Article Factors Influencing Gender Disparities in Senior Authorship of Plastic Surgery Publications.
Journal
Annals of plastic surgery
ISSN: 1536-3708
Titre abrégé: Ann Plast Surg
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 7805336
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 Dec 2023
01 Dec 2023
Historique:
pubmed:
14
11
2023
medline:
14
11
2023
entrez:
14
11
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Female plastic surgeons publish fewer and lower impact articles. To better understand how to address this gender gap, we explored the temporal trends in female senior authorship and evaluated predictive factors for female senior authorship. A retrospective review of articles published in the 3 highest impact plastic surgery journals published from 2010 to 2020 was conducted. Trends with female senior authorship across time were analyzed with respect to study type, subspeciality, and geographical origin. Of the 5425 articles included, 13% (n = 720) had a female senior author, and female senior authorship increased across time ( R = 0.84, P = 0.033). Over the decade, an increased proportion of cohort studies ( R = 0.82, P = 0.045), systematic reviews ( R = 0.96, P = 0.003), breast-related articles ( R = 0.88, P = 0.022), and reconstruction-related articles ( R = 0.83, P = 0.039) were published by female senior authors. Subspecialty and geography predicted female senior authorship; articles focused on aesthetic (odds ratio [OR] = 1.3, P = 0.046) and breast (OR = 1.7, P < 0.001) subspecialties or those originating from Canada (OR = 1.7 P = 0.019), Europe (OR = 1.5, P < 0.001), and Latin America (OR = 3.0, P < 0.001) were more likely to have a female senior author. Articles from East Asia were less likely to have female senior authors (OR = 0.7, P = 0.005). Female senior authorship in plastic surgery has increased over the last decade, and the proportion of female plastic surgeons leading cohort studies and systematic reviews is increasing. Sex of the senior author is influenced by plastic surgery subspecialty and geographical origin, but article type did not impact the odds of female senior authorship.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37962253
doi: 10.1097/SAP.0000000000003709
pii: 00000637-990000000-00341
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
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Pagination
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Copyright © 2023 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors have no financial disclosures or conflicts of interest to disclose.
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