Australian Clinician-Scientist Research Metrics Linked to Medical Registration Data

15,933 Australian medical practitioners were identified as research-active clinician-scientists by linking national medical registration data with Scopus Author Profiles. The dataset provides verified research metrics for this workforce, enabling analysis by demographic and professional characteristics. The methods were developed by Alicia Feldman and the dataset was last updated on 2026-04-30.

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution and scale of clinician research activity based on linked registration and publication data.
• Profile research impact and collaboration patterns among clinician-scientists based on verified Scopus metrics.
• Investigate equity in research participation across professional registration categories and institutional affiliations mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Dataset covers the full population of 134,701 practising Australian medical practitioners.
• Identifies 15,933 (11.83%) clinician-scientists with verified research metrics.
• Methods support disaggregation by key demographic and professional characteristics.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 21.4 KB, suggesting limited scope or summary-level data.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Data linkage of Australian medical registration data and Scopus Author Profiles.

Collection Method

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

Freshness

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

Geography

Australia (national jurisdiction)