Is authorship by women in Brazilian academic surgery increasing? A five-year retrospective analysis.

Autor:	Graner M; School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil., Buda AM; Harvard Medical School-Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Boston, MA, United States of America., Moura CB; Faculdade de Saúde e Ecologia Humana, Vespasiano, MG, Brazil., Campos L; Faculty of Medical Sciences Universidade de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil., Faria I; Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil., Truche P; Harvard Medical School-Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Boston, MA, United States of America., Botelho F; Harvey E. Beardmore Division of Pediatric Surgery, Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal, Canada., Pompermaier L; Harvard Medical School-Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Boston, MA, United States of America., Gil Alves Guilloux A; School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil., Bowder AN; Harvard Medical School-Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Boston, MA, United States of America., Ferreira J; Harvey E. Beardmore Division of Pediatric Surgery, Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal, Canada.; McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	PLOS global public health [PLOS Glob Public Health] 2022 Apr 27; Vol. 2 (4), pp. e0000294. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Apr 27 (Print Publication: 2022).
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pgph.0000294
Abstrakt:	Women remain underrepresented in 80% of Brazilian surgical specialties, however, women representation within the Brazilian academic surgical literature remains unknown. This study aims to evaluate the gender distribution of first and last authors in Brazilian surgical journals. All publications between 2015 and 2019 from the five Brazilian surgical journals with the highest impact factor were reviewed. The first and last authors' names were extracted from each article and a predictive algorithm was used to classify the gender of each author. Authors were further classified by surgical field and geographic region to investigate patterns of female authorship among journals, specialties, and region over the study period. Multivariable logistic regression was then used to identify factors independently associated with female authorship. 1844 articles were analyzed; 23% (426/1844) articles had female first authors, and 20% (348/1748) had female last authors. Acta Cirúrgica Brasileira was observed to have the highest rates for both first and last female authors (37%, 138/371; 26%, 95/370)) and Revista Brasileira de Ortopedia (9%, 48/542; 10%, 54/522) had the lowest rates. Papers with a woman senior author were twice as likely to have a woman first author (OR 1.98, 95% CI 1.51-2.58, p≤0.01). Women's representation in medicine is increasing in Brazil, yet women remain underrepresented as the first and last authors in the Brazilian surgical literature. Our results highlight the importance of senior women mentorship in academic surgery and demonstrate that promoting female surgeon senior authorship through academic and financial support will positively impact the number of female first authors. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. (Copyright: © 2022 Graner et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
Externí odkaz:	Zobrazit plný text záznamu