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Examining gender trends in PA authorship: A retrospective analysis of JAAPA and JPAE
Sara Lolar1, Robert R Ehrman, Anne M Messman
1At Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich., Sara Lolar is an assistant professor in the PA program, Robert R. Ehrman is an associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, and Anne M. Messman is a professor and associate dean of graduate medical education. Alexandria Garino is an assistant professor and associate dean of the PA program at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Physician Assistant Education . The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
Objective:
This study benchmarked gender trends in research authorship in the physician associate (PA) profession.
Methods:
A bibliometric analysis was conducted of the Journal of Physician Assistant Education and the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Associates from January 2014 to September 2022. We collected data on instances of PA first, last, and solo authorship of clinical or research articles. Author gender was verified through professional websites. Simple proportions and the Mann-Kendall test are reported.
Results:
Among 1,315 collected instances of PA authorship, women represented 65.6% (n = 863) of the population, comprising 67.8% of first authors and 60.7% of last authors. The proportion of authors categorized as women increased over time ( P = .04). Women were more likely to have only one publication compared with men.
Conclusions:
Although positive signs of increased research authorship by women are evident, women still lag behind men in overall publication numbers and in senior authorship roles compared with their representation in the PA profession.
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