Why publishing (and publishing in European Urology) is important for you

Christian GratzkeAssociate Editor

European Urology

How to Write a Manuscript and Get It Published in European Urology

„One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the

number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.“

David Hilbert, 1862-1943

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The scientific field

So why is publishing important?

How to measure citations

Citation index: bibliographic database which allows to analyze which later documents cite earlier documents.

Institute of Scientific Information ISI (Thomson Scientific)Web of science – Web of knowledge

Scopus (Elsevier)

Google Scholar

How to measure citations

Impact factor:

number of times articles published in 2010 and 2011 were cited by indexed journals during 2012.

total number of "citable items" published by that journal in 2010 and 2011.

= IF 2012

H-Index:

A scientist has index h if h of his/her Np papers have at least h citations, and the other (Np − h) papers have no more than h citations each.

(a scholar with an index of h has published h papers each of which has been cited in other papers at least h times.)

So why is publishing in Eur Urol important for you?

Aim: To assess the predictors of residents’ pursuit of fellowship training by surveying current urology residents and recent graduates.

Freilich et al Urology 2011 Nov;78(5):986-92.

(Not important: debt load, age, marital status, and a desire to pursue a career in academic medicine)

Hellenthal et al J Urol 2009, 181, 281-287

Aim: To quantify and determine predictive factors for resident manuscript production

„While the majority of residents are not involved in publication before residency, most submit and publish at least 1 manuscript as first author in a peer reviewed journal during residency. The number of prior publications and months of allotted research time are significantly predictive of resident manuscript productivity. In turn, manuscript submission is indicative of the decision to pursue fellowship training.“

Yang et al J Urol 2011, Vol. 185, 642-646

Aim: To evaluate resident productivity, as measured by peer reviewed publication output, and determined its relation to future publication output as junior faculty.

Aim: To evaluate resident productivity, as measured by peer reviewed publication output, and determined its relation to future publication output as junior faculty.

Yang et al J Urol 2011, Vol. 185, 642-646

Conclusion:

Publication output correlated with increasing dedicated research time and was associated with the pursuit of fellowship training and an academic career. Publication during residency predicted future academic achievement.

Aim: To evaluate resident productivity, as measured by peer reviewed publication output, and determined its relation to future publication output as junior faculty.

Yang et al J Urol 2011, Vol. 185, 642-646

Aim: To compare the publication records, academic promotions, and leadership appointments of women and men physicians longitudinally throughout academic careers

Reed et al Acad Med. 2011;86:43–47.

Aim: To compare the publication records, academic promotions, and leadership appointments of women and men physicians longitudinally throughout academic careers

Reed et al Acad Med. 2011;86:43–47.

Aim: To compare the publication records, academic promotions, and leadership appointments of women and men physicians longitudinally throughout academic careers

Conclusions:

Women's publication rates increase and actually exceed those of men in the late stages of careers, yet women hold fewer leadership positions than men overall, suggesting that academic productivity assessed midcareer may not be an appropriate measure of leadership skills and that factors other than publication record and academic rank should be considered in selecting leaders.

Reed et al Acad Med. 2011;86:43–47.

We must know.We will know.

...and we will publish!