Is an Academic Title an Aim or a Device? Publication Productivity of Urologists in Turkiye

Abstract

Objective:The publication performance is an objective indicator for individuals and institutions as well as science policy and healthy implementation of the country. We revealed the quality of the publications and citations of current urologists in Turkiye.Materials and Methods:The publication and citation status of 1200 urologists working in Turkiye between the years 2016-2020 were included in the study. Socio-demographic characteristics of urologists like age, title, type of city, geographical region of the city, and type of hospital they work in and the number of publications, citations, indexed journal publications, and the first author publication status were examined in December 2020. The Social Security Instution database was used for sociodemographic characteristics of urologist; while PubMed and Google Scholar were used for information on publications.Results:The median age of the urologists was 44 (30-76) years. The median number of publications, index journal publication, the first author publication, and citations were 1 (0-68), 1 (0-66), 0 (0-24), and 1 (0-1025) for the years specified, respectively. The publication status was significantly higher in the groups the age range of 30 and 40 years, associate professors (odds ratio 44.61 and 35.97, respectively) (p<0.001).Conclusion:Publications produced in the field of urology in our country are still not of sufficient quality. Urologists between the ages of 30-40 years old, associate professors, and who working in tertiary care hospitals have published more articles and received more citations to these publications.

Keywords

• number of citations
• number of publications
• publication quality
• urologist