Gender Differences in Publication Productivity, Academic Rank, and Career Duration Among U.S. Academic Gastroenterology Faculty

Diamond, Sarah; Thomas, Charles R.; Desai, Sima S.; Holliday, Emma B.; Jagsi, Reshma; Schmitt, Colleen M.; Enestvedt, Brintha K.

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“…Due to the small sample size of some of the later career subgroups, this analysis may be underpowered, and therefore statistical differences may actually exist between men and women in these groups. However, as mentioned previously, prior studies have demonstrated that women tend to “catch up” with their male counterparts in the later career period …”

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Is the gender gap closing in otolaryngology subspecialties? An analysis of research productivity

et al. 2019

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Objective: The proportion of women specializing in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery (Oto-HNS) and seeking fellowship training has steadily increased over the last several years. In academic Oto-HNS, gender differences exist in research productivity, scholarly impact, and funding. This study aims to evaluate gender differences in academic productivity between otolaryngologists in early, mid-, and later careers stages and within various subspecialties.Methods: Departmental websites for all Oto-HNS residency programs were accessed, and data including gender, academic rank, and fellowship training/subspecialty field was collected. Bibliometric data including h-index, publication years, number of citations, documents, and coauthors was obtained from the Scopus database. Career groups were defined as early (1-5 years), mid-(6-15 years), and later (16+ years). Continuous data was compared using the t test.Results: Data was collected on 1,754 academic otolaryngologists (412 women, 1,342 men). Overall, men exhibited significantly higher h-indices, number of documents, citations, and coauthors and actively published for more years compared to women (P < 0.0001 for all variables). Similar trends persisted across all subspecialties. When authors were broken down into career groups, women and men showed similar research productivity across all career groups in the subspecialties of otology, facial plastics, and rhinology; however, in head and neck, laryngology, and pediatrics, women continued to lag behind men.Conclusion: This study suggests that female otolaryngologists within certain subspecialties are keeping pace with their male counterparts in publication productivity in the early career time frame. This represents a change from prior studies which have shown women to be less productive in the early career period.

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Is the gender gap closing in otolaryngology subspecialties? An analysis of research productivity

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“…35 Female physicians’ increased time commitments to home and child-bearing and rearing responsibilities, coupled with male physicians’ longer career durations, offer alternative potential explanations for this discrepancy in academic productivity. 20,21,23,36,37 Finally, another explanation may be that females are more likely to pursue career advancement through clinical excellence and teaching responsibilities, which are more difficult to objectively quantify and are not accounted for in the h-index. For example, lower rates of academic productivity among female surgical oncologists may originate from differential career choices of faculty track (i.e., research vs. clinical track).…”

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Academic Surgical Oncologists’ Productivity Correlates with Gender, Grant Funding, and Institutional NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center Affiliation

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Background. A scholar’s h-index is defined as the number of h papers published, each of which has been cited at least h times. We hypothesized that the h-index strongly correlates with the academic rank of surgical oncologists. Methods. We utilized the National Cancer Institute (NCI) website to identify NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers (CCC) and Doximity to identify the 50 highest-ranked general surgery residency programs with surgical oncology divisions. Demographic data of respective academic surgical oncologists were collected from departmental websites and Grantome. Bibliometric data were obtained from Web of Science. Results. We identify 544 surgical oncologists from 64 programs. Increased h-index was associated with academic rank (p < 0.001), male gender (p < 0.001), number of National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants (p < 0.001), and Affiliation with an NCI CCC (p = 0.018) but not number of additional degrees (p = 0.661) or Doximity ranking (p = 0.102). H-index was a stronger predictor of academic rank (r = 0.648) than total publications (r = 0.585) or citations (r = 0.450). Conclusions. This is the first report to assess the h-index within academic surgical oncology. H-index is a biblio-metric predictor of academic rank that correlates with NIH grant funding and NCI CCC Affiliation. We also highlight a previously unexpected and unappreciated gender disparity in the academic productivity of US surgical oncologists. When academic rank was accounted for, female surgical oncologists had lower h-indices compared with their male colleagues. Evaluation of the etiologies of this gender disparity is needed to address barriers to academic productivity faced by female surgical oncologists as they progress through their careers.

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“…Studies in gastroenterology, otolaryngology, ophthalmology, and radiation oncology have confirmed a systematic gender association with academic position. 7–9, 14 Urology is no exception to these trends. Our results confirm previous findings where women tend to plateau at the rank of associate professor.…”

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Gender Differences in Publication Productivity Among Academic Urologists in the United States

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et al. 2017

Urology

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Objective To describe the publication productivity of academic urologists in the United States by gender. Materials and Methods Gender inequality is prevalent in most surgical subspecialties, including urology. Despite small numbers of women in academic positions, differences in scholarly impact by gender are relatively unknown. We assembled a list of 1922 academic urologists (1686 male (87.7%), 236 female (12.3%)) at 124 academic institutions throughout the United States as of February 2016. Scopus and Google Scholar were queried for bibliometric data on each individual, including h-index and m-quotient. We analyzed these metrics for both genders by educational background, subspecialty, NIH funding, and academic rank. Results Men had higher median h-indices than women overall (p<0.05), and by successive academic ranks (p<0.05). Proportionally fewer women attained senior academic ranking (professor/chair), (p<0.05). There was no difference in research productivity by successive rank after controlling for career duration (m-quotient). Women were more likely to choose a practice that specialized in pediatric urology or female urology/pelvic reconstructive surgery than their male counterparts (p<0.05). Conclusions and Relevance Women represent a growing proportion of academic urology faculty, but despite the recent increase in number entering the field, relatively few women occupy senior leadership positions. Improving psychosocial barriers to advancement such as lack of mentorship or discriminatory policies may help pioneering female urologists as they progress in their careers.

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Gender Differences in Publication Productivity, Academic Rank, and Career Duration Among U.S. Academic Gastroenterology Faculty

Cited by 92 publications

References 17 publications

Is the gender gap closing in otolaryngology subspecialties? An analysis of research productivity

Is the gender gap closing in otolaryngology subspecialties? An analysis of research productivity

Academic Surgical Oncologists’ Productivity Correlates with Gender, Grant Funding, and Institutional NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center Affiliation

Gender Differences in Publication Productivity Among Academic Urologists in the United States

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