From the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School; the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Hand Surgery, University of Amsterdam; the Division of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery, Radboud University, Nijmegen Medical Center; the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Erasmus University; and the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Medisch Spectrum Twente.
Plast Reconstr Surg. 2019 Oct;144(4):1010-1016. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000006076.
Professional advancement in academic plastic surgery may depend on scholarly activity. The authors evaluate gender-based publishing characteristics in three international plastic surgery journals.
A retrospective review of all articles published in 2016 in the following journals was undertaken: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, European Journal of Plastic Surgery, Annals of Surgery, and New England Journal of Medicine. Data were collected on lead author gender (first or senior author) and differences in author gender proportions, by journal, by article topic, and by geographic location were evaluated.
Overall, 2610 articles were retrieved: 34.1 percent were from plastic surgery journals, 12.8 percent were from the Annals of Surgery, and 53.1 percent were from the New England Journal of Medicine. There was a lower proportion of female lead authors among plastic surgery journals compared with the Annals of Surgery and the New England Journal of Medicine (31 percent versus 39 percent versus 39 percent; p = 0.001). There were no differences in female lead author geographic location in the Annals of Surgery or the New England Journal of Medicine; within the plastic surgery journals, there were differences (p = 0.005), including a lower proportion arising from East Asia (15 percent) and a higher proportion arising from Canada (48 percent). Within plastic surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery had the lowest proportion of female lead author (p < 0.001). The proportion of female lead author varied by article topic (p < 0.001) and was notably higher in breast (45.6 percent) and lower in head and neck/craniofacial-orientated articles (25.0 percent).
There are gender disparities in three mainstream plastic surgery journals-Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, the European Journal of Plastic Surgery-and there are lower proportions of lead female authorship compared with the Annals of Surgery and the New England Journal of Medicine. Further research should focus on understanding any geographic disparities that may exist.
学术整形外科学术进展可能取决于学术活动。作者评估了三本国际整形外科学杂志中基于性别的出版特点。
对以下杂志 2016 年发表的所有文章进行回顾性回顾：《整形与重建外科杂志》、《整形、重建与美容外科杂志》、《欧洲整形外科学杂志》、《外科学年鉴》和《新英格兰医学杂志》。收集了主编性别（第一作者或资深作者）以及期刊、文章主题和地理位置上作者性别比例的差异。
共检索到 2610 篇文章：34.1%来自整形外科学杂志，12.8%来自《外科学年鉴》，53.1%来自《新英格兰医学杂志》。与《外科学年鉴》和《新英格兰医学杂志》相比，整形外科学杂志的女性主编比例较低（31%对 39%对 39%；p=0.001）。《外科学年鉴》和《新英格兰医学杂志》中女性主编的地理位置没有差异；在整形外科学杂志中存在差异（p=0.005），包括东亚的比例较低（15%）和加拿大的比例较高（48%）。在整形外科学中，《整形与重建外科杂志》的女性主编比例最低（p<0.001）。文章主题的女性主编比例存在差异（p<0.001），乳房相关文章（45.6%）明显高于头颈部/颅面相关文章（25.0%）。
在三本主流整形外科学杂志——《整形与重建外科杂志》、《整形、重建与美容外科杂志》和《欧洲整形外科学杂志》中存在性别差异，与《外科学年鉴》和《新英格兰医学杂志》相比，女性主导作者的比例较低。进一步的研究应侧重于了解可能存在的任何地理差异。
