Academic Productivity of Cardiologists Working as Faculty Members in Universities in Turkey: A Bibliometric Analysis Study

Abstract

Introduction: Bibliometric studies are important for the evaluation of academic productivity. The aim was to investigate the academic productivity of cardiologists working as university faculty members in Turkey in terms of the number of publications, number of citations, and h-indices, and to examine the relationship of these metrics with academic title and gender. Methods: Cardiologists working as a professor, associate professors, assistant professors, and lecturers in cardiology departments in universities in Turkey were determined using the Council of Higher Education Academic Search platform. A number of publications and citations, and h-indices of the cardiologists were obtained from the Scopus database. Results: Data from 760 cardiologists were analyzed in the study. Eighty-four percent of the cardiologists were male (n=639). Of the cardiologists, 51.1% were professors (n=388), 21.6% were associate professors (n=164), 23.4% were assistant professors (n=178), and 3.9% were lecturers (n=30). Associate professor ratio in women (12.4%) was about half of that in men (23.3%). There were significant differences among the titles with regard to the total number of publications and citations, and the h-indices (all p0.05). In comparisons by gender, the number of publications and citations, and the h-indices was significantly higher in male associate and assistant professors than in female counterparts (p