Australian Clinician-Scientist Research Metrics from Linked Registration and Scopus Data

A national dataset of 15,933 research-active Australian medical practitioners, representing 11.83% of the registered workforce. The data was created by linking national medical registration records with Scopus Author Profiles to quantify research contributions. Alicia Feldman authored this dataset, which was last updated on April 30, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the distribution and scale of clinician research based on professional registration categories mentioned in the description
• Studying research collaboration and equity patterns based on institutional affiliations and individual variables described
• Quantifying the research impact of clinician-scientists based on verified metrics derived from Scopus profiles
• Supporting policy design for clinician-scientist career pathways based on disaggregated demographic and professional characteristics

Strengths

• Covers the full population of 134,701 practising Australian medical practitioners
• Identifies 15,933 clinician-scientists with verified research metrics
• Enables disaggregation by key demographic, professional, and institutional variables as described

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the Australian jurisdiction

Provenance

Source

Linked data from Australian national medical registration and Scopus Author Profiles

Collection Method

Novel data linkage methods applied to identify clinician-scientists and quantify scholarly contributions

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 05:24:04; freshness should be verified

Geography

Australia