Authorship Trends Over the Past 30-Years in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering.

ABSTRACT: In academia, manuscripts serve as an important component of career development. The past several years have seen heightened evaluation of the role of the gender gap in career advancement, as well as other bibliometric changes in publications. We therefore analyzed authorship and publication trends in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering over the past three decades (one complete year of manuscripts for each decade; 1986, 1996, 2006, and 2016). The variables analyzed were number of authors per manuscript, numerical position of the corresponding author, number of collaborating institutions and countries, number of references, and number of citations per manuscript. The gender of both the first and corresponding authors was identified and analyzed over time and by region. Globally, the percent

SUBMITTER: Aguilar IN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6456387 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature