女作家和眼科杂志编辑委员会成员趋势在过去十年,2012-2021年
Paola A Rivera1, Agata Atayde2, Lei Wang3
1From the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Yale School of Medicine (P.A.R., N.K.), New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
American journal of ophthalmology
|July 18, 2023
概括
从2012年到2021年,眼科期刊的女性高级作者和编辑委员会代表数量显著增加. 较高的女性编辑委员会 (EB) 成员数量与女性作者数量的增加相关,尽管性别差异仍然存在.
科学领域:
- 眼科医生 眼科 眼科
- 医学期刊 医学期刊
- 性别研究是性别研究.
背景情况:
- 妇女在学术医学中的代表性不足,特别是在领导和作者职位上,仍然令人担忧.
- 了解科学出版物和编辑委员会中性别代表的动态对于促进平等至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查女性作者与领先眼科期刊编辑委员会成员之间的关系.
- 分析十年 (2012-2021) 期间女性在作者和编辑角色中的代表性趋势.
主要方法:
- 一项横截面和趋势研究,分析了来自三个主要眼科期刊的作者和编辑委员会数据.
- 作者的性别是使用基于姓名和国家的性别API来分配的.
- 编辑委员会职位 (总编辑,中级编辑,咨询编辑) 被手动提取和分析.
主要成果:
- 与男性相比,女性作为第一作者和高级作者发表的文章较少,但女性在高级作者中的比例显著增加,从23.4%增加到30.5%.
- 编辑委员会中的女性代表从13.9%大幅上升至34.6%.
- 在女性编辑委员会成员和女性作者之间发现了强烈的正相关性 (r=0.74),女性第一作者是女性高级作者的1.89倍.
结论:
- 在过去的十年中,在眼科期刊中增加女性高级作者和编辑委员会的代表性方面取得了重大进展.
- 拥有更多女性编辑委员会代表性的期刊往往具有更高的女性作者率.
- 尽管出现了积极的趋势,但持续存在的性别差距需要继续努力,在科学出版和编辑领导层中实现平等.
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