Under-representation of women in high-impact published clinical cancer research

Cancer

Volumn 115, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 3293-3301

  Jagsi, Reshma ^a   Motomura, Amy R ^a   Amarnath, Sudha ^a   Jankovic, Aleksandra ^a   Sheets, Nathan ^a   Ubel, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Neoplasms; Publications; Research; Sex; Women

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEOPLASM; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HUMANS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PATIENTS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; WOMEN;

EID: 68549110395     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24366     Document Type: Article

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