Watters Amanda B, Blitz Jack, Mortell Tatjana, Ierulli Victoria K, Lefante John, Mulcahey Mary K
School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
JB JS Open Access. 2024 Dec 3;9(4). doi: 10.2106/JBJS.OA.24.00045. eCollection 2024 Oct-Dec.
Orthopaedic sports medicine is among the most popular subspecialties. Understanding the trends in sports medicine research over time can offer insight into progress and innovation within the field. The purpose of this study was to assess both the quality of the current literature and trends in gender diversity and inclusion by evaluating publishing characteristics of sports medicine studies in The from 2007 to 2021.
Sports medicine studies in from 2007 to 2021 were identified using subspeciality tags for "sports medicine" articles and organized by study type, number of authors, sex of the authors, academic degree(s) of the first and last authors, level of evidence, country of publication, citations, and use of patient-reported outcomes (PROM).
A total of 784 studies were reviewed, and 513 met inclusion criteria. Clinical therapeutic studies were the most common publication (48%). There was an increase in the publication of clinical prognostic studies (17%-25%, p = 0.037) and a significant increase in the use of PROM measures over time (13%-47%, p < 0.001). The total number of authors increased over the study period (4.8-6.3), but there was no significant increase in female authorship. Only 15% of the 784 studies included a female author, with an average of 0.8 female authors per article (range 0-8) compared with 4.6 males (range 1-14).
The significant increase in the use of PROMs in sports medicine studies indicates that the quality of research has improved over the 15-year period. The gender disparity in authorship has remained stagnant. Only 11% of all first authors and 9% of senior authors were female. The number of included international studies improved over time; however, the United States remains the most prolific publisher. Despite these areas of growth, this study suggests that there is room for improvement of authorship gender diversity in orthopaedic sports medicine research.
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骨科运动医学是最受欢迎的亚专业之一。了解运动医学研究随时间的趋势可以洞察该领域的进展和创新。本研究的目的是通过评估2007年至2021年《[期刊名称未给出]》中运动医学研究的发表特征,来评估当前文献的质量以及性别多样性和包容性的趋势。
使用“运动医学”文章的[期刊名称未给出]亚专业标签识别2007年至2021年的运动医学研究,并按研究类型、作者数量、作者性别、第一和最后作者的学术学位、证据水平、发表国家、引用次数以及患者报告结局(PROM)的使用情况进行整理。
共审查了784项研究,513项符合纳入标准。临床治疗研究是最常见的发表类型(48%)。临床预后研究的发表有所增加(17% - 25%,p = 0.037),并且随着时间的推移,PROM测量方法的使用显著增加(13% - 47%,p < 0.001)。在研究期间,作者总数有所增加(4.8 - 6.3),但女性作者比例没有显著增加。在784项研究中,只有15%包括女性作者,每篇文章平均有0.8名女性作者(范围为0 - 8),而男性为4.6名(范围为1 - 14)。
运动医学研究中PROMs使用的显著增加表明,在这15年期间研究质量有所提高。作者性别差异一直停滞不前。所有第一作者中只有11%是女性,高级作者中只有9%是女性。纳入的国际研究数量随着时间的推移有所增加;然而,美国仍然是最多产的出版商。尽管有这些增长领域,但本研究表明,骨科运动医学研究在作者性别多样性方面仍有改进空间。
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