Basic scientists | Clinicians | Clinician-scientists | Chi-squared/t value | P value | Respondents with English as their first language | Respondents with English as their second language | Chi-squared/t value/Z value | P value | All | |
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(n = 560) | (n =516) | (n = 264) | (n = 611) | (n = 729) | (n = 1340) | |||||
Gender: | ||||||||||
Men | 354 (63.2%) | 380 (73.6%) | 208 (78.8%) | 25.3 | <0.001 | 409 (66.9%) | 533 (73.1%) | 6.1 | 0.01* | 942 (70.3%) |
Women | 206 (36.8%) | 136 (26.4%) | 56 (21.2%) | 202 (33.1%) | 196 (26.9%) | 398 (29.7%) | ||||
Location | ||||||||||
Africa | 2 (14.3%) | 5 (35.7%) | 7 (50%) | 54.8 | <0.001 | 6 (42.9%) | 8 (57.1%) | 416.8 | <0.001** | 14 (1.0%) |
America (North) | 233 (45.6%) | 201 (39.3%) | 77 (15.1%) | 365 (71.4%) | 146 (28.6%) | 511 (38.1%) | ||||
America (South) | 4 (20.0%) | 12 (60.0%) | 4 (20.0%) | 0 (0%) | 20 (100%) | 20 (1.5%) | ||||
Asia (Central/ Middle East) | 15 (20.3%) | 46 (62.2%) | 13 (17.6%) | 5 (6.8%) | 69 (93.2%) | 74 (5.5%) | ||||
Asia (North/East) | 33 (34.4%) | 36 (37.5%) | 27 (28.1%) | 5 (5.2%) | 91 (94.8%) | 96 (7.2%) | ||||
Australia and New Zealand | 52 (47.7%) | 42 (38.5%) | 15 (13.8%) | 95 (87.2%) | 14 (12.8%) | 109 (8.1%) | ||||
Europe | 221 (42.8%) | 174 (33.7%) | 121 (23.4%) | 135 (26.2%) | 381 (73.8%) | 516 (38.5%) | ||||
Mean age (Mean ± SD) | 49.9 ± 11.4 | 52.6 ± 10.4 | 52.2 ± 11.2 | 8.8 | <0.001 | 51.9 ± 11.6 | 50.9 ± 10.6 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 51.4 ± 11.1 |
Median number of papers successfully published in peered- review journals | 50 | 50 | 61 | 9.8 | 0.007 | 50 | 50 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 50 |
(Median, 95% CI) | (45 – 55) | (45 – 60) | (50 – 75) | (50 – 60) | (50 – 59) | (95% CI: 50 – 56) | ||||
Mean number of years of experience in medical research and publications (Mean ± SD) | 20.3 ± 10.6 | 20.3 ± 10.8 | 22.4 ± 11.8 | 3.9 | 0.02 | 21.1 ± 11.6 | 20.4 ± 10.4 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 20.7 ± 11 |