Representation of female authors in the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia: a retrospective analysis of articles between 1954 and 2017

Flexman, Alana M.; Parmar, Arun; Lorello, Gianni R.

doi:10.1007/s12630-019-01328-5

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“…5 The underrepresentation of women in our study may reflect a lower level of women participating in academic anesthesiology. 4 Nevertheless, women have authored 25-29% of original articles in the CJA in recent decades, 4 similar to the proportion of women anesthesiologists in Canada. Women make up a relatively lower proportion of older anesthesiologists, 2 which may partially account for our findings.…”

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Representation of women on the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia: a retrospective analysis from 1954 to 2018

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2019

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“…We assigned gender as previously described. 4 Editorial board membership was determined by reviewing the journal mastheads of each year. We included the editor-in-chief, deputy editor-in-chief, associate editor(s), statistical editor(s), French language editor, continuing professional development editor, board members, and guest editors.…”

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Representation of women on the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia: a retrospective analysis from 1954 to 2018

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2019

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“…anesthesiologists in Canada'' warrants further discussion. 6 While the CJA is the official journal of the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society (CAS), it receives submissions from authors in over 50 countries (Canada, USA, and Japan being the highest contributors). 10 As such, the included 639 articles and their authors are multinational.…”

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“…Gender disparity in authorship may reflect less participation in anesthesiology research by women (including in manuscript submissions), systemic barriers to manuscript acceptance (such as implicit bias in peer review and invited authorship), and differences in career trajectories. 6 These findings suggest an urgent need to further explore gender differences in participation in academic anesthesia research in Canada.…”

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“…présentent une analyse rétrospective transversale du sexe des auteurs dans les articles publiés dans le Journal canadien d'anesthésie (JCA). 6 Flexman et coll. ont analysé le sexe de l'auteur principal et du dernier auteur des publications originales et des éditoriaux publiés dans le JCA entre 1954 et 2017 (en prenant une année de chaque décennie comme échantillon).…”

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Underrepresentation of women in Canadian Journal of Anesthesia publications: no surprise—take the pledge!

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Bryson

Lundine

2019

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Since 1999, women have made up more than 50% of entrants to medical schools in Canada. 1 Despite this gender parity among younger physicians, the literature reveals that women secure academic promotions, receive large grants, and publish papers at persistently lower rates than their male counterparts. 2,3 These inequities have far reaching consequences for patient care, education, research, and workplace culture within organizations. 4,5 Peer reviewed publications (including first authorships and invited submissions), peer reviewing, and journal editorial positions all are metrics assessed during academic recruitment and are used to show career progression in university promotion and tenure considerations as well as other job advancement activities. Publications ''count''both literally and figuratively. In this edition of the Journal, Flexman et al. present a cross-sectional, retrospective analysis of authors' gender in articles published in the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia (CJA). 6 Flexman et al. analyzed the gender of the first and last authors of both original articles and editorials published in the CJA from 1954 to 2017 (sampling one year of each ten-year epoch). The authors sought evidence to assess whether gender balance exists within the CJA by comparing women with men in terms of first authorship proportions on original research publications and editorials. They further explored if this proportion is representative of the proportion of female anesthesiologists in Canada. Of the 639 included articles, the majority (518/639; 81%) of first authors were male. The proportion of women listed as first author of original research reports increased over time, from a nadir of two of 43 (5%) in 1960 to 16 of 60 (27%) in 2017. Original research articles received more citations and were more likely than editorials to have a woman as first author. From 2000 onward, the overall increase in the proportion of female first authors trailed the overall increase in proportion of women anesthesiologists in Canada. Flexman et al. thus concluded that female first authors are underrepresented both relative to male first authors and to the changing demographics of anesthesiologists in Canada. 6 As the authors note, the CJA is not alone. Using 2011 data, Galley and Colvin reported that of 188 original research papers published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, 57 (30.3%) of first authors were women. 7 Similarly, Miller et al., found that of the 2,600 articles published in Anesthesiology and Anesthesia and Analgesia during four one-year epochs (2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017) the overall the contribution of female first authors was 24.8% (646/2,600). 8 Underrepresentation of women in academia and medicine is ubiquitous across nations, fields, and specialties. Indeed, this underrepresentation of women in the CJA mirrors findings in the larger medical community and should come as no surprise. Numerous high impact peer reviewed medical journals have been shown to suffer from a similar gender bias in their publications. A review of ...

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Women authorship in pain research: A bibliometric analysis from 2002 to 2021

Zhong

Poeran

Cozowicz

et al. 2023

European Journal of Pain

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ObjectivesThere is a lack of data on the distribution of women first and senior authorships in pain journals. Using articles published in top North American pain journals over the past two decades, we sought to describe the prevalence and changes in women representation among first and last authors.MethodsWe retrieved all published research articles in four pain journals (Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Clinical Journal of Pain, Pain and The Journal of Pain) from 2002 to 2021 using the easyPubMed package. Subsequently, the ‘gender’ package in R was used to determine authors' gender by first names. Trends in gender authorship change over time were assessed.ResultsThe final cohort consisted of 20,981 authors (from an initial total of 11,842 publications and 23,684 authors retrieved). Women authors were more often first compared to senior authors (46.7% vs. 30.5%). The proportion of women first authors (46.2% in 2002 vs. 48.4% in 2021) and women senior authors (22.4% in 2002 vs. 36.3% in 2021) increased over the course of the study period (all p‐value <0.001). The Clinical Journal of Pain having the highest percentage of women authors and Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine had the lowest percentage of women authors.DiscussionOur data demonstrated increasing women authorship in pain journals in the past 20 years, largely driven by an increase in first authorships. There still remains a large gap between first and senior authorship, indicative of disparity in the role that women play in research.

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Representation of female authors in the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia: a retrospective analysis of articles between 1954 and 2017

Cited by 29 publications

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Representation of women on the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia: a retrospective analysis from 1954 to 2018

Representation of women on the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia: a retrospective analysis from 1954 to 2018

Underrepresentation of women in Canadian Journal of Anesthesia publications: no surprise—take the pledge!

Women authorship in pain research: A bibliometric analysis from 2002 to 2021

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