Background Females and ethnic minorities are underrepresented in the first and senior
authorships positions of academic publications. This stems from various structural and …

Sex and gender differences play a significant role in the pathogenesis, clinical presentation,
and treatment outcomes of various diseases. These differences arise from a complex …

Purpose To reveal factors related to gender parity on editorial boards of critical care journals
indexing in SCI-E. Methods The genders were defined according to data obtained from …

Background In plastic surgery academia, research output is heavily used as a metric of
accreditation, from assessing residency applicants to evaluating faculty for promotion. The h …

The article by Nguyen et al reveals that Pathology, like other medical specialties, has an
underrepresentation of women authors, 1–7 editorial board members 7–10 and editors in …

The medical profession has experienced a significant increase in the number of women
practitioners in recent decades, leading to a reduction in the gender gap. According to the …

Background: There is an open question as to whether authorship in peer-reviewed scientific
journal articles is representational. Part of this discrimination has been attributed to bias in …