The three-step workflow: a pragmatic approach to allocating academic hospitals' affiliations for bibliometric purposes

Authors: Andrea Reyes Elizondo, Clara Calero-Medina, Martijn S. Visser

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The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University has proposed a three-step workflow to classify the varying degrees of interdependency between academic hospitals and universities in the context of the Leiden Ranking. The ranking system raises questions about whether or not to allocate publication output of affiliated hospitals to universities, as hospital nomenclatures vary worldwide and do not correspond to universally standard definitions. Rather than seeking a normative definition, the proposed workflow aligns the university-hospital relationship with one of three general models: full integration, health science centres, and collaboration and support structures. This classification system provides a standard by which publications noting affiliations with academic hospitals can be allocated. The three-step workflow translates these models into two types of instrumental relationships for publication assignation: "associate" and "component". When a hospital is fully integrated or part of a health science centre, it is classified as component; when it follows the model of collaboration and support, it is classified as associate. Data compiled following these standards allows for more uniform comparison between worldwide educational and research systems. The paper has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Data and Information Science under grant agreement no: 313082.
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  • The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University has proposed a three-step workflow to classify the varying degrees of interdependency between academic hospitals and universities in the context of the Leiden Ranking.
  • The proposed workflow aligns the university-hospital relationship with one of three general models: full integration, health science centres, and collaboration and support structures.
  • This classification system provides a standard by which publications noting affiliations with academic hospitals can be allocated.
  • The three-step workflow translates these models into two types of instrumental relationships for publication assignation: "associate" and "component".
  • When a hospital is fully integrated or part of a health science centre, it is classified as component; when it follows the model of collaboration and support, it is classified as associate.
  • Data compiled following these standards allows for more uniform comparison between worldwide educational and research systems.
  • The paper has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Data and Information Science under grant agreement no: 313082.
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Abstract: This paper presents a method for classifying the varying degrees of interdependency between academic hospitals and universities in the context of the Leiden Ranking. A key question for ranking universities is whether or not to allocate the publication output of affiliated hospitals to universities. Hospital nomenclatures vary worldwide to denote some form of collaboration with a university: academic hospitals, teaching hospitals, university hospitals, and academic medical centres do not correspond to universally standard definitions. Thus, rather than seeking a normative definition of academic hospitals, we are proposing a workflow that aligns the university-hospital relationship with one of three general models: full integration of the hospital and the medical faculty into a single organization; health science centres in which hospitals and medical faculty remain separate entities albeit within the same governance structure; and structures in which universities and hospitals are separate entities which collaborate with one another. This classification system provides a standard by which we can allocate publications which note affiliations with academic hospitals. Our three-step workflow effectively translates the three above-mentioned models into two types of instrumental relationships for the assignation of publications: "associate" and "component". When a hospital and a medical faculty are fully integrated or when a hospital is part of a health science centre, the relationship is classified as component. When a hospital follows the model of collaboration and support, the relationship is classified as associate. The compilation of data following these standards allows for a more uniform comparison between worldwide educational and research systems.

Submitted to arXiv on 28 May. 2021

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