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Gender-Related Trends in Publication Authorship: A 10-Year Analysis of a Brazilian Surgical Journal
There is a gender gap in the representation of women in the authorship of surgical literature worldwide. In Brazil, data on the gender distribution of the authorship of articles are scarce; and hence, there is a lack of awareness about the contemporary situation of women surgeons within the academic...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8608355/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34853736 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18993 |
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author | Motter, Sarah B Brandão, Gabriela R Iaroseski, Júlia Alves, Amanda V Konopka, Ana Luíza K de Assis Brasil, Candida M Silva, Gabriela S Spadoa, Joana L Reis, Rosilene J |
author_facet | Motter, Sarah B Brandão, Gabriela R Iaroseski, Júlia Alves, Amanda V Konopka, Ana Luíza K de Assis Brasil, Candida M Silva, Gabriela S Spadoa, Joana L Reis, Rosilene J |
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description | There is a gender gap in the representation of women in the authorship of surgical literature worldwide. In Brazil, data on the gender distribution of the authorship of articles are scarce; and hence, there is a lack of awareness about the contemporary situation of women surgeons within the academic surgery in the country. In light of this, we conducted this study with an aim to describe and evaluate the authorship trends in a Brazilian surgical journal over a period of 10 years (2010-2019). We included 4,301 authors from 792 articles extracted from 60 editions of this journal. We analyzed the female representation as authors in general, first and last authors, and the female surgeons' representation as first and last authors for 568 original articles. We found that, in general, women represented 27.8% of all authors. Regarding original articles, women surgeons represented 8.4% and 6.1% of first and last authors, respectively. The linear regression analysis demonstrated that there was an increase over the years in women authorship. However, despite this increase over the years, a gender gap still persists in terms of women's representation as authors in the Brazilian surgical literature. |
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spelling | pubmed-86083552021-11-30 Gender-Related Trends in Publication Authorship: A 10-Year Analysis of a Brazilian Surgical Journal Motter, Sarah B Brandão, Gabriela R Iaroseski, Júlia Alves, Amanda V Konopka, Ana Luíza K de Assis Brasil, Candida M Silva, Gabriela S Spadoa, Joana L Reis, Rosilene J Cureus General Surgery There is a gender gap in the representation of women in the authorship of surgical literature worldwide. In Brazil, data on the gender distribution of the authorship of articles are scarce; and hence, there is a lack of awareness about the contemporary situation of women surgeons within the academic surgery in the country. In light of this, we conducted this study with an aim to describe and evaluate the authorship trends in a Brazilian surgical journal over a period of 10 years (2010-2019). We included 4,301 authors from 792 articles extracted from 60 editions of this journal. We analyzed the female representation as authors in general, first and last authors, and the female surgeons' representation as first and last authors for 568 original articles. We found that, in general, women represented 27.8% of all authors. Regarding original articles, women surgeons represented 8.4% and 6.1% of first and last authors, respectively. The linear regression analysis demonstrated that there was an increase over the years in women authorship. However, despite this increase over the years, a gender gap still persists in terms of women's representation as authors in the Brazilian surgical literature. Cureus 2021-10-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8608355/ /pubmed/34853736 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18993 Text en Copyright © 2021, Motter et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | General Surgery Motter, Sarah B Brandão, Gabriela R Iaroseski, Júlia Alves, Amanda V Konopka, Ana Luíza K de Assis Brasil, Candida M Silva, Gabriela S Spadoa, Joana L Reis, Rosilene J Gender-Related Trends in Publication Authorship: A 10-Year Analysis of a Brazilian Surgical Journal |
title | Gender-Related Trends in Publication Authorship: A 10-Year Analysis of a Brazilian Surgical Journal |
title_full | Gender-Related Trends in Publication Authorship: A 10-Year Analysis of a Brazilian Surgical Journal |
title_fullStr | Gender-Related Trends in Publication Authorship: A 10-Year Analysis of a Brazilian Surgical Journal |
title_full_unstemmed | Gender-Related Trends in Publication Authorship: A 10-Year Analysis of a Brazilian Surgical Journal |
title_short | Gender-Related Trends in Publication Authorship: A 10-Year Analysis of a Brazilian Surgical Journal |
title_sort | gender-related trends in publication authorship: a 10-year analysis of a brazilian surgical journal |
topic | General Surgery |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8608355/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34853736 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18993 |
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