Center for Quantitative Health, Division of Clinical Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
Biol Psychiatry. 2019 Oct 15;86(8):639-646. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.02.010. Epub 2019 Feb 19.
Women are currently underrepresented in academic psychiatry. As publication activity reflects both leadership and participation in academia, we examined temporal trends in women's authorship by conducting a large-scale bibliometric study of psychiatry journals.
We examined changes in proportions of women in the first, last, and overall authorship positions over time; relationship to journal impact factor and editorial board makeup; and rates of transition to senior author status using original research articles published in the 24 highest-impact psychiatry journals between January 2008 and May 2018.
In 30,934 articles, women represented 40.0% of all authors in 2008 and 44.8% in 2018, with a significant increase in the percentage of women as first authors (2008: 43.5%, 2018: 49.5%; B = 0.64, p = .002) and last authors over time (2008: 30.0%, 2018: 35.7%; B = 0.64, p = 1 × 10). Articles with women as last authors were significantly more likely than those with men as last authors to have a woman as first author (χ = 126.1, p < 2.2 × 10). Women exhibited slower rates of transition to the last author position (log rank p = 2 × 10); time to 10% transition was 5 years for men and 9 years for women.
These results indicate continued improvement in the representation of women authors in psychiatry journals, resulting in near parity in first authors. However, slower rates of transition to the senior author position and continued underrepresentation of women as senior authors suggest ongoing challenges in achieving gender parity in academic leadership. At the present rate of change for last authors (0.64% increase per year), women would achieve parity in senior authorship in ∼20 to 25 years.
女性在学术精神病学领域的代表性不足。由于出版活动反映了领导力和参与度，我们通过对精神病学期刊进行大规模的文献计量学研究，考察了女性作者的时间趋势。
我们考察了女性在第一作者、最后作者和总作者位置的比例随时间的变化；与期刊影响因子和编辑委员会组成的关系；以及使用 2008 年 1 月至 2018 年 5 月期间在 24 种最具影响力的精神病学期刊上发表的原始研究文章，评估女性向资深作者地位转变的速度。
在 30934 篇文章中，女性在 2008 年占所有作者的 40.0%，在 2018 年占 44.8%，第一作者和最后作者中女性的比例显著增加（2008 年：43.5%，2018 年：49.5%；B = 0.64，p =.002），随着时间的推移，最后作者中女性的比例也在增加（2008 年：30.0%，2018 年：35.7%；B = 0.64，p = 1 × 10）。最后作者为女性的文章比最后作者为男性的文章更有可能有女性作为第一作者（χ = 126.1，p < 2.2 × 10）。女性向最后作者位置转变的速度较慢（对数秩检验 p = 2 × 10）；男性达到 10%转变的时间为 5 年，女性为 9 年。
这些结果表明，女性作者在精神病学期刊中的代表性持续改善，第一作者几乎达到了平等。然而，向资深作者地位转变的速度较慢，以及女性作为资深作者的代表性不足表明，在学术领导力方面实现性别平等仍然存在挑战。以目前最后作者的变化速度（每年增加 0.64%），女性在大约 20 到 25 年内将在资深作者中实现平等。
