Abstract

Objective: Women are becoming more prevalent in clinical neuropsychology, but gender bias and disparities persist across multiple professional domains. This study examined potential gender disparities in historical authorship trends across commonly read journals in clinical neuropsychology. Method: Analyses were conducted on 10,531 articles published in six clinical neuropsychology journals from 1985 to 2019. Each author was coded as either a man or a woman using the OpenGenderTracking Project database. Results: On average, women comprised 43.3% (±30.6) of the authors listed in clinical neuropsychology article bylines and were lead and/or corresponding author on 50.3% of these papers. Findings varied by journal, with Child Neuropsychology having the best representation of women across several study metrics. Women comprised an increasing proportion of authors over time and the gender gap in clinical neuropsychology is smaller than was recently reported for the broader field of psychology; nevertheless, the recent rates of women as authors lag behind the prevalence of women in clinical neuropsychology. Encouragingly, gender was not associated with the number of times an article was cited. Articles that included women in leadership roles had significantly more authors overall and specifically more women authors. Conclusions: Women are under-represented as authors in clinical neuropsychology journals, but they are becoming more common and their papers are cited just as frequently as men. Efforts to increase women as research mentors and sponsors may help to further close the publishing gender gap in clinical neuropsychology.

摘要

目标：女性在临床神经心理学中变得越来越普遍，但在多个专业领域中仍然存在性别偏见和差异。这项研究检查了临床神经心理学常用阅读期刊的历史作者趋势中潜在的性别差异。方法：对 1985 年至 2019 年在六种临床神经心理学期刊上发表的 10,531 篇文章进行了分析。使用 OpenGenderTracking Project 数据库将每位作者编码为男性或女性。结果：平均而言，女性占临床神经心理学文章署名作者的 43.3% (±30.6)，并且是这些论文中 50.3% 的主要和/或通讯作者。结果因期刊而异，儿童神经心理学在多个研究指标中具有最佳女性代表性。随着时间的推移，女性作者的比例越来越高，临床神经心理学中的性别差距比最近报道的更广泛的心理学领域要小；然而，最近女性作为作者的比例落后于临床神经心理学中女性的比例。令人鼓舞的是，性别与文章被引用的次数无关。包含女性担任领导角色的文章总体上具有明显更多的作者，特别是更多的女性作者。结论：在临床神经心理学期刊中，女性作为作者的代表性不足，但她们正变得越来越普遍，她们的论文被引用的频率与男性一样多。增加女性作为研究导师和赞助商的努力可能有助于进一步缩小临床神经心理学的出版性别差距。