Galeone Antonella, Cleuziou Julie, Perrone Fabiola, Maffei Irene, Fiorinelli Giorgia, Di Padua Chiara, Duarte Paula, Denora Mariateresa, Kluin Jolanda, Pompili Cecilia
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Dentistry, Pediatrics and Gynecology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Department of Congenital and Paediatric Heart Surgery, German Heart Centre Munich, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2025 Jul 1;67(7). doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezaf205.
The goal was to evaluate gender authorship in 2 cardio-thoracic surgical journals.
We performed a bibliometric analysis of all articles published from 2017 to 2022 in the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and the Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. For each article, the gender and academic rank of the first, senior and corresponding authors were verified by Internet search, email contact or use of the application Genderize.io. Articles were categorized based on topic, type and country of origin. The Cochran-Armitage test was used to evaluate gender authorship trend over time.
A total of 5243 articles were included in the analysis. Women represented 18% of first authors, 7% of senior authors and 13% of corresponding authors; no trend was seen over time. Women represented 16% of first authors and 7% of senior authors in adult cardiac surgery, 23% of first authors and 9% of senior authors in congenital cardiac surgery and 19% of first authors and 8% of senior authors in thoracic surgery. Male first authors were more frequently full professors (17% vs 5%) and associate professors (16% vs 8%), and male senior authors were more frequently full professors (48% vs 31%) and associate professors (16% vs 8%) compared to female senior authors.
The proportion of female authors is significantly lower than that of male authors in highest-impact European cardio-thoracic surgery journals, and no significant increase in female authorship has been demonstrated in recent years. Increasing awareness of gender disparities is essential to facilitate equal career opportunities and academic advancement for women in cardio-thoracic surgery.
本研究旨在评估两份心胸外科期刊中的性别作者情况。
我们对2017年至2022年在《欧洲心胸外科杂志》和《跨学科心血管与胸外科》上发表的所有文章进行了文献计量分析。对于每篇文章，通过互联网搜索、电子邮件联系或使用Genderize.io应用程序来核实第一作者、资深作者和通讯作者的性别和学术职称。文章根据主题、类型和原产国进行分类。采用 Cochr an - Armitage检验来评估性别作者随时间的趋势。
共有5243篇文章纳入分析。女性占第一作者的18%、资深作者的7%和通讯作者的13%；未观察到随时间的趋势。在成人心脏外科中，女性占第一作者的16%和资深作者的7%；在先天性心脏外科中，女性占第一作者的23%和资深作者的9%；在胸外科中，女性占第一作者的19%和资深作者的8%。与女性资深作者相比，男性第一作者更常为正教授（17%对5%）和副教授（16%对8%），男性资深作者更常为正教授（48%对31%）和副教授（16%对8%）。
在欧洲影响最大的心胸外科期刊中，女性作者的比例显著低于男性作者, 且近年来女性作者比例未出现显著增加。提高对性别差异的认识对于促进心胸外科领域女性获得平等的职业机会和学术进步至关重要。
