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Women make up slightly over a quarter of first authors in The Lancet, JAMA and NEJM, with no improvement between 2002 and 2019

04.20.22 | PLOS

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Trends over time in proportion of first authors by gender.
Trends over time in proportion of first authors by gender. Credit: Krstacic et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Women make up slightly over a quarter of first authors in The Lancet, JAMA and NEJM, with no improvement between 2002 and 2019

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0261209

Article Title: Academic medicine’s glass ceiling: Author’s gender in top three medical research journals impacts probability of future publication success

Author Countries: U.S.A.

Funding: Dr. Tannous’ General T. F. Cheng Endowment provided partial funding support.

PLOS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0261209

Academic medicine’s glass ceiling: Author’s gender in top three medical research journals impacts probability of future publication success

20-Apr-2022

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Keywords

Academic Journals Academic Publishing Authorship Gender Health and Medicine Medical Journals Publishing Industry Science Careers Scientific Community

Article Information

Journal
PLOS ONE
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0261209
Article Publication Date
2022-04-20
Article Title
Academic medicine’s glass ceiling: Author’s gender in top three medical research journals impacts probability of future publication success
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Contact Information

Hanna Abdallah
PLOS
onepress@plos.org

How to Cite This Article

APA:
PLOS. (2022, April 20). Women make up slightly over a quarter of first authors in The Lancet, JAMA and NEJM, with no improvement between 2002 and 2019. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/LMJ0E9EL/women-make-up-slightly-over-a-quarter-of-first-authors-in-the-lancet-jama-and-nejm-with-no-improvement-between-2002-and-2019.html
MLA:
"Women make up slightly over a quarter of first authors in The Lancet, JAMA and NEJM, with no improvement between 2002 and 2019." Brightsurf News, Apr. 20 2022, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/LMJ0E9EL/women-make-up-slightly-over-a-quarter-of-first-authors-in-the-lancet-jama-and-nejm-with-no-improvement-between-2002-and-2019.html.