Appendix Table 2. Trends in Authorship of Primary Care Payment and Delivery System Reform Scholarship Among Departments of Family Medicine by Author Position and Role, 2018–2022
| All primary care payment and delivery system reform articles | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Department of Family Medicine Any Author | Department of Family Medicine First Author | Department of Family Medicine Senior Author | |||||
| Year | N Total Articles | N | % | N | % | N | % |
| 2018 | 1,225 | 105 | 8.6% | 42 | 3.4% | 4 | 0.3% |
| 2019 | 1,242 | 96 | 7.7% | 45 | 3.6% | 4 | 0.3% |
| 2020 | 1,318 | 106 | 8.0% | 53 | 4.0% | 10 | 0.8% |
| 2021 | 1,282 | 108 | 8.4% | 48 | 3.7% | 4 | 0.3% |
| 2022 | 1,145 | 104 | 9.1% | 50 | 4.4% | 6 | 0.5% |
| Total | 6,212 | 519 | 8.4% | 238 | 3.8% | 28 | 0.5% |
| Impactful primary care payment and delivery system reform articles* | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N High Impact Articles | Department of Family Medicine Any Author | Department of Family Medicine First Author | Department of Family Medicine Senior Author | ||||
| Year | N | N | % | N | % | N | % |
| 2018 | 126 | 9 | 7.1% | 4 | 3.2% | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2019 | 106 | 7 | 6.6% | 4 | 3.8% | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2020 | 124 | 9 | 7.3% | 2 | 1.6% | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2021 | 102 | 10 | 9.8% | 4 | 3.9% | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2022 | 108 | 15 | 13.9% | 6 | 5.6% | 2 | 1.9% |
| Total | 566 | 50 | 8.8% | 20 | 3.5% | 2 | 0.4% |
Sample includes articles from impactful clinical and policy journals that routinely publish health policy and delivery system scholarship, including JAMA, JAMA Health Forum, New England Journal of Medicine, Health Services Research, Health Affairs, JHPPL, Medical Care, Milbank Quarterly, Annals of Family Medicine, JABFM, Annals of Internal Medicine, JGIM, JAMA Pediatrics, and Pediatrics. We identified affiliation with individual clinical departments using the Authors’ Raw Affiliation included for each article (Family Medicine = any affiliation that included “Family Medicine”, “Family and Community Medicine”, “Community and Family Medicine”, or “Family and Preventive Medicine”; Internal Medicine = any affiliation that included “Department of Medicine”, “Internal Medicine”, or “General Internal Medicine”; Pediatrics = any affiliation that included “Pediatrics”).
*Impactful refers to publications that were in the top decile of Altmetric scores (calculated by journal-year).