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ArticleCureus2021

Gender, Geographic, and Socioeconomic Representation in Medical Student Journals: A Cross-Sectional Analysis.

Ibrahim S Al-Busaidi, Kareem Sharif, Ahmad Hassan

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Article in Cureus, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ibrahim S Al-BusaidiFamily Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch, NZL.
Kareem SharifNeuroscience, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA.
Ahmad HassanPsychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Introduction Women make up the majority of medical school students in most high-income countries. Despite this, women remain underrepresented in senior academic leadership positions including editorial boards of mainstream biomedical journals. Many studies show the underrepresentation of women in mainstream medical journals; however, gender representation in medical student journals (MSJs) is not well documented. Assessing diversity and inclusion in MSJs is vital to understanding the point at which biases in academic medicine are established. Understanding when biases in medical authorship manifest may allow for a more targeted approach to alleviating these biases. This study explores diversity in MSJs by examining gender representation on editorial boards, geographic region, and socioeconomic status of the country of origin. Methodology In November 2019, Google

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gendergender biasgender disparitiesgender representationjournal leadershipmedical educationmedical studentmedical student journalpeer reviewsocioeconomic disparities

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PMID33633878
PMCPMC7899283

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