Puthumana Joseph S, Khan Iman F, Tiongco Rafael Felix P, Rezwan Siam K, Atayeva Rena, Nahmias Jeffry T, Jung Sarah A, Cooney Carisa M
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 601 North Caroline Street, Suite 8161, Baltimore, MD 21287 USA.
Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA USA.
Global Surg Educ. 2023;2(1):37. doi: 10.1007/s44186-023-00105-9. Epub 2023 Feb 18.
Our goals were to characterize associations of author number, author gender, and institutional affiliation on ratings and acceptances of abstracts submitted to one surgical education conference over 5 years.
We retrospectively reviewed all abstracts submitted between 2017 and 2021 to the annual meeting of the Association for Surgical Education (ASE). Abstract data included average rater scores, acceptance status, author lists, and institutional affiliations. We cross-referenced last author affiliation with top-40 National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded institutions and used a gender determination software to code first and last author genders.
We analyzed 1,162 abstracts. Higher reviewer scores demonstrated positive, weak associations with more authors [r(1160) = 0.191, < 0.001] and institutions [r(1160) = 0.182, < 0.001]. Significantly higher scores were noted for abstracts with last authors affiliated with top-40 NIH-funded institutions [4.18 (SD 0.96) vs. 3.72 (SD 1.12), < 0.001]. Women were first authors (51.8%) ( = 602) and last authors (35.4%) ( = 411) of the time. Abstracts were rated significantly higher with women rather than men as first authors [3.98 (SD 0.99) vs. 3.82 (SD 1.12), = 0.011] or last [4.01 (SD 1.04) vs. 3.82 (SD 1.10), = 0.005]. Across all years, abstracts were accepted more often as podium or plenary presentations when submitted by women first [ = 279, 59.7% ( = 0.002)] or last [ = 183, 38.4% ( = 0.095)] authors.
Abstracts whose last authors were affiliated with top-40 NIH-funded institutions received significantly higher scores, possibly indicating increased tangible or intangible resources contributing to research efforts. Abstracts with women first and last authors scored higher and were more frequently invited for plenary and podium presentations.
我们的目标是描述作者数量、作者性别和机构隶属关系与5年间提交至一个外科教育会议的摘要评分及录用情况之间的关联。
我们回顾性分析了2017年至2021年间提交给外科教育协会（ASE）年会的所有摘要。摘要数据包括平均评分者分数、录用状态、作者名单和机构隶属关系。我们将最后一位作者的隶属机构与美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）资助排名前40的机构进行交叉比对，并使用性别判定软件对第一和最后一位作者的性别进行编码。
我们分析了1162篇摘要。较高的评审分数与更多作者[r(1160) = 0.191, P < 0.001]和更多机构[r(1160) = 0.182, P < 0.001]呈正相关但较弱。最后一位作者隶属于NIH资助排名前40的机构的摘要得分显著更高[4.18（标准差0.96）对3.72（标准差1.12），P < 0.001]。女性作为第一作者的比例为51.8%（n = 602），作为最后一位作者的比例为35.4%（n = 411）。女性作为第一作者的摘要评分显著高于男性作为第一作者的摘要[3.98（标准差0.99）对3.82（标准差1.12），P = 0.011]，女性作为最后一位作者时亦是如此[4.01（标准差1.04）对3.82（标准差1.10），P = 0.005]。在所有年份中，女性作为第一作者[ n = 279，59.7%（P = 0.002）]或最后一位作者[ n = 183，38.4%（P = 0.095）]提交的摘要更常被录用为大会发言或全会发言。
最后一位作者隶属于NIH资助排名前40的机构的摘要得分显著更高，这可能表明有助于研究工作的有形或无形资源增加。第一和最后一位作者均为女性的摘要得分更高，且更常被邀请进行全会和大会发言。
