Uncovering gaps in women's authorship: A big data analysis in academic surgery.

Autor: Freire CVS; Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil., Campos LN; Harvard Medical School, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.; Faculty of Medical Sciences, Universidade de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil., Rangel AG; Harvard Medical School, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.; Faculty of Medical Sciences, Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina.; Harvey E. Beardmore Division of Pediatric Surgery, The Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.; McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada., Naus A; Harvard Medical School, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Boston, Massachusetts, USA., Wagemaker S; Kursk State Medical University, School of Medicine, Kursk, Kurskaya Oblast, Russia., Brandão GR; Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil., Schlindwein SS; Universidade Regional de Blumenau, Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil., Feres B; Kursk State Medical University, School of Medicine, Kursk, Kurskaya Oblast, Russia., de Araújo Grisi G; Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil., Mooney DP; Harvard Medical School, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.; Department of Pediatric Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA., Ferreira JL; Harvey E. Beardmore Division of Pediatric Surgery, The Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.; McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada., Ferreira R; Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.; Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: World journal of surgery [World J Surg] 2024 Jun 23. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jun 23.
DOI: 10.1002/wjs.12256
Abstrakt: Introduction: Women are underrepresented in surgical authorship. Using big data analyses, we aimed to investigate women's representation as first and last authors in surgical publications worldwide and identify underlying predictors.
Methods: We retrieved eligible surgical journals using Scimago Journal & Country Rank 2021. We queried articles indexed in PubMed from selected journals published between January 2018 and April 2022. We used the EDirect tool to extract bibliometric data, including first and last authors' names, primary affiliation country, and publication year. Countries and dependent territories were classified following World Bank income levels and regions. Women's representation was predicted from forenames using the Gender-API software. Citations were included if gender accuracy was ≥80%.
Results: We analyzed 210,853 citations containing both first and last authors' forenames, representing 158 countries and 14 territories. Women constituted 23.8% (50,161/210,853) of the first and 14.7% (31,069/210,853) of the last authors. High-income economies had more women as first authors than other income categories (p < 0.001), but fewer women as last authors than upper-middle- and lower-middle-income economies (p < 0.001). The odds of the first author being a woman were more than three times higher when the last author was also a woman (OR 3.21, 95% CI 3.13-3.30) and vice versa (OR 3.25, 95% CI 3.16-3.34) after adjusting for income level and publication year.
Conclusions: Women remain globally underrepresented in surgical authorship. Our findings urge concerted global efforts to overcome identified disparities.
(© 2024 International Society of Surgery/Société Internationale de Chirurgie (ISS/SIC).)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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