Universidad Peruana Los Andes, Sociedad Científica de Estudiantes de Medicina Los Andes (SOCIEMLA), Huancayo, Perú.
Universidad Continental, Sociedad Científica Médico Estudiantil Continental (SOCIMEC), Huancayo, Perú.
Biomedica. 2022 Jun 1;42(2):355-363. doi: 10.7705/biomedica.6120.
Female participation in the field of medicine and research has increased in recent years; however, there are still inequities in the proportion of men and women in medical leadership, especially in management positions and editorial committees of scientific journals.
To identify female participation in the editorial committees of medical journals in Latin America and explore the association with editorial positions and impact indicators.
We conducted a descriptive bibliometric study to determine female participation in the editorial committees of medical & journals in Latin America. We included 113 medical journals published in Latin America and indexed in Scopus, updated and current in 2020, selected from the Scimago Journal Country Rank portal. The gender of editorial committee members was identified on the web pages of each magazine.
Regarding editorial leadership in the 113 journals included, women represented 12.9% of 264 members; as for the functions within the editorial committee, of 1,449 members, 28.9% were women while in advisory committees, of 4,575 members 19.0% were women. The presence of women in editorial committees was higher in journals from Chile, Brazil, and Venezuela in specialties such as public health, pediatrics, and anesthesiology.
Female participation in the editorial committees of medical journals in Latin America is low.
近年来，女性在医学领域和研究中的参与度有所增加；然而，在医学领导中的男女比例仍然存在不平等，尤其是在管理职位和科学期刊的编辑委员会中。
确定拉丁美洲医学期刊编辑委员会中女性的参与情况，并探讨其与编辑职位和影响指标的关联。
我们进行了一项描述性的文献计量学研究，以确定拉丁美洲医学期刊编辑委员会中女性的参与情况。我们纳入了 Scopus 索引的 113 种拉丁美洲医学期刊，这些期刊在 2020 年更新且仍在出版，是从 Scimago 期刊国家排名门户中选择的。每个杂志的网页上都确定了编辑委员会成员的性别。
在纳入的 113 种期刊的编辑领导中，女性占 264 名成员的 12.9%；在编辑委员会的职能方面，1449 名成员中有 28.9%是女性，而在咨询委员会中，4575 名成员中有 19.0%是女性。在智利、巴西和委内瑞拉等国家，女性在公共卫生、儿科和麻醉学等专业的期刊编辑委员会中的存在率较高。
拉丁美洲医学期刊编辑委员会中女性的参与率较低。
