Trends in gender of authors of original research in oncology among major medical journals: a retrospective bibliometric study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We evaluated the temporal trend in gender ratios of first and last authors in the field of oncological research published in major general medical and oncology journals and examined the gender pattern in coauthorship.

Design

We conducted a retrospective study in PubMed using the R package RISmed. We retrieved original research articles published in four general medical journals and six oncology specialty journals. These journals were selected based on their impact factors and popularity among oncologists. We identified the names of first and last authors from 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2019. The gender of the authors was identified and validated using the Gender API database (https://gender-api.com/).

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The percentages

SUBMITTER: Lee SF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8524267 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature