{"doi":"10.52965/001c.38655","title":"Does Research Training lead to Academic Success in Orthopedic Surgery? An Analysis of U.S Academic Orthopedic Surgeons","abstract":"BACKGROUND: Academic surgeons are invaluable for scientific advancement and training the next generation of orthopedic surgeons. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to describe a cohort of academic orthopedic surgeons currently in practice with common academic metrics. METHODS: ACGME-accredited orthopedic surgery programs with a university affiliation were identified. The primary independent variable in this study was formal research training as defined by a research fellowship or attainment of a PhD. Outcomes included academic rank, h-index attained, number of publications, and funding by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). RESULTS: 1641 orthopedic surgeons were identified across 73 programs. 116 surgeons (7.07%) received formal academic research training. The academic training group and non-academic training group had a similar completion rate of clinical fellowship programs (93.97% vs 93.77%, p=0.933), attainment of other advanced degrees (10.34% vs 8.46%, p=0.485), and years since completion of training (17.49-years vs 16.28-years, p=0.284). Surgeons completing academic research training had a significantly higher h-index (18.46 vs 10.88, p<0.001), higher publication number (67.98 vs 37.80, p<0.001), and more likely to be NIH funded (16.38% vs 3.15%, p<0.001). Surgeons completing academic training were more likely to be associate professors (34.48% vs 25.77%), professors (25.00% vs 22.82%), and endowed professors (10.34% vs 2.43%) (p<0.001). On regression analysis, formalized research training was independently associated with h-index and NIH funding (p<0.001 for both). CONCLUSION: Formalized research training, either as a research fellowship or PhD, is associated with an increased h-index and likelihood of NIH funding, although this association was not found for academic rank after adjusted regression analysis.","journal":"Orthopedic Reviews","year":2022,"id":277084,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":8,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.5424,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":880672,"name":"Mariah Balmaceno-Criss","orcid":"0000-0002-5065-6062","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":948667,"name":"Matthew Kovoor","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":948668,"name":"Jack Casey","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":948097,"name":"Keir Johnson","orcid":"0000-0003-4391-0832","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":948098,"name":"Christopher L. McDonald","orcid":"0000-0002-9633-5336","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":764478,"name":"Bassel G. Diebo","orcid":"0000-0002-7835-2263","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":948099,"name":"Eren O. Kuris","orcid":"0000-0002-2303-7610","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":769322,"name":"Alan H. Daniels","orcid":"0000-0001-9597-4139","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":948096,"name":"Daniel Alsoof","orcid":"0000-0002-8754-7070","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":15,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T00:28:34.768552Z","pmid":"36263194","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}