Table 2 Descriptive statistics for the 237 doctoral student-mentor pairs.
Variables | Mean (SD)/no. (%) | Min | Max |
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Doctoral students’ h-index | 4.17 (2.96) | 0.00 | 17.00 |
Doctoral students’ publications | 6.08 (4.46) | 1.00 | 22.00 |
Doctoral students’ yearly citation count | 16.37 (17.93) | 0.00 | 128.78 |
Mentors’ h-index | 18.41 (7.28) | 0.00 | 38.00 |
Mentors’ publications | 62.66 (39.96) | 1.00 | 202.00 |
Mentors’ yearly citation count | 119.13 (109.76) | 0.00 | 731.10 |
Mentors’ fecundity | 44.87 (29.58) | 1.00 | 113.00 |
Degree centrality | 0.64 (0.49) | 0.02 | 3.56 |
Closeness centrality | 1.00 (0.18) | 0.02 | 1.04 |
Betweenness centrality | 0.22 (0.46) | 0.00 | 4.38 |
Doctoral students’ coauthor count | 16.50 (17.22) | 1.00 | 123.00 |
Doctoral students’ coauthorship unit count | 6.86 (6.26) | 0.00 | 43.00 |
Student-mentor coauthorship count | 4.64 (3.91) | 0.00 | 18.00 |
Doctoral students’ partnership ability index | 3.15 (1.81) | 0.00 | 10.00 |
Doctoral students’ training period | 3.64 (0.99) | 3.00 | 10.00 |
Mentors’ tenure | 15.80 (4.71) | 3.00 | 25.00 |
Doctoral students’ subject | 0.00 | 1.00 | |
Clinical medicine | 188 (79.3%) | ||
Basic medicine | 49 (20.7%) | ||
Doctoral students’ university | |||
Army Medical University | 117 (49.4%) | ||
Chongqing Medical University | 120 (50.6%) | ||
Mentors’ title | 0.00 | 1.00 | |
Professor | 233 (98.3%) | ||
Associate professor | 4 (1.7%) |