The Estimated Costs of Manuscripts Associated with OREF Funding

R. Brand, M. Karam, E. K. Chaw, R. Coutts
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Information is expensive. Anyone who has attempted to accrue a substantial amount of new data realizes this, but apparently few have attempted to quantify such costs. Although we used a variety of computerized literature search strategies, it was not possible to identify any estimates of the costs of producing a research manuscript. Therefore, we undertook the following study to ascertain the costs of producing a publication in musculoskeletal research. First, we attempted to determine the costs of producing a published manuscript by using PubMed and a variety of literature search strategies. Although we searched through 2287 scientific references, it was not possible to identify a single article in which the costs of producing a research paper had been directly estimated. Two hundred and fifty-two recipients (principal investigators) of Research and Career Development Awards between 1985 and 1998 were then identified from Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) Award Summaries. This source provided data on the duration (typically two years) and total amount of the award, in addition to the investigator's name and institution and the title of the award. The type of award (Research or Career Development) and the degree of the principal investigator were identified. The research projects were classified into one of three categories: biological, biomechanical, or clinical. In most cases (88%), there was a final report from which the numbers of abstracts and publications could be ascertained. To ensure comparability of the costs of the papers, the award amounts were adjusted to 2001 dollars with use of the Consumer Price Index. Next, PubMed searches were conducted with use of the name of each principal investigator to determine the number of publications prior to the award, the number of publications in the area of the grant within three years after the completion of the grant period, the number …
与OREF资助相关的手稿估计成本
信息是昂贵的。任何试图积累大量新数据的人都意识到了这一点,但显然很少有人试图量化这些成本。尽管我们使用了多种计算机化的文献检索策略,但无法确定制作研究手稿的任何成本估算。因此,我们进行了以下研究,以确定出版肌肉骨骼研究的成本。首先,我们试图通过使用PubMed和各种文献搜索策略来确定制作已发表手稿的成本。虽然我们检索了2287篇科学参考文献,但无法找到一篇直接估算了研究论文制作成本的文章。在1985年至1998年间,从骨科研究与教育基金会(OREF)奖项摘要中确定了252名研究与职业发展奖获得者(主要研究者)。除了研究人员的姓名、机构和奖项外,该来源还提供了有关奖项持续时间(通常为两年)和总金额的数据。确定了奖励类型(研究或职业发展)和首席研究员的学位。研究项目被分为三大类:生物、生物力学或临床。在大多数情况下(88%),有一份最终报告,从中可以确定摘要和出版物的数量。为了确保论文成本的可比性,奖励金额以消费物价指数调整为2001年的美元。接下来,使用每个主要研究者的名字进行PubMed搜索,以确定奖励前的出版物数量,资助期结束后三年内资助领域的出版物数量,数量……
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