Geng F, Ren Y, Hou H, Dai B, Scott J B, Strickland S L, Mehta S, Li J
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China.
Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China.
Pulmonology. 2023 Nov-Dec;29(6):495-504. doi: 10.1016/j.pulmoe.2023.03.005. Epub 2023 May 18.
Gender disparity in authorship broadly persists in medical literature, little is known about female authorship within pulmonary medicine.
A bibliometric analysis of publications from 2012 to 2021 in 12 journals with the highest impact in pulmonary medicine was conducted. Only original research and review articles were included. Names of the first and last authors were extracted and their genders were identified using the Gender-API web. Female authorship was described by overall distribution and distribution by country/region/continent and journal. We compared the article citations by gender combinations, evaluated the trend in female authorship, and forecasted when parity for first and last authorship would be reached. We also conducted a systematic review of female authorship in clinical medicine.
14,875 articles were included, and the overall percentage of female first authors was higher than last authors (37.0% vs 22.2%, p<0.001). Asia had the lowest percentage of female first (27.6%) and last (15.2%) authors. The percentages of female first and last authors increased slightly over time, except for a rapid increase in the COVID-19 pandemic periods. Parity was predicted in 2046 for the first authors and 2059 for the last authors. Articles with male authors were cited more than articles with female authors. However, male-male collaborations significantly decreased, whereas female-female collaborations significantly increased.
Despite the slow improvement in female authorship over the past decade, there is still a substantial gender disparity in female first and last authorship in high-impact medical journals in pulmonary medicine.
医学文献中作者身份的性别差异普遍存在，而关于肺医学领域的女性作者情况却知之甚少。
对2012年至2021年在12种肺医学领域影响最大的期刊上发表的文献进行文献计量分析。仅纳入原创研究和综述文章。提取第一作者和最后作者的姓名，并使用Gender-API网站确定其性别。通过总体分布以及按国家/地区/大陆和期刊的分布来描述女性作者情况。我们比较了不同性别组合文章的被引次数，评估了女性作者的趋势，并预测了第一作者和最后作者实现性别平等的时间。我们还对临床医学中的女性作者情况进行了系统综述。
共纳入14875篇文章，女性第一作者的总体比例高于最后作者（37.0%对22.2%，p<0.001）。亚洲女性第一作者（27.6%）和最后作者（15.2%）的比例最低。除了在新冠疫情期间快速增长外，女性第一作者和最后作者的比例随时间略有增加。预计第一作者在2046年实现性别平等，最后作者在2059年实现。男性作者的文章比女性作者的文章被引用次数更多。然而，男性-男性合作显著减少，而女性-女性合作显著增加。
尽管过去十年女性作者情况改善缓慢，但在肺医学领域高影响力医学期刊中，女性第一作者和最后作者的性别差异仍然很大。
