Trends in Female Authorship in Major Journals of 3 Oncology Disciplines, 2002-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Gender disparity exists among authors of the oncology literature.

Objective

To quantify trends in authorship by gender within a comprehensive data set of Medline-indexed oncology articles in medical journals with high impact factors.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used Medline citations to examine archives of research journals from 3 disciplines in the oncology literature. Authors from all oncology-related articles with Medical Subject Headings terms assigned from 2002 to 2018 from 13 general oncology/medicine, radiation oncology, and surgical journals were included for analysis, encompassing clinical trials, observational studies (excluding case reports), reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and all other published arti

SUBMITTER: Yalamanchali A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8025110 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature