TY - JOUR
T1 - Sex Differences Remain Under-Reported in Cardiovascular Publications
AU - Wang, Stephani C.
AU - Koutroumpakis, Efstratios
AU - Schulman-Marcus, Joshua
AU - Tosh, Traci
AU - Volgman, Annabelle Santos
AU - Lyubarova, Radmila
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright 2021, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2021.
PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - Background: For the past two decades, there has been increased interest from medical journals and calls to action from various organizations such as the National Institutes of Health to study sex differences in cardiovascular (CV) disease. It is unknown whether this emphasis has translated to a growth in publications addressing sex differences in CV disease. Materials and Methods: We performed a bibliometric analysis of all CV publications from 2006 to 2015. The National Library of Medicine's PubMed database was searched for articles containing the phrases "cardiac,""cardiovascular"or "cardiology,"in the first author affiliation field. This was followed by a subsequent search for publications containing any of the following phrases in the title and/or abstract: "woman,""women,""female,""females,""gender,"or "sex."The presence of such terms defined the publication as sex-specific. Trends over time were analyzed for specified subgroups, including publication category and funding source. Results: A total of 189,543 CV publications were identified, out of which there were 24,615 (12.99%) sex-specific publications. For the 10-year period, there were no significant changes in the relative proportion of sex-specific publications. When specific publication categories were analyzed, there were significant proportional increase of sex-specific publications in general articles category, but not for reviews, clinical trials, meta-analysis, or letters. Conclusion: Despite calls for greater attention, only a small fraction of publications for the past decade have reported on sex differences. There was no significant proportional growth of sex-specific publications for a recent 10-year period, except for the general research articles.
AB - Background: For the past two decades, there has been increased interest from medical journals and calls to action from various organizations such as the National Institutes of Health to study sex differences in cardiovascular (CV) disease. It is unknown whether this emphasis has translated to a growth in publications addressing sex differences in CV disease. Materials and Methods: We performed a bibliometric analysis of all CV publications from 2006 to 2015. The National Library of Medicine's PubMed database was searched for articles containing the phrases "cardiac,""cardiovascular"or "cardiology,"in the first author affiliation field. This was followed by a subsequent search for publications containing any of the following phrases in the title and/or abstract: "woman,""women,""female,""females,""gender,"or "sex."The presence of such terms defined the publication as sex-specific. Trends over time were analyzed for specified subgroups, including publication category and funding source. Results: A total of 189,543 CV publications were identified, out of which there were 24,615 (12.99%) sex-specific publications. For the 10-year period, there were no significant changes in the relative proportion of sex-specific publications. When specific publication categories were analyzed, there were significant proportional increase of sex-specific publications in general articles category, but not for reviews, clinical trials, meta-analysis, or letters. Conclusion: Despite calls for greater attention, only a small fraction of publications for the past decade have reported on sex differences. There was no significant proportional growth of sex-specific publications for a recent 10-year period, except for the general research articles.
KW - NIH funding
KW - cardiovascular publications
KW - sex-specific
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U2 - 10.1089/jwh.2020.8561
DO - 10.1089/jwh.2020.8561
M3 - Article
C2 - 33667122
AN - SCOPUS:85115223331
SN - 1540-9996
VL - 30
SP - 1253
EP - 1258
JO - Journal of Women's Health
JF - Journal of Women's Health
IS - 9
ER -