Gardner Dawn, Byrne Alyson, Sheppard Gillian
Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada.
Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada.
CJEM. 2025 Aug 13. doi: 10.1007/s43678-025-00965-8.
OBJECTIVES/BACKGROUND: Women are underrepresented in prestigious authorship positions. As per the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), 31.3% of emergency department (ED) physicians identify as women or female. This is the first study to explore whether the corresponding gender/sex proportion of ED physicians in Canada each year is reflected in prestigious authorship in the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine (CJEM) between 2000 and 2019.
A cross-sectional analysis was conducted of the first and last authors of original research articles in the CJEM from 2000 to 2019. Our data collection yielded 623 original research articles. Descriptive statistical techniques were used to analyze authorship in the CJEM and the proportion of women/female emergency physicians in Canada over the twenty-year period.
Of 623 total articles, 64.7% have a man as the first author and 35.3% have a woman as the first author. Of 546 articles with three or more authors, 72.0% have a man as the last author and 28.0% have a woman as the last author. There are several years where the proportion of women in first or last authorship is lower than the proportion of women/females in emergency medicine.
Our study shows that the proportion of women in prestigious authorship positions in the CJEM exceeds the proportion of women/female ED physicians in Canada between the years of 2000 and 2019. As the proportion of women/females has increased in emergency medicine, the proportion of women with prestigious authorship positions has also increased in the CJEM. This suggests that emergency medicine in Canada may be a welcoming field for women who want to publish research at a prestigious level and practice medicine.
目的/背景：在享有声望的作者身份方面，女性的占比不足。根据加拿大医学协会（CMA）的数据，31.3%的急诊科（ED）医生为女性。这是第一项探讨2000年至2019年间加拿大急诊科医生相应的性别比例是否反映在《加拿大急诊医学杂志》（CJEM）享有声望的作者身份中的研究。
对2000年至2019年CJEM上原创研究文章的第一作者和最后作者进行横断面分析。我们的数据收集得到了623篇原创研究文章。使用描述性统计技术分析CJEM中的作者身份以及二十年间加拿大女性/女性急诊科医生的比例。
在623篇文章中，64.7%的第一作者为男性，35.3%的第一作者为女性。在546篇有三名或更多作者的文章中，72.0%的最后作者为男性，28.0%的最后作者为女性。有几年，女性在第一或最后作者身份中的比例低于急诊医学中女性的比例。
我们的研究表明，2000年至2019年间，CJEM中享有声望的作者身份中女性的比例超过了加拿大女性/女性急诊科医生的比例。随着急诊医学中女性/女性的比例增加，CJEM中享有声望的作者身份中女性的比例也有所增加。这表明，对于想要在享有声望的水平上发表研究并从事医学工作的女性来说，加拿大的急诊医学可能是一个受欢迎的领域。
