Assessing the gap in female authorship in radiology: Trends over the past two decades

Journal of the American College of Radiology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 735-741

  Liang, Teresa ^a   Zhang, Cathy ^b   Khara, Rohan M ^a   Harris, Alison C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Academic promotion; education; gender; women

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT CARE; PUBLICATION; RADIOLOGIST; RADIOLOGY; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; BIBLIOMETRICS; FEMALE PHYSICIAN; PUBLISHING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; BIBLIOMETRICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS, WOMEN; PUBLISHING; RADIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84937519588     PISSN: 15461440     EISSN: 1558349X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2015.03.008     Document Type: Article

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