TABLE 1.
Publication rates by recent biomedical PhDsa
| All | Men | Women | Non-URM | URM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enrolled | 1934 | 900 (46.5%) | 1034 (53.5%) | 1633 (84.4%) | 301 (15.6%) |
| 5-year PhDs | 1466 | 654 (44.6%) | 812 (55.4%) | 1289 (87.9%) | 177 (12.1%) |
| First-authored papers per PhD | 1.73 | 1.79 | 1.69 | 1.77 | 1.48 |
| Coauthored papers per PhD | 2.70 | 2.97 | 2.48 | 2.74 | 2.37 |
| PhDs who were first authors | 80.2% | 80.7% | 79.7% | 80.7% | 76.3% |
| PhDs who were coauthors | 86.8% | 87.9% | 85.8% | 86.6% | 88.1% |
aIn the Winter/Spring of 2017, scientists serving as competition reviewers and the thesis advisers of the HHMI Gilliam graduate fellowship program were asked to collect information from their respective graduate programs. Complete data were obtained from 14 different universities, all classified as “highest research activity doctoral universities” by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (2016).