Authorship Proliferation in Hand Surgery Research: How Hand Surgeons Does it Take to Write a Research Article?

摘要

Authorship is the currency of academic surgeons [1]. Research publications are the principal metric of academic success, which in turn are linked with scholarly achievement and academic prestige. Reported is a dramatic expansion of authorship in biomedical and medical research [2], We performed an observational analysis on authorship trends in the six highest impact factors journals publishing hand surgery research over a twenty-year period, including the years 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008, 2013. All original hand surgery research articles were assessed from the following journals; Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery, Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Journal of Hand Surgery -European Volume, Journal of Hand Surgery-American Volume, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery and The Bone & Joint Journal.