| Autor: |
Bourgeois JP; Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, 200 Westboro Road, North Grafton, MA 01583 USA., Fortier K; Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, 200 Westboro Road, North Grafton, MA 01583 USA., Frank N; Mississippi State University, PO Box 6100, Mississippi State, MS 39762 USA. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Journal of veterinary medical education [J Vet Med Educ] 2024 Sep 02, pp. e20240022. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Sep 02. |
| DOI: |
10.3138/jvme-2024-0022 |
| Abstrakt: |
The gender distribution of authors in the health sciences literature has been well documented. We explored whether this distribution persists among library course reserves for a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program, as course reserves are veterinary faculty members' own teaching materials. Such a bibliometric analysis of course reserves provides a novel method of examining curricular materials. In the Fall of 2022, researchers collected the library's current course reserve metadata, including fields, such as author names and material types. Binary gender was determined based on a variety of sources: traditional naming conventions, gender presentation in photographs, pronouns in signatures, and biographies. Of the 167 exported authors, 162 were included for further analysis in SPSS. Course reserves' authors were analyzed by collaborators and media type. The dichotomous gender distribution of first authors was 76% male/ 24% female. Female first authors were more likely to have collaborators than male first authors (39% vs 26%). When collaborations did occur, first and second authors had the same gender at a significantly higher rate. Exploring author gender across material type, we found that generally, the first author gender ratio remained 3 males to every female. Contextualizing these results in the framework of contemporary health sciences literature, we found that the gender disparities in course reserves to be unsurprising, while still disappointing. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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