Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, New Hyde Park, NY.
Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, New Hyde Park, NY.
Ann Emerg Med. 2022 Feb;79(2):187-195. doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2021.08.008. Epub 2021 Oct 2.
The objective of this study was to describe the proportion of female authors on original research articles and editorials across 4 emergency medicine journals from 2013 to 2019. A secondary objective was to examine the gender composition of middle authors in relation to the genders of their respective first and last authors.
In this observational study, we selected 4 journals in emergency medicine using the Journal of Citation Reports and prior literature to analyze genders of all authors from research articles and editorials published from January 2013 to September 2019. Reviewers identified author genders through web searches with matching academic qualifications or used a gender identification application programming interface to identify likelihood of male or female identity. The primary outcome was the proportion of female authors in each position.
Selected publications included 2,980 original research articles with 18,224 authors (median 6, interquartile range [IQR] 4 to 8) and 433 editorials with 986 authors (median 2, IQR 1 to 2). Women occupied 34.9%, 24.3%, and 36.5% of first, last, and middle author positions on original research articles and 23.8%, 20.5%, and 34.2% of first, last, and middle author positions among editorials, respectively. Publications with female first and last authors (n=340 articles) had a larger proportion of female middle authors (49%, 634/1,290) compared to publications with male first and last authors (n=1667 articles, female middle authors 33% [2,215/6,771]).
Over the 7 years examined, female authorship in these emergency medicine journals increased. A more pronounced gender gap exists in editorial authorship compared to research articles. On publications where the first and last author were women, a higher proportion of middle authors were women.
本研究旨在描述 2013 年至 2019 年间 4 种急诊医学期刊原始研究文章和社论中女性作者的比例。次要目的是检查中间作者的性别构成与第一作者和最后作者的性别之间的关系。
在这项观察性研究中，我们使用期刊引文报告和先前的文献从 2013 年 1 月至 2019 年 9 月发表的研究文章和社论中选择了 4 种急诊医学期刊，分析了所有作者的性别。评审员通过与学术资格匹配的网络搜索或使用性别识别应用程序接口来识别作者的性别，以确定男性或女性身份的可能性。主要结果是每个职位的女性作者比例。
入选的出版物包括 2980 篇原始研究文章，作者 18224 人（中位数 6，四分位距[IQR] 4 至 8）和 433 篇社论，作者 986 人（中位数 2，IQR 1 至 2）。女性分别占原始研究文章第一、最后和中间作者位置的 34.9%、24.3%和 36.5%，以及社论的第一、最后和中间作者位置的 23.8%、20.5%和 34.2%。有女性第一和最后作者的出版物（n=340 篇）的女性中间作者比例较大（49%，1290/2660），而有男性第一和最后作者的出版物（n=1667 篇）的女性中间作者比例较小（33%，2215/6771）。
在研究期间的 7 年中，这些急诊医学期刊的女性作者人数有所增加。社论作者的性别差距比研究文章更为明显。在第一作者和最后作者为女性的出版物中，女性中间作者的比例较高。
