Examining the Gender Gap in Emergency Medicine Research Publications - 19/01/22
, Kate Van Loveren, BS a, Dana Gottlieb, MD a, b, Martina Brave, BA a, Jesse Loman, MD a, Layne Weinman, MD a, Nancy Kwon, MD, MPA a, bAbstract |
Study objective |
The objective of this study was to describe the proportion of female authors on original research articles and editorials across 4 emergency medicine journals from 2013 to 2019. A secondary objective was to examine the gender composition of middle authors in relation to the genders of their respective first and last authors.
Methods |
In this observational study, we selected 4 journals in emergency medicine using the Journal of Citation Reports and prior literature to analyze genders of all authors from research articles and editorials published from January 2013 to September 2019. Reviewers identified author genders through web searches with matching academic qualifications or used a gender identification application programming interface to identify likelihood of male or female identity. The primary outcome was the proportion of female authors in each position.
Results |
Selected publications included 2,980 original research articles with 18,224 authors (median 6, interquartile range [IQR] 4 to 8) and 433 editorials with 986 authors (median 2, IQR 1 to 2). Women occupied 34.9%, 24.3%, and 36.5% of first, last, and middle author positions on original research articles and 23.8%, 20.5%, and 34.2% of first, last, and middle author positions among editorials, respectively. Publications with female first and last authors (n=340 articles) had a larger proportion of female middle authors (49%, 634/1,290) compared to publications with male first and last authors (n=1667 articles, female middle authors 33% [2,215/6,771]).
Conclusion |
Over the 7 years examined, female authorship in these emergency medicine journals increased. A more pronounced gender gap exists in editorial authorship compared to research articles. On publications where the first and last author were women, a higher proportion of middle authors were women.
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| Author contributions: SAJ, KVL, MB, and NK are responsible for the concept and design of the study. SAJ and KVL supervised the acquisition of the data. SAJ and KVL offered statistical expertise for the analysis and interpretation of the data. SAJ, KVL, DG, LW, JL, and NK drafted the manuscript and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. SAJ takes responsibility for the paper as a whole. |
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| Presented at the 2020 Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, Denver, CO, May 2020. |
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