Here are five things to know:
1. The top five medical centers that house residency programs with highest research productivity were:
• UC San Francisco
• UC Los Angeles
• University of Pittsburgh
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston
• Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore
2. The five-year review examined 103 neurosurgery residency programs across the nation.
3. The review is one of the first to use bibliometrics — statistical analysis of written publications — to calculate the objective impact of a particular academic paper.
4. It is similar to sabermetrics, that is, the statistical analysis of baseball players’ performance.
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