Australian Clinician-Scientist Research Metrics Linked to Medical Registration Data

A dataset of 15,933 Australian medical practitioners identified as research-active clinician-scientists, derived from 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 data was created by Alicia Feldman and last updated on 2026-04-30.

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution and scale of clinician research activity based on linked registration and publication data.
• Study research collaboration and equity within the clinician-scientist workforce based on disaggregated demographic and professional variables.
• Model clinician-scientist career pathways and support needs based on research output metrics and professional registration categories.
• Inform data-driven health research policy and investment based on quantified national-level research contributions.

Strengths

• Covers the full population of 134,701 practising Australian medical practitioners, providing a national-scale view.
• Identifies 15,933 (11.83%) clinician-scientists with verified research metrics from Scopus.
• Supports disaggregated analysis by key demographic, professional, and institutional variables as mentioned in the description.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the final linked dataset is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is specific to one national jurisdiction (Australia), which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

National medical registration data 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