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Publishing on a Shoestring: Understanding Barriers, Challenges, and Unique Opportunities to Academic Productivity in Psychiatry

Authors: Carrie Tamarelli, Jennifer Baumhauer, Bailey Fay, Nasuh Malas, Heather Schultz

Published in: Current Psychiatry Reports | Issue 8/2023

Abstract

Purpose of Review

Clinical track faculty within psychiatry may struggle to meet goals for academic scholarship, particularly publishing. In this review, we explore potential barriers to publication and solutions to support early career psychiatrists.

Recent Findings

Current evidence highlights challenges for faculty throughout academic practice, including barriers at the individual and systems levels. Within psychiatry, publication has favored biological studies with significant gaps in the literature serving as both an opportunity and challenge. Interventions underscore the importance of mentorship and propose incentivization to facilitate academic scholarship among clinical track faculty.

Summary

Barriers to publication within psychiatry exist at the level of the individual, system, and field itself. This review shares potential solutions from across the medical literature and an example of an intervention from our own department. More studies are needed within the field of psychiatry to understand how to best support early career faculty members in their academic productivity, growth, and development.

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Title: Publishing on a Shoestring: Understanding Barriers, Challenges, and Unique Opportunities to Academic Productivity in Psychiatry
Authors: Carrie Tamarelli
Jennifer Baumhauer
Bailey Fay
Nasuh Malas
Heather Schultz
Publication date: 03-07-2023
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Current Psychiatry Reports / Issue 8/2023
Print ISSN: 1523-3812
Electronic ISSN: 1535-1645
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-023-01433-9

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