The impact of gender on early scientific publication and long-term career advancement in Israeli medical school graduates

Table 3 Linear regression: predictors of the number of publications and H-index^a of 405 graduates who published at least once

	Variables	β	95% CI for mean	P value
Overall publication volume	Graduation year	−0.053	− 0.089, − 0.017	0.004
	Female gender	−0.427	− 0.663, − 0.191	< 0.001
	No. of specialties	0.516	0.313, 0.719	< 0.001
	Surgical specialty	0.638	0.392, 0.884	< 0.001
	Early publication	0.434	0.207, 0.662	< 0.001
	Managerial position	0.611	0.355, 0.866	< 0.001
	Adjusted R² = 0.216
H-index	Graduation year	−0.055	−0.080, − 0.029	< 0.001
	Female gender	−0.303	−0.472, − 0.133	0.001
	No. of specialties	0.308	0.140, 0.433	< 0.001
	Surgical specialty	0.350	0.162, 0.453	< 0.001
	Early publication	0.407	0.239, 0.565	< 0.001
	Managerial position	0.330	0.146, 0.510	< 0.001
	Adjusted R² = 0.197

^aOverall publication volume and H-index data were transformed using the natural log

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