Diversity and Representation of Physicians During the COVID-19 News Cycle

Tezel, Alangoya; Griffith, Kent A.; Jones, Rochelle D.; Jagsi, Reshma

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.6285

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“…These are countries for which we could identify pre-existing lists of experts who had prominent visibility in media. These lists are typically not published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature (with the exception of the US list that was previously generated and published by members of our team), 4 but in media news items in different countries, thus defying the possibility for efficient systematic searches. We therefore asked our colleagues at the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (and affiliated colleagues who come from different countries if they were aware of any such publicised lists.…”

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“…Details on the data collection and selection for the US list and features of the sample have been previously described. 4 Of the 220 people who appeared during these programmes, 76 were scientists (47 physicians and 29 PhDs).…”

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“…We also paid particular attention to probing the representation of women among highly visible COVID-19 experts, as it has been previously suggested that women are under-represented among COVID-19 experts in the USA. 4 …”

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Overall and COVID-19-specific citation impact of highly visible COVID-19 media experts: bibliometric analysis

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ObjectiveTo evaluate whether the COVID-19 experts who appear most frequently in media have high citation impact for their research overall, and for their COVID-19 peer-reviewed publications in particular and to examine the representation of women among such experts.DesignCross-linking of data sets of most highly visible COVID-19 media experts with citation data on the impact of their published work (career-long publication record and COVID-19-specific work).SettingCable news appearance in prime-time programming or overall media appearances.ParticipantsMost highly visible COVID-19 media experts in the USA, Switzerland, Greece and Denmark.InterventionsNone.Outcome measuresCitation data from Scopus along with discipline-specific ranks of overall career-long and COVID-19-specific impact based on a previously validated composite citation indicator.ResultsWe assessed 76 COVID-19 experts who were highly visible in US prime-time cable news, and 50, 12 and 2 highly visible experts in media in Denmark, Greece and Switzerland, respectively. Of those, 23/76, 10/50, 2/12 and 0/2 were among the top 2% of overall citation impact among scientists in the same discipline worldwide. Moreover, 37/76, 15/50, 7/12 and 2/2 had published anything on COVID-19 that was indexed in Scopus as of 30 August 2021. Only 18/76, 6/50, 2/12 and 0/2 of the highly visible COVID-19 media experts were women. 55 scientists in the USA, 5 in Denmark, 64 in Greece and 56 in Switzerland had a higher citation impact for their COVID-19 work than any of the evaluated highly visible media COVID-19 experts in the respective country; 10/55, 2/5, 22/64 and 14/56 of them were women.ConclusionsDespite notable exceptions, there is a worrisome disconnect between COVID-19 claimed media expertise and scholarship. Highly cited women COVID-19 experts are rarely included among highly visible media experts.

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“… 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 Both traditional news media and novel forms of calling attention to published work, such as Twitter, also amplify men’s voices more than women’s. 67 , 68 …”

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Sex Differences in Academic Productivity Across Academic Ranks and Specialties in Academic Medicine

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Wang

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IMPORTANCE Despite equal numbers of men and women entering medical school, women are underrepresented in the upper echelons of academic medicine and receive less compensation and research funding. Citation-related publication productivity metrics, such as the h-index, are increasingly used for hiring, salary, grants, retention, promotion, and tenure decisions. Exploring sex differences in these metrics across academic medicine provides deeper insight into why differences are observed in career outcomes. OBJECTIVE To systematically examine the available literature on sex differences in h-index of academic faculty physicians across all medical specialties and all levels of academic rank.

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“…These recent studies about women's representation in COVID-19 discourses primarily focus on women with powers such as politicians (Smith 2020) and medical experts who have the authority of medical science to speak about COVID-19 (Alangoya Tezel, Kent A. Griffith, Rochelle D. Jones, and Reshma Jagsi 2021;Hetti Waluati Triana, Martin Kustati, Yunisrina Qismullah Yusuf, and Reflinaldi Reflinaldi 2021). Hence, the majority of health workers who were neither politicians (Smith 2020) nor expert speakers appearing in cable news (Tezel et al 2021) were exposed to the risk of further marginalization in feminist media research.…”

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Spotlighted but with gender bias: Underrepresentation and paradoxical representation of frontline women health workers in Chinese social media during COVID-19

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Li²,

Xiao³

2022

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Despite that women constitute the major force in the frontline health sector during COVID-19, representation and biased representation of women health workers still prevail. This study applied Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling on Weibo posts (N = 199,110) containing the keyword, “援鄂医疗队” (i.e., “aiding-Hubei medical team” where Hubei is the province that Wuhan is in). Posts were published during the first stage of COVID-19 (January 22, 2020 to June 30, 2020). Results revealed that frontline health workers were spotlighted on Weibo as serving the “nation,” saving the “patients,” and fulfilling family roles, indicating a home-country-isomorphism ideology. According to the 13 topics found in this online corpus, posts discussing health workers in a genderless collective lens tended to emphasize their professional roles; but when the woman identity of health workers became evident, posts tended to emphasize their family roles. Moreover, we observed the militarization of language that reinforced patriarchal masculinity. Corporates’ and male celebrities’ wave-riding and hashtag-jumping/hijacking – with posts celebrating their charitable activities toward COVID-19 medical teams – further deprived women health workers of their voices and visibility. Social bots, notably, participated in this message propagation process. Implications of findings are discussed.

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Diversity and Representation of Physicians During the COVID-19 News Cycle

Cited by 5 publications

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Overall and COVID-19-specific citation impact of highly visible COVID-19 media experts: bibliometric analysis

Overall and COVID-19-specific citation impact of highly visible COVID-19 media experts: bibliometric analysis

Sex Differences in Academic Productivity Across Academic Ranks and Specialties in Academic Medicine

Spotlighted but with gender bias: Underrepresentation and paradoxical representation of frontline women health workers in Chinese social media during COVID-19

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