Academic medicine's glass ceiling: Author's gender in top three medical research journals impacts probability of future publication success.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In December 2017, Lancet called for gender inequality investigations. Holding other factors constant, trends over time for significant author (i.e., first, second, last or any of these authors) publications were examined for the three highest-impact medical research journals (i.e., New England Journal of Medicine [NEJM], Journal of the American Medical Association [JAMA], and Lancet).

Materials and methods

Using randomly sampled 2002-2019 MEDLINE original publications (n = 1,080; 20/year/journal), significant author-based and publication-based characteristics were extracted. Gender assignment used internet-based biographies, pronouns, first names, and photographs. Adjusting for author-specific characteristics and multiple publications per author, generalized est

SUBMITTER: Krstacic JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9020717 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature