Table 2 Basic characteristics of survey respondents
Overall | First author | Last author | ||||
n | % | n | % | n | % | |
Author status | ||||||
First author | 40 | 51.3 | – | – | – | – |
Last author | 38 | 48.7 | – | – | – | – |
Research position (January 2016) | ||||||
PhD student | 20 | 25.6 | 20 | 50.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Post-doctoral researcher | 10 | 12.8 | 10 | 25.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Senior researcher | 13 | 16.7 | 5 | 12.5 | 8 | 21.1 |
Assistant professor | 6 | 7.7 | 2 | 5.0 | 4 | 10.5 |
Associate professor | 5 | 6.4 | 1 | 2.5 | 4 | 10.5 |
Professor | 23 | 29.5 | 1 | 2.5 | 22 | 57.9 |
Other | 1 | 3.1 | 1 | 2.5 | 0 | 0.0 |
Academic background | ||||||
Social sciences | 27 | 34.6 | 16 | 40.0 | 11 | 28.9 |
Epidemiology | 21 | 26.9 | 10 | 25.0 | 11 | 28.9 |
(Health) economics | 4 | 5.1 | 2 | 5.0 | 2 | 5.3 |
Other | 26 | 33.3 | 12 | 30.0 | 14 | 36.8 |
Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
Age of participant (years) | 45.21 | 11.67 | 37.90 | 10.08 | 52.92 | 7.60 |
Working experience as scientific researcher (years) | 15.83 | 9.78 | 9.44 | 6.99 | 22.55 | 7.63 |
Average number of publications co-authored per year | 4.88 | 1.95 | 3.43 | 1.47 | 6.42 | 0.98 |
Journal Impact Factor of publication | 2.07 | 1.74 | 2.08 | 1.50 | 2.06 | 1.99 |
Number of QRPs in publication | 6.04 | 3.46 | 5.83 | 3.50 | 6.26 | 3.45 |