Lung cancer researchers, 2008–2013: their sex and ethnicity

Lewison, Grant; Roe, Philip; Webber, Richard; Sullivan, Richard

doi:10.1007/s11192-015-1785-1

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“…Historically, this cancer has been viewed as a male disease, but during the past half century, a dramatic increase in the incidence of lung cancer in women has been reported [ 9 ]. With gender differences become more and more important concerning pathogenesis for lung cancer [ 10 , 11 ], also the questions evolves of the role of women in lung cancer medicine and research [ 12 ]. Research activities for cancer issues have recently been assessed by a number of studies [ 13 – 15 ].…”

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Gendermetrics of cancer research: results from a global analysis on lung cancer

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BackgroundCancer research is critically dependent on a continuous recruitment of junior research staff that devotes its academic life not only to clinical duties but also to basic and translational research. The present study aims to elucidate the success concerning gender equality in cancer research in the last decade (from 2008 to 2016) with lung cancer as the target parameter.Materials and MethodsOn the basis of the Gendermetrics Platform, a total of 19,724 articles related to lung cancer research were analyzed. The key method was the combined analysis of the proportion of female authorships and the female-to-male odds ratio for first, co- and last authorships. The distribution of prestigious authorships was measured by the Prestige Index.Results31.3% of all authorships and 35.2% of the first, 32.2% of the co- and 22.1% of the last authorships were held by women. The corresponding female-to-male odds ratio is 1.22 (CI: 1.18–1.27) for first, 1.19 (CI: 1.16–1.23) for co- and 0.59 (CI: 0.57–0.61) for last authorships. Women are underrepresented at prestigious authorships compared to men (Prestige Index = −0.22). The female underrepresentation accentuates in articles with many authors that attract the highest citation rates.ConclusionsWhile the current system promotes early career promotion of women, men still outnumber women in leadership positions. However, this male-female career dichotomy has been narrowed in the last decade and will likely be further reduced in the next decade.

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Gendermetrics of cancer research: results from a global analysis on lung cancer

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“…From previous studies, we had developed an extensive thesaurus of over 70 000 given names with their sex, provided that this was characteristic of over 75% of occurrences. 18 However, many African given names were not listed, and we sought their sex from the commercial website, Gender-API, which can usually reveal the frequency of their occurrence in their database and the percentages of each sex. We were able to identify sex of 79% of the people by their names, including some with only initials if these matched those of names with the same surnames, country and given names without ambiguity.…”

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“…From previous studies, we had developed an extensive thesaurus of over 70 000 given names with their sex, provided that this was characteristic of over 75% of occurrences. 18 However, many African given names were not listed, and we sought their sex from the commercial website, Gender-API, which can usually reveal the frequency of their occurrence in their database and the On a fractional count basis, the contribution from the African countries was 16 201 papers and the contribution from non-African ones was 7478 papers, or 31.6%. The 5 North African countries contributed 10 920 papers (67%) of the total on a fractional count basis.…”

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Cancer research across Africa: a comparative bibliometric analysis

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IntroductionResearch is a critical pillar in national cancer control planning. However, there is a dearth of evidence for countries to implement affordable strategies. The WHO and various Commissions have recommended developing stakeholder-based needs assessments based on objective data to generate evidence to inform national and regional prioritisation of cancer research needs and goals.MethodologyBibliometric algorithms (macros) were developed and validated to assess cancer research outputs of all 54 African countries over a 12-year period (2009–2020). Subanalysis included collaboration patterns, site and domain-specific focus of research and understanding authorship dynamics by both position and sex. Detailed subanalysis was performed to understand multiple impact metrics and context relative outputs in comparison with the disease burden as well as the application of a funding thesaurus to determine funding resources.ResultsAfrican countries in total published 23 679 cancer research papers over the 12-year period (2009–2020) with the fractional African contribution totalling 16 201 papers and the remaining 7478 from authors from out with the continent. The total number of papers increased rapidly with time, with an annual growth rate of 15%. The 49 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries together published just 5281 papers, of which South Africa’s contribution was 2206 (42% of the SSA total, 14% of all Africa) and Nigeria’s contribution was 997 (19% of the SSA total, 4% of all Africa). Cancer research accounted for 7.9% of all African biomedical research outputs (African research in infectious diseases was 5.1 times than that of cancer research). Research outputs that are proportionally low relative to their burden across Africa are paediatric, cervical, oesophageal and prostate cancer. African research mirrored that of Western countries in terms of its focus on discovery science and pharmaceutical research. The percentages of female researchers in Africa were comparable with those elsewhere, but only in North African and some Anglophone countries.ConclusionsThere is an imbalance in relevant local research generation on the continent and cancer control efforts. The recommendations articulated in our five-point plan arising from these data are broadly focused on structural changes, for example, overt inclusion of research into national cancer control planning and financial, for example, for countries to spend 10% of a notional 1% gross domestic expenditure on research and development on cancer.

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“…A major study covering all countries and all fields of science was published in Nature (Larivière et al 2013). More recently, a study of lung cancer researchers world-wide used surnames and given names to show the variation in the percentage of women in different countries, and the contribution of immigrants to their research output (Lewison et al 2016). …”

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The contribution of ethnic groups to Malaysian scientific output, 1982–2014, and the effects of the new economic policy

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Malaysia has three main ethnic communities: Chinese, Indians and Malays. At independence in 1957, the Chinese dominated commercial life, and this led to ethnic tensions and finally riots. As a result in 1969 Malaysia introduced a “New Economic Policy” (NEP) to promote Malays in all areas of activity, and in particular to assist them to obtain basic and higher education. We examined the scientific outputs from Malaysia between 1982 and 2014 and classified the names of Malaysian researchers into one of these three groups and two others. There was a major increase in Malay participation in research, which has risen from 20 % of researchers in 1982–1984 to 65 % in 2012–2014, with corresponding declines in the percentages of Chinese and Indian authors, although their absolute numbers have increased because Malaysian scientific output has increased so rapidly in the last 10 years. The huge increase in Malay researchers contrasts with their presence in the Malaysian population which has remained stable at about 50 % since 1969.

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Lung cancer researchers, 2008–2013: their sex and ethnicity

Cited by 10 publications

References 35 publications

Gendermetrics of cancer research: results from a global analysis on lung cancer

Gendermetrics of cancer research: results from a global analysis on lung cancer

Cancer research across Africa: a comparative bibliometric analysis

The contribution of ethnic groups to Malaysian scientific output, 1982–2014, and the effects of the new economic policy

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