Assessing the academic achievement of United States orthopaedic departments

Figure 1 Weighted algorithm showing overall academic achievement. The five criteria used to evaluate each academic orthopaedic program’s contributions are shown. Metrics of original academic thought-National Institutes of Health funding (2014-2018), h-index and total number of publications-were weighted to each represent 40%, 20% and 20%, respectively, of the overall score. Metrics of leadership-editorial positions and society leadership in 2018-were weighted to each represent 10% of the overall score. Each programs’ individual score in each category was multiplied by the weight of the criteria and summed to create a weighted score of overall academic achievement. h-index: Hirschberg-index; NIH: National Institutes of Health.

Figure 2 A total of 176 United States academic orthopaedic surgery programs received points using a weighted algorithm. The overall order of the 25 most cumulatively academically productive programs using data from 2014-2018 is shown.

Figure 3 A total of 176 United States academic orthopaedic surgery programs received points using a weighted algorithm. The overall order of the 25 most academically productive programs using data from 2014-2018 and normalizing for the number of faculty per program is shown.