Abstract
Objective: To determine whether the academic achievement of Department Chairperson (DC) and Research Director (RD), when present, is associated with increased scholarly productivity and National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding of faculty members in academic urology departments. Materials and Methods: We identified the DC, RD and faculty members of 145 academic urology departments. The scholarly productivity and NIH funding for each individual faculty member was assessed from 2018 to 2019 using an h-index extrapolated from the Scopus database and the NIH RePORTER tool, respectively. The Spearman correlation coefficient was employed to define the correlation of these parameters. Hypothesis testing was conducted using the Mann-Whitney U test. Results: After excluding 13 departments due to missing faculty listing, our final sample included 132 departments and 2227 faculty members. In 2018, the NIH provided $55,243,658 in urology research grants to 24.2% of departments and 4.0% of faculty members. Of departments with NIH funding, 68.8% employed a RD. DC and RD h-index were positively correlated with departmental h-index. DC h-index positively correlated with department NIH funding. Moreover, NIH funding was significantly higher for departments with a RD vs those without a RD ($1,268,028 vs $62,941, P < .001); interestingly, NIH funding was higher for departments employing unfunded RDs vs those without a RD ($2,079,948 vs $579,055, P < .001). Conclusion: Academic success of a DC and RD was associated with urology departmental scholarly productivity and NIH funding. The presence of a RD, funded or unfunded, was associated with increased departmental NIH funding.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 136-140 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Urology |
| Volume | 154 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 2021 |
Funding
DJL is supported in part by 1R01DK078121 from the National Institute of Kidney and Digestive Diseases and grant 1U54HD100549-01 (L. Levin), 1R01HD095341 (T. Garcia) and 5P01HD087157 (M.M. Matzuk) from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health. DJL and JCH are supported in part by the Frederick J. and Theresa Dow Wallace Fund of the New York Community Trust. Conflicts of interest: JCH and DJL receive research support from the Frederick J. and Theresa Dow Wallace Fund of the New York Community Trust. DJL serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Celmatix (no financial compensation), is Secretary-Treasurer of the American Board of Bioanalysts, and is on the World Health Organization Editorial Board for laboratory manual for the examination and processing of human semen Sixth edition (travel costs only). EMS is a consultant for Janssen, Astellas, AbbVie on work that is unrelated to this manuscript. The remaining authors report no further disclosures related to this work.
Keywords
- Organization and Administration
- Organizational Innovation
- Research
- Urology
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Urology
