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Recent literature suggests that research productivity, measured by total and first-author publications, is associated with matching at a higher-tier integrated plastic surgery residency program. 1 There is much attention from medical students and programs about which applicant characteristics support a successful match at top plastic surgery programs. Advisors and mentors instinctively recommend to students that higher levels of research productivity are more favorable, and recent data support these assertions. 1–3 Students seeking a competitive edge in the match can bolster their applications with scholarly activity, especially with the United States Medical Licensing Examination step 1 examination transitioning to a binary pass/fail reporting system. 2 This trend was evident in “Charting Outcomes in the Match, 2020,” which showed a significant difference in research productivity between matched (19 items) versus …