Table 3.

Percentages of publication categories contributing to h-indices of members of medical societies. Percentages of article types were compared between the upper and lower terciles of h-index

	Publications per category (%; median, 1st-3rd quartile range)
Population	Original research	Reviews	Guidelines	Meta-analyses	Other
Total	84.4 (71.4–92.3)	6.3 (0–14.3)	0 (0–3.7)	0 (0–0)	0 (0–7.3)
Per h-index terciles
upper (≥28.5)	87.3 (80.0–93.0)	6.7 (3.0–14.0)	1.1 (0–4.0)	0 (0–0)	2.0 (0–5.0)
middle (12.5–28.4)	88.2 (71.4–95.4)	5.9 (0–10.8)	0 (0–5.6)	0 (0–0)	0 (0–5.3)
lower (≤12.5)	80.0 (50.0–88.9)	0 (0–20.0)	0 (0–0)	0 (0–0)	0 (0–20.0)
P (upper vs lower tercile)	0.015	0.487	0.007	0.532	0.369