Balachandran Uma, Locke Auston R, Koehne Niklas H, Jain Charu, Vicioso Camila, Park Jiwoo, Nietsch Katrina S, Colvin Alexis C
Leni and Peter W. May Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Arthrosc Sports Med Rehabil. 2025 Jan 10;7(2):101076. doi: 10.1016/j.asmr.2025.101076. eCollection 2025 Apr.
To examine how the gender of the first and last authors of annual meeting abstracts and journal articles from a related source have changed between 2012 and 2022.
All abstracts and original research articles published from 2012 to 2022 were extracted from the websites of The Arthroscopy Association of North America and , respectively. The full names of first and last authors were analyzed with the validated Genderize algorithm. Analyses were performed to evaluate authorship of abstracts and articles.
Of 850 abstracts, 845 (99.4%) had an identifiable first-author gender and 843 (99.2%) had an identifiable last-author gender. The proportion of female first authors increased from 9.2% in 2012 to 15.2% in 2022, whereas the proportion of female last authors decreased from 13.5% in 2012 to 12.3% in 2022. Of 4,811 articles, 4,744 (98.6%) had an identifiable first author gender and 4,767 (99.1%) had an identifiable last author gender. The proportion of female first authors increased from 10.4% in 2012 to 16.8% in 2022, whereas the proportion of female last authors decreased from 19.0% in 2012 to 9.1% in 2022. For both abstracts and articles, the gender of the last author was not significantly associated with the presence of a female first author.
Between 2021 and 2022, there was a significant increase in the proportion of female first authors of both abstracts and articles examined in this study. However, a similar increase was not seen among last authors.
It is important to examine gender representation among authors who publish arthroscopic research to understand how a greater balance may be achieved.
研究2012年至2022年间，来自相关来源的年会摘要和期刊文章的第一作者和最后作者的性别变化情况。
分别从北美关节镜协会网站和[具体网站名称未给出]提取2012年至2022年发表的所有摘要和原创研究文章。使用经过验证的Genderize算法分析第一作者和最后作者的全名。进行分析以评估摘要和文章的作者情况。
在850篇摘要中，845篇（99.4%）可确定第一作者性别，843篇（99.2%）可确定最后作者性别。女性第一作者的比例从2012年的9.2%增至2022年的15.2%，而女性最后作者的比例从2012年的13.5%降至2022年的12.3%。在4811篇文章中，4744篇（98.6%）可确定第一作者性别，4767篇（99.1%）可确定最后作者性别。女性第一作者的比例从2012年的10.4%增至2022年的16.8%，而女性最后作者的比例从2012年的19.0%降至2022年的9.1%。对于摘要和文章而言，最后作者的性别与女性第一作者的存在无显著关联。
在2021年至2022年间，本研究中所考察的摘要和文章的女性第一作者比例显著增加。然而，最后作者中未见类似增长。
研究关节镜研究发表作者中的性别代表性对于理解如何实现更大程度的平衡很重要。
