Trends in gender of authors of original research in oncology among major medical journals: a retrospective bibliometric study

Autor: Daniel Sánchez, Shing Fung Lee, Chi Leung Chiang, Irene Oi Ling Wong, Bizu Gelaye, Miguel Angel Luque Fernandez, Denise Shuk Ting Cheung, María José Sánchez
Přispěvatelé: [Lee,SF, Chiang,CL] Department of Clinical Oncology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. [Lee,SF, Chiang,CL] Department of Clinical Oncology, Tuen Mun Hospital, Hong Kong. [Redondo Sánchez,D, Sánchez,MJ, Luque Fernandez,MA] Department of Non-­Communicable Disease and Cancer Epidemiology, Instituto de Investigacion Biosanitaria de Granada (ibs.GRANADA), University of Granada, Granada, Spain. [Redondo Sánchez,D, Luque Fernandez,MA] Andalusian School of Public Health, Granada, Spain. [Redondo Sánchez,D, Luque Fernandez,MA] Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain. [Sánchez,MJ] Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Granada, Granada, Spain. [Gelaye,B, Luque Fernandez,MA] Department of Epidemiology, Harvard University T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. [Gelaye,B] Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. [Wong,IOL] School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. [Cheung,DST] School of Nursing, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. [Luque Fernandez,MA] Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK., MALF was supported by the Spanish National Health Institute Carlos III (Instituto de Salud Carlos III - ISCIII), Miguel Servet-I Investigator Grant/Award Number CP17/ 00206-EU-FEDER.
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Male
Health Care::Environment and Public Health::Public Health::Epidemiologic Factors::Reproductive History::Parity [Medical Subject Headings]
Analytical
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment::Investigative Techniques::Epidemiologic Methods::Epidemiologic Study Characteristics as Topic::Epidemiologic Studies::Case-Control Studies::Retrospective Studies [Medical Subject Headings]
Epidemiology
statistics & research methods
Medical Oncology
Disciplines and Occupations::Health Occupations::Medicine::Internal Medicine::Medical Oncology [Medical Subject Headings]
Organisms::Eukaryota::Animals::Chordata::Vertebrates::Mammals::Primates::Haplorhini::Catarrhini::Hominidae::Humans [Medical Subject Headings]
Paridad
Medicine
Oncólogos
Oncologists
General Medicine
Oncología médica
Parity
Oncology
Information Science::Information Science::Communications Media::Publications::Bibliography as Topic::Bibliometrics [Medical Subject Headings]
epidemiology
Female
Periodicals as Topic
medicine.medical_specialty
Estudios de género
Check Tags::Male [Medical Subject Headings]
Original research
Bibliometric
Information Science::Information Science::Communications Media::Publications::Serial Publications::Periodicals as Topic [Medical Subject Headings]
Information Science::Information Science::Communication::Language::Language Arts::Writing::Authorship [Medical Subject Headings]
Analytical
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment::Investigative Techniques::Epidemiologic Methods::Data Collection::Vital Statistics::Morbidity::Incidence [Medical Subject Headings]
Bibliometría
Humans
Statistics & research methods
Retrospective Studies
National health
business.industry
Gender
Authorship
Adult oncology
Check Tags::Female [Medical Subject Headings]
Bibliometrics
Family medicine
adult oncology
Autoria
Information Science::Information Science::Information Storage and Retrieval::Databases as Topic::Databases
Bibliographic::PubMed [Medical Subject Headings]
business
Disciplines and Occupations::Natural Science Disciplines::Science::Research::Biomedical Research::Outcome Assessment (Health Care) [Medical Subject Headings]
Zdroj: Digibug. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Granada
instname
BMJ Open
BMJ Open, Vol 11, Iss 10 (2021)
ISSN: 2044-6055
Popis: MALF was supported by the Spanish National Health Institute Carlos III (Instituto de Salud Carlos III -ISCIII), Miguel Servet--I Investigator Grant/Award Number CP17/00206--EU--FEDER.
Objective We evaluated the temporal trend in gender ratios of first and last authors in the field of oncological research published in major general medical and oncology journals and examined the gender pattern in coauthorship. Design We conducted a retrospective study in PubMed using the R package RISmed. We retrieved original research articles published in four general medical journals and six oncology specialty journals. These journals were selected based on their impact factors and popularity among oncologists. We identified the names of first and last authors from 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2019. The gender of the authors was identified and validated using the Gender API database (https:// gender-​api. com/). Primary and secondary outcome measures The percentages of first and last authors by gender and the gender ratios (male to female) and temporal trends in gender ratios of first and last authors were determined. Results We identified 34 624 research articles, in which 32 452 had the gender of both first and last authors identified. Among these 11 650 (33.6%) had women as the first author and 7908 (22.8%) as the last author, respectively. The proportion of female first and last authors increased from 26.6% and 16.2% in 2002, to 32.9% and 27.5% in 2019, respectively. However, the gender ratio (male to female) of first and last authors decreased by 1.5% and 2.6% per year, respectively, which were statistically significant (first author: incidence rate ratio (IRR) 0.98, 95% CI 0.97 to 1.00; last author: IRR 0.97, 95% CI 0.96 to 0.99). Male first and last authorship was the most common combination. Male–female and female– female pairs increased by 2.0% and 5.0%, respectively (IRR 1.02, 95% CI 1.01 to 1.03 and IRR 1.05, 95% CI 1.04 to 1.06, respectively). Conclusions The continued under-representation of women means that more efforts to address parity for advancement of women in academic oncology are needed.
Spanish National Health Institute Carlos III (Instituto de Salud Carlos III -ISCIII) CP17/00206--EU--FEDER
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