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In 1969 our laboratories described a quantitative method for evaluating academic careers that was based on a concept called parse analysis.¹ With the help of two postdoctoral fellows whose names were negligently omitted from the original report^*, we coaxed the concept of parse into existence in response to the burgeoning problems of multiauthorship of papers and perceived logarithmic differences (PLDs) in the quality of published papers. In its original iteration, parse analysis assigned decimal values to the real contributions of investigators to a multiauthored paper — e.g., 0.04 or 0.37. The rationale was that embarrassingly low parse values — . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Albany Medical College
Albany, NY 12208
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and Audie L. Murphy VA Hospital
San Antonio, TX 78284

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N Engl J Med 1995; 333:602, Aug 31, 1995. Correspondence

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