Vural Sevilay, Sayılan Gülden, Şentürk Bihter, Yılmaz Mehmet Birhan, Çoşkun Figen
Yozgat Bozok University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yozgat, Turkey.
Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Ankara, Turkey.
Am J Emerg Med. 2021 Dec;50:501-506. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2021.09.003. Epub 2021 Sep 4.
The primary aim was to determine women's representation as authors in emergency medicine journals in various authorship positions over the last 20 years. The secondary aim was to compare the two decades to analyze the development over time.
We conducted a retrospective bibliometric analysis of three emergency medicine journals from the online archives of 2000-2019.
We analyzed a total of 7939 original research and review articles. Female authorships at the first (25,8%), last (18,7%), and corresponding (21,6%) positions were limited, despite the relatively high presence rate (72,5%). Women authored 13,1% of all single-authored publications. When the number of authors increased, the odds for women as co-authors increased. However, the odds for last and corresponding authorship decreased, while the odds for the first authorship remained unchanged. When two decades were compared, we found that proportions of women as first and corresponding authorship increased ([23,8% vs. 27,0%] p = 0.001 and [20,0% vs. 22,6%] p = 0.228, respectively) while the representation as the last author remained unchanged ([19,4% vs 18,3%] p = 0.006). The presence of women in any authorship position also increased significantly ([66,1% vs. 76,5%] p = 0.000) across two decades, with similar trends for the different journals studied. However, the yearly analysis shows that women's representation follows a fluctuating pattern with a minimal increase. When analyzing specific journals, we found that the increase in female authors as first and corresponding authors was limited to Academic Emergency Medicine ([24,7% vs 34,5%] p = 0.000 and [21,4% vs 32,1%] p = 0.000).
Results of this study are promising in showing that the representation of women in emergency medicine publications is rising during the recent decade. Although the academic gender gap has not been closed, steps taken for gender equality in academic emergency medicine are clearly notable.
主要目的是确定在过去20年里，女性在急诊医学期刊中担任不同作者身份的比例。次要目的是比较这两个十年，以分析随时间的发展情况。
我们对2000 - 2019年在线存档的三种急诊医学期刊进行了回顾性文献计量分析。
我们共分析了7939篇原创研究和综述文章。尽管女性作者的总体占比相对较高（72.5%），但在第一作者（25.8%）、最后作者（18.7%）和通讯作者（21.6%）位置上的女性作者比例有限。女性撰写了所有单篇作者出版物的13.1%。当作者数量增加时，女性作为共同作者的几率增加。然而，最后作者和通讯作者的几率下降，而第一作者的几率保持不变。比较两个十年时，我们发现女性作为第一作者和通讯作者的比例有所增加（分别为[23.8%对27.0%]，p = 0.001和[20.0%对22.6%]，p = 0.228），而作为最后作者的比例保持不变（[19.4%对18.3%]，p = 0.006）。在两个十年中，女性在任何作者身份位置上的占比也显著增加（[66.1%对76.5%]，p = 0.000），在所研究的不同期刊中趋势相似。然而，年度分析表明，女性的占比呈现出波动模式，增长幅度极小。在分析特定期刊时，我们发现女性作为第一作者和通讯作者的增加仅限于《学术急诊医学》（分别为[24.7%对34.5%]，p = 0.000和[21.4%对32.1%]，p = 0.000）。
本研究结果表明，近十年来女性在急诊医学出版物中的占比在上升，这是令人鼓舞的。虽然学术领域的性别差距尚未消除，但在学术急诊医学中为实现性别平等所采取的措施显然值得关注。
