Peters Alexander W, Savaglio Michael K, Gunderson Zachary J, Adam Gremah, Milto Anthony J, Whipple Elizabeth C, Loder Randall T, Kacena Melissa A
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Ann Med Surg (Lond). 2020 May 24;55:200-206. doi: 10.1016/j.amsu.2020.05.015. eCollection 2020 Jul.
The purpose of this study was to better understand the authorship publishing trends in the field of hand surgery. To accomplish this, a comparative analysis was completed between the European and American volumes of the and over the past three decades. Well-established bibliometric methods were used to examine one representative year from each of the past three decades. The focus of the study was to examine changes in author gender over time as well as to compare authorship trends across the two volumes.
All and publications from 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015 were placed into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Data was collected for each publication including the gender of first and corresponding authors, corresponding author position, corresponding author country of origin, number of credited institutions, authors, printed pages, and references. Countries were grouped by regions.
A total of 450 and 763 manuscripts from and , respectively, met inclusion criteria. and both showed increases in most variables analyzed over time. Both journals showed an increase in female first and corresponding authors. and displayed a rise in collaboration between institutions and countries.
Both and display increasing female inclusion in the hand surgery literature, which has traditionally been a male dominated field. The observed increase in collaboration between institutions and countries is likely linked to advances in technology that allow sharing of information more conveniently and reliably than was previously possible. As further advances are made socially and technologically, hopefully these trends will continue, leading to faster and higher quality research being generated in the field of hand surgery.
本研究的目的是更好地了解手外科领域的作者发表趋势。为实现这一目标，对过去三十年中《[期刊名1]》和《[期刊名2]》的欧美卷进行了比较分析。采用成熟的文献计量方法，对过去三十年中的每一个代表性年份进行研究。该研究的重点是考察作者性别随时间的变化，以及比较两卷之间的作者趋势。
将1985年、1995年、2005年和2015年《[期刊名1]》和《[期刊名2]》的所有出版物录入Microsoft Excel电子表格。收集每篇出版物的数据，包括第一作者和通讯作者的性别、通讯作者职位、通讯作者的原籍国、署名机构数量、作者数量、印刷页数和参考文献。国家按地区分组。
分别有450篇和763篇来自《[期刊名1]》和《[期刊名2]》的手稿符合纳入标准。《[期刊名1]》和《[期刊名2]》在分析的大多数变量上均呈现随时间增加的趋势。两本期刊的女性第一作者和通讯作者数量均有所增加。《[期刊名1]》和《[期刊名2]》在机构和国家之间的合作也有所增加。
《[期刊名1]》和《[期刊名2]》在手外科文献中女性作者的比例均有所增加，而手外科领域传统上一直由男性主导。观察到的机构和国家之间合作的增加可能与技术进步有关，这些技术进步使信息共享比以往更加方便和可靠。随着社会和技术的进一步发展，希望这些趋势将持续下去，从而在手部外科领域产生更快、更高质量的研究成果。
