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    Women Authors in Nuclear Medicine Journals: a Survey from 2014 to 2020 Open PDF 
    (2022)
    Lasnon, C.
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    Girault, G.
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    Lebtahi, R.
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    Ansquer, C.
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    Lequesne, J.
    Despite the feminization of the medical workforce, women do not have the same career perspectives as men. In nuclear medicine, little information is available on the gender gap regarding prominent author positions of scientific articles. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate recent trends in the gender distribution of first and last authorship of articles published in nuclear medicine journals. Methods We conducted a bibliometric analysis of first and last author gender of articles published from 2014 to 2020 in 15 nuclear medicine journals. Manuscript title, article type, journal impact factor, date of publication, first and last name and country of provenance of first and last authors were noted. The Gender-API software was used to determine author gender. All statistics were descriptive. Results Women represented 32.8% of first authors and 19.6% of last ones. Female authorship increased from 28.2% (428 of 1518 articles) in 2014 to 35.5% (735 of 2069 articles, relative increase 72%) in 2020 (p<0.001) for first authors and from 15.6% (237 of 1518 articles) in 2014 to 20.5% (424 of 2069 articles, relative increase 79%) in 2020 (p<0.001) for last ones. Parity was forecasted in 2035 for first authors and in 2052 for last ones. Female authorship increased in Europe for first (p=0.014) and last authors (p<0.001), in highranking journals for first (p=0.004) and last authors (p<0.001) and in other journal ranks for last authors (p=0.01). Female first and last authorship rose for original articles (p=0.02 and p=0.01 respectively) and case reports (p<0.001 and p=0.002 respectively). Regarding collaborations, the proportion of articles produced by male first and last authors decreased from 62.2% in 2014 to 52.9% in 2020 in favor of female first and last authors (OR=1.07, p<0.001), male first and female last authors (OR =1.05, p<0.001) and female first and male last authors (OR=1.03, p<0.001). Conclusion Female first and last authorship in nuclear medicine journals increased substantially from 2014 to 2020, in particular in high-ranking journals, in Europe and for original articles and case reports. Male/male collaborations decreased by 10% in favor of all other collaborations. Parity can be foreseen in a few decades. © 2022 Society of Nuclear Medicine Inc.. All rights reserved.
  • Item type:Publication,
    Author Gender Inequality in Medical Imaging Journals and the COVID-19 Pandemic Open PDF 
    (2021)
    Quak, E.
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    Girault, G.
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    Thenint, M.A.
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    Weyts, K.
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    Lequesne, J.
    Background: Early reports show the unequal effect the COVID-19 pandemic might have on men versus women engaged in medical research. Purpose: To investigate whether the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on scientific publishing by female physicians in medical imaging. Materials and Methods: The authors conducted a descriptive bibliometric analysis of the gender of the first and last authors of manuscripts submitted to the top 50 medical imaging journals from March to May 2020 (n = 2480) compared with the same period of the year in 2018 (n = 2238) and 2019 (n = 2355). Manuscript title, date of submission, first and last names of the first and last authors, journal impact factor, and author country of provenance were recorded. The Gender-API software was used to determine author gender. Statistical analysis comprised x2 tests and multivariable logistic regression. Results: Percentages of women listed as first and last authors were 31.6% (1172 of 3711 articles) and 19.3% (717 of 3711 articles), respectively, in 2018–2019 versus 32.3% (725 of 2248 articles) and 20.7% (465 of 2248 articles) in 2020 (P = .61 and P = .21, respectively). For COVID-19-related articles, 35.2% (89 of 253 articles) of first authors and 20.6% (52 of 253 articles) of last authors were women. No associations were found between first- and last-author gender, year of publication, and region of provenance. First and last authorship of high-ranking articles was not in favor of North American women whatever the year (odds ratio [OR], 0.79 [P = .05] and 0.72 [P = .02], respectively). Higher rates of female last authorship of high-ranking articles were observed in Europe (P = .003) and of female first authorship of low-ranking publications in Asia in 2020 (OR, 1.38; 95% CI: 0.98, 1.92; P = .06). Female first and last authorship of COVID-19–related articles was overrepresented for lowest-rank publications (P = .02 and P = .01, respectively). Conclusion: One in three first authors and one in five last authors were women in 2018–2019 and 2020, respectively. Although the first 2020 lockdown did not diminish the quantity of women-authored publications, the impact on the quality was variable. ©RSNA, 2021