Qaryouti Dania, Jibril Omar, Silva Floyd D, Jain Priyanka, Gangu Karthik, Sheikh Abu Baker
University of Minnesota, Department of Vascular Neurology, 516 Delaware St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
University of Minnesota, Department of Internal Medicine, 516 Delaware St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
eNeurologicalSci. 2023 Aug 23;33:100476. doi: 10.1016/j.ensci.2023.100476. eCollection 2023 Dec.
Although female representation has been growing among physicians, women continue to be underrepresented in neurology, particularly regarding academic research in authorship and leadership. Analyzing recent trends in high-impact neurology journals highlights the underrepresentation of women and helps explore barriers to female representation in academic neurology.
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) for 2021 was used to screen neurology journals for selection. The first 15 journals with the highest impact factors (JIF) were included. 15,404 total articles in neurology were examined for gender distribution of editorial staff and authorship with the highest total citations from January 1st, 2018 to October 31st, 2021. Gender was classified using biographical information from public and personal media sources. Genderize.io was used in cases of ambiguity, predicting gender at probability of ≥95%. Our data demonstrated that these journals only had 13% female editor-in-chiefs and 35% female editorial staff. The data further demonstrated that females accounted for 39% of first authors and 26% for last authors. During the four years examined males continued to account for the vast majority of both first and last authors for publications accepted and journal editorial staff members.
Women are significantly under-represented in the field of neurological research in leadership positions as editor-in-chiefs, editorial board members as well as first or senior authors in top neurology medical journals. With continued underrepresentation of women occupying leading publishing roles, parity with men is still a work in progress. Additional work is needed to identify and address barriers to academic advancement for women physicians in academic neurology.
尽管医学界女性从业者的比例一直在上升，但在神经病学领域，女性的代表性仍然不足，尤其是在学术研究的作者身份和领导地位方面。分析高影响力神经病学期刊的近期趋势，凸显了女性代表性不足的问题，并有助于探索女性在学术神经病学领域代表性不足的障碍。
使用2021年的《期刊引证报告》（JCR）筛选神经病学期刊以进行选择。纳入了影响因子（JIF）最高的前15种期刊。对2018年1月1日至2021年10月31日期间神经病学领域被引用次数最多的15404篇文章的编辑人员和作者身份的性别分布进行了研究。根据公共和个人媒体来源的传记信息对性别进行分类。在存在歧义的情况下使用Genderize.io，预测性别概率≥95%。我们的数据表明，这些期刊只有13%的女性主编和35%的女性编辑人员。数据进一步表明，女性占第一作者的39%，占最后作者的26%。在研究的四年中，男性在被接受发表文章的第一作者和最后作者以及期刊编辑人员中仍然占绝大多数。
在神经病学研究领域，担任主编、编辑委员会成员以及顶级神经病学医学期刊的第一作者或资深作者等领导职位的女性比例明显不足。由于担任主要出版角色的女性代表性持续不足，与男性平等仍在努力实现中。需要开展更多工作来识别和解决女性医生在学术神经病学领域学术进步的障碍。
