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    Cross-sectional study of women’s representation in leadership positions in Turkish medical schools, academic departments, specialty boards, conferences and journals in 2023 Open PDF 
    (BMJ, 2025-10)
    Eroğlu, Fatma Sıla
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    Koyuncu, Sevil Buket
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    Erkan, Beyza
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    Kıyak, Yavuz Selim
    Objectives Ensuring gender equity in leadership is crucial for fair representation and diversity in academic medicine. This study aims to investigate the representation of women in leadership positions in Turkish academic medicine, including medical schools, specialty boards, conferences and medical journals. Design and setting A cross-sectional study was conducted between August and December 2023. The study analysed data from members of medical faculties, specialty boards, medical conferences and medical journals across Turkey. The source of information was publicly accessible websites. Participants The study included data from 17 939 members of 113 medical faculties, 112 specialty boards, 73 medical conferences and 246 medical journals in Turkey. Interventions This study has no interventions. Results Women made up 40.4% of all medical-school faculty but only 22.5% of deans (95% CI 15.5 to 31.6; p<0.001) and 13.6% of surgical-division chairs (7.8–22.7; p<0.001). Vice-deanships (38.5%; 31.4–45.9) did not differ from baseline (p=0.62). Among 49 departments, significant shortfalls were confined to 6, notably paediatrics (36.1% chairs vs 57.9% faculty, p<0.001) and gynaecology-obstetrics (23.2% vs 41.6%, p=0.004). On specialty boards, women held 30.5% of president/chair posts versus 36.7% of all board seats (p=0.18); comparable figures for conferences were 34.2% versus 41.4% (p=0.20). Women occupied 27.2% of editor-in-chief positions, significantly below their 32.9% share of other editorial roles (95% CI 22.8 to 32.0; p=0.007). Conclusions Turkey’s academic medicine pipeline contains substantial numbers of women, yet marked gaps persist in senior positions. Bridging these gaps will require targeted policies that look beyond overall workforce proportions to the specific decision-making roles where shortfalls remain.
  • Item type:Publication,
    Investigating gender differences in research performance of Iranian medical faculty members: A scientometric study
    (2021)
    Sofi-Mahmudi, A.
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    Shamsoddin, E.
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    Mesgarpour, B.
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    Akhondzadeh, S.
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    Kabiri, P.
    Background: Gender differences in scientometric indicators among medical faculty members in Iran was investigated. Methods: The Research performance of the faculty at all universities and institutes of medical sciences in Iran was assessed using the Iranian Scientometric Information Database (ISID) on June 12, 2021. Selected variables in our study were name, gender, university, degree, academic rank, type of faculty, the total number of articles, the total number of citations, self-citation percentage, h-index, citation per article, international cooperation percentage, and the number of research collaborators. The Kruskal-Wallis test was used. The extracted data were analyzed using R v4.0.1 statistical software. Results: A total of 21064 faculty members in 77 universities and institutes of medical sciences were registered in the ISID database, of which 12093 (57.4%) were men. Men faculty members outnumbered women in all academic ranks, except for the “instructor” rank (1134 female instructors against 835 male). In both sexes, most faculty members were assistant professors. There were more articles (346837 vs. 146024) and citations (5177060 vs. 1639246) by men than women. Among the 1789 faculty members with zero articles, 902 (50.4%) were men. One-hundred-and-fifty-four people were among ESI's top researchers' list, with a majority of men (124 people equal to 80.5%). The medians of all the scientometric indicators were higher in men than women. Men had a higher number of articles, the number of citations, h-index, citation per article, percentage of international articles, and co-authors, however, women had lower self-citations (1.56% vs. 2.51%). In all academic ranks, men had higher scientometric indicators. The only exception was the associate professors' self-citation, in which women's citations were higher than that of men (3.5 vs. 3.3). The highest mean h-index was in men with a Ph.D. in Pharmacy (13), men with a Ph.D. by Research (12) and women with a Ph.D. by Research (8.5), respectively. Conclusion: Gender differences were evident in research performance in Iran. Women faculty members of medical sciences in Iran generally had lower scientometric indicators. Copyright © 2021 Sofi-Mahmudi et al. Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Published by Tehran University of Medical Sciences.