Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Department of Internal Medicine, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Curr Med Res Opin. 2023 Mar;39(3):375-381. doi: 10.1080/03007995.2023.2174329. Epub 2023 Feb 3.
This study aims to characterize the gender distribution of first authors, senior authors, and editorial board members across several high-impact factor journals in PCCM.
In this cross-sectional study, we analysed gender disparities in critical care authorship and editorial boards, based on publications from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2021 from the top 20 high impact journals based on the Journal of Citation Reports.
Among 20 journals (median impact factor of 6.66), 25% of editors-in-chief and 28.8% of editorial board members were female. From 2019 to 2021, a total of 23,994 articles were published. Female first authors and last authors made up 29.1% and 21.2% of the authorship, respectively ( = 6637 articles).
Our study demonstrates significant gender disparities in critical care authorship and editorial boards, with males predominantly filling the roles of editors in chief, editorial members, and first and senior authors. Despite this significant difference in gender distribution, there was no statistically significant correlation between authorship and editor gender.
本研究旨在描述 PCCM 领域高影响因子期刊中第一作者、资深作者和编委会成员的性别分布特征。
在这项横断面研究中,我们根据《期刊引证报告》中排名前 20 的高影响因子期刊 2019 年 1 月 1 日至 2021 年 12 月 31 日的出版物,分析了重症监护领域作者和编委会中的性别差异。
在 20 种期刊(中位数影响因子为 6.66)中,主编中有 25%和编委会成员中有 28.8%为女性。2019 年至 2021 年,共发表了 23994 篇文章。女性第一作者和最后作者分别占作者总数的 29.1%和 21.2%(共 6637 篇文章)。
本研究表明,重症监护领域的作者和编委会中存在显著的性别差异,男性主要担任主编、编委会成员以及第一作者和资深作者的角色。尽管性别分布存在显著差异,但作者和编辑的性别之间没有统计学上的显著相关性。