Super Elite Pediatricians From 146 Developing Countries: Researchgate Analysis

Abstract

Background: Bibliometric assessments have been used to quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate the academic (scientific/research) productivity of medical leaders and academic medical leaders. However, emphasis has been increasingly made that paying no attention to the order and authorship role of the researcher being evaluated may lead to a misleading H-index that is completely not relevant to academic leadership determination purpose. Therefore, Researchgate has been increasingly considered the single most important tool for the evaluation of physicians’ academic stature, prowess, and academic productivity, and also for the evaluation of academic leadership. Materials and methods: More than 1000 Researchgate profiles were examined during the last week of December, 2021, with aim of identifying super elite clinical pediatricians with researchgate RG score of 40 or higher than 40 from 146 developing countries. Results: During the last week of December, 2021, there were six pediatricians having an RG score of 40 or higher from 146 developing countries in the world. Aamir Jalal Al-Mosawi was the pediatricians who had the highest RG Score of 41.13 among the pediatricians from 146countries. Martin M Meremikwu was the Pediatrician from Nigeria who had the highest RG score of 40.99. Ricardo Alberto Guillermo Russo was the Pediatrician from Argentina who had the highest RG score of 40.74. Rose-Mary N Boustany was the Pediatrician from Lebanon who had the highest RG score of 40.15. Pekka Lahdenne was the Pediatrician from Finland who had the highest RG score of 40.07. Adekunle Adekile was the Pediatrician from Kuwait who had the highest RG score of 40.02. Conclusion: During the last week of December, 2021, there were six pediatricians having an RG score of 40 or higher from 146 developing countries in the world. Aamir Jalal Al-Mosawi was the pediatrician who had the highest RG Score of 41.13 among the pediatricians from 146countries. The findings in this study confirm that researchgate is more appropriate for academic medical leadership as it reduce to some extent the influence of misleadingly high H-index that is not relevant to academic leadership deterioration resulting from joining large number of collaborative studies.