Gender inequities in dental research publications: Findings from 20 years

Haag, Dandara; Schuch, Helena Silveira; Nath, Sonia; Baker, Sarah R.; Celeste, Roger Keller; Thomson, W. Murray; Jamieson, Lisa

doi:10.1111/cdoe.12831

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“…First, like prior studies, we found sex differences in the productivity and impact of research productivity, impact and collaboration pattern. Unlike prior studies ( 48 , 49 ) conducted in high- and upper middle-income countries ( 50 – 52 ), female researchers had significantly higher research productivity and impact than male researchers. A prior report had also observed no gender difference in research productivity in the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery specialty ( 47 ).…”

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“…Nigeria has a low gender equality ranking status of 0.33% by the World Bank in 2020 ( 58 ). Prior comprehensive studies of dental publications and general dental literature showed poorer female productivity irrespective of dental disciplines, countries and across first and last authorship ( 49 , 59 ). There are, however, reports of an increase in the number of females applying to, studying, qualifying, and practicing as dentists in the global North over the past half a century due to educational and practice systems that provide both males and females with equal opportunities ( 60 – 62 ).…”

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Gender differences in dentistry and oral sciences research productivity by researchers in Nigeria

Foláyan¹,

Tantawi²,

Shamsoddin³

et al. 2023

Front. Oral. Health

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BackgroundThe aim of the study was to assess gender differences in the productivity, impact, collaboration pattern and author position of dentistry and oral sciences researchers in Nigeria.MethodsWe examined the Web of Science (WoS) publication records of dentistry and oral sciences researchers to assess gender differences in productivity, impact, collaboration and authorship pattern (first authorship, last authorship and corresponding author). The analysis included the number of publications in journals ranked based on their quartile rating amongst the journals in the subject area (Q1–Q4). Chi square was used to make gender comparisons. Significance was set at >5%.Results413 unique authors published 1,222 articles on dentistry and oral sciences between 2012 and 2021. The number of WoS documents per female author was significantly higher than that per male author (3.7 vs. 2.6, p = 0.03). A non-significantly higher percentage of females authored papers in Q2 and Q3 journals and a higher percentage of males authored papers in Q4 journals. The number of citations per female author (25.0 vs. 14.9, p = 0.04) and the percentage of females listed as first authors (26.6% vs. 20.5%, p = 0.048) were statistically greater than men. The percentage of males listed as last authors was statistically greater than females (23.6% vs. 17.7%, p = 0.04). The correlation between the percentage of papers with researchers listed as first authors and that listed as last authors was not significant for males (p = 0.06) but was significant for females (p = 0.002). A non-significantly greater percentage of females were listed as corresponding authors (26.4% vs. 20.6%) and males were listed as international (27.4% vs. 25.1%) and domestic collaborators (46.8% vs. 44.7%). Also, there was no statistically significant gender difference in the proportion of articles published in open access journals (52.5% vs. 52.0%).ConclusionThough there were significant gender differences in the productivity, impact, and collaboration profile of dentistry and oral sciences researchers in Nigeria, the higher female research productivity and impact may be driven by cultural gender nuances that needs to be explored further.

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Gender differences in dentistry and oral sciences research productivity by researchers in Nigeria

Foláyan¹,

Tantawi²,

Shamsoddin³

et al. 2023

Front. Oral. Health

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“…Specifically in the research sphere, critical to career development and promotion, there is a need to significantly increase women representation; on publications as lead and senior authors, 16 membership of journal editorial boards and being Chief Editors, 17 at conferences, including as keynote and invited speakers 14 and large competitive national research grants 18 . The National Health and Medical Research Council will now allocate equal Investigator grants to women/non‐binary and men in the leadership levels 1 to 3 18 …”

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Gender diversity of the oral health leadership in Australia

Lalloo

2023

Australian Dental Journal

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BackgroundGender diversity in oral health leadership is important. Globally, this is dominated by men and does not equitably represent the increasing women in the workforce.MethodsPublicly available and gathered data on leadership positions for Australian professional associations, accrediting body, specialist academies, training institutions and the public dental sector were analysed for gender (men and women) diversity.ResultsThe gender diversity of the leadership varies across the oral health organizations and training institutions. Of the 383 identified leadership positions, 229 (60%) are held by men. Of the eight national dentist association presidents, six (75%) are men. Of the 65 leadership positions across 13 training institutions, 39 (59%) are held by men, and all schools training dentists are led by men. Men also dominate leadership roles in the specialist academies (62%), the research organizations (56%) and public dental sector (67%). Women do have the majority of senior leadership roles in the accrediting body (67%).ConclusionGender diversity of the oral health leadership shows some positive findings, but there is still an effort required to increase women leaders across many areas of this leadership. This should urgently be recognized as a problem, with the implementation of strategies to address this important issue. © 2023 Australian Dental Association.

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“…Prominent among the few female authors who contributed to CDOE were C Tsai, D Holst, S Lahti, EJ Kay, R Freeman and A Suominen, all of whom made the list of prolific authors. Gender disparities in dentistry academic publishing have been well documented, with women being underrepresented in authorship and editorial roles 21 . These disparities could stem from unconscious bias in the peer review process and structural advancement for women in academia.…”

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A bibliometric analysis of Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology: Fifty years of publications

Nath,

Thomson,

Baker

et al. 2023

Comm Dent Oral Epid

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ObjectivesIn celebration of the journal's 50th anniversary, the aim of the study was to review the whole collection of Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology (CDOE) publications from 1973 to 2022 and provide a complete overview of the main publication characteristics.MethodsThe study used bibliometric techniques such as performance and science mapping analysis of 3428 articles extracted from the Scopus database. The data were analysed using the ‘Bibliometrix’ package in R. The journal's scientific production was examined, along with the yearly citation count, the distribution of publications based on authors, the corresponding author's country and affiliation and citation count, citing source and keywords. Bibliometric network maps were constructed to determine the conceptual, intellectual and social collaborative structure over the past 50 years. The trending research topics and themes were identified.ResultsThe total number of articles and average citations has increased over the years. D Locker, AJ Spencer, A Sheiham and WM Thomson were the most frequently published authors, and PE Petersen, GD Slade and AI Ismail published papers with the highest citations. The most published countries were the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil and Canada, frequently engaging in collaborative efforts. The most common keywords used were ‘dental caries’, ‘oral epidemiology’ and ‘oral health’. The trending topics were healthcare and health disparities, social determinants of health, systematic review and health inequalities. Epidemiology, oral health and disparities were highly researched areas.ConclusionThis bibliometric study reviews CDOE's significant contribution to dental public health by identifying key research trends, themes, influential authors and collaborations. The findings provide insights into the need to increase publications from developing countries, improve gender diversity in authorship and broaden the scope of research themes.

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Gender inequities in dental research publications: Findings from 20 years

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Gender differences in dentistry and oral sciences research productivity by researchers in Nigeria

Gender differences in dentistry and oral sciences research productivity by researchers in Nigeria

Gender diversity of the oral health leadership in Australia

A bibliometric analysis of Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology: Fifty years of publications

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