Gender differences and cooperation in medical authorships - an analysis of the recent ten years in five key medical disciplines.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Career prospects in academic medicine are strongly linked to scientific authorship and this marker has been widely used as an indicator of gender equity in academia. However, direct comparisons of medical disciplines regarding their proportion of female physicians (FP) in different countries are missing. This study examines the gender parity and gender cooperation using first authorships (FA) and senior authorships (SA) of scientific publications in five medical disciplines and six different OECD countries over a 10-year time-trend.

Methods

Articles from three high-impact journals in each of the medical discipline radiology, urology, surgery, gynecology, and pediatrics from the years 2007/8 and 2017/18 were retrospectively reviewed. The gender and affiliation loca

SUBMITTER: Yamamura J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9883917 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature