Gender-specific analysis of the authors and the editorial board of Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology from 2000 to 2020.

ABSTRACT: Motivated by the worldwide debate on gender equality, we analyzed the gender structure of the authors and the editorial board of Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology. We wrote an algorithm to assign authors' first names to a gender to determine the gender distribution of publications. We evaluated publications from German research institutes from 2000 to 2020. This resulted in a data set of 2929 authors. We could assign a first name to almost all authors. The percentage of female authors increased until 2008, but thereafter stagnated at around 30%. The position of senior author is far less often held by women (around 15%). Even though multiple political measures were implemented to increase the female participation, our analysis has shown no increase regardless. We also observed

SUBMITTER: Zehetbauer R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8497184 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature