Gender Distribution of Authorship in Pain Publications Is More Balanced than in Other Scientific Fields

Women are underrepresented as authors of scientific publications. An analysis of 5.5 million articles published between 2008 and 2012 included in the Thompson Reuters Web of Science database showed that only 30% of the authors were female [1]. In medical research, the ratio is slightly more balanced...

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Published inPain medicine (Malden, Mass.) Vol. 19; no. 11; pp. 2104 - 2105
Main Authors Szilagyi, Istvan S, Bornemann-Cimenti, Helmar
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Oxford University Press 01.11.2018
Subjects
Authorship
Bibliometrics
Citation analysis
Demographic aspects
Females
Gender
Humans
International relations
Medical research
Pain
Pain management
Publications - statistics & numerical data
Scientometrics
Sex distribution (Demography)
Sex Factors
Statistics
Trends
Women authors
Austria
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Summary:Women are underrepresented as authors of scientific publications. An analysis of 5.5 million articles published between 2008 and 2012 included in the Thompson Reuters Web of Science database showed that only 30% of the authors were female [1]. In medical research, the ratio is slightly more balanced. In a recent study of the gender distribution of first authors in highly ranked medical journals, women increased from 27% in 1994 to 37% in 2014 [2].
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ISSN:1526-2375
1526-4637
DOI:10.1093/pm/pnx316