Gender parity in scientific authorship in a National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre: A bibliometric analysis

BMJ Open

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2021, Pages

  Shah, Syed Ghulam Sarwar ^a,b   Dam, Rinita ^b   Milano, Maria Julia ^b   Edmunds, Laurel D ^b   Henderson, Lorna R ^a,b   Hartley, Catherine R ^c   Coxall, Owen ^c   Ovseiko, Pavel V ^b   Buchan, Alastair M ^b   Kiparoglou, Vasiliki ^a,b  

^a OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

change management; education training (see medical education training); health policy; natural science disciplines; organisational development; statistics research methods

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASIC RESEARCH; CHANGE MANAGEMENT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NATURAL SCIENCE; ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WRITING; BIBLIOMETRICS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH;

AUTHORSHIP; BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 85103320712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037935     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Colizzi V, Mezzana D, Ovseiko PV, et al. Structural transformation to attain responsible biosciences (STARBIOS2): protocol for a horizon 2020 funded European multicenter project to promote responsible research and innovation. JMIR Res Protoc 2019;8:e11745. doi:10.2196/11745
2. Elster D, Barendziak T, Birkholz J. Towards a sustainable and open science: recommendations for enhancing responsible research and innovation in the biosciences at the University of Bremen. Duren, Germany: Shaker Verlag, 2019. ISBN: 978-3-8440-7076-7
3. European Commission. Indicators for promoting and monitoring responsible research and innovation. Report from the expert group on policy indicators for responsible research and innovation, 2015. Available: http://ec.europa.eu/research/swafs/pdf/pub_rri/rri_ indicators_ final_ version. pdf [Accessed 19 Feb 2020].
4. European Commission. Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on improving the gender balance among nonexecutive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges and related measures, 2012. Available: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52012PC0614 [Accessed 19 Feb 2020].
5. European Commission. Report on equality between women and men in the European Union. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2019: 1-78. ISBN: 978-92-76-00028-0.
6. Kuhlmann E, Ovseiko PV, Kurmeyer C, et al. Closing the gender leadership gap: a multi-centre cross-country comparison of women in management and leadership in academic health centres in the European Union. Hum Resour Health 2017;15:1-7.
7. Henderson LR, Shah SGS, Ovseiko PV, et al. Markers of achievement for assessing and monitoring gender equity in a UK National Institute for health research biomedical research centre: a two-factor model. PLoS One 2020;15:e0239589.
8. European Institute for Gender Equality. gender parity, 2020. Available: https://eige.europa.eu/thesaurus/terms/1195 [Accessed 19 Feb 2020].
9. Rexrode KM. The gender gap in frst authorship of research papers. BMJ 2016;1130:i1130.
10. Bloch C, Graversen EK, Pedersen HS. Competitive research grants and their impact on career performance. Minerva 2014;52:77-96.
11. Bendels MHK, Müller R, Brueggmann D, et al. Gender disparities in high-quality research revealed by nature index journals. PLoS One 2018;13:e0189136-21.
12. Jefferson L, Bloor K, Maynard A. Women in medicine: historical perspectives and recent trends. Br Med Bull 2015;114:5-15.
13. Jagsi R, Guancial EA, Worobey CC, et al. The "gender gap" in authorship of academic medical literature-a 35-year perspective. N Engl J Med 2006;355:281-7.
14. Filardo G, da Graca B, Sass DM, et al. Trends and comparison of female frst authorship in high impact medical journals: observational study (1994-2014). BMJ 2016;352:i847.
15. Bendels MHK, Wanke E, Schöffel N, et al. Gender equality in academic research on epilepsy-a study on scientifc authorships. Epilepsia 2017;58:1794-802.
16. Bendels MHK, Brüggmann D, Schöffel N, et al. Gendermetrics of cancer research: results from a global analysis on lung cancer. Oncotarget 2017;8:101911-21.
17. Bendels MHK, Dietz MC, Brüggmann D, et al. Gender disparities in high-quality dermatology research: a descriptive bibliometric study on scientifc authorships. BMJ Open 2018;8:e020089.
18. Bendels MHK, Costrut AM, Schöffel N, et al. Gendermetrics of cancer research: results from a global analysis on prostate cancer. Oncotarget 2018;9:19640-9.
19. Sing DC, Jain D, Ouyang D. Gender trends in authorship of spine-related academic literature-a 39-year perspective. Spine J 2017;17:1749-54.
20. Schisterman E F, Swanson CW, Lu Y-L, et al. The changing face of epidemiology: gender disparities in citations? Epidemiology 2017;28:159-68.
21. Piper CL, Scheel JR, Lee CI, et al. Gender trends in radiology authorship: a 35-year analysis. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2016;206:3-7.
22. Mueller CM, Gaudilliere DK, Kin C, et al. Gender disparities in scholarly productivity of US academic surgeons. J Surg Res 2016;203:28-33.
23. Long MT, Leszczynski A, Thompson KD, et al. Female authorship in major academic gastroenterology journals: a look over 20 years. Gastrointest Endosc 2015;81:1440-7.
24. Fishman M, Williams WA, Goodman DM, et al. Gender differences in the authorship of original research in pediatric journals, 2001-2016. J Pediatr 2017;191:244-9.
25. Sidhu R, Rajashekhar P, Lavin VL, et al. The gender imbalance in academic medicine: a study of female authorship in the United Kingdom. J R Soc Med 2009;102:337-42.
26. Ovseiko PV, Chapple A, Edmunds LD, et al. Advancing gender equality through the Athena Swan charter for women in science: an exploratory study of women's and men's perceptions. Health Res Policy Syst 2017;15:12.
27. Ovseiko PV, Pololi LH, Edmunds LD, et al. Creating a more supportive and inclusive university culture: a mixed-methods interdisciplinary comparative analysis of medical and social sciences at the University of Oxford. Interdiscip Sci Rev 2019;44:166-91.
28. Schmidt EK, Ovseiko PV, Henderson LR. Understanding the Athena Swan Award scheme for gender equality as a complex social intervention in a complex system: analysis of silver Award action plans in a comparative European perspective. bioRxiv 2019:555482 https://doi.org/10.1101/555482
29. Ovseiko PV, Taylor M, Gilligan RE, et al. Effect of Athena SWAN funding incentives on women's research leadership. BMJ 2020;371:m3975.
30. Ovseiko PV, Edmunds LD, Pololi LH, et al. Markers of achievement for assessing and monitoring gender equity in translational research organisations: a rationale and study protocol. BMJ Open 2016;6:e009022.
31. NIHR Oxford BRC. About the NIHR Oxford biomedical research centre, 2019. Available: https://oxfordbrc.nihr.ac.uk/about-us-intro/[Accessed 19 Dec 2019].
32. Greenhalgh T, Ovseiko PV, Fahy N, et al. Maximising value from a United Kingdom biomedical research centre: study protocol. Health Res Policy Syst 2017;15:70.
33. Gunashekar S, Parks S, Calero-Medina C, Visser M, van Honk J, Wooding S. Bilbliometric analysis of highly cited publications of biomedical and health research in England, 2004-2013. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation; 2015: 1-83. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1363.html
34. Gunashekar S, Wooding S, Guthrie S. How do NIHR peer review panels use bibliometric information to support their decisions? Scientometrics 2017;112:1813-35.
35. Tscharntke T, Hochberg ME, Rand TA, et al. Author sequence and credit for contributions in multiauthored publications. PLoS Biol 2007;5:0013-14.
36. Wren JD, Kozak KZ, Johnson KR, et al. The write position. A survey of perceived contributions to papers based on byline position and number of authors. EMBO Rep 2007;8:988-91.
37. ICMJE. Defning the role of authors and contributors, 2019. Available: http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defning-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html [Accessed 23 Dec 2019].
38. Slezák P, Bokes P, Námer P, et al. Microsoft Excel add-in for the statistical analysis of contingency tables. Int J Innov Educ Res 2014;2:90-100. doi:10.31686/ijier.vol2.iss5.188
39. Spitzer M, Wildenhain J, Rappsilber J, et al. BoxPlotR: a web tool for generation of box plots. Nat Methods 2014;11:121-2.
40. Patel VM, Panzarasa P, Ashrafan H, et al. Collaborative patterns, authorship practices and scientifc success in biomedical research: a network analysis. J R Soc Med 2019;112:245-57.
41. Ouyang D, Harrington RA, Rodriguez F. Association between female corresponding authors and female Co-Authors in top contemporary cardiovascular medicine journals. Circulation 2019;139:1127-9.
42. Fox CW, Burns CS, Muncy AD, et al. Gender differences in patterns of authorship do not affect peer review outcomes at an ecology Journal. Funct Ecol 2016;30:126-39.
43. Salerno PE, Páez-Vacas M, Guayasamin JM, et al. Male principal investigators (almost) don't publish with women in ecology and zoology. PLoS One 2019;14:e0218598-14.
44. Edwards HA, Schroeder J, Dugdale HL. Gender differences in authorships are not associated with publication bias in an evolutionary Journal. PLoS One 2018;13:e0201725
45. Bendels MHK, Müller R, Brueggmann D, et al. Gender disparities in high-quality research revealed by nature index journals. PLoS One 2018;13:e0189136.
46. Feramisco JD, Leitenberger JJ, Redfern SI, et al. A gender gap in the dermatology literature? cross-sectional analysis of manuscript authorship trends in dermatology journals during 3 decades. J Am Acad Dermatol 2009;60:63-9.
47. Bhattacharyya N, Shapiro NL. Increased female authorship in otolaryngology over the past three decades. Laryngoscope 2000;110:358-61.
48. Duffy MA. Last and corresponding authorship practices in ecology. Ecol Evol 2017;7:8876-87.
49. Wu C, Fuller S, Shi Z, et al. The gender gap in commenting: women are less likely than men to comment on (men's) published research. PLoS One 2020;15:e0230043.
50. Fox CW, Ritchey J P, Paine CET. Patterns of authorship in ecology and evolution: frst, last, and corresponding authorship vary with gender and geography. Ecol Evol 2018;8:11492-507.
51. van Leeuwen T, Hoorens S, Grant J. Using bibliometrics to support the procurement of NIHR biomedical research centres in England. Res Eval 2009;18:71-82.
52. van Leeuwen T, Grant J. Bibliometric analysis of highly cited publications of health research in England, 1995-2004. Santa Monica, CA:RAND Corporation; 2007. https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR368.html[Accessed 19 Feb 2020].