The ARCS tool offers a standardized method to assess residency applicant publications based on authorship effort.
ARCS standardizes residency applicant publication assessment by attempting to capture applicant authorship effort. ARCS implementation may drive residency applicants to focus on higher effort publications, offering a novel solution to the publication "arms race." Automated ARCS scoring for the upcoming "Match" cycle may be calculated using an applicant's last name and publications' PubMed IDs using https://arcscalculator.com .
Bowers et al. (Mon,) studied this question.