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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008;136:4-6
© 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Editorial

"How many cardiac surgeons does it take to write a research article?": Seventy years of authorship proliferation and internationalization in the cardiothoracic surgical literature

P. Modi, MD, FRCS(CTh)*, A. Hassan, MD, PhD, FRCSC, C.J. Teng, MD, FRCSC, W.R. Chitwood, Jr., MD, FACS, FRCS(Eng)

East Carolina Heart Institute, Greenville, NC

Received for publication October 26, 2007; accepted for publication December 3, 2007.

* Address for reprints: P. Modi, MD, FRCS(CTh), East Carolina Heart Institute, The Brody School of Medicine, 248 Ed Warren Life Sciences Building, 600 Moye Blvd, Greenville, NC, 27834. (Email: modip@ecu.edu).

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Publications are the currency of academic medicine.1Go They are proof of scholarly accomplishment and confer prestige, research funding, and academic promotion. Recent years have witnessed an increasing trend in multiauthor publications and a decrease in single- or dual-author articles in both the physical sciences2Go and biomedical research.3Go Internationalization of highly-rated US and British surgical journals has also become evident, with a marked increase in articles from Europe and Asia.4,5Go The purpose of this study was to assess whether the changing trends in authorship and international contribution have been mirrored in the cardiothoracic literature over the last 70 years.

The archives of the Journal of Thoracic Surgery (now the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery [JTCVS]) and the Annals of Thoracic Surgery (ATS) were searched from the first decade of publication (1936 and 1966, respectively) at 10-year intervals up to 2006 to record the number of authors for each original article. Additionally, the archives of the European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery (EJCTS) were searched from the first full year of publication (1987) and again in 1996 and 2006 for the same data. The geographic origin of each original article published in the first volume of the JTCVS every 10 years from 1936 through 2006 was also determined and categorized as either North America (US and Canada), United Kingdom, European Union, Far East (Japan and China), or "other." Articles arising from 2 or more of these were classified as multinational. Brief communications, letters, editorials, book reviews, and conference abstracts were excluded from the analysis. The following statistical tests were used to evaluate statistical significance. Differences in mean number of authors and geographic origin were analyzed by using analysis of variance and the {chi}2 test, respectively. All statistical analyses were performed with the SAS software package, version 9.1.3 (SAS, Cary, NC).

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