Center for Interventional Cardiovascular Research and Clinical Trials, Icahn School Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA; Department of Internal Medicine, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Center for Interventional Cardiovascular Research and Clinical Trials, Icahn School Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
J Am Coll Cardiol. 2024 Jun 18;83(24):2458-2468. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2024.03.427.
Women in cardiology experience considerable gender disparities in publications, which hinders their career advancements to higher faculty and senior leadership positions. However, the extent of these disparities across different types of cardiovascular literature is not well understood.
We investigated gender differences in authorship across various cardiovascular publications over a decade and examined geographic variations in the representation of women authors.
All papers published from January 1, 2010, to December 31, 2019, in 4 major cardiovascular journals (Journal of the American College of Cardiology, European Heart Journal, Journal of the American Medical Association Cardiology, and Nature Reviews Cardiology) were reviewed.
Of the 18,535 papers with 111,562 authors, 20.6% of the authors were women, and 47.7% of the papers had no women authors. Over 10 years, the proportion of women authors remained low (20.7% in 2010 to 21.4% in 2019), with the lowest proportion in editorial papers (14.8%) and the highest in research papers (21.8%). More women as first (34.6%) and last (47.6%) authors were affiliated with institutions in the United States compared with other countries. The proportion of women middle-order authors was higher on papers with women as first authors (29.4% vs 20.5%) or last authors (30.6% vs 21.3%), compared with papers with men as first or last authors, respectively.
Over the past decade, the proportion of women authors across all article types in major cardiovascular journals remained low. A call to action is needed to promote women in cardiology and provide them with equitable opportunities.
女性在心脏病学领域的出版物中存在着相当大的性别差异，这阻碍了她们晋升到更高的教职和高级领导职位。然而，不同类型的心血管文献中这些差异的程度尚不清楚。
我们调查了十年来各种心血管出版物中作者的性别差异，并研究了女性作者在地域上的代表性差异。
我们回顾了 2010 年 1 月 1 日至 2019 年 12 月 31 日期间四大心血管期刊（《美国心脏病学会杂志》《欧洲心脏杂志》《美国医学会心脏病学杂志》和《自然评论心脏病学》）上发表的所有论文。
在 18535 篇论文中有 111562 名作者，其中 20.6%的作者是女性，47.7%的论文没有女性作者。在过去的十年中，女性作者的比例一直很低（2010 年为 20.7%，2019 年为 21.4%），其中编辑论文的比例最低（14.8%），研究论文的比例最高（21.8%）。与其他国家相比，更多的女性作为第一（34.6%）和最后（47.6%）作者与美国机构有关联。与第一或最后作者为男性的论文相比，第一作者为女性（29.4%比 20.5%）或最后作者为女性（30.6%比 21.3%）的论文中，女性中层作者的比例更高。
在过去的十年中，主要心血管期刊中所有文章类型的女性作者比例仍然很低。需要采取行动来促进心脏病学领域的女性，并为她们提供公平的机会。
