Table 2.
Descriptive statistics of hyperperformers (top 10% as defined by the total number of manuscripts between 2013 and 2018)
| Variable | Median* n = 36 |
Total n = 36 |
|---|---|---|
| No. of years worked 2013–2018, mean | 6.0 | |
| Total no. of papers in 6 years | 66.5 | 2920† |
| No. of papers per year | 10.2 | 473.5 |
| No. of first authorships in 6 years | 2.0 | 193 |
| No. of last authorships in 6 years | 20.0 | 855 |
| No. of middle authors in 6 years | 44.5 | 1872 |
| Total no. of citations | 1732.5 | 88 893‡ |
| No. of citations per paper | 13.0 | |
| 6-year h-index | 22.0 | |
| No. of basic science papers | 2.0 | 431 |
| No. of clinical papers | 56.5 | 2484 |
| No. of review articles | 8.0 | 427 |
| No. of book chapters | 1.0 | 68 |
| No. of primary literature or general articles | 53.5 | 2227 |
| No. of narrative articles | 3.0 | 193 |
| City of work | ||
| Toronto | 18 | |
| Montréal | 5 | |
| Edmonton | 4 | |
| Calgary | 4 | |
| London | 2 | |
| Vancouver | 1 | |
| Winnipeg | 1 | |
| Ottawa | 1 | |
| Types of graduate degree | ||
| PhD | 9 | |
| MSc | 7 | |
| None | 7 | |
| MPH | 5 | |
| MEd | 4 | |
| MClinEpi | 3 | |
| Other | 1 | |
MClinEpi = master’s of clinical epidemiology; MEd = master’s of education; MPH = master’s of public health; MSc = master’s of science.
*
Unless indicated otherwise.
†
46.1% of initial cohort’s 6333 publications.
‡
57.0% of initial cohort’s 155 929 citations