{"id":1366,"date":"2016-03-08T14:46:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T14:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/increase-in-female-first-authorship-in-top-medical-papers\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T08:02:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T08:02:00","slug":"increase-in-female-first-authorship-in-top-medical-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/increase-in-female-first-authorship-in-top-medical-papers","title":{"rendered":"Increase in female first authorship in top medical papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">A recently published paper titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/352\/bmj.i847\">Trends and comparison of female first authorship in high impact medical journals: observational study (1994-2014)<\/a>\u201d reported that female first authorship among original research articles in top medical journals has grown by a third in the past two decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Giovanni Filardo, the lead author, and his colleagues selected six medicine journals that had the highest 2012 Journal Citation Reports impact factors in the category \u201cMedicine, general &amp; internal.\u201d These included <em>Annals of Internal Medicine<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Archives of Internal Medicine, The BMJ, JAMA, The Lancet,<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0<em>New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)<\/em>. To observe the share of female first authorship, they collected data for 3860 articles published from 1994 to 2014. They noted an upsurge in publications by female researchers: in 1994, the prevalence of female first author was a mere 27% as compared to 37% in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">On the downside, however, the female authorship has declined in recent years in some journals such as <em>The BMJ<\/em> and the <em>NEMJ<\/em>, note the authors. Moreover, though an almost equal number of men and women join medical schools in the US and the UK, female representation in clinical faculty is less than 30% as compared to men. Additionally, less than 20% women hold senior leadership positions in European Union medical schools. The underrepresentation of women in high-ranking journals and senior positions is a worrying trend. Therefore, the authors recommend investigating the reasons behind the gender gap \u201cto help to identify practices and strategies to increase women\u2019s influence on and contributions to the evidence that will determine future healthcare policies and standards of clinical practice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Where gender misrepresentation is a topic of much debate in academia, this study brings a fresh perspective on the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong>References:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/research-intelligence\/more-women-publishing-top-medical-papers\"><em>More women publishing top medical papers<\/em><\/a><em> (accessed March 8, 2016)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/352\/bmj.i1130\"><em>The gender gap in first authorship of research papers<\/em><\/a><em> (accessed March 8, 2016)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recently published paper titled \u201cTrends and comparison of female first authorship in high impact medical journals: observational study (1994-2014)\u201d reported that female first authorship among original research articles in top medical journals has grown by a third in the past two decades. 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