Faculty Scholarship at an Academic Health System

Abstract

Objectives: To determine the number of published papers per faculty member and percent of faculty with published papers during the FY 21 academic year at an allopathic medical school stratified by department, academic rank, sex, and academic track. Methods: Published papers from 449 tenure track faculty (351 males, 98 females) and 721 clinical track faculty (364 males, 357 females) were analyzed. Findings: 71.0% of tenure track faculty (69.5% of males, 76.5% of females) and 32.3% of clinical track faculty (39.3% of males, 25.2% of females) published a first/last author paper, and 88.6% of tenure track faculty (88.6% of males, 88.8% of females) vs 54.9% of clinical track faculty (60.7% of males, 49.0% of females) published an authored paper. The percentage of faculty publishing at least one first/last author paper stratified by academic rank was 59.4%, 45.8%, and 37.9% for Professor (61.8% of males, 52.5% of females), Associate Professor (51.0% of males, 37.3% of females), and Assistant Professor (47.3% of males, 28.7% of females), respectively. For tenure track faculty, the median number of published first/last author papers and total number of papers by sex was 1 and 4 for males, while it was 1.5 and 4 for females. For clinical track faculty, the median number of published first/last author papers and total number of papers by sex was 0 and 1 for males, and 0 and 0 for females. The three departments with the highest percentage of faculty with published papers were Urology, Neurosurgery, and Microbiology/Immunology. Conclusions: Tenure track faculty published more papers than clinical track faculty both in terms of quantity and in terms of percentage of faculty with authored papers. A greater percentage of male faculty published papers than female faculty in the clinical track but not the tenure track. Likewise, a greater percentage of faculty at higher academic ranks published papers.