Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Dept. of Surgery, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Dept. of Surgery, Philadelphia, PA, USA; University of California Los Angeles, Dept. of Surgery, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Am J Surg. 2022 Jan;223(1):47-52. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2021.07.038. Epub 2021 Jul 24.
Women account for 19 % of practicing surgeons in the United States, with representation decreasing with higher academic rank. Less is known about the proportion of women in editorial leadership positions at surgical journals. The objective of this study was to examine gender representation among editorial leadership at high-impact surgical journals.
The five journals with the highest impact factors in general, cardiothoracic, plastics, otolaryngology, orthopedics, urology, vascular, and neurosurgery were identified. Data were abstracted on the proportion of women editors-in-chief (EIC) and editorial board members between 2010 and 2020 to determine how these demographics changed over time.
Multiple fields had no women EIC over the past decade (orthopedics, urology, cardiothoracic, neurosurgery). In all other fields, women were a minority of EIC. In 2020, women made up 7.9 % of EIC and 11.1 % of editorial boards in surgical journals.
Women remain under-represented among leadership at high-impact surgical journals, with varying improvement over the past decade among different subspecialties.
在美国，女性占执业外科医生的 19%，随着学术职称的提高，女性的比例呈下降趋势。关于外科期刊编辑领导层中的女性比例，人们知之甚少。本研究的目的是调查高影响力外科期刊编辑领导层中的性别代表性。
确定了普通外科、心胸外科、整形外科、耳鼻喉科、骨科、泌尿科、血管外科和神经外科五个影响因子最高的期刊。在 2010 年至 2020 年期间，对女性主编 (EIC) 和编委会成员的比例进行了数据分析，以确定这些数据在过去十年中是如何变化的。
在过去的十年中，多个领域没有女性 EIC（骨科、泌尿科、心胸外科、神经外科）。在其他所有领域，女性都是少数 EIC。2020 年，女性在外科期刊的 EIC 中占 7.9%，在编委会中占 11.1%。
在高影响力的外科期刊领导层中，女性的代表性仍然不足，在过去十年中，不同专业领域都有所改善。
