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Trends in female authorship in research papers on eating disorders: 20-year bibliometric study
- Source :
- BJPsych Open
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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Abstract
- BackgroundThere is a clear gender gap in scientific authorship. Although the proportions of female authors in medicine and psychiatry have increased over the past decades, women are still underrepresented.AimsTo analyse authorship gender trends in eating disorder research.MethodFirst and last author gender in research articles on eating disorders during the period 1997–2016 were assessed in eating disorder specialty journals, high-impact psychiatry journals and high-impact clinical psychology journals.ResultsThe total number of papers on eating disorders increased substantially over the observation period, although a decrease was observed in high-impact psychiatry journals. Female authorship increased in both specialty journals and high-impact psychiatry journals. Authors were significantly less likely to be female in high-impact psychiatry and clinical psychology journals than in speciality journals.ConclusionsEating disorder research has been increasingly allocated to specialty journals over the past 20 years. A consistent gender gap between specialty and high-impact journals exists.Declaration of interestC.M.B is a grant recipient from Shire Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and has participated as a member of their scientific advisory board. These positions are unrelated to the content of this article.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Observation period
education
Declaration
Specialty
MEDLINE
medicine.disease
Shire
humanities
030227 psychiatry
03 medical and health sciences
Psychiatry and Mental health
Eating disorders
0302 clinical medicine
Papers
medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Gender gap
Psychiatry
Psychology
health care economics and organizations
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20564724
- Volume :
- 4
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BJPsych Open
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b854b0a92b2e7fb4db34f29a7eebc867