Gender equality in academic research on epilepsy—a study on scientific authorships

Epilepsia

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 1794-1802

  Bendels, Michael H K ^a   Wanke, Eileen ^a   Schöffel, Norman ^a   Bauer, Jan ^a   Quarcoo, David ^a   Groneberg, David A ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Citation; Gender gap; Odds ratio; Productivity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GENDERMETRICS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; SOFTWARE; WRITING; BIBLIOMETRICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERSONNEL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AUTHORSHIP; BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 85030327052     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/epi.13873     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Amering M, Schrank B, Sibitz I. The gender gap in high-impact psychiatry journals. Acad Med 2011;86:946–952.
2. Butcher J. Women in neurology. Lancet Neurol 2007;6:762.
3. Filardo G, da Graca B, Sass DM, et al. Trends and comparison of female first authorship in high impact medical journals: observational study (1994-2014). BMJ 2016;352:i847.
4. Liang T, Zhang C, Khara RM, et al. Assessing the gap in female authorship in radiology: trends over the past two decades. J Am Coll Radiol 2015;12:735–741.
5. Long MT, Leszczynski A, Thompson KD, et al. Female authorship in major academic gastroenterology journals: a look over 20 years. Gastrointest Endosc 2015;81:1440–1447. e1443.
6. Mueller CM, Gaudilliere DK, Kin C, et al. Gender disparities in scholarly productivity of US academic surgeons. J Surg Res 2016;203:28–33.
7. Reed DA, Enders F, Lindor R, et al. Gender differences in academic productivity and leadership appointments of physicians throughout academic careers. Acad Med 2011;86:43–47.
8. Rochon PA, Davidoff F, Levinson W. Women in academic medicine leadership: has anything changed in 25 years? Acad Med 2016;91:1053–1056.
9. Association of American Medical Colleges. The State of Women in Academic Medicine: The Pipeline and Pathways to Leadership, 2013-2014, 2014. Available at: https://www.aamc.org/members/gwims/statistics/. Accessed October 11 2016.
10. Lariviere V, Ni C, Gingras Y, et al. Bibliometrics: global gender disparities in science. Nature 2013;504:211–213.
11. Bendels MHK, Bauer J, Schoffel N, et al. The gender gap in schizophrenia research. Schizophr Res 2017; Jun 15. pii: S0920-9964(17)30358-4.
12. Dance A. Authorship: Who's on first? Nature 2012;489:591–593.
13. Tscharntke T, Hochberg ME, Rand TA, et al. Author sequence and credit for contributions in multiauthored publications. PLoS Biol 2007;5:e18.
14. Bendels MHK, Brüggmann D, Schöffel N, et al. Gendermetrics.NET: a novel software for analyzing the gender representation in scientific authoring. J Occup Med Toxicol 2016;11:43.
15. Ramsden P. Describing and explaining research productivity. High Educ 1994;28:207–226.
16. Cikara M, Rudman L, Fiske S. Dearth by a thousand cuts? accounting for gender differences in top-ranked publication rates in social psychology. J Soc Issues 2012;68:263–285.
17. van den Besselaar P, Sandstrom U. Gender differences in research performance and its impact on careers: a longitudinal case study. Scientometrics 2016;106:143–162.
18. West JD, Jacquet J, King MM, et al. The role of gender in scholarly authorship. PLoS ONE 2013;8:e66212.
19. West MS, Curtis JW. AAUP faculty gender equity indicators 2006. Washington, DC: American Association of University Professors; 2006.
20. Figg WD, Dunn L, Liewehr DJ, et al. Scientific collaboration results in higher citation rates of published articles. Pharmacotherapy 2006;26:759–767.
21. Chawla DS. Men cite themselves more than women do. Nature 2016;535:212.
22. Schisterman EF, Swanson CW, Lu YL, et al. The changing face of epidemiology: gender disparities in citations? Epidemiology 2017;28:159–168.
23. Symonds MR, Gemmell NJ, Braisher TL, et al. Gender differences in publication output: towards an unbiased metric of research performance. PLoS ONE 2006;1:e127.
24. Iwao S. The Japanese woman: traditional image and changing reality / Sumiko Iwao. New York: Toronto: New York: Free Press; Maxwell Macmillan Canada; Maxwell Macmillan International; 1993.
25. Leopold TA. The global gender gap report 2016. Geneva: World Economic Forum; 2016.
26. Mueller C, Wright R, Girod S. The publication gender gap in US academic surgery. BMC Surg 2017;17:16.
27. Helitzer DL, Newbill SL, Cardinali G, et al. Changing the culture of academic medicine: critical mass or critical actors? J Womens Health (Larchmt) 2017;26:540–548.
28. Childs S, Mona LK. Critical mass theory and women's political representation. Polit Stud 2008;56:725–736.
29. Koster C, Klingelhofer D, Groneberg DA, et al. Rotavirus - Global research density equalizing mapping and gender analysis. Vaccine 2016;34:90–100.
30. Bundschuh M, Groneberg DA, Klingelhoefer D, et al. Yellow fever disease: density equalizing mapping and gender analysis of international research output. Parasit Vectors 2013;6:331.
31. Groneberg DA, Braun M, Klingelhoefer D, et al. Pancreatitis: global research activities and gender imbalances: a scientometric approach using density-equalizing mapping. Pancreas 2016;45:218–227.
32. Garfield E. The evolution of the Science Citation Index. Int Microbiol 2007;10:65–69.
33. Kaufman RR, Chevan J. The gender gap in peer-reviewed publications by physical therapy faculty members: a productivity puzzle. Phys Ther 2011;91:122–131.
34. Leemann RJS, Heidi S. Gender and research funding (GEFO) - Final reports and synthesis. Berne: Swiss National Science Foundation; 2008:99.
35. Bickel J, Ruffin A. Gender-associated differences in matriculating and graduating medical students. Acad Med 1995;70:552–559.