Numbers of Family Medicine Researcher-Authors and the Number of Articles they Authored in 2003
| Family medicine researcher-authors (n) | 801 |
| Family-medicine researchers who were lead authors on one or more papers (n) | 344 |
| Articles per family medicine researcher-author (n, mean) | 1.875 |
| Family medicine researchers (n [%]) who authored: | |
| 1 article | 510 (63.7) |
| 2 articles | 138 (17.2) |
| 3 or 4 articles | 96 (12.0) |
| 5–7 articles | 42 (5.2) |
| ≥8 articles | 15 (1.9) |
| Total | 801 (100) |
| Distribution of academic degrees of family medicine researcher-authors (n [%]) | |
| MD | 292 (36.5) |
| MD with masters (MPH, MS, etc.) | 132 (16.5) |
| MD with doctorate (PhD, DrPH, etc.) | 24 (3.0) |
| DO, MBBS or MB, with or without other masters or doctorate | 19 (2.4) |
| Doctorates (among non-physicians) | 185 (23.1) |
| Masters (among non-physicians) | 69 (8.6) |
| Bachelors (BA, BS, BSN, etc.) | 22 (2.7) |
| No degree or information missing | 58 (7.2) |
| Total | 801 (100) |