The gender role in the publishing of Authorships in high-impact orthopedic journals

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To evidence the existence of a gender gap in the orthopedic scientific literature by including also differences between some specific orthopedic surgery specialities, such as hands and feet. Then, we also considered gender role in the Authorship linked with the economic wealth of each country belonging to each Author. The gender of the first Authors of journals on orthopedics and sports medicine indexing in the Scopus database with the highest impact factor (IF) related to the year 2019, for the period from January 1, 2015, to December 31, 2020, were considered. A total of 11 journals were considered, including a total of 5474 articles, 1087 (19.86%) had a woman as the first Author and 4387 (80.14%) a man. During the studied period, the trend seems to be the same (p = 0.906): Men were significantly more producing than women in the orthopedic field both by considering the topic of the journal (p = .003), all the most impacted orthopedic journals (p < 0.001) and economies (p < 0.001). There was therefore a strong significance: In the orthopedic field, there were significantly more male researchers who presented their first name in scientific publications compared to females in all orthopedic subspecialties. The economically poorer countries published less and the role of women became almost absent.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Musculoskeletal surgery - (2024) vom: 24. Jan.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Vitale, E [VerfasserIn]
Bizzoca, D [VerfasserIn]
Di Dio, F [VerfasserIn]
Moretti, A [VerfasserIn]
Moretti, B [VerfasserIn]

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Authorship
Female
Gender role
Journal Article
Male
Orthopedics trend
Publishing trends

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Date Revised 24.01.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status Publisher

doi:

10.1007/s12306-023-00810-0

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NLM367559862