Gender Trends in Authorship in Psychiatry Journals From 2008 to 2018

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

“…Besides, women in the position of first author (in 2008: 43.5% and in 2018: 49.5%) and last author (in 2008: 30% and in 2018: 35.7%) were significantly increasing. They showed a steady improvement in the presence of women in psychiatric journals (Hart et al, 2019).…”

“…In another research, Hart et al (2019) assessed the gender trends in authorship of psychiatry journals from 2008 to 2018. In their study, 40% and 44.8% of the authors were women in 2008 and 2018, respectively.…”

“…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.…”

Trends in Proportion of Women as Authors of Medical Journal Articles, 2008-2018

“…We used validated software (Genderize.io [https://genderize.io]) to predict a gender and the probability of gender for an author's first name and used a threshold of 60% to assign gender as has been implemented in previous work. 4 For more information, see eMethods in the Supplement. Because this study analyzed public data, it was exempt from institutional review board approval.…”

NPP (Neuropsychopharmacology): update on gender balance in journal function

“…We acknowledge that the levels of analyses used for this special project do not enable us to determine whether NPP efforts to increase mindfulness of gender balance in journal function played a role in improving these metrics over the past year, or if the improvements reflect a gradual shift in norms that would have occurred regardless. A recent report indicates general trends towards improved gender balance in authorship at leading psychiatry journals [2]. We continue to be mindful that exceeding the actual proportion of women in our field could represent a path toward creating excessive burdens.…”