2022
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2021.11.041
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Authorship Gender Composition in Urology Literature From 2015 Through 2020

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“…Gemäß der DGU-Datenbank (Stand 29.07.2021) wurden in Deutschland zwischen 2013 und 2020 insgesamt 138 Habilitationsverfahren in der Urologie abgeschlossen, 14,5 % davon von Frauen. Hinzu kommt, dass Publikationen von Urologinnen signifikant seltener in hochrangigen Journals publiziert werden, wie eine aktuelle Studie ergab [ 13 ].…”
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“…Gemäß der DGU-Datenbank (Stand 29.07.2021) wurden in Deutschland zwischen 2013 und 2020 insgesamt 138 Habilitationsverfahren in der Urologie abgeschlossen, 14,5 % davon von Frauen. Hinzu kommt, dass Publikationen von Urologinnen signifikant seltener in hochrangigen Journals publiziert werden, wie eine aktuelle Studie ergab [ 13 ].…”
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“…This evidence is due to persisting gender stereotypes according to which some specialties are 'more suitable' for men than women, but also to women's perception of urology as a sexist field 4 . This strong gender segregation across medical specialties led to urology being a historically male-dominated field, and, although the number of women urologists is increasing, women are still underrepresented as authors of scientific publications in highimpact urology journals 5 , as well as speakers and chairs at urology conferences 6 .…”
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“…At Nature Reviews Urology, we want to be a part of the change towards gender equity, both by actively increasing the number of female authors 5 and reviewers in our manuscripts and by providing a space to give voice to under-represented women. Thus, we are proud to present a collection of Comment articles from members of the Society of Women in Urology (SWIU) to discuss the main issues that women face in medicine and academia with a focus on urology, and to propose solutions to improve representation and well-being of women in urology.…”
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“…Female authors and authors from low-and lower-middleincome countries (LMICs) have been historically underrepresented in the urology literature [1][2][3]. Women comprised <20% of co-authors and 15% of senior authors across 18 urology-related journals during 2015-2020 [1]. Women have also been underrepresented as panel members at major urology meetings [3].…”
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“…Then, we manually extracted data from withdrawn, older versions of reviews since several had different author groups compared to their current versions. Given the significantly higher accuracy of manual search for ascertaining gender compared to the algorithmic estimation methods used in several prior works [1,2], we used the former to achieve ≥95% ascertainment. We endeavoured to capture at least one publicly available webpage listing authors' personal pronouns or picture such as institutional profile, Google Scholar or LinkedIn.…”
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