Quantifying gender disparity in physician authorship among commentary articles in three high-impact medical journals: an observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Scholarship plays a direct role in career advancement, promotion and authoritative recognition, and women physicians remain under-represented as authors of original research articles.

Objective

We sought to determine if women physician authors are similarly under-represented in commentary articles within high-impact journals.

Design/setting/participants

In this observational study, we abstracted and analysed author information (gender and degree) and authorship position from commentary articles published in three high-impact journals between 1 January 2014 and 16 October 2018.

Primary outcome measure

Authorship rate of commentary articles over a 5-year period by gender, degree, authorship position and journal.

Secondary outcome measures

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SUBMITTER: Mamtani M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7044872 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature