Twenty-Five Years of Progress-Lessons Learned From JMIR Publications to Address Gender Parity in Digital Health Authorships: Bibliometric Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital health research plays a vital role in advancing equitable health care. The diversity of research teams is thereby instrumental in capturing societal challenges, increasing productivity, and reducing bias in algorithms. Despite its importance, the gender distribution within digital health authorship remains largely unexplored.

Objective

This study aimed to investigate the gender distribution among first and last authors in digital health research, thereby identifying predicting factors of female authorship.

Methods

This bibliometric analysis examined the gender distribution across 59,980 publications from 1999 to 2023, spanning 42 digital health journals indexed in the Web of Science. To identify strategies ensuring equality in research, a detailed c

SUBMITTER: Meyer A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11344179 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature