Background Over the previous few decades, trends in author demographics have
significantly changed. Such trends have already been studied for many sub-specialties but …

Context: The number of women in academic medicine has increased significantly in recent
years. However, female authors are underrepresented in major medical journals. Objective …

Gender equality is necessary to realize the human evolution and potentiality, but for women,
it is still a challenge, especially in science [1]. The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural …

Purpose While males have dominated the physician lines over the last decades the recent
female doctors' number increasing might progressively reduce this gender gap. This might …

PURPOSE Studies conducted in medical fields other than family medicine show that gender
differences in publication rates are pronounced in many, but not all, fields of medicine. Our …

Methods: We abstracted all original, full-length original manuscripts from 1997, 2007, &
2017 from the three highest impact journals publishing original GI research …

Objective We evaluated the temporal trend in gender ratios of first and last authors in the
field of oncological research published in major general medical and oncology journals and …

To provide information for targeted support of female scientists, the objective of this study
was to evaluate how female authors are represented in journals of five medical disciplines …

Background Academic authorship is a critical productivity metric used for academic
promotion. Objective To characterize temporal changes in female representation in …

Given the recent observational studies [1–3] suggesting that women tend to be less
represented as “first author” among original medical researches and clinical practice …