Batumalai Vikneswary, Kumar Shivani, Sundaresan Puma
GenesisCare, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
J Med Imaging Radiat Oncol. 2023 Mar;67(2):179-184. doi: 10.1111/1754-9485.13492. Epub 2022 Nov 29.
Despite progress of women in science and medicine, women remain underrepresented in academic publication. The aim of this study was to evaluate potential gender differences in women authorship in the Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology (JMIRO).
Gender of the first and senior author of all articles published in JMIRO between 2012 and 2021 were examined. Changes over time and differences among groups were compared using the chi-square test.
In total, 1,138 articles were assessed. Women were first and senior authors on 34% and 25% of all articles respectively. The proportion of women as first author was 30%, 41% and 36% for medical imaging (MI), radiation oncology (RO) and combined MI/RO articles respectively. Similarly, the proportion of women as senior author was lower than men at 22%, 32% and 23% for MI, RO and MI/RO articles respectively. Women first authorship over the study period remained stable from 2014 (36%) to 2020 (38%); however, it decreased dramatically in 2021 to 28%. There was a trend of increasing women senior authorship from 2013 (15%) to 2017 (35%) but decreased to 23% in 2021.
Over the past 10 years of publications, one in three first authors were women and only one in four senior authors were women. The acknowledgement of this imbalance is the first step to pave the way towards addressing underlying systemic issues related to academic publication and disparities in gender and other inequities.
尽管女性在科学和医学领域取得了进步，但在学术出版物中女性的代表性仍然不足。本研究的目的是评估《医学影像与放射肿瘤学杂志》（JMIRO）中女性作者身份的潜在性别差异。
对2012年至2021年在JMIRO上发表的所有文章的第一作者和资深作者的性别进行了审查。使用卡方检验比较随时间的变化和组间差异。
总共评估了1138篇文章。女性分别是所有文章的第一作者和资深作者的比例为34%和25%。在医学影像（MI）、放射肿瘤学（RO）和联合MI/RO文章中，女性作为第一作者的比例分别为30%、41%和36%。同样，女性作为资深作者的比例低于男性，在MI、RO和MI/RO文章中分别为22%、32%和23%。在研究期间，女性第一作者身份从2014年（36%）到2020年（38%）保持稳定；然而，在2021年急剧下降至28%。从2013年（15%）到2017年（35%）女性资深作者身份有增加的趋势，但在2021年降至23%。
在过去10年的出版物中，三分之一的第一作者是女性，只有四分之一的资深作者是女性。认识到这种不平衡是朝着解决与学术出版以及性别和其他不平等相关的潜在系统性问题迈出的第一步。
