Women Publishing in American Psychological Association Journals: A Gender Analysis of Six Decades

Abstract

Despite recent advances, gender inequality persists in many scientific fields, and Psychology is not alien to this phenomenon. This study presents the evolution of gender composition in American Psychological Association publications in the past six decades, from 1963 to 2016. Longitudinal analysis revealed an important change: women rose from a tiny 12% to 14% in the 1960s to almost gender parity in the last decade (2010s). The pattern of collaboration (coauthorship) shows that women tend to be slightly overrepresented as first author and underrepresented as the last or senior author. In the last two decades, women outnumber men as “new” American Psychological Association authors (authors who publish for the first time in an American Psychological Association journal). These features and the fact that men’s publications tend to encompass a much wider range of years suggest that age may play a role in the gender composition of American Psychological Association contributors.

The current state of relationship science: A cross-disciplines review of key themes, theories, researchers and journals

“…In a similar vein, the majority of authors were men with women vastly under-represented. While a recent study has shown that women are approaching gender parity in psychological research contribution (46.4% of APA authorships (Gonzalez-Alvarez & Sos-Pena, 2020)), the accumulative record is still skewed in favor of male researchers. Many of the studies in this collation note gender differences in men and women’s approaches to relationship processes.…”

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How do German pharmacologists publish in the non-peer-reviewed science magazine Biospektrum?

“…Publications in peer-reviewed journals are the most important currency is science, determining the academic career success of individual scientists (Sharma et al 2014 ). Several gender inequalities for various aspects of academic life, including editor positions, peer review, and first and senior authorships, have been noted across multiple disciplines (Roper 2019 ; Segovia-Saiz et al 2020 ; Pinho-Gomes et al 2021 ; Balasubramanian et al 2020 ; González-Alvarez and Sos-Pena 2020 ; Hagan et al 2020 ; Bagga et al 2021 ; Bram et al 2022 ; Squazzoni et al 2021 ; Helmer et al 2017 ; Budden et al 2008 ). In a recent study, we examined the contributions of female pharmacologists from Germany to Naunyn–Schmiedeberg’s Archives of Pharmacology from 2000 to 2020 (Zehetbauer et al 2022 ).…”