Academic productivity correlates with industry earnings in foot and ankle fellowship programs in the United States: A retrospective analysis

Table 1 Information on individual physicians who are faculty at foot and ankle orthopedic surgery fellowships in the United States with the top five total life-time earnings

Physician ranking	H-index	Total life-time earnings in USD	Overall payments
1	58	21269249.85	694
2	3	6660954.43	2028
3	21	5215497.93	1293
4	24	4409146.87	591
5	22	3420158.94	903

Information includes H-Index, total life-time earnings, and total-life time payments paid to the individual physician. USD: United States Dollar.

Table 2 Information on foot and ankle orthopedic surgery fellowships in the United States

Fellowship ranking	Total life-time earnings per fellowship	Mean total life-time earnings per physician per fellowship	Total H-index per fellowship	Total life-time earnings per fellowship per h index
1	21274853.70	10637426.85	60	354580.90
2	20016633.67	2859519.10	107	187071.34
3	4553357.43	650479.63	187	24349.50
4	3383361.89	676672.38	53	63837.02
5	2534816.19	1267408.10	57	44470.46
6	2454950.69	818316.90	52	47210.59
7	1971933.15	657311.05	29	67997.69
8	1839321.97	919660.99	11	167211.09
9	1534450.54	306890.11	46	33357.62
10	1473486.49	245581.08	67	21992.34
11	1379087.01	1379087.01	23	59960.30
12	1300744.31	260148.86	94	13837.71
13	1197536.88	598768.44	11	108866.99
14	1018902.47	254725.62	81	12579.04
15	792190.87	132031.81	86	9211.52
16	659032.20	164758.05	53	12434.57
17	637897.63	159474.41	27	23625.84
18	629068.07	314534.04	21	29955.62
19	592739.33	118547.87	75	7903.19
20	504161.78	252080.89	29	17384.89
21	501127.63	100225.53	106	4727.62
22	437773.15	87554.63	165	2653.17
23	397822.34	132607.45	25	15912.89
24	376893.59	125631.20	36	10469.27
25	341956.88	68391.38	58	5895.81
26	333624.90	111208.30	11	30329.54
27	270203.44	90067.81	19	14221.23
28	261673.77	87224.59	101	2590.83
29	257580.01	85860.00	30	8586.00
30	230313.03	57578.26	24	9596.38
31	192293.20	48073.30	35	5494.09
32	170156.75	42539.19	91	1869.85
33	132455.07	66227.54	46	2879.46
34	117478.39	39159.46	36	3263.29
35	95286.89	15881.15	91	1047.11
36	87086.03	21771.51	15	5805.74
37	78504.91	39252.46	24	3271.04
38	76441.36	38220.68	29	2635.91
39	75612.14	25204.05	11	6873.83
40	61503.60	15375.90	34	1808.93
41	58786.54	58786.54	9	6531.84
42	42676.26	10669.07	36	1185.45
43	40725.72	20362.86	12	3393.81
44	28846.60	28846.60	25	1153.86
45	27864.96	13932.48	46	605.76
46	24067.73	8022.58	19	1266.72
47	10049.69	3349.90	33	304.54
48	8668.93	8668.93	13	666.84

Data are United States Dollar, unless otherwise indicated. Information includes total life-time money made for all physician faculty combined, mean total life-time money made per faculty physician, combined H-index, and mean total life-time money made per combined H-index. Fellowships were ordered by highest total life-time earnings per fellowship.