Analysis of Gender-Based Authorship Trends in Leading Pain-Medicine Journals Over 10 Years
Authorship of peer-reviewed publications is important for academic rank, promotion, and national reputation. In pain medicine, limited information is available for authorship trends for women as compared with men. The objective of this study was to describe trends of female authorship data in the 5...
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| author | Natalie Strand Molly Kraus Charlotte Pougnier Audrey Keim Anagha Deshpande Jillian Maloney |
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| description | Authorship of peer-reviewed publications is important for academic rank, promotion, and national reputation. In pain medicine, limited information is available for authorship trends for women as compared with men. The objective of this study was to describe trends of female authorship data in the 5 pain journals with the highest impact factors over a 10-year period. We analyzed data for January, April, and October in 2009, 2014, and 2019. For each article, the following information was recorded: journal name, journal month, journal year, article title or article PMCID, total authors, total female authors, total male authors, total authors of unknown gender, presence or absence of a female first author, and presence or absence of a female last/senior author. Authorship for 924 articles was reviewed. When a man was senior author, women were first author on only 27.9% of articles (*P*\<.001). A woman was 2 times as likely (57.2%) to be first author when a woman was the senior author (*P*\<.001), pointing to the potential impact of female senior authors. An article with 50% or more female authors was 76.4% more likely to have a female senior author (*P*\<.001). The results demonstrate the influence of a senior female author on the likelihood of an article's having a female first author. When men were the senior authors, women were half as likely to be first authors. The total number of female authors changed very little between 2009 and 2019. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-66e0537c90c04d24a0a17c37308e55b42025-02-11T20:30:40ZengOpen Medical PublishingHealth Psychology Research2420-81242022-11-01104Analysis of Gender-Based Authorship Trends in Leading Pain-Medicine Journals Over 10 YearsNatalie StrandMolly KrausCharlotte PougnierAudrey KeimAnagha DeshpandeJillian MaloneyAuthorship of peer-reviewed publications is important for academic rank, promotion, and national reputation. In pain medicine, limited information is available for authorship trends for women as compared with men. The objective of this study was to describe trends of female authorship data in the 5 pain journals with the highest impact factors over a 10-year period. We analyzed data for January, April, and October in 2009, 2014, and 2019. For each article, the following information was recorded: journal name, journal month, journal year, article title or article PMCID, total authors, total female authors, total male authors, total authors of unknown gender, presence or absence of a female first author, and presence or absence of a female last/senior author. Authorship for 924 articles was reviewed. When a man was senior author, women were first author on only 27.9% of articles (*P*\<.001). A woman was 2 times as likely (57.2%) to be first author when a woman was the senior author (*P*\<.001), pointing to the potential impact of female senior authors. An article with 50% or more female authors was 76.4% more likely to have a female senior author (*P*\<.001). The results demonstrate the influence of a senior female author on the likelihood of an article's having a female first author. When men were the senior authors, women were half as likely to be first authors. The total number of female authors changed very little between 2009 and 2019.https://doi.org/10.52965/001c.38356 |
| spellingShingle | Natalie Strand Molly Kraus Charlotte Pougnier Audrey Keim Anagha Deshpande Jillian Maloney Analysis of Gender-Based Authorship Trends in Leading Pain-Medicine Journals Over 10 Years Health Psychology Research |
| title | Analysis of Gender-Based Authorship Trends in Leading Pain-Medicine Journals Over 10 Years |
| title_full | Analysis of Gender-Based Authorship Trends in Leading Pain-Medicine Journals Over 10 Years |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Analysis of Gender-Based Authorship Trends in Leading Pain-Medicine Journals Over 10 Years |
| title_short | Analysis of Gender-Based Authorship Trends in Leading Pain-Medicine Journals Over 10 Years |
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