ArticleZeitschrift fur Orthopadie und Unfallchirurgie2026
Significant Decrease in Scientific Performance after Completing Habilitation as an Academic Milestone: A Bibliometric Analysis of 742 Web of Science Profiles with Focus on Orthopedic and Trauma Surgeons.
Article in Zeitschrift fur Orthopadie und Unfallchirurgie, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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Abstract
Habilitation is a procedure by which one of the highest university degrees is achieved in the field of medicine in Germany. We hypothesize that this academic milestone represents an incentive for scientific productivity that drops off once a scientist has reached this career steep. This study aims to compare scientific performance of German scientists before and after completing this milestone with special focus on orthopedic surgeons and traumatologists (O&T).Scientists who had completed their habilitation in human medicine were researched from public announcements in the period Jan-Dec 2018. The periods Jan 2016 to Dec 2018 and Jan 2020 to Dec 2022 were defined as pre- and post-habilitation phases, respectively. Scientific performance was calculated using normalized citation percentiles (NCPs) from author records in Web of Science. Association between sex, subject area, and change in performance were analyzed.NCP values of 742 scientists were analyzed showing a significant decrease after completing habilitation (
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