A Bibliometric Study of Authorship and Collaboration Trends Over the Past 30 Years in Four Major Musculoskeletal Science Journals

Russell, Arielle F.; Loder, Randall T.; Gudeman, Andrew; Bolaji, Peter; Virtanen, Piiamaria; Whipple, Elizabeth C.; Kacena, Melissa A.

doi:10.1007/s00223-018-0492-3

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“…The female first- and last-authored journal article share increase in all 46 categories 1996–2018 confirms on a systematic level increases found in many previous studies of medical journals or specialisms [19,20,35-39]. The lower rate of increase for female last authors similarly provides a systematic confirmation of previous studies with a more limited scope [20,35,37,38], although two studies had partly conflicting findings [18,40]. It nevertheless remains possible that there are narrower specialisms in which the female participation rate has not increased.…”

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Small female citation advantages for US journal articles in medicine

Thelwall

Maflahi

2022

Journal of Information Science

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Female under-representation continues in senior roles within academic medicine, potentially influenced by a perception that female research has less citation impact. This article provides systematic evidence of (a) female participation rates from the perspective of published journal articles in 46 Scopus medical subject categories 1996–2018 and (b) gender differences in citation rates 1996–2014. The results show female proportion increases 1996–2018 in all fields and a female majority of first-authored articles in two-fifths of categories, but substantial differences between fields. A paper is 7.3 times more likely to have a female first author in Obstetrics and Gynaecology than in Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine. Only three fields had a female last author majority by 2018, a probable side effect of ongoing problems with appointing female leaders. Female first-authored research tended to be more cited than male first-authored research in most fields (59%), although with a maximum difference of only 5.1% (log-transformed normalised citations). In contrast, male last-authored research tends to be more cited than female last-authored research, perhaps due to cases where a senior male has attracted substantial funding for a project. These differences increase if team sizes are not accounted for in the calculations. Since female first-authored research is cited slightly more than male first-authored research, properly analysed bibliometric data considering career gaps should not disadvantage female candidates for senior roles.

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confidence: 82%

Small female citation advantages for US journal articles in medicine

Thelwall

Maflahi

2022

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“…Similar 30 year bibliometric studies were performed recently in several orthopaedic surgery (which is traditionally a male dominated field)/bone biology journals (which have a higher female representation than orthopaedic surgery). 8,17,24,32,42,43,49 ABME® was tied with the Journal of Orthopaedic Research for the highest percentage point increase (rounded to nearest whole number) in manuscripts with female first authors over 30 years (Range: 1 to 30). Similarly, ABME® was second for the highest percentage point increase over 30 years in female corresponding author manuscripts published (Range: 0 to 27).…”

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Authorship Trends Over the Past 30-Years in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering

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In academia, manuscripts serve as an important component of career development. The past several years have seen heightened evaluation of the role of the gender gap in career advancement, as well as other bibliometric changes in publications. We therefore analyzed authorship and publication trends in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering over the past three decades (one complete year of manuscripts for each decade; 1986, 1996, 2006, and 2016). The variables analyzed were number of authors per manuscript, numerical position of the corresponding author, number of collaborating institutions and countries, number of references, and number of citations per manuscript. The gender of both the first and corresponding authors was identified and analyzed over time and by region. Globally, the percentage of female first and corresponding authors significantly increased from 0% in 1986 to 28.6% (p = 0.003) and 20.4% (p = 0.0009) respectively, in 2016. Although there were significant differences regarding female first and corresponding author over time, they did not vary by region of origin (p = 0.5 and 0.2, respectively). Overall, these findings highlight the improvements made and the challenges that still exist related to publishing within the bioengineering field.

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“…Changes over time in authorship and other bibliometric variables in the orthopaedic literature have been recently studied [18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32]. The common findings in these studies are an increasing number of authors, manuscript pages, references, and institutional/international collaborations over time, as well as an increasing number of female authors.…”

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Bibliometric and authorship trends over a 30 year publication history in two representative US sports medicine journals

Dynako

Owens

Loder

et al. 2020

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Bibliometric studies are important to understand changes and improvement opportunities in academia. This study compared bibliometric trends for two major sports medicine/arthroscopy journals, the American Journal of Sports Medicine® (AJSM®) and Arthroscopy® over the past 30 years. Trends over time and comparisons between both journals were noted for common bibliometric variables (number of authors, references, pages, citations, and corresponding author position) as well as author gender and continental origin. Appropriate statistical analyses were performed. A p < 0.001 was considered statistically significant. One representative year per decade was used. There were 814 manuscripts from AJSM® and 650 from Arthroscopy®. For AJSM® the number of manuscripts steadily increased from 86 in 1986 to 350 in 2016; for Arthroscopy® the number of manuscripts increased from 73 in 1985/1986, to 267 in 2006, but then dropped to 229 in 2016. There were significant increases in all bibliometric variables, except for the number of citations which decreased in Arthroscopy®. There were significant differences in manuscript region of origin by journal (p ¼ 0.000002). Arthroscopy® had a greater percentage of manuscripts from Asia than AJSM® (19.3% vs 11.5%) while AJSM® had a greater percentage from North America (70.3% vs 59.2%); both journals had similar percentages from Europe (18.2% for AJSM® and 21.6% for Arthroscopy®). For AJSM® the average percentage of female first authors was 13.3%, increasing from 4.7% in 1986 to 19.3% in 2016; the average percentage of female corresponding authors was 7.3%. For Arthroscopy®, the average percentage of female first authors was 8.1%, increasing from 2.8% in 1985/1986 to 15.7% in 2016 (p ¼ 0.00007). In conclusion, AJSM® and Arthroscopy® showed an increase in most variables analyzed. Although Arthroscopy® is climbing at a higher rate than AJSM® for female authors, AJSM® has an overall greater percentage of female authors.

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A Bibliometric Study of Authorship and Collaboration Trends Over the Past 30 Years in Four Major Musculoskeletal Science Journals

Abstract: This study explored changes in bibliometric variables over the last 30 years for four major musculoskeletal science journals (BONE®, Calcified Tissue International® (CTI®),

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Small female citation advantages for US journal articles in medicine

Small female citation advantages for US journal articles in medicine

Authorship Trends Over the Past 30-Years in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Bibliometric and authorship trends over a 30 year publication history in two representative US sports medicine journals

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