Table 5.
Estimates of individual publication rate
| Study | Sample | Data source | No. | Mean (papers/person/year) | SD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brocato 2005 [10] |
Faculty members from family medicine departments in the US |
Peer-reviewed journal articles |
474 |
0.95 |
1.43 |
| Dakik 2006 [12] |
Medical faculty at a university in Beirut |
Medline papers |
203 |
1.24 |
1.38 |
| Ellwein 1989 [3] |
Medical faculty at a university in Nebraska |
Published papers |
372 |
1.95 |
N/A |
| Kranzler 2011 [14] |
Faculty members of US doctoral programs in school psychology |
Peer-reviewed papers in PsycINFO database |
59 |
4.93 |
3.38 |
| Tien 1996 [16] |
Health faculty members in US universities |
Self-reported publications |
|
|
|
| |
assistant professors |
|
27 |
0.97 |
0.93 |
| |
associate professors |
|
37 |
1.88 |
2.13 |
| |
full professors |
|
23 |
2.18 |
1.62 |
| Toutkoushian 2003 [17] |
All faculties at US universities and colleges (data presented for top 50 only) |
ISI databases |
50 |
2.86 |
1.30 |
| Wagner 1994 [18] | Faculty members from family medicine departments in the US | Six important family medicine journals | 21 | 0.91 | 0.70 |
The weighted mean is 1.6 publications/person/year.