American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria®: a bibliometric analysis of panel members

• Published in: Insights into imaging 2023-07, Vol.14 (1), p.113-113, Article 113
• Main Authors: Malhotra, Ajay, Bajaj, Suryansh, Garg, Tushar, Khunte, Mihir, Pahwa, Bhavya, Wu, Xiao, Payabvash, Seyedmehdi, Mukherjee, Suresh, Gandhi, Dheeraj, Forman, Howard P.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: American College of Radiology; Appropriate use criteria; Appropriateness criteria; Bibliometrics; Criteria; Diagnostic Radiology; Documents; Imaging; Internal Medicine; Interventional Radiology; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Neuroradiology; Original; Original Article; Panels; Radiology; Ultrasound
• ISSN: 1869-4101; 1869-4101
• DOI: 10.1186/s13244-023-01456-z

Objective To assess the features of panel members involved in the writing of the ACR-AC and identify alignment with research output and topic-specific research publications. Methods A cross-sectional analysis was performed on the research output of panel members of 34 ACR-AC documents published in 2021. For each author, we searched Medline to record total number of papers (P), total number of ACR-AC papers (C) and total number of previously published papers that are relevant to the ACR-AC topic (R). Results Three hundred eighty-three different panel members constituted 602 panel positions for creating 34 ACR-AC in 2021 with a median panel size of 17 members. Sixty-eight (17.5%) of experts had been part of ≥10 previously published ACR-AC papers and 154 (40%) were members in ≥ 5 published ACR-AC papers. The median number of previously published papers relevant to the ACR-AC topic was 1 (IQR: 0–5). 44% of the panel members had no previously published paper relevant to the ACR-AC topic. The proportion of ACR-AC papers (C/P) was higher for authors with ≥ 5 ACR-AC papers (0.21) than authors with