PMID- 25931657
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150501
LR  - 20181113
IS  - 0300-0508 (Print)
IS  - 1708-8313 (Electronic)
IS  - 0300-0508 (Linking)
VI  - 67
IP  - 1
DP  - 2015 Winter
TI  - Bibliometric Analyses of Physical and Occupational Therapy Faculty across Canada 
      Indicate Productivity and Impact of Rehabilitation Research.
PG  - 76-84
LID - 10.3138/ptc.2013-71BC [doi]
AB  - PURPOSE: This study examines physical and occupational therapy faculty across 
      Canada, using bibliometrics and federal funding as indicators of academic impact, 
      and considers the validity of various bibliometric indices. METHODS: Faculty 
      members were identified and their rank, professional designation, and department 
      obtained from faculty Web sites. Bibliometric indicators were determined using 
      Publish or Perish software. An independent author (not a faculty member) 
      inspected the data to remove any incorrectly attributed publications. The 
      h-index, citation years, g-index, and total number of citations for each faculty 
      member were retrieved. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) funding 
      database was used to determine the amount of research funding provided to each 
      faculty member as a principal investigator (PI) and his or her total CIHR funding 
      received. Mean faculty indicators by university, rank, gender, and profession 
      were determined. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to detect differences by 
      rank and gender, and measures of association (Pearson correlation coefficients 
      and multiple regression) were used to identify factors that affected h-index and 
      PI funding received. RESULTS: A total of 347 physical and occupational therapy 
      faculty were identified. The median h-index was 5 (inter-quartile range [IQR] 
      2-8) for assistant professors, 11 (IQR 7-15) for associate professors, and 18 
      (IQR 12-26) for full professors. ANOVA indicated no significant differences 
      between male and female faculty in terms of h-index or funding received. 
      Regression analysis indicated that 58% of h-index variance could be explained by 
      gender (p=0.039), appointment within a department that provides a (rehabilitation 
      science) PhD programme (p<0.001), rank (p<0.001), CIHR PI funding (p=0.001), or 
      total CIHR funding (p<0.001). Significant predictors of the amount of CIHR 
      funding received as a PI included h-index (p<0.001) and total number of citations 
      (p=0.023), which together explained 27% of the variation in funding received. 
      CONCLUSION: The h-index, although not without flaws, provides a useful metric 
      that indicates that physical and occupational faculty in Canada are productive 
      scientists having a measurable impact and that this impact increases with rank 
      and greater funding.
FAU - MacDermid, Joy C
AU  - MacDermid JC
AD  - School of Rehabilitation Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton ; Clinical 
      Research Lab, Hand and Upper Limb Centre, St. Joseph's Health Centre, London, 
      Ont.
FAU - Fung, Eunice H
AU  - Fung EH
AD  - School of Rehabilitation Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton.
FAU - Law, Mary
AU  - Law M
AD  - School of Rehabilitation Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Canada
TA  - Physiother Can
JT  - Physiotherapy Canada. Physiotherapie Canada
JID - 0346574
PMC - PMC4403325
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - bibliometrics
OT  - impact factors
OT  - occupational therapy
OT  - publications
EDAT- 2015/05/02 06:00
MHDA- 2015/05/02 06:01
PMCR- 2016/01/01
CRDT- 2015/05/02 06:00
PHST- 2015/05/02 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/05/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/05/02 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2016/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - ptc.2013-71BC [pii]
AID - 10.3138/ptc.2013-71BC [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Physiother Can. 2015 Winter;67(1):76-84. doi: 10.3138/ptc.2013-71BC.