title: Ten-Year Publication Trajectories of Health Services Research Career Development Award Recipients: Collaboration, Awardee Characteristics, and Productivity Correlates.
abstract: This study's purpose was to identify distinct publishing trajectories among 442 participants in three prominent mentored health services research career development programs (Veterans Affairs, National Institutes of Health, and Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality) in the 10 years after award receipt and to examine awardee characteristics associated with different trajectories. Curricula vitae (CVs) of researchers receiving awards between 1991 and 2010 were coded for publications, grants, and awardee characteristics. We found that awardees published at constant or increasing rates despite flat or decreasing rates of first-author publications. Senior-author publications rose concurrently with rates of overall publications. Higher overall publication trajectories were associated with receiving more grants, more citations as measured by the h-index, and more authors per article. Lower trajectory groups were older and had a greater proportion of female awardees. Career development awards supported researchers who generally published successfully, but trajectories varied across individual researchers. Researchers' collaborative efforts produced an increasing number of articles, whereas first author articles were written at a more consistent rate. Career development awards in health services research supported the careers of researchers who published at a high rate; future research should further examine reasons for variation in publishing among early career researchers.
authors.affiliation: Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA, USA max.halvorson@va.gov.
authors.forename: Max A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Halvorson
authors.affiliation: Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA, USA Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA Department of Veterans Affairs, Substance Use Disorder Quality Enhancement Research Initiative, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Andrea K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Finlay
authors.affiliation: Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA, USA Department of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Center for Primary Care Outcomes Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Ruth C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Cronkite
authors.affiliation: Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA, USA Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Xiaoyu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Bi
authors.affiliation: Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Ko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.affiliation: Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Natalya C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Maisel
authors.affiliation: Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Erin O'Rourke
authors.initials: EO
authors.lastname: Amundson
authors.affiliation: Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA, USA Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA VA Sierra Pacific Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Julie C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Weitlauf
authors.affiliation: Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Iris F
authors.initials: IF
authors.lastname: Litt
authors.affiliation: Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA, USA Center for Primary Care Outcomes Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA Department of Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Douglas K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Owens
authors.affiliation: Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA, USA Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Timko
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA Center for Mental Healthcare and Outcomes Research, Central Arkansas VA Healthcare System, North Little Rock, AR, USA.
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Cucciare
authors.affiliation: Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA, USA Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
authors.forename: John W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Finney
mesh_terms: D017677:Age Distribution; D001363:Awards and Prizes; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008913:Minority Groups; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.) / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D017678:Sex Distribution; D014481:United States; D016270:United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014493:United States Department of Veterans Affairs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
keywords: AHRQ; NIH; VA health care system; career development; publications; trajectory analysis