Is Academic Title an Aim or a Device? Publication Productivity of
Urologists in Turkey
Abstract
Introduction and Aim: The publication performance is an objective
indicator for individuals and institutions as well as science policy and
healthy implementation of the country. We aimed to reveal the quality of
the publications and citations of current urologists in Turkey. Material
and Methods: The publication and citation status of one thousand and two
hundred urologists between the years 2016-2020 were included in the
study. Socio-demographic characteristics of urologists like age, title,
type of city, geographical region of the city, and type of hospital they
work in and the number of publications, citations, indexed journal
publication, and the first author publication status were examined.
Institution of Social Insurance database was used for sociodemographic
characteristics of urologist; while PubMed and Google Scholar were used
for information of publications. Results: The median age of urologists
was 44 (30-76) years. The median number of publications, index journal
publication, the first author publication, and citations in the relevant
years were 1 (0-68), 1 (0-66), 0 (0-24), and 1 (0-1025) for years
specified, respectively. The publication status was significantly higher
in the groups of the age range between 30 and 40 years, associate
professors (OR 44.61 and 35.97, respectively) (p<0.001).
Conclusion: Publications produced in the field of urology in our country
are still not of sufficient quality. Urologists between the ages of
30-40 years old, associate professors, and working in tertiary care
hospitals published more articles and received more citations to these
publications.