A Seat at the Table: The Correlation Between Female Authorship and Urology Journal Editorial Board Membership

Prunty, Megan; Rhodes, Stephen; Sun, Helen; Miller, April; Calaway, Adam; Kutikov, Alexander; Plimack, Elizabeth R.; Ponsky, Lee; Murray, Katie S.; Bukavina, Laura

doi:10.1016/j.euf.2022.04.009

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“…The representation in editorial boards has been shown to correlate to authorship by gender, including in surgical specialties. 24,53 However, women remain underrepresented among the leadership of high-impact journals, especially as editors-in-chief, including in the transplant field. 54,55 Verran et al 54 showed that 7 of 22 transplant journals did not have any women in the top tier editorial positions.…”

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Representation of Women Authorship in the Top 5 Transplantation Journals in the United States

Faria,

Montalvan,

Kazimi

et al. 2023

Transplantation

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Background. In the United States, only 13% of transplant surgeons are women. We evaluated gender distribution and trends of American authorship over the past 10 y in high-impact solid organ transplantation journals to gain insight into the current status of women authorship in transplantation. Methods. Original articles from 2012 to 2021 from the 5 highest-impact solid organ transplantation journals were extracted from Scopus. First and last author’s gender was predicted using Genderize.io. Data of first and last authors, article type and topic, location, citation, and funding metrics were analyzed. Chi-square, logistic regression, and trend tests were performed where appropriate. Statistical significance was set at <0.05. Results. Women’s first and last authorship increased over time among all journals. There was an increase in women first authors in the American Journal of Transplantation and in senior women authors in Liver Transplantation and Transplantation. Significant differences in gender authorship in lung, intestine, pancreas, general, and islet cell transplantation were found. Women’s last authorship was associated with 1.69 higher odds of having a woman first author when adjusting for year and journal. There was an increase in the rate of women’s first and last author collaborations over the years. Women last authors had 1.5 higher odds of being funded by the National Institutes of Health over the years. Conclusions. Despite an increase in women transplant surgeons and physicians, the gap in women authorship in transplantation persists. Women’s last authorship was associated with higher odds of having a woman first author, pointing to the importance of mentorship for women joining the transplant academia.

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Representation of Women Authorship in the Top 5 Transplantation Journals in the United States

Faria,

Montalvan,

Kazimi

et al. 2023

Transplantation

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“…In the field of infectious diseases, the percentage of females on the editorial board had a significant effect on first and last authorship by women, but the gender of the EIC did not have an effect . Similarly in urology, there was a positive correlation between total female authors and female editors . In the journals evaluated here, 25.58% of the EICs were women and the editorial board averaged 42.93 ± 27.3% women.…”

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confidence: 59%

Distribution of Female and Male First and Last Authorship across Drug Delivery Related Journals with Respect to Year and Journal Impact Factor

McLaughlin,

Bachelder,

Ainslie

2023

Mol. Pharmaceutics

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First and last authorship are important metrics of productivity and scholarly success for trainees and professors. For 11 drug delivery-related journals in 2021, the percentage of female first (39.5%) and last (25.7%) authorship was reported. A strong negative correlation, with female first (r p = −0.73) and female last authorship (r p = −0.66), was observed with respect to journal impact factor. In contrast, there was a strong positive correlation with male first and last authorship (r p = 0.71). Papers were ∼1.5 times more likely to have a male first author, and ∼3 times more likely to have a male last author, than females. A female was 22% more likely to have first authorship if the last author was female, although there is an ∼1% increase per year in female authorship with male last authorship, which equates to equality in first authorship by 2044. Considering that drug delivery is composed of engineering, chemistry, and pharmaceutical science disciplines, the observed 25.7% female last authorship does not represent the approximately 35.5% to 50% of professors that are female in these disciplines, internationally. Overall, female authorship in drug delivery-related journals should improve to better represent the work of female senior authors.

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“…For journals, we advise (self)auditing for appropriate board representation and a journal gender equity policy [39] . Chyu et al [33] gave excellent suggestions for congress organisations in 2021, such as the creation of speaker rosters that are diverse in gender and race, avoidance of male-only panels, and encouragement of individuals invited to speak at meetings to discuss diversity with the conference organizers (eg, sponsorship).…”

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Primum Non Discernere: Glass Ceilings and Female Representation at the European Association of Urology and European Society for Paediatric Urology Annual Meetings, 2012–2022

Marco¹,

Hoen

O’Kelly

et al. 2023

European Urology Open Science

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A Seat at the Table: The Correlation Between Female Authorship and Urology Journal Editorial Board Membership

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

Representation of Women Authorship in the Top 5 Transplantation Journals in the United States

Representation of Women Authorship in the Top 5 Transplantation Journals in the United States

Distribution of Female and Male First and Last Authorship across Drug Delivery Related Journals with Respect to Year and Journal Impact Factor

Primum Non Discernere: Glass Ceilings and Female Representation at the European Association of Urology and European Society for Paediatric Urology Annual Meetings, 2012–2022

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