Thread by @JakeMat91

Question for #MedTwitter ... how many papers is "a lot" for a doctor to publish?
Is there a graph that shows the curve? 🧵
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2/ my guess is that most UK doctors have 1 paper or fewer?
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3/ The UK Post grad speciality training system offers selection points (pressure) for a small number of papers. So more competitive individuals in more competitive fields will try to maximise these...

4/ But my guess is that even in the most competitive specialities most doctors might have one or two, to jump the hoop to get into training. They might then publish one more to get a consultant post?

5/ So you might assume the average UK doctor has between 0 and 3?

Does anyone have this in a table or a graph? #MedTwitter

6/ John Ioannidis is one of the most published doctors.

Someone must be able to rank, everyone clinician on @PubMedOnline by their number of papers and plot it as a graph?

I suspect it would be highly positively skewed!

@PubMedOnline 7/

This forum was interesting and has a variety of opinions but is quite American focused.forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/how-ma…

@PubMedOnline 8/ Post in: 'How many /journal/ publications is considered a lot?'
Has a document on the American "Match" data for American speciality training which has some useful tables and charts...forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/how-ma…

@PubMedOnline 9/ the average American doctor who gets a training post has 3.2 publications?
And 2.3 research experiences?

@PubMedOnline 10/ and final, the number of publications by speciality. Interesting family medicine is 1.6!

I suspect this may be different in the UK.
What do you think?
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@PubMedOnline 11/ ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

@PubMedOnline Jiwa M. Doctors and Medical Science AMJ 2012, 5, 8, 462-467.http//dx. . 2012.1491doi.org/10.4066/AMJ

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So, Googling these questions has not produced any graphs (so far) but @ResearchGate has a great analytics tool. I have no idea how we judge if this is accurate though? researchgate.net/profile/Jacob-…

14/ I suppose my point from this thread is this...
Should we publish this data?
Then encourage trainees not to chase publications?
If one paper is enough to get a job, then don't stress trying to get more.
Then people will only publish who want to?

15/ @UKFPO @AoMRC @AoMRCTrainees
Do you publish any reports on the research activity and publications of medical student and trainee applicants for specialities?

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