281 The Effect of Author Gender on Publications in Nephrology

Trends of women's authorship in an Iranian medical journal from 1999 to 2019

“…Pinho-Gomes et al (2020) showed that the current COVID-19 pandemic and emergency situation requires the cooperation of researchers without considering gender differences, which could be a factor in reducing gender inequality between researchers but that women's representation is lower as first and last authors (Pinho-Gomes et al, 2020). However, several researchers have shown that the authorship of women in medical journals has been increased (Amankwah et al, 2018;Hart et al, 2019;Pagel et al, 2019;Patel et al, 2019). The importance of gender aspects in science and technology as a global issue has led to the study of the position and authorship trend of researchers in recent years.…”

“…In another research, Patel et al (2019) examined the concurrent authorship gender of the first and last authors and its impact on scientific productions in the field of nephrology (Patel et al, 2019). On the other hand, despite confirming the growth of the role of women authors in scientific output, the results of a study by Pagel et al (2019) underestimated their representation as corresponding and last authors (Pagel et al, 2019).…”