TY - JOUR
T1 - Trends in Female Authorship
T2 - A Bibliometric Analysis of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
AU - Luc, Jessica G.Y.
AU - Vervoort, Dominique
AU - Percy, Edward
AU - Hirji, Sameer
AU - Mann, Gurkiran K.
AU - Phan, Kevin
AU - Dibas, Mahmoud
AU - Vaduganathan, Muthiah
AU - Preventza, Ourania
AU - Antonoff, Mara B.
N1 - Funding Information:
Dr Vaduganathan is supported by the KL2/Catalyst Medical Research Investigator Training award from Harvard Catalyst ( NIH / NCATS Award UL 1TR002541).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
PY - 2021/4
Y1 - 2021/4
N2 - Background: Women continue to comprise a small minority of cardiothoracic surgeons. Representation of women in areas of academic achievement has not been well characterized. This study aims to evaluate female representation among authorship positions in high-impact articles published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. Methods: Altmetric scores were used to identify the top 50 articles published in 2013, 2015, and 2017 in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. Article characteristics as well as author demographics were collected. Bibliometric analysis was performed to identify longitudinal changes with regard to female representation as first and last authors. Results: Female authors remain underrepresented in authorship, despite a temporal trend toward improvement in female representation over the years for first author position (16% in 2013, 22% in 2015, 20% in 2017) and last author position (8% in 2013, 16% in 2015, 20% in 2017). Articles authored by women were equally likely to achieve high impact as compared with men, as evaluated by Altmetric score (women 30.1 ± 38.6 vs men 39.1 ± 73.5, P = .53), citations (women 14.3 ± 19.1 vs men 17.6 ± 20.8, P = .45), and to be mentioned by news outlets, blogs, patents, Facebook, Wikipedia, Mendeley, Google, LinkedIn, and Reddit. Female first and last authors achieved comparable numbers of publications and H-index scores compared with male authors. Conclusions: Significant sex-based differences in authorship representation persist, but with favorable improvement in female representation over time. Importantly, citations and high-impact status were independent of author sex. Characterization of the representation of women in academic achievement helps us strive for gender equity in our specialty.
AB - Background: Women continue to comprise a small minority of cardiothoracic surgeons. Representation of women in areas of academic achievement has not been well characterized. This study aims to evaluate female representation among authorship positions in high-impact articles published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. Methods: Altmetric scores were used to identify the top 50 articles published in 2013, 2015, and 2017 in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. Article characteristics as well as author demographics were collected. Bibliometric analysis was performed to identify longitudinal changes with regard to female representation as first and last authors. Results: Female authors remain underrepresented in authorship, despite a temporal trend toward improvement in female representation over the years for first author position (16% in 2013, 22% in 2015, 20% in 2017) and last author position (8% in 2013, 16% in 2015, 20% in 2017). Articles authored by women were equally likely to achieve high impact as compared with men, as evaluated by Altmetric score (women 30.1 ± 38.6 vs men 39.1 ± 73.5, P = .53), citations (women 14.3 ± 19.1 vs men 17.6 ± 20.8, P = .45), and to be mentioned by news outlets, blogs, patents, Facebook, Wikipedia, Mendeley, Google, LinkedIn, and Reddit. Female first and last authors achieved comparable numbers of publications and H-index scores compared with male authors. Conclusions: Significant sex-based differences in authorship representation persist, but with favorable improvement in female representation over time. Importantly, citations and high-impact status were independent of author sex. Characterization of the representation of women in academic achievement helps us strive for gender equity in our specialty.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.06.031
DO - 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.06.031
M3 - Article
C2 - 32827552
AN - SCOPUS:85100212372
SN - 0003-4975
VL - 111
SP - 1387
EP - 1393
JO - Annals of Thoracic Surgery
JF - Annals of Thoracic Surgery
IS - 4
ER -