Gender trends in research output among matched dermatology residency applicants

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Gender trends in research output among matched dermatology residency applicantsTo the Editor: We enjoyed reading the article by Guo and Nambudiri 1 on gender differences in research output among dermatology residents, in which they demonstrated that men published on average 1 additional article during dermatology residency than women. In reply, Militello et al 2 provided an excellent complementary analysis of gender differences in research output among medical students, finding that female medical students published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology and Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Dermatology more often than male medical students from 2019 to summer 2020. We continue this conversation with a bibliometric analysis of research output specifically among successfully matched dermatology applicants.We conducted a preplanned secondary analysis of a cohort of allopathic medical students matching into dermatology residency during the academic years 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016, and 2018, the results of which have been published previously (Supplementary Methods, available via Mendeley at https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/f7c724t3vg/2). 3,4 The primary outcome was the number of peerreviewed, indexed publications attained before matching into dermatology residency. Indexed publications were attributed to individual applicants based on Scopus author profiles. Multivariable Poisson regression analysis was used to determine the association between applicant gender and

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“…To the Editor: We thoroughly enjoyed reading the study by Zheng et al 1 on the analysis of research output among successfully matched dermatology applicants. Their work joins a growing body of literature examining differences in scholarly activities among dermatology trainees.…”