title: Quantifying federal funding and scholarly output related to the academic emergency medicine consensus conferences.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Every year since 2000, Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM) has presented a one-day consensus conference to generate a research agenda for advancement of a scientific topic. One of the 12 annual issues of AEM is reserved for the proceedings of these conferences. The purpose of this study was to measure academic productivity of these conferences by evaluating subsequent federal research funding received by authors of conference manuscripts and calculating citation counts of conference papers.
  
  
  METHODS
  This was a cross-sectional study. In 2012, the NIH RePORTER system was searched to identify subsequent federal funding obtained by authors of the consensus conference issues from 2000 to 2010. Funded projects were coded as related or unrelated to conference topic. Citation counts for all conference manuscripts were quantified using Scopus and Google Scholar. Simple descriptive statistics were reported.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Eight hundred fifty-two individual authors contributed to 280 papers published in the 11 consensus conference issues. One hundred thirty-seven authors (16%) obtained funding for 318 projects. A median of 22 topic-related projects per conference (range 10-97) accounted for a median of $20,488,331 per conference (range $7,779,512 to $122,918,205). The average (± SD) number of citations per paper was 15.7 ± 20.5 in Scopus and 23.7 ± 32.6 in Google Scholar.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The authors of consensus conference manuscripts obtained significant federal grant support for follow-up research related to conference themes. In addition, the manuscripts generated by these conferences were frequently cited. Conferences devoted to research agenda development appear to be an academically worthwhile endeavor.
authors.affiliation: Dr. Nishijima is assistant professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California. Ms. Dinh is research coordinator, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California. Dr. May is assistant professor and associate director of clinical research, Department of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC. Dr. Yadav is assistant professor and clinical research fellowship director, Department of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC. Dr. Gaddis is St. Luke's/Missouri Endowed Chair for Emergency Medicine and professor of emergency medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. Dr. Cone is professor and EMS section chief, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
authors.forename: Daniel K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Nishijima
authors.forename: Tu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Dinh
authors.forename: Larissa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: May
authors.forename: Kabir
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yadav
authors.forename: Gary M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Gaddis
authors.forename: David C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Cone
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D032921:Consensus; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000191:economics* / Q000193:education*; D005380:Financing, Government; D006801:Humans; D055811:Journal Impact Factor; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D014481:United States