ArticleBJPsych open2018
Trends in female authorship in research papers on eating disorders: 20-year bibliometric study.
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- Not niche: eating disorders as an example in the dangers of overspecialisation.The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science · 2024Article
- The Issue of Gender Bias Represented in Authorship in the Fields of Exercise and Rehabilitation: A 5-Year Research in Indexed Journals.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2023Article
- Gender equity in the scientific nursing journals indexed in Journal Citation Reports: A cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Eating disorders, primary care, and stigma: an analysis of research trends and patterns.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Female researchers in high-impact psychiatric journals: What do they focus on?Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- 40 years of research on eating disorders in domain-specific journals: Bibliometrics, network analysis, and topic modeling.PloS one · 2022Article
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- Education, dissemination, and the science of eating disorders: Reflections on the 2019 International Conference on Eating Disorders: Editorial to accompany IJED Virtual Issue in honor of the 2019 International Conference on Eating Disorders.The International journal of eating disorders · 2019Article
- Gender disparities in scientific production: A nationwide assessment among physicians in Peru.PloS one · 2019Article
- Patterns of authorship in ecology and evolution: First, last, and corresponding authorship vary with gender and geography.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
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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. Aims To 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 interest C.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.
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