Gender disparity in critical care publications: a novel Female First Author Index.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Bibliometric analyses show gender bias against women in scientific publications and citations. We hypothesized that a metric of an individual senior author's inclusivity of women as first authors in critical care publications would predict gender inequality.

Methods

Using PubMed and Web of Science, we conducted a bibliometric analysis of original research publications in critical care from 2008 to 2018 in 11 specialty and general journals. Gender for first and senior authors was assigned by a gender determination application, and manually if needed. For all senior authors we defined the novel Female First Author Index (FFA-index) = #Female first authors in publications by an individual senior author/Total # publications by that senior author. We produced a novel i

SUBMITTER: Chary S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8253865 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature