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ArticleJournal of the American College of Radiology : JACR2023

Trends in Academic Productivity Among Radiologists During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Alex Chan, Moses J E Flash, Teddy Guo, Ottavia Zattra, Okechi Boms, Marc D Succi, Joshua A Hirsch

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Article in Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Alex ChanMedically Engineered Solutions in Healthcare Incubator, Innovations in Operations Research Center (MESH IO), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Faculty of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; and Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Moses J E FlashMedically Engineered Solutions in Healthcare Incubator, Innovations in Operations Research Center (MESH IO), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; and Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Teddy GuoMedically Engineered Solutions in Healthcare Incubator, Innovations in Operations Research Center (MESH IO), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Faculty of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; and Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Ottavia ZattraMedically Engineered Solutions in Healthcare Incubator, Innovations in Operations Research Center (MESH IO), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; and Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Okechi BomsMedically Engineered Solutions in Healthcare Incubator, Innovations in Operations Research Center (MESH IO), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; and Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Marc D SucciMedically Engineered Solutions in Healthcare Incubator, Innovations in Operations Research Center (MESH IO), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Associate Chair, Innovation and Commercialization, Mass General Brigham Enterprise Radiology; and Member, ACR Economics Committee. Electronic address: msucci@mgh.harvard.edu.
Joshua A HirschMedically Engineered Solutions in Healthcare Incubator, Innovations in Operations Research Center (MESH IO), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Vice Chair Procedural Services, Director Interventional Neuroradiology, Chief Interventional Spine, Associate Department Quality Chair at Massachusetts General Hospital; Councilor to the ACR for Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery; Chair, Future Trends and Academic Committees ACR; Deputy Editor; JNIS; and Senior Affiliate Research Fellow, Neiman Health Policy Institute Joint Grant Program. Electronic address: jahirsch@mgh.harvard.edu.

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Abstract

purposeThere is a scarcity of literature examining changes in radiologist research productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic. The current study aimed to investigate changes in academic productivity as measured by publication volume before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

methodsThis single-center, retrospective cohort study included the publication data of 216 researchers consisting of associate professors, assistant professors, and professors of radiology. Wilcoxon's signed-rank test was used to identify changes in publication volume between the 1-year-long defined prepandemic period (publications between May 1, 2019, and April 30, 2020) and COVID-19 pandemic period (May 1, 2020, to April 30, 2021).

resultsThere was a significantly increased mean annual volume of publications in the pandemic period (5.98, SD = 7.28) compared with the prepandemic period (4.98, SD = 5.53) (z = -2.819, P = .005). Subset analysis demonstrated a similar (17.4%) increase in publication volume for male researchers when comparing the mean annual prepandemic publications (5.10, SD = 5.79) compared with the pandemic period (5.99, SD = 7.60) (z = -2.369, P = .018). No statistically significant changes were found in similar analyses with the female subset. DISCUSSION: Significant increases in radiologist publication volume were found during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with the year before. Changes may reflect an overall increase in academic productivity in response to clinical and imaging volume ramp down.

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COVID-19RadiologyFemaleHumansMalePandemicsRadiologistsRetrospective StudiesCOVID-19radiologyresearch productivity

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PMID36496090
PMCPMC9729584

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