Study objective

The objective of this study was to describe the proportion of female authors on original research articles and editorials across 4 emergency medicine journals from 2013 to 2019. A secondary objective was to examine the gender composition of middle authors in relation to the genders of their respective first and last authors.

Methods

In this observational study, we selected 4 journals in emergency medicine using the Journal of Citation Reports and prior literature to analyze genders of all authors from research articles and editorials published from January 2013 to September 2019. Reviewers identified author genders through web searches with matching academic qualifications or used a gender identification application programming interface to identify likelihood of male or female identity. The primary outcome was the proportion of female authors in each position.

Results

Selected publications included 2,980 original research articles with 18,224 authors (median 6, interquartile range [IQR] 4 to 8) and 433 editorials with 986 authors (median 2, IQR 1 to 2). Women occupied 34.9%, 24.3%, and 36.5% of first, last, and middle author positions on original research articles and 23.8%, 20.5%, and 34.2% of first, last, and middle author positions among editorials, respectively. Publications with female first and last authors (n=340 articles) had a larger proportion of female middle authors (49%, 634/1,290) compared to publications with male first and last authors (n=1667 articles, female middle authors 33% [2,215/6,771]).

Conclusion

Over the 7 years examined, female authorship in these emergency medicine journals increased. A more pronounced gender gap exists in editorial authorship compared to research articles. On publications where the first and last author were women, a higher proportion of middle authors were women.

中文翻译：

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检查急诊医学研究出版物中的性别差距

学习目标

本研究的目的是描述 2013 年至 2019 年 4 种急诊医学期刊的原创研究文章和社论中女性作者的比例。次要目的是检查中间作者的性别构成与其各自第一作者的性别的关系和最后的作者。

方法

在这项观察性研究中，我们使用 Journal of Citation Reports 和先前的文献选择了 4 种急诊医学期刊，以分析 2013 年 1 月至 2019 年 9 月发表的研究文章和社论中所有作者的性别。审稿人通过网络搜索确定作者性别与匹配的学术资格或使用性别识别应用程序编程接口来识别男性或女性身份的可能性。主要结果是每个职位中女性作者的比例。

结果

选定的出版物包括 2,980 篇原创研究文章，作者 18,224 人（中位数 6，四分位距 [IQR] 4 到 8）和 433 篇社论，作者 986 人（中位数 2，IQR 1 到 2）。女性在原创研究文章的第一作者、最后作者和中间作者职位中分别占 34.9%、24.3% 和 36.5%，在社论中第一作者、最后作者和中间作者职位的比例分别为 23.8%、20.5% 和 34.2%。与男性第一和最后作者的出版物（n=1667 篇，女性中间作者 33%）相比，女性第一和最后作者的出版物（n=340 篇文章）中女性中间作者的比例更大（49%，634/1,290）。 2,215/6,771]）。

结论

经过 7 年的审查，这些急诊医学期刊中的女性作者数量有所增加。与研究文章相比，编辑作者身份存在更明显的性别差距。在第一作者和最后作者为女性的出版物中，中间作者的女性比例较高。