Table 1.
Factors associated with endowed chair allocation among full oncology professors, with results displayed separately by gender
| Characteristic | Women (n = 269) |
Men (n = 818) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| With endowed chairs | Without endowed chairs | With endowed chairs | Without endowed chairs | |
| (n = 60) | (n = 209) | (n = 227) | (n = 591) | |
| No. (%) | No. (%) | No. (%) | No. (%) | |
| Degree | ||||
| MD or equivalent | 45 (21.1) | 168 (78.9) | 161 (25.7) | 466 (74.3) |
| MD + other doctorate | 10 (34.5) | 19 (65.5) | 38 (32.8) | 78 (67.2) |
| Doctorate, non-MD or equivalent | 5 (18.5) | 22 (81.5) | 26 (35.6) | 47 (64.4) |
| Other | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 2 (100) | 0 (0) |
| NIH grant funding level as PIa | ||||
| No funding | 9 (10.3) | 78 (89.7) | 28 (13.5) | 179 (86.5) |
| <$1 133 000 | 8 (16.7) | 40 (83.3) | 29 (19.7) | 118 (80.3) |
| $1 133 000 to <$4 824 000 | 11 (22.4) | 38 (77.6) | 31 (21.4) | 114 (78.6) |
| $4 824 000 to <$13 980 000 | 20 (39.2) | 31 (60.8) | 56 (39.4) | 86 (60.6) |
| $13 980 000+ | 11 (34.4) | 21 (65.6) | 80 (48.2) | 86 (51.8) |
| Not applicable/none reported | 1 (50) | 1 (50) | 3 (27.3) | 8 (72.7) |
| Total publicationsa | ||||
| Not available | 0 (0) | 1 (100) | 0 (0) | 4 (100) |
| 0-75 | 12 (13.3) | 78 (86.7) | 26 (13.8) | 162 (86.2) |
| 76-135 | 14 (19.4) | 58 (80.6) | 41 (20.4) | 160 (79.6) |
| 136-230 | 20 (32.3) | 42 (67.7) | 54 (29.0) | 132 (71.0) |
| 231+ | 14 (31.8) | 30 (68.2) | 106 (44.4) | 133 (55.6) |
| Total citationsa | ||||
| Not available | 0 (0) | 2 (100) | 0 (0) | 4 (100) |
| 0-3100 | 11 (12.5) | 77 (87.5) | 21 (11.4) | 164 (88.6) |
| 3101-7550 | 12 (17.9) | 55 (82.1) | 41 (20.4) | 160 (79.6) |
| 7551-15 300 | 19 (30.2) | 44 (69.8) | 63 (31.5) | 137 (68.5) |
| 15 301+ | 18 (36.7) | 31 (63.3) | 102 (44.7) | 126 (55.3) |
| H-Indexa | ||||
| Not available | 0 (0) | 1 (100) | 0 (0) | 4 (100) |
| 0-27 | 11 (12.5) | 77 (87.5) | 21 (11.1) | 169 (88.9) |
| 28-41 | 17 (23.6) | 55 (76.4) | 42 (21.6) | 152 (78.4) |
| 42-58 | 15 (25.4) | 44 (74.6) | 64 (30.6) | 145 (69.4) |
| 59+ | 17 (34.7) | 32 (65.3) | 100 (45.2) | 121 (54.8) |
| Decade of graduation from terminal degree | ||||
| Not reported | 0 (0) | 3 (100) | 6 (27.3) | 16 (72.7) |
| 1960 or earlier | 1 (100) | 0 (0) | 3 (27.3) | 8 (72.7) |
| 1961-1970 | 1 (25.0) | 3 (75.0) | 13 (24.5) | 40 (75.5) |
| 1971-1980 | 14 (29.8) | 33 (70.2) | 56 (24.5) | 164 (74.6) |
| 1981-1990 | 24 (21.4) | 88 (78.6) | 83 (28.1) | 212 (71.9) |
| 1991-2000 | 18 (20.0) | 72 (80.0) | 63 (31.7) | 136 (68.3) |
| 2001 or later | 2 (16.7) | 10 (83.3) | 3 (16.7) | 15 (83.3) |
a
Funding data were initially categorized into those with funding and those without; individuals with any funding were further subcategorized by quartile for multivariable analysis. Citation, publication, and H-index data were categorized by quartile. NIH = National Institutes of Health; PI = principal investigator.