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We examined associations of membership in KF organizations with academic productivity, collaboration, and scientific impact.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We queried the Web of Science database for publications by members of KF Tumor (N = 58), KF Trauma and Infection (N = 45), KF Spinal Cord Injury (N = 38), KF Degenerative (N = 54), and KF Deformity (N = 55). Resulting metadata were exported; statistical and bibliometric analyses were performed using Python packages.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Our query returned 24,267 articles by KF members, of which 18,804 were identified as relevant to respective organizational themes through an algorithmic analysis of titles and abstracts. These works, published between 1980 and 2025, included contributions from 67,895 authors. Research productivity, co-authorship among members (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      &lt; 0.001), unique institutional affiliations per article (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      &lt; 0.001), and international collaboration increased contemporaneously with the first KF formation (2010). A positive association was found between the number of KF authors per publication and source journal impact factor (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\n                      &lt; 0.001). Term analysis highlighted research foci within each KF and influential publications were identified.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>These findings suggest that formalization of researcher relationships and the research infrastructure and support provided by the KF model was associated with increased and more impactful research output and collaboration. The KF model could be applied in other organizations whose mission includes collaborative research. 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