Research production in high-impact journals of contemporary neuroscience: A gender analysis

González-Álvarez, Julio; Cervera-Crespo, Teresa

doi:10.1016/j.joi.2016.12.007

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“…1,2,9,25,26 The number of publications by male researchers remains significantly higher than those by females, as is also seen in authorships of oncological publications. 10,12 In our study, we found an overall female contribution to abstract authorships of 27-31%, with an increase of female contribution as abstract authors over time. However, this rise was not observed among female presenters at both conferences.…”

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“…Gender discrepancies in authorships of scientific publications have been identified in many disciplines all over the world, including oncology . However, results of a clinical research project are often first brought to life through a presentation at an international conference.…”

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“…1,[4][5][6][7] Gender discrepancies in authorships of scientific publications have been identified in many disciplines all over the world, including oncology. 2,[8][9][10][11][12] However, results of a clinical research project are often first brought to life through a presentation at an international conference. Such a presentation gives the scientific study an actual identity through visibility of the researcher.…”

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From presentation to paper: Gender disparities in oncological research

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Gender disparities in scientific publications have been identified in oncological research. Oral research presentations at major conferences enhance visibility of presenters. The share of women presenting at such podia is unknown. We aim to identify gender‐based differences in contributions to presentations at two major oncological conferences. Abstracts presented at plenary sessions of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meetings and European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congresses were collected. Trend analyses were used to analyze female contribution over time. The association between presenter's sex, study outcome (positive/negative) and journals' impact factors (IFs) of subsequently published papers was assessed using Chi‐square and Mann–Whitney U tests. Of 166 consecutive abstracts presented at ASCO in 2011–2018 (n = 34) and ESMO in 2008–2018 (n = 132), 21% had female presenters, all originating from Northern America (n = 17) or Europe (n = 18). The distribution of presenter's sex was similar over time (p = 0.70). Of 2,425 contributing authors to these presented abstracts, 28% were women. The proportion of female abstract authors increased over time (p < 0.05) and was higher in abstracts with female (34%) compared to male presenters (26%; p < 0.01). Presenter's sex was not associated with study outcome (p = 0.82). Median journals' IFs were lower in papers with a female first author (p < 0.05). In conclusion, there is a clear gender disparity in research presentations at two major oncological conferences, with 28% of authors and 21% of presenters of these studies being female. Lack of visibility of female presenters could impair acknowledgement for their research, opportunities in their academic career and even hamper heterogeneity in research.

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From presentation to paper: Gender disparities in oncological research

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“…Nevertheless, women still compose a minority of the authors of original research and guest editorials in the journals studied” (p. 281). Recently, the authors (González‐Alvarez & Cervera‐Crespo, ) obtained 67.1% of male authorships and 32.9% of female authorships in high‐impact journals of Neuroscience. Table of West et al's () showed that female authorships during the 1990–2011 period ranged from 10.64% in Mathematics, 12.04% in Philosophy, 13.68% in Economics, and so on to 41.41% in Sociology, 41.90% in Demography and 46.35% in Education.…”

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“…In addition to overall large‐scale studies, recent work has performed gender analyses in specific disciplines, such as Nanoscience and nanotechnology (Sotudeh & Khoshian, ), Computing research (Cavero, Vela, Cáceres, Cuesta, & Sierra‐Alonso, ), Software engineering (Vela, Cáceres, & Cavero, ), Materials science (Mauleón & Bordon, ), Medical literature (Jagsi et al, ) or Neuroscience (González‐Alvarez & Cervera‐Crespo, ).…”

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Contemporary psychology and women: A gender analysis of the scientific production

González-Álvarez

Cervera-Crespo

2017

Int J Psychol

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Despite important advances made in recent decades, women are still underrepresented in science (less than 30% of authorships). This study presents a bibliometric analysis of all the Psychology articles published in 2009 included in the Web of Science database (Thomson Reuters) in order to examine the contribution of women in contemporary Psychology, their pattern of research collaboration, the scientific content and the scientific impact from a gender perspective. From a total of 90,067 authorships, gender could be identified in 74,413 (82.6%) of them, being 40,782 (54.8%) male authorships and 33,631 (45.2%) female authorships. These data corresponded to 24,477 (49.9%) individual men and 24,553 (50.1%) women, respectively. Therefore, Psychology presents gender parity in the number of authors, and a gender asymmetry in the number of authorships that it is much lower than in science in general and other specific scientific fields. In relative terms, women tend to be concentrated in the first position of the authorship by-line and much less in the last (senior) position. This double pattern suggests that age probably plays a role in (partly) explaining the slight gender disparity of authorships.

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Women in contemporary cancer research

González-Álvarez

Sos‐Peña

2020

Intl Journal of Cancer

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Despite recent advances, gender inequality persists in many scientific fields, including medicine. Thus far, no study has extensively analyzed the gender composition of contemporary researchers in the oncology field. We examined 40 oncological journals (Web of Science, ONCOLOGY category) with different impact factors (Q1-Q4) and extracted all the articles and reviews published during 2015-17, in order to identify the gender of their authors. Our data showed that women represent about 38% of all the authorships, both in articles and reviews. In relative terms, women are overrepresented as first authors of articles (43.8%), and clearly underrepresented as last or senior authors (<30%). This double pattern, also observed in other medical fields, suggests that age, or more specifically, seniority, may play some role in the gender composition of cancer researchers. Examining the pattern of collaboration, an interesting finding was observed: the articles signed by a woman in the first or in the last position roughly showed gender parity in the byline. We found also some differences in the content of the articles depending on which gender occupies the first and last positions of the authorships.

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Research production in high-impact journals of contemporary neuroscience: A gender analysis

Cited by 36 publications

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From presentation to paper: Gender disparities in oncological research

From presentation to paper: Gender disparities in oncological research

Contemporary psychology and women: A gender analysis of the scientific production

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