Assessing the academic achievement of United States orthopaedic departments

Table 1 Ten United States orthopaedic surgery residency programs with the largest total Dollar amount of National Institutes of Health funding received from 2014-2018

Institution	NIH funding	Points (weighted)
University of California, San Francisco	$31928483	2
Washington University in St. Louis	$29320191	1.836616603
Virginia Commonwealth University	$28619478	1.792723945
University of Rochester	$23035238	1.442927182
Brown University	$22064165	1.382099175
SKMC at Thomas Jefferson University	$18237937	1.142424274
University of Pennsylvania	$17252775	1.080713731
Mayo Clinic (Rochester)	$16801697	1.052458208
University of Utah	$16762167	1.049982049
Yale University	$16184261	1.01378202

SKMC: Sidney Kimmel Medical College; NIH: National Institutes of Health.

Table 2 Ten United States orthopaedic surgery residency programs with the highest total number of publications by institutional full-time faculty, 2018

Institution	Publications	Points (weighted)
Hospital for Special Surgery (Cornell)	13494	1
SKMC at Thomas Jefferson University	9259	0.68615681
Mayo Clinic (Rochester)	8735	0.64732474
Washington University in St. Louis	6616	0.49029198
MGH/Brigham and Women's/Harvard	6421	0.47584111
Rush University	5661	0.41951979
New York University	4882	0.36179043
University of Pennsylvania	4603	0.34111457
University of Pittsburgh	4407	0.3265896
Stanford University	3903	0.28923966

MGH: Massachusetts General Hospital; SKMC: Sidney Kimmel Medical College.

Table 3 Ten United States orthopaedic surgery residency programs with the highest cumulative h-index of institutional full-time faculty, 2018

Institution	h-index	Points (weighted)
Hospital for Special Surgery (Cornell)	3318	1
SKMC at Thomas Jefferson University	1988	0.59915612
Washington University in St. Louis	1680	0.50632911
Mayo Clinic (Rochester)	1627	0.49035564
MGH/Brigham and Women's/Harvard	1454	0.43821579
University of California, San Francisco	1178	0.35503315
University of Pittsburgh	1126	0.33936106
New York University	1109	0.33423749
University of California, Los Angeles	1101	0.3318264
Rush University	1078	0.32489451

h-index: Hirschberg-index; MGH: Massachusetts General Hospital; SKMC: Sidney Kimmel Medical College.

Table 4 Eleven United States orthopaedic surgery residency programs with the highest amount of full-time faculty holding leadership positions in the two largest general orthopaedic surgery societies in the United States and a subspecialty society for each of the nine orthopaedic subspecialties, 2018

Institution	Leadership positions	Points (weighted)
MGH/Brigham and Women's/Harvard	7	0.500
Duke University	6	0.429
Hospital for Special Surgery (Cornell)	4	0.286
Johns Hopkins University	4	0.286
Mayo Clinic (Rochester)	4	0.286
Rush University	4	0.286
SKMC at Thomas Jefferson University	4	0.286
University of North Carolina	3	0.214
Cleveland Clinic	3	0.214
Washington University in St. Louis	3	0.214
Yale University	3	0.214

Two largest general orthopaedic surgery societies in the United States: AAOS and ORS; Nine orthopaedic subspecialties: ASES, AOSSM, MSTS, AAHS, AAHKS, OTA, NASS, POSNA, and AOFAS. AAOS: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons; ORS: Orthopaedic Research Society; AAAHKS: American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons; AAHS: American Association for Hand Surgery; AOFAS: American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society; ASES: American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons; AOSSM: American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine; MSTS: Musculoskeletal Tumor Society; NASS: North American Spine Society; OTA: Orthopaedic Trauma Association; POSNA: Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America; MGH: Massachusetts General Hospital; SKMC: Sidney Kimmel Medical College.

Table 5 Nine United States orthopaedic surgery residencyprograms with the highest amount of editorial board positions held by institutional full-time faculty in 2018

Institution	Editorial board positions	Points (weighted)
Hospital for Special Surgery (Cornell)	20	0.5
MGH/Brigham and Women's/Harvard	19	0.475
Washington University in St. Louis	18	0.45
SKMC at Thomas Jefferson University	16	0.4
University of Pittsburgh	15	0.375
Johns Hopkins University	11	0.275
Columbia University	11	0.275
Stanford University	11	0.275
University of Michigan	11	0.275

The journals included were the American Journal of Sports Medicine; Osteoarthritis and Cartilage; Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery; Arthroscopy; Journal of Orthopaedic Research; Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research; Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy; Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine; Bone and Joint Journal; Spine Journal; Spine; Clinical Research on Foot and Ankle; Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons; Journal of Arthroplasty; and Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. MGH: Massachusetts General Hospital; SKMC: Sidney Kimmel Medical College.

Table 6 Ten United States orthopaedic surgery residency programs with the largest positive change in weighted points from 2013

Institution	Change in points from 2013
Virginia Commonwealth University	1.62
SKMC at Thomas Jefferson University	1.40
University of California, San Francisco	1.39
MGH/Brigham and Women's/Harvard	1.31
Brown University	1.23
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	0.92
University of Utah	0.90
Hospital for Special Surgery (Cornell)	0.86
Cleveland Clinic Foundation Program	0.83
Columbia University	0.76

MGH: Massachusetts General Hospital; SKMC: Sidney Kimmel Medical College.