A bibliometric analysis of the gender gap in the authorship of leading medical journals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Monitoring gender representation is critical to achieve diversity and equity in academia. One way to evaluate gender representation in academia is to examine the authorship of research publications. This study sought to determine the gender of first and senior authors of articles in leading medical journals and assess trends in the gender gap over time.

Methods

We gather bibliometric data on original research articles (n = 10,558) published in 2010-2019 in five leading medical journals to audit publication and citation frequency by gender. We explored their association with scientific fields, geographical regions, journals, and collaboration scope.

Results

We show that there are fewer women as senior (24.8%) than leading authors (34.5%, p < 0.001). The prop

SUBMITTER: Bruck O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10713825 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature