 0.30 |
| Total ICL publications last 5 years | 72 | 25 | 44 | 25 |
| Mean ICL publications last 5 years | 5.5 (SD 9.6) | 0.9 (SD 1.5) | 5.5 (SD 8.7) | 1.1 (SD 1.6) |
| Mean ICL recent publication rate | 1.11 | 0.18 | 1.10 | 0.22 |