Güven Health Group, Ankara, Turkey.
Department of Cardiology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
Turk Kardiyol Dern Ars. 2022 Sep;50(6):438-444. doi: 10.5543/tkda.2022.22322.
Despite efforts spent on promotion of gender equity in the academia, the gender gap is feared to have widened after the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Herein, we aimed to compare the distribution of female authorship by Turkish adult cardiologists in journals indexed at PubMed before and after the pandemic.
In this cross-sectional study, an advanced search on PubMed (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) was carried out based on the following criteria: "entrez date" and keywords "Turkey" and "cardiology" to identify papers that entered the online database in April-September 2019 and April-September 2020. After the study sample was determined, type of the article and details of the author list were recorded.
Of 1318 articles screened, 708 met the inclusion criteria. Overall, 85 (12.0%) of first authors and 67 (10.0%) of senior authors were female. Females were less likely to first author original articles, editorials, case reports/series and papers with international participation (9.5%, P = .012; 33.3%, P = .045; 18.3%, P = .033; 4.8%, P = .032, respectively). A higher proportion of females were in first and corresponding author positions in original articles (73.2%, P = .032; 76.5%, P = .019, respectively), but not in other article types (all P > .05), after emergence of the pandemic.
These suggest that significant gender differences exist with regard to authorships of scientific publications that were submitted by Turkish adult cardiologists. Future studies may aim to evaluate the trends across a wider time span and based on a more extensive scientific output follow-up.
尽管学术界一直在努力推动性别平等，但人们担心，2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行后，性别差距可能会扩大。在此，我们旨在比较在 COVID-19 大流行之前和之后，在 PubMed 中索引的期刊上，土耳其成人心脏病学家的女性作者比例分布。
在这项横断面研究中，我们在 PubMed（https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/）上进行了高级搜索，使用以下标准：“进入日期”和关键字“土耳其”和“心脏病学”，以确定在 2019 年 4 月至 9 月和 2020 年 4 月至 9 月期间进入在线数据库的论文。在确定研究样本后，记录文章类型和作者列表的详细信息。
在筛选出的 1318 篇文章中，有 708 篇符合纳入标准。总体而言，85（12.0%）位第一作者和 67（10.0%）位资深作者为女性。女性更不可能成为原始文章、社论、病例报告/系列和具有国际参与的论文的第一作者（9.5%，P=.012；33.3%，P=.045；18.3%，P=.033；4.8%，P=.032，分别）。在大流行出现后，更多的女性处于原始文章的第一作者和通讯作者位置（73.2%，P=.032；76.5%，P=.019，分别），但在其他文章类型中则不然（所有 P>.05）。
这些结果表明，土耳其成人心脏病学家提交的科学出版物的作者署名存在显著的性别差异。未来的研究可能旨在评估更广泛时间跨度内的趋势，并基于更广泛的科学产出跟踪。
