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Analysis of gender representation, authorship inflation, and institutional affiliation in abstract acceptance: a 5-year study
PURPOSE: Our goals were to characterize associations of author number, author gender, and institutional affiliation on ratings and acceptances of abstracts submitted to one surgical education conference over 5 years. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed all abstracts submitted between 2017 and 2021...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9938508/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38013876 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s44186-023-00105-9 |
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author | Puthumana, Joseph S. Khan, Iman F. Tiongco, Rafael Felix P. Rezwan, Siam K. Atayeva, Rena Nahmias, Jeffry T. Jung, Sarah A. Cooney, Carisa M. |
author_facet | Puthumana, Joseph S. Khan, Iman F. Tiongco, Rafael Felix P. Rezwan, Siam K. Atayeva, Rena Nahmias, Jeffry T. Jung, Sarah A. Cooney, Carisa M. |
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description | PURPOSE: Our goals were to characterize associations of author number, author gender, and institutional affiliation on ratings and acceptances of abstracts submitted to one surgical education conference over 5 years. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed all abstracts submitted between 2017 and 2021 to the annual meeting of the Association for Surgical Education (ASE). Abstract data included average rater scores, acceptance status, author lists, and institutional affiliations. We cross-referenced last author affiliation with top-40 National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded institutions and used a gender determination software to code first and last author genders. RESULTS: We analyzed 1,162 abstracts. Higher reviewer scores demonstrated positive, weak associations with more authors [r(1160) = 0.191, p < 0.001] and institutions [r(1160) = 0.182, p < 0.001]. Significantly higher scores were noted for abstracts with last authors affiliated with top-40 NIH-funded institutions [4.18 (SD 0.96) vs. 3.72 (SD 1.12), p < 0.001]. Women were first authors (51.8%) (n = 602) and last authors (35.4%) (n = 411) of the time. Abstracts were rated significantly higher with women rather than men as first authors [3.98 (SD 0.99) vs. 3.82 (SD 1.12), p = 0.011] or last [4.01 (SD 1.04) vs. 3.82 (SD 1.10), p = 0.005]. Across all years, abstracts were accepted more often as podium or plenary presentations when submitted by women first [n = 279, 59.7% (p = 0.002)] or last [n = 183, 38.4% (p = 0.095)] authors. CONCLUSION: Abstracts whose last authors were affiliated with top-40 NIH-funded institutions received significantly higher scores, possibly indicating increased tangible or intangible resources contributing to research efforts. Abstracts with women first and last authors scored higher and were more frequently invited for plenary and podium presentations. |
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spelling | pubmed-99385082023-02-21 Analysis of gender representation, authorship inflation, and institutional affiliation in abstract acceptance: a 5-year study Puthumana, Joseph S. Khan, Iman F. Tiongco, Rafael Felix P. Rezwan, Siam K. Atayeva, Rena Nahmias, Jeffry T. Jung, Sarah A. Cooney, Carisa M. Global Surg Educ Original Article PURPOSE: Our goals were to characterize associations of author number, author gender, and institutional affiliation on ratings and acceptances of abstracts submitted to one surgical education conference over 5 years. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed all abstracts submitted between 2017 and 2021 to the annual meeting of the Association for Surgical Education (ASE). Abstract data included average rater scores, acceptance status, author lists, and institutional affiliations. We cross-referenced last author affiliation with top-40 National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded institutions and used a gender determination software to code first and last author genders. RESULTS: We analyzed 1,162 abstracts. Higher reviewer scores demonstrated positive, weak associations with more authors [r(1160) = 0.191, p < 0.001] and institutions [r(1160) = 0.182, p < 0.001]. Significantly higher scores were noted for abstracts with last authors affiliated with top-40 NIH-funded institutions [4.18 (SD 0.96) vs. 3.72 (SD 1.12), p < 0.001]. Women were first authors (51.8%) (n = 602) and last authors (35.4%) (n = 411) of the time. Abstracts were rated significantly higher with women rather than men as first authors [3.98 (SD 0.99) vs. 3.82 (SD 1.12), p = 0.011] or last [4.01 (SD 1.04) vs. 3.82 (SD 1.10), p = 0.005]. Across all years, abstracts were accepted more often as podium or plenary presentations when submitted by women first [n = 279, 59.7% (p = 0.002)] or last [n = 183, 38.4% (p = 0.095)] authors. CONCLUSION: Abstracts whose last authors were affiliated with top-40 NIH-funded institutions received significantly higher scores, possibly indicating increased tangible or intangible resources contributing to research efforts. Abstracts with women first and last authors scored higher and were more frequently invited for plenary and podium presentations. Springer US 2023-02-18 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9938508/ /pubmed/38013876 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s44186-023-00105-9 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Association for Surgical Education 2023, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Puthumana, Joseph S. Khan, Iman F. Tiongco, Rafael Felix P. Rezwan, Siam K. Atayeva, Rena Nahmias, Jeffry T. Jung, Sarah A. Cooney, Carisa M. Analysis of gender representation, authorship inflation, and institutional affiliation in abstract acceptance: a 5-year study |
title | Analysis of gender representation, authorship inflation, and institutional affiliation in abstract acceptance: a 5-year study |
title_full | Analysis of gender representation, authorship inflation, and institutional affiliation in abstract acceptance: a 5-year study |
title_fullStr | Analysis of gender representation, authorship inflation, and institutional affiliation in abstract acceptance: a 5-year study |
title_full_unstemmed | Analysis of gender representation, authorship inflation, and institutional affiliation in abstract acceptance: a 5-year study |
title_short | Analysis of gender representation, authorship inflation, and institutional affiliation in abstract acceptance: a 5-year study |
title_sort | analysis of gender representation, authorship inflation, and institutional affiliation in abstract acceptance: a 5-year study |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9938508/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38013876 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s44186-023-00105-9 |
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